Used insultingly by one man to another in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers. The speaker is a religious fanatic and presumably means that the man he is addressing is devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasure. Babylon was in ancient...

Babylonia was a state in southern Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq, combining the territories of Sumer and Akkad. The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 23rd century...