According to Louis Crompton, "In the end, [Jeremy Bentham] wrote over five hundred pages [in defense of same-sex love], mainly in five different periods--1774, 1785, 1814, 1816-1818, and 1824." [] Note that Bentham's allies at one time or another include a Quaker utopian, a prominent and successful pharmacist named William Allen, and the great reformer Frances Wright. Furthermore, Bentham's style of dress is frequently characterized as giving him a hint of the appearance of a Quaker.