criminal connection

criminal connection
   obsolete
   extramarital copulation
   The connection is as in connect1, although adultery was never a crime in the British Isles if the other party were above a prescribed age and consented:
    These [prostitutes] seldom or never allow drunken men to have criminal connection with them. (Mayhew, 1862)

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