Page numbers refer to the print edition.
Abie’s Irish Rose, 151
abortion, 87
abstinence, 176
Across to Singapore, 128
An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use. See Comstock Act of 1873
Adams, John, 33
addiction, drug, 187
adultery: Beecher-Tilton affair as, 78–79; in colonial America, 5, 22–23, 218n35; and consent, 23; in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 161–62; in post-Revolutionary America, 31, 49–51, 54; in post–World War II America, 165
advice books for teens, 47–49
Affordable Care Act, 176
African Americans: and alcohol drinking and drunkenness, 16–17; and civil rights, 238n51; and drug abuse, 176–83, 212; and interracial sex and marriage, 163–64; and mandatory minimum sentences, 177–82; in movies, 126–29, 135–36, 231n213; and vice between World Wars, 106–10; and vice in colonial America, 13, 16–17, 19, 22, 217n21; and vice in post–Civil War America, 60–61, 66–67; and vice in post-Revolutionary America, 34, 42, 58, 60–61, 66–68; and vice in post–World War II America, 163–64, 176–83
After the Thin Man, 136
Albany Moral Society, 39
alcohol drinking and drunkenness: addiction to, 109; among African Americans, 16–17; in colonial America, 14–18; and consent, 96, 108–9; among immigrants, 95–96; and keeping of the Sabbath, 2; in post-Revolutionary America, 31–32, 38, 44–45, 53–57; in post–World War II America, 155, 178–79; between World Wars, 108–10. See also Prohibition
Alcoholics Anonymous, 110
Alexander, Michelle, 178
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 65
Allen, William C., 106–7
Alsbrook, James, 141–42
Amendments. See U.S. Constitution
American Birth Control League, 88–89
American Family Association, 155
American Psychiatric Association, 169
amphetamines, 185
Anderson, Craig, 191, 198–99, 243n19
Anderson, Margaret C., 83
Angier, Mary, 119
Annual Review of American Colored Actors, 128
Anti-Cigarette League, 104
antivice societies, 56
Arbuckle, Fatty, 232n14
Arehart-Treichel, Joan, 210
Armey, Dick, 189
Arnaz, Desi, 209
Aspects of Birth Control, 90
atomic bombs, 147
Baby Face, 135
Baker, Josephine, 140–41, 233n36
Ball, Lucille, 209
Banzhaf, John F., III, 203–4
Bartlow, Jeff, 190
bathing suits, 115–18, 147–50, 175, 235n5
“bath salts,” 240n82
battered wives, 209–10
Bazile, Leon M., 164
Beckett, Wendy, 189
Beecher, Henry Ward, 78–79
behavioral science, 49–52, 64–65
Ben Hur, 132
berdache, 222n46
Bestia, 130–31
Bettelheim, Bruno, 193, 195–96
Bill of Rights, 30–31, 33, 37, 70
birth control, 6, 87–90, 93–94, 136, 172, 175–76, 210, 230n20
The Birth of a Nation, 127, 129, 231n213
Blackbirds, 140
Bloomer, Amelia, 114
bloomers, 114–18
Body of Liberties (Massachusetts, 1641), 31
Boggs Act of 1951, 179
Boone, Daniel, 53
Booth, Martin, 65
bootleggers, 17–18
booze. See alcohol drinking and drunkenness
Bowers v. Hardwick, 169–70
bowling, 18–19
Boxer Rebellion, 63
boxing, 20, 100–101, 130, 217n28
boycotts of movies, 132
Bradford, William, 26–27, 219n47, 219n51
Brady, William, 178–79
Breen, Joseph, 135
Briegleb, Gustav, 124–25
brothels. See prostitution
Broughton, Jack, 100
Brown, Julia, 41
Brownson, Orestes, 55–56, 223n75
Brown v. Board of Education, 238n51
Bryan, Frederick, 162
Burr, Aaron, 20–21
Burstyn, Joseph, 161
Byers, Calvin, 193
Cagney, James, 135
Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics (COYOTE), 207
cancer, 197–98, 200, 203, 243n26
candy-flavored cigarettes, 243n30
Cantor, Eddie, 120
card games, 18
Carnagey, Nicholas, 191
carriage riding, 32
Carroll, Earl, 140, 143–45, 151
cartoon violence, 3–4
castration, 31
