Abstract

Sex Scares the Professor

The more native newspapers had galvanizing news, in January 1957, "Americans are becoming victims of a sex mania as malign as cancer," "sex bribery and blackmail are now as prevalent as monetary corruption," "sexually infamous persons or their proteges" occupy high office. The source of these eschatological doom-sayings is the book "The American Sex Revolution," by Pitirim Sorokin, head of tile Harvard Research Center in creative Altruism. The last charge, against people in government, can be examined first, as the most local and easily checked. Reporters are agreed that a brothel is now hard to find in Washington D.C. Professional vice is undercut by the great mass of female government employee, but they have to go to work in the morning. The massage parlors that flourished during the war have long since flown across many states.