Teen-Age Vice (original title: Designs in Scarlet)
Cooper
1939, revised 1957
How about a read on the hows and whys of teens in trouble? From my brief skim, this book is more about titillation rather than informational. Who wouldn’t want to pick up this book based on the title and the cover art? Cooper, himself was a bit of a show stopper as a writer and an expert on circuses. (Great, now I have a mashup of True Crime and clowns going on in my head…)
Cooper has detailed accounts of how prison will turn men into homosexuals, and big government projects, like a dam or a bridge, will bring in hookers to a nice town. Major Causes of teen vice? Liquor, premarital sex, masturbation, hanging out in juke joints, and lack of adult supervision. (You know, all the fun stuff.) The consequences are homosexuality, prostitution and drug abuse.
I guess our society is doomed.
Mary
“Inspired by J. Edgar Hoover”? That puts a whole new spin on JEdgar’s early life!
damn they were so close to “teen ape vice” – that;s something I’d want to read
So basically this book is one big piece of ephebiphobia. Very amusing for a society that is so obsessed with youth and getting so much as a grey hair is the end of your life.
That bra is a lethal weapon!
J. Edgar Hoover, man. What a piece of work.
Weren’t those two in Grease? Or was it Happy Days? Or maybe American Graffiti??
I’d say all of them.
Oh, and I think they also had bit parts in “Reefer Madness.”
Sal Mineo, is that you?
Nah, that’s Frankie Avalon.
I’m imagining an audio book of this read by Jack Webb.
It would be right up there with his rendition of “Try a Little Tenderness”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYhiMdQCrkA
I highly approve of that idea, especially if it was when he got old and sour, like in the later series.
Are automobiles today considered to have tonneaus? Or would that be tonneaux? And wouldn’t a body there be visible to anyone who looked at the vehicle?