Warmoesstraat

Of Marshall Petoman the flatulist, it is known that he lived for several years in Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam. During my callow years, I stayed once for a few nights in a hotel in that very street, and to my mind it really was a very strange place indeed, a veritable Babylon where grizzled old gents in leather chaps strolled in pairs or with their twinks, and furtive masturbators flitted in…