Catholic Film Society, 125
Catholic Holy Name Society, 145
Catholics: and bikinis, 148; and birth control, 89–90, 94; and drug abuse, 111; and homosexuality, 170; and interracial sex and marriage, 237n33; and pornography, 189; and Prohibition, 96; and teen pregnancy and sex education, 172–73; and temperance movement, 56–57, 223n75; and tobacco smoking, 10; and vice in movies and theatrical performances, 124–25, 132–36, 144–45; and violent comic books, 194
CAT scans, 199
censorship, 81–87, 101, 123–26, 129–35, 161, 231n7, 232nn15–16
Cerf, Bennett, 86
Chester, John, 39
Child Online Protection Act of 1998, 156
child pornography, 156
Chinese Americans, 59, 62–66, 127–29, 136, 178, 186, 204, 211–12
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 63
Christian Coalition, 155
Christian Crusade, 173
Christiansen, Richard, 4
Christie, Chris, 182–83
Church, Brooke Peters, 192
Church Federation, 143–44, 150–51
cigarettes, 1, 6, 10, 102–4, 197–204, 243n30. See also tobacco smoking
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 177, 208
civil rights movement, 179
Civil War, 57–58
The Clansman, 127
Clinton, Bill, 156, 170, 183–84
Clinton, Hillary, 183–84
Coca Cola, 185
cocaine, 2, 65–67, 112, 178–82, 185–86, 197
cock fights, 99
Cohan, George M., 151
Colbert, Stephen, 200
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 65
Colgate, Samuel, 79
Collins, Joseph, 85–86
Collins, Wilkie, 65
Columbine High School, 190–91, 242n16
comic books, 193–95
Commission on Pornography, 158
Communications Decency Act of 1996, 156
Communism, 173–74
The Compleat Sportsman (Jacob), 99
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, 177–78
Comstock, Anthony, 77–83, 87–88, 144, 175
Comstock Act of 1873, 80–84, 88–90, 131, 155–57
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (De Quincey), 65
Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Good Morals, 38
consensual violence, 20, 53, 100
consent: and adultery, 23; and alcohol drinking and drunkenness, 96, 108–9; and boxing, 100; and child pornography, 156; and drug abuse, 187; and Hamilton-Burr duel, 21; and homosexuality, 98, 165; and movies, 125; power of, 23, 214; and striptease, 154; and theatrical performances, 143, 234n42; and tobacco smoking, 202–3; and violent entertainment, 99–100
contraception. See birth control
Controlled Substances Act of 1970, 185
Corio, Ann, 140–41
cosmetics, 106
A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco (James I), 9–10
COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), 207
crack cocaine, 179–82, 187, 241n82
Crane, George, 167
Crawford, Joan, 134
cross-dressing, 97
Crothers, Thomas, 69
The Cyclopedia of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals, 95
dancing, 107–8
Dandridge, Ray G., 141–42
darts, 18
Davis, Kingsley, 206–7
Dawson, Jonas, 217n28
debtor’s prison, 15
Dennett, Mary Ware, 5, 90, 101
De Quincey, Thomas, 65
designer drugs, 184–87
dice, 18
Diggs, Rebecca, 115
Dilley, Hannah, 25
dipsomania, 109
Dixon, Thomas F., Jr., 127
The Doctor Looks at Literature (Collins), 85–86
dog fighting, 100
domestic violence, 5–6, 209–10, 244n42
Donnerstein, Ed, 190
Douglas, Stephen A., 74
Dow, Neal, 96–97
drug abuse, 63–69, 111, 176–83, 197–99, 204, 207–13, 240n82. See also specific drugs
drug paraphernalia, 91
Drums Along the Mohawk, 129
drunkenness. See alcohol drinking and drunkenness
Du Bois, W. E. B., 60–61, 107–8
dueling, 20–22, 217n30, 218n32
Durante, Jimmy, 120
Eastland, James, 162
Eckerd Drug Stores, 185
Edmunds Act of 1882, 74
Edwin Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, 181
