In a very famous review in the conservative Scots Observer (edited by poet W E Henley) Wilde was almost accused of the crime of gross indecency, this was made illegal in the 1885 Criminal Amendment Act. Dorian Gray, “was fit for none but outlawed noblemen and perverted telegraph boys” said the reviewer. This reference was made because of the ‘Cleveland Street Affair’; it was a discovery that a male brothel (a house where men can visit prostitutes) was used by aristocrats to pay telegraph boys for intercourse. This was obviously one of the big reasons why people were shocked and also because he has homosexual relationships, which was used against him in his trial. Oscar believed in the way he wanted to live his life so wholeheartedly that he