text: From what I've read, it was your basic stag type thing.  A bunch of guys drinking and talking about women, having sex with said women.  Funnily enough, there were aristocrats and dignitaries, not common men. \n\nI know it wasn't called a Hellfire Club by it's founder, Dashwood, he called it the Monks of Medmenham.  Rumor has it that they were Satanists, but this seems to be highly exaggerated.