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 165
Elkins, Tice, 148
emotional growth, five sexual stages of, 167
empowerment of women, 208–12
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 209
Essays on Sex, 90
eugenics, 89
Evans, John, 40
Evans, Polly, 40
Evarts, Jeremiah, 45
Executive Order 10450, 165
Exon, James, 155–56
Fairness Doctrine, 203–4
fairy tales, 192–93
false modesty, 50
fan dancing, 139
Fanny Hill, 39
The Farce of the Citizen, 30
farting, public, 62
Feats of Activities, 38
Federalist Party, 33
Federated Women’s Clubs, 124
female independence, 51
films. See vice(s) in movies
flappers, 105–6
Flesh and Devil, 132
Flowers, Gennifer, 183
Foote, Edward B., 113
Fort, Joel, 197–98
Forty-Second Street Property Owners’ Association, 145
Fowler, Lorenzo, 50
Fowler, Orson, 50
Frank, Barney, 169
Franklin, Benjamin, 93
Free and Equal, 126
free love, 28, 51–52, 73, 116, 172, 230n20
French Canadian immigrants, 54
gambling: in colonial America, 11, 18–19, 29; in Nevada, 75–76; in post–Civil War America, 60–62, 75–76; in post-Revolutionary America, 33
ganja, 198
Gates, Horatio, 18
General Aggression Model, 198–99
General Federation of Women’s Clubs, 106
gentlemen’s clubs, 138
Georgia, alcohol prohibition in, 14–15
GI Bill, 160–61
Gladwell, Malcolm, 181–82
Glanvil, Joseph, 11–12
gluttony, 32
Goldberg, Barbara, 211
Goldstein, Herbert S., 145
Griffith, D. W., 127
Grove Press, 162
Gynecandrical Dancing, 24
Hadden, Samuel H., 36
Hahn, Theodor, 118
Haldeman, H. R., 176
Haley, Joseph, 172
Hallam, Lewis, Jr., 37–38
Hamilton, Eli, 35
Hammond, Matthew, 60
Hancock, John, 32–35
Harlequin Doctor, 38
Harlequin’s Frolics, 38
Harrington, Daniel, 40
Harris, Eric, 190
Harrison, Paul, 141
Harrison Narcotics Act, 69
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 49–51, 53–56
Heap, Jane, 83
Hefner, Hugh, 43
Hentz, Caroline Lee, 58
Hepburn, Katharine, 134
Herkimer, Johan Jost, 17–18
heroin, 2, 178–79, 181–83, 187, 240n75
Hobby Lobby, 176
Hoffman, Connie, 163
Hoffman, Frederick L., 59–60, 67
Holmes, Sherlock, 65
Holy Name Society, 145
homosexuality: and Catholics, 170; in colonial America, 22; and moral reformers, 98–99; in movies, 2–3, 132, 215n2; among Native Americans, 45–46, 72, 222n46; in post-Revolutionary America, 31, 45–46, 222n46; in post–World War II America, 238n50
honor, 21–22
Hookers’ Ball, 207
Hookers’ Film Festival, 207
Hopper, Hedda, 2
Hubert, Mrs. P. G., 124
Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 104
Hughes, Langston, 234n42
Huss, Magnus, 109
Hyles, Jack, 173–74
Hylton v. United States, 152, 220n3
Ickes, Harold, 109
I Love Lucy, 209
immigrants: and alcohol drinking and drunkenness, 95–96; French Canadian, 54; Irish, 53–57; Jewish, 88–89, 106, 124–25, 144–45, 237n33; Mexican, 110–13; in post–Civil War America, 62–64; in post-Revolutionary America, 33–34, 52–57; and prostitution, 62; and vice in movies, 123–25; and vice in theatrical performances, 144; between World Wars, 105–6
indecent exposure, 115, 120, 139, 147, 231n32
industrialization, 47, 52–57, 68–69, 118
intemperance, 33, 55–56, 58. See also alcohol drinking and drunkenness
Internet pornography, 155–56
interracial marriage, 163–64, 237n33
interracial sex, 24, 43, 163–64
Irish immigrants, 53–57, 105–6
Jacob, Giles, 99
James I, King of England, 9–11, 216n2
jazz music, 106–8
Jefferson, Thomas, 31, 33, 129
Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 98
Jenkins, Walter, 165–66
Jenness, Valerie, 207
Jewish immigrants, 88–89, 106, 124–25, 144–45, 237n33
John Birch Society, 173
