Inexpensive Wine: A Guide to Best Buys Lee 1974 This little paperback can be found gracing the shelves of 62 libraries, according to WorldCat. I have no idea why. This copy has dog-eared corners, brittle paper, and yellowed edges. It
Category: Vice Patrol
Vice Patrol refers to posts that concern all matters of sin.
VD and Sexual Freedom
Sexual Freedom and Venereal Disease Morton 1971 This old fashioned discussion of sexual hygiene practices reads more academic than other commentary. Old fashioned views on women (and their relative “cleanliness”) are driving most the discussion, but in general the whole
Mixology 70s Style
The Bartender’s Guide Duffy 1972 From the cover to the recipes, this book is suuuuper dated. This is a little paperback with yellowed pages and tiny font. The cover has a very 70’s vibe. It does have a pretty convenient
Got Questions About VD?
Venereal Disease The Questions, The Answers Young 1973 Got questions about the Clap? Worried you are hanging out with the girls that are “unclean?” (Funny how guys are never referred to as unclean.) The answers are here. Lots of science
Drinking in America
Drinking in America: Our Secret History Cheever 2015 Submitter: I stumbled upon this tome while browsing my local library branch. Now, as a craft beer drinker and writer about said subject, I already own several excellent books on alcoholic drink
Smoke if you got ’em!
The Cigarette Shortage Federal Trade Commission 1945 Submitter: I found this as I was weeding the government documents at [a university library]. I am glad I did not grow up in the forties. Holly: Want to know more? Here’s the
The Groovy Way to Quit Drinking
Find Your Perfect High Without Mind Altering Substances: Shift Happens, when you train your brain Marshall 1978 Direct from the late 1970s, your solution to alcoholism. Marshall struggled with alcohol and developed his own version of alcohol treatment. The beginning
Sex, Sadism, and Murder
The Wasted Years Stearn 1968 (original copyright 1959) Earlier this year we published a post about teen sex depravity, or what I like to call “nonfiction erotica.” A serious subject is presented with “facts” and reporting that is salacious at