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John Rykener, also known as Eleanor, [note 1] was a 14th-century sex worker arrested in December 1394 for performing a sex act with John Britby, in London's Cheapside, while wearing female attire. Although historians tentatively link Rykener, who was male, to a prisoner of the same name, the only known facts of Rykener's life come from an ...
John Rykener, also known as Eleanor (fl. 1394), was a 14th-century transvestite sex worker arrested in December 1394 for performing a sex act with another man, John Britby, in London's Cheapside. Although historians tentatively link Rykener to a prisoner of the same name, the only known facts of his life come from interrogation made by the ...
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That Rykener was not - does not read well Tweaked. That Rykener was not—as far as is known—prosecuted may reflect the contemporary view that a prostitute was, by definition, not just a woman who took money for sex, but a sinful woman. Very confused sentence that could be removed as we have a detailed telling of the outcome.
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John Rykener, also known as Johannes Richer and Eleanor, a transvestite prostitute working mainly in London (near Cheapside), but also active in Oxford, is arrested for cross-dressing and interrogated. The records have survived, the only surviving legal records from this age which mention same-sex intercourse.