Johnson, Lyndon, 165
Johnston, Eric, 215n
Joint Committee for the Promotion and Protection of Art and Literature, 84
Jones, Aaron, 100
Jones, Paula, 183
Kandyland, 154
Kefauver, Estes, 195
Kendrick, William, 5
King Turd, 160
Kinsey, Alfred, 166–67
Kitty Kat Lounge, 153
Klebold, Dylan, 190
Know Nothing Party, 89
Ku Klux Klan, 127
Ladova, Rosalie, 117
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 160–62, 236n26, 237n30
Laidlaw, Robert W., 166–67
Lane, H. E., 119
lap dancing, 154
laudanum, 65, 68–69, 203–4, 211–12
Lausche, Frank, 162
Lawrence v. Texas, 169–70
Lebensreform (Life Reform), 118
A Lecture on Heads, 37–38
Lectures to Young Men (Burnap), 48
Lee, Gypsy Rose, 140–41
leprosy, 62
Letournel, Joanne, 141
Letters on Female Character (Cary), 48
levity, 33
Lewis, Dio, 97
LGBTQ, 170–71
Librium, 204–5
Life Reform (Lebensreform), 118
Lincoln, Abraham, 75–76
liquor. See alcohol drinking and drunkenness
literature, obscene, 83–87
Little Caesar, 135
Little Mothers’ Association, 172
Little Review, 83
living pictures, 139–40
Lord, Daniel, 134–35
lotteries, 29
Louisiana Purchase, 33–34
Love Rights of Women, 90
Loving, Mildred Jeter, 164
Loving, Richard, 164
Loving v. Virginia, 164
Loy, Myrna, 136
LSD, 178
Lucky Strikes, 103
Lyerly, D. K., 67
MacLaine, Shirley, 151
MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), 194
Magdalen Facts, 171–72
mandatory minimum sentences, 177–82
Mann Act of 1910, 82–83
Manousos, Demetrius, 172
Manslaughter, 132
Marbury v. Madison, 220n3
marijuana, 2, 111–13, 178, 182, 184–86, 189, 197–200
Mary Lyndon (Nichols), 50–51, 134–35
Mason, Perry, 5
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Vice, 38
Mather, Cotton, 12, 14, 16, 26
Mather, Increase, 24
Mathew, Theobald, 57
Mattachine Society, 166
Maule, Frances, 208
Maurstad, Tom, 190
May-pole dancing and drinking, 26
McCaffrey, Joseph, 151
McCarthy, J. J., 69
McCool, Mike, 100
McDonald, William, 99
McKay, Claude, 142–43
McLaughlin, Dewey, 163
Meese, Edwin, 157–58
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 39
Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 159
Men Who Have Made Love to Me, 130–31
methamphetamines, 185–87, 241n82
Mexican immigrants, 110–13
Miller, Adeline, 41
Miller v. California, 159
Miltown, 204–5
Minsky, Morton, 233n28
Minsky’s Burlesque, 137–38, 143–44, 151
The Miracle, 236n26
Monroe, Marilyn, 159
The Moonstone (Collins), 65
moral myths. See myths about vice
moral reformers. See vice(s) and moral reformers
Mormons, 73–75
Morrill Act of 1862, 74
Morton, Thomas, 26–28, 219n47, 219n51
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), 194
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), 131
Motion Picture Production Code, 2–3, 135–36, 161, 215n2, 233n20
Mount Wollaston settlement, 52
movies. See vice(s) in movies
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 82
Mumford, John, 42
Muni, Paul, 135
Mutual v. Ohio, 129
mythinformation, 196–200
myths about vice: and Asians, 128; in colonial America, 21, 25–26; and drug abuse, 179; and homosexuality, 98; and Mexican Americans and marijuana, 113; and Native Americans, 108–9; in post–Civil War America, 62, 66–67, 69; in post-Revolutionary America, 31, 41, 53, 55; and Prohibition, 94–95, 97; and scientific mythinformation, 196–200; and synthetic drug abuse, 185; and teenage pregnancy, 173; in theatrical performances, 137–38; and tobacco smoking, 197–200; and violent entertainment, 99; between World Wars, 107–9, 111–12
Nation, Carrie, 90–94
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 67–68
