 Georg Johan De Besche belonged to the group of male favorites of Gustav III consisting of Adolf Fredrik Munck, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Fabian Wrede and the brothers Evert Vilhelm Taube and Karl Edvard Taube who was referred to as pet-youths.Like several others of the King's male favorites, he himself was known for his love affairs with women; he was known for his taste for "Vulgar girls", and according to Princess Charlotte, he had a bad reputation and was considered to be debauched.According to Elis Schröderheim, after the parliament of 1789, when Gustav III had punished the noble opposition and as a consequence was punished by being socially ostracized from high society by a demonstration of female nobles led by Jeanna von Lantingshausen, he became completely socially dependent upon this group of favorites, with whom he isolated himself at the Gustav III's Pavilion by Haga Palace, where he engaged in ill-reputed orgies with prostitutes.