America's Sex Hysteria
"Sex O'Clock in America"
Magazine article
By: Current Opinion
Date: 1913
Source: "Sex O'Clock in America." Current Opinion, August 1913, 113–114.
"Popular Gullibility as Exhibited in
the New White Slavery Hysteria"
Magazine article
By: Current Opinion
Date: 1914
Source: "Popular Gullibility as Exhibited in the New White Slavery Hysteria," Current Opinion. February 1914, 129.
Introduction
By all accounts, 1913 was the year when cracks first developed in the carefully constructed nineteenth-century Victorian façade of sexual prudery. In time, this edifice would be replaced by today's media-driven titillation. That first wave of sexual liberation was abruptly stamped out. Indeed, it barely survived the First World War when the heavy hand of wartime government...
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1910's Lifestyles and Social Trends Primary Sources
The 1910's: Primary Sources