National Association of the Motion Picture Industry, 130–31
National Board of Censorship of Motion Pictures, 125
National Bureau of Reform, 131
National Council of Women, 115
National Endowment for the Arts, 189
National Geographic Magazine, 156–57, 236n18
National Institute on Drug Abuse, 186
National Legion for Wholesome Literature, 194
National Police Gazette, 101
Native Americans: disproportionate punishments for vice among, 213; and homosexuality, 45–46, 72, 222n46; in movies, 127, 129, 136, 231n213; and vice between World Wars, 108–9; and vice in colonial America, 13–18, 21–22; and vice in post–Civil War America, 70–73; and vice in post-Revolutionary America, 43–47
naturalization law, 33
Nevada, gambling and prostitution in, 75–76, 225n43
New York Boxing Commission, 101
New York Public Library, 81–82
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, 80, 87–88, 143–45, 175
Nichols, Mary Gove, 50–51
Nichols, Thomas Low, 51
nickelodeons, 123
The Night They Raided Minsky’s, 137–38
Nixon, Richard, 159, 176–80, 185
nude dancing, 152–53
Nudism in Modern Life (Parmelee), 119
nudity, public, 42–43, 118–21, 136–46, 152–55
Obama, Barack, 176
Oberndorfer, Mrs. Max, 106–7
O’Brien, David Paul, 152
O’Brien Test, 152–54
obscenity: and bikinis, 147; and birth control, 90; and bloomers, 115; and Internet pornography, 155–56; in literary novels, 83–87; in mailed literature, 77–82; in movies, 124–25, 130–31; and Playboy magazine, 158–59; in post–Civil War America, 72; in post-Revolutionary America, 39, 47; in post–World War II America, 147, 152, 155–56, 158–59, 160, 163; and public nudity, 119; and sex education, 101; Supreme Court decisions on, 4, 160, 163; in theatrical performances, 152; views on, 4–5; and Will Hays, 131–35, 232n15; between World Wars, 115, 119. See also Comstock, Anthony; Comstock Act of 1873
Oglethorpe, James, 14–15
online pornography, 155–56
opium, 62–69, 112, 178, 186, 204, 211–12
Opium Exclusion Act, 64
Opium Wars, 63
Osaw-wen-dib, 45
Oschner, Alton, 197
The Pajama Game, 151
parental controls, 156
Parent Teacher Association (PTA), 174, 194
Parmelee, Maurice, 119
Parsons, Daniel A., 113
Pavlov, Ivan, 173–74
Pavlov’s Children, 173
Peter Pan, 151
peyote, 70
Philaretes, 9–10
phrenology, 50
Phrenology (Fowler), 50
physicians and scientists, power of, 59–62, 66, 85–86, 89–90, 95–96, 104, 168, 182–85, 193–201, 208, 243n26
Physiology of Sex Life, 90
Piss Christ, 189
plaçage, 34
Plain Home Talk (Foote), 113
Planned Parenthood, 89
The Planter’s Northern Bride (Hentz), 58
Plessy v. Ferguson, 238n51
plural marriage, 73–75. See also polygamy
The Polish Dancer, 130–31
politicians, 194–95
Pontiac’s Rebellion, 18, 57, 199
pornography, 38–39, 77–83, 138, 155–56, 175, 189, 236n26
Powell, William, 136
The Price of Ambition, 125
prizefighting. See boxing
Prohibition, 91–97, 108–10, 154, 232n16
prostitution: and Anthony Comstock, 81–83; among Chinese immigrants, 62; in colonial America, 23, 25–26; current views and demographics of, 205–8, 211; and drug abuse, 179; and gentlemen’s clubs, 138; modern views of, 205–8; in Nevada, 75–76, 225n43; in post–Civil War America, 75–76, 225n43; in post-Revolutionary America, 39–42; in post–World War II America, 179
Protestants, 55, 89, 110–11, 124, 132–34, 144–45, 227n27, 232n16, 237n33
PTA (Parent Teacher Association), 174, 194
The Public Enemy, 135
Puritans and puritanism, 11–12, 14, 18, 22, 24–30, 95, 162, 172
Queensberry, Marquess of, 100
racism: in colonial America, 16–17; and idleness, 19; in movies, 126–28; in post–Civil War America, 59–61; in post-Revolutionary America, 42; and theatrical performances, 141
