This is not the first social scene whose Catholicism was dismissed as insincere. The Decadent movement of the late 19th century, led in England by figures like Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, pursued avant-garde aesthetics and recherché experience, including drug use and sexual experimentation. Conversions to Catholicism became common among the Decadents and were stigmatized by the Anglo-Protestant world as just another pose or experiment — or perversion.
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As early as the 18th century, a link existed in the British popular imagination between Catholicism and homosexuality, since the traditions of monasticism and priestly celibacy deviated from the bourgeois prescriptions of masculinity and marriage. Protestant England also viewed submission to foreign religious authority as politically regressive. Catholicism ran afoul not just of gender norms but also of civilizational progress. Through the mid-Victorian era, the noun "pervert" — one who has turned from the right course — denoted a convert to Catholicism. Our current sense of the word dates to the Decadent era, when responses to Wilde and his milieu threw emphasis on the ostensible sexual implications of religious deviance.
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