Noun
The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. Lawrence Durrell
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry. Roger Ascham
it was smoking-room bawdry Source: Internet
they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy Source: Internet