Raitt, John, 151
random violence, 242n16
Raynor, John, 22
Reagan, Ronald, 157–58, 179–81
Réard, Louis, 147
Red Fox, 128
religious leaders, power of: and censorship, 162; in colonial America, 11, 19; and flappers, 106; and homosexuality, 98, 165, 167; and Margaret Sanger, 89; as moral crusaders, 79; and movies, 124, 137; in post–Civil War America, 75; in post-Revolutionary America, 35–37, 45; in post–World War II America, 162, 165, 167, 171, 173; and Prohibition, 96; and prostitution, 205; and teen pregnancy and sex education, 171, 173, 211; between World Wars, 106
Republican Party, 75–76, 159, 183–84
Richmond, Ray, 4
Ring, Fred, 119–20
Ring, Ophelia, 119–20
Robinson, Edward G., 135
Robinson, Jane, 23
Robinson, Maude, 167–68
Rodwell, William, 217n28
Rubin, Isadore, 174
Rugs, Margery, 23
Russell, Sylvester, 128
Sabbath, violation of, 2, 20, 28, 34–35
salacious movies, 130–36
Sally Hemings, 129
Sanchez, Adame, 113
Sandburg, Carl, 142–43
Sanford, R. A., 113
Sanger, Margaret, 87–90, 94, 116
Santorum, Rick, 6
Scarface, 135
The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), 49–51, 54
scientists. See physicians and scientists, power of
The Secret of the Confessional, 125
Seduction of the Innocent (Wertham), 193
Serrano, Andres, 189
servility, 58
Seventy Birth Control Clinics, 90
sex education, 5, 90, 101, 173–76
Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), 174
Sex Side of Life (Dennett), 5
sexual harassment and assault, 2, 183, 208–10
sexual vices. See specific sexual vices
Shaw, George Bernard, 82
She Done Him Wrong, 133–35
Sheehan, Lawrence, 237n33
She Strives to Conquer (Maule), 208
shiftlessness, 60
Shoemaker, John V., 64–65
SIECUS (Sex Information and Education Council of the United States), 174
silk stockings, 105–6
Simon, Paul, 4
The Simpsons, 3–4
slaves and slavery, 13, 15–16, 24, 33–34, 43, 57–58, 180, 218n32
Smith, Charles C., 194
Smith, Robert Holbrook, 110
smoking. See tobacco smoking
social workers, 123–24
sodomy, 22, 98, 218n35, 219n47. See also homosexuality
Sokolsky, George, 168
The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois), 60–61
Stanwyck, Barbara, 134
St. Cyr, Lili, 150
Steinem, Gloria, 158
Stewart, Potter, 4–5
Stonewall Inn, 168
Story of the Nun, 125
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 57–58
Stranger in the Land (Thomas), 168
Strange Transgressor, 130–31
Straub, Jacques, 92
Straub’s Manual of Mixed Drinks (Straub), 92
striptease, 121, 138–46, 150–51, 154–55, 158, 234n42
The Sultan’s Wife, 130–31
Summer, John S., 175
Sun Dance, 71–72
synthetic drug abuse, 184–87
synthetic marijuana, 184–86
syphilis, 59
Tanner, John, 45–47
Taylor, Henry, 73
teenage pregnancy, 171–76, 210–12
teens, advice books for, 47–49
Television Code, 135
temperance movement, 45, 56, 91–97, 114, 134. See also Prohibition
Terry, Luther, 212
THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), 184
theatrical performances. See vice(s) in theatrical performances
Thief of Bagdad, 128
The Thin Man, 136
Thomas, Alice, 26
Thomas, Ward, 168
thong bathing suits, 150
Tillman, Benjamin R., 60
Tilton, Mrs. Theodore, 78–79
Tinee, Mae, 161
Title VII of Civil Rights Act, 208
Tobacco Institute, 198
Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, 204
tobacco smoking, 9–11, 13–14, 46, 102–4, 197–204, 243n26, 243n30
topless bathing suits, 117, 149–50
The Tragedy of Zara (Voltaire), 30
tranquilizers, 204–5
Treadway, Walter, 206
Tropic of Cancer (Miller), 160, 163
Tuttle, Sarah, 45
Twain, Mark, 104
twin beds, 136
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 57–58
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, 145
unpredictability, 214
unwed mothers, 171–76
U.S. Constitution: First Amendment of, 129, 132, 152–53, 158–59, 161, 189, 195, 220n12; Fifth Amendment of, 91; Eighteenth Amendment of, 96; Nineteenth Amendment of, 61, 94; Twenty-First Amendment of, 96, 108
U.S. Customs Service, 87
U.S. Postal Service, 77–83, 157, 160, 162
valued participation, 211–12
Venus School Mistress, 39
vice: vs. crime, 97; as empowerment, 212–14; overview of, 1–7; victories over, 200–212. See also specific vices
vice(s) and moral reformers: and alcohol drinking and drunkenness, 95–96; and Anthony Comstock, 77–83, 87–88, 144, 175; and birth control, 87–90, 93–94; and Carrie Nation, 90–94; and homosexuality, 98–99; and Margaret Sanger, 87–90, 94, 116; and obscene literature, 83–87; and obscenity in mailed literature, 77–83; and pornography, 77–83; and Prohibition, 91–97; and prostitution, 81–83; and sex education, 5, 90, 101; and temperance movement, 91–97; and violent entertainment, 99–104; and women smoking, 102–4. See also physicians and scientists, power of
vice(s) between World Wars: among African Americans, 106–10; alcohol drinking and drunkenness as, 108–10; bathing suits as, 115–18; blasphemy as, 105; bloomers as, 114–18; dancing as, 107–8; drug abuse as, 111; in fashions, 113–19; among immigrants, 105–6; indecent exposure as, 115; jazz music as, 106–8; marijuana as, 111–13; among Mexican immigrants, 110–13; among Native Americans, 108–9; overview of, 105–8; public nudity as, 118–21; punishment of, 109–10; striptease as, 121
vice(s) in colonial America: adultery as, 5, 22–23, 218n35; among African Americans, 13, 16–17, 19, 22, 217n21; alcohol drinking and drunkenness as, 14–18; bowling as, 18–19; boxing as, 20, 100–101, 130, 217n28; card games as, 18; cursing as, 20, 28; darts as, 18; dice as, 18; dueling as, 20–22, 217n30, 218n32; and enforcement of vice laws, 17–18; entertainment as, 18–30; in fashions, 25; free love as, 28; gambling as, 11, 18–19, 29; “Gynecandrical Dancing” as, 24; homosexuality as, 22; idleness as, 11, 19; interracial sex as, 24; juggling as, 1, 11–12, 28; licentiousness as, 5, 26; May-pole dancing and drinking as, 26; among Native Americans, 13–18, 21–22; profanity as, 20; prostitution as, 23, 25–26; sodomy as, 22, 218n35, 219n47; theatrical performances as, 30; tobacco smoking as, 9–11, 13–14; violation of Sabbath as, 20, 28
vice(s) in movies: and African Americans, 126–29, 135–36, 231n213; boycotts of, 133; and censorship, 123–26, 129–35, 231n7; and free speech, 129, 230n20; homosexuality as, 2–3, 215n2; and immigrants, 123–25; obscenity as, 124–25, 130–31; overview of, 123–29; salaciousness as, 130–36; self-regulation of, 130–31; and twin beds, 136; and violence, 123, 126–27, 129, 132, 135, 191–92; wife abuse as, 209, 244n42
vice(s) in post–Civil War America: among African Americans, 60–61, 66–67; drug abuse as, 63–69; gambling as, 60–62, 75–76; among immigrants, 62–64; laudanum as, 68–69, 203–4, 211–12; morphine as, 68–69; among Native Americans, 70–73; opium as, 62–69; overview of, 59–63; polygamy as, 2, 73–75, 225n41; prostitution as, 62, 75–76, 225n43; and racism, 59–61; scientific views of, 59–61; shiftlessness as, 60; and women’s rights, 61–62
vice(s) in post-Revolutionary America: adultery as, 31, 49–50, 54; and advice books for teens, 47–49; among African Americans, 34, 42, 58, 60–61, 66–68; alcohol drinking and drunkenness as, 31–32, 44–45, 53–57; and behavioral science, 49–52; blasphemy as, 35; carriage riding as, 32; false modesty as, 50; in fashions, 48–49; and female independence, 51; free love as, 51–52; gambling as, 33; gluttony as, 32; homosexuality as, 31, 45–46, 222n46; idleness as, 33; among immigrants, 33–34, 52–57; interracial sex as, 43; juggling as, 42; levity as, 33; licentiousness as, 34, 46; missionary views of, 45; among Native Americans, 43–47; overview of, 31–36; pornography as, 38–39; profanity as, 35; prostitution as, 39–42; public nudity as, 42–43; slaves and slavery as, 33–34, 57–58; theatrical performances as, 37–39, 42; tobacco smoking as, 46; and urbanization, 52–57; violation of Sabbath as, 34–35; voodoo as, 34–35, 106; as weapons in Civil War, 57–58
vice(s) in post–World War II America: adultery as, 165; among African Americans, 163–64, 176–83; alcohol drinking and drunkenness as, 155, 178–79; amphetamines as, 185; bathing suits as, 147–50, 175, 235n5; child pornography as, 156; cocaine as, 178–82, 185–86; designer drugs as, 184–87; drug abuse as, 176–83; fornication as, 171; heroin as, 178–79, 181–83, 187; homosexuality as, 165–71, 238n50; indecent exposure as, 147; interracial sex and marriage as, 163–64, 237n33; lap dancing as, 154; LSD as, 178; and mandatory minimum sentences, 177–82; marijuana as, 178, 182, 184–87; methamphetamines as, 185–87; morphine as, 178; nude dancing as, 152–55; obscenity as, 152, 156, 158–60, 163; pornography as, 155–60, 175, 236n26; profanity as, 161; public nudity as, 152–55; sexual harassment and assault as, 183; striptease as, 150–51, 154–55, 158; synthetic drug abuse as, 184–87, 240n82; teenage pregnancy as, 171–76; tobacco smoking as, 197–204
vice(s) in theatrical performances: in burlesque, 136–46; in colonial America, 30; and immigrants, 144; myths about, 137–38; in post-Revolutionary America, 37–39, 42; and racism, 141; striptease as, 121, 138–46, 150–51, 158, 234n42; and violence, 126
video games, 6, 189–93, 195–96, 198–99, 242n16
Vietnam War, 159
Violations of the Child Marilyn Monroe, 160
violence: in cartoons, 3–4; in comic books, 193–95; consensual, 20, 53, 100; domestic, 5–6, 209–10, 244n42; in movies, 123, 126–27, 129, 132, 135, 191–92; random, 242n16; in theatrical performances, 126; in video games, 6, 189–93, 195–96, 198–99, 242n16
Virginia Slims, 102
Walker, Mary, 114–15
war on censorship, 83–84
war on drugs, 63, 178–80, 185–86
WCTU (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union), 95, 116
Weber, Henriette, 105–6
Welch, Robert, 173
Wertham, Frederic, 193, 195–96
West, Mae, 133–34
Whac-A-Mole, 4, 32, 37–38, 185
Whiskey Rebellion, 32
White, Byron, 153
white slavery, 83
white supremacists, 164
Whitlock, Brand, 125
Williams, Edward Huntington, 66–67, 197
Wilson, William Griffith, 110
Winchell, Walter, 120
Wise, Stephen S., 125
Wittenmyer, Annie, 95
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 52
Woman Rebel, 88
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 95, 116
women’s clubs, 124
women smoking, 102–4
women’s rights, 6, 52, 61–62, 102, 114–16, 208
women’s suffrage movement, 93–94
Wong, Anna May, 128–29, 134, 192
Woodhull, Victoria, 78–79
Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, 78–79
Woolsey, John M., 87
Workingmen’s Party of California (WPC), 62–64
World’s Temperance Convention in New York (1854), 95
Wounded Knee Creek, 71
Wyler, William, 2–3
Yahger, Margaret, 41
Yberri, Lola, 139
The Yiddisher Cowboy, 125
Young, Brigham, 2
Zapata, Emiliano, 112
zoot suits, 112–13