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Sex in Baltimore: Shocking Report Kept from the Public

Bybilllefurgy

In 1915 a government study on illicit sex left Baltimore “naked and exposed.” The Maryland Vice Commission, in the words of one excitable observer, had spent “three years stripping the clothes off” the city, and the official report presented a mountain of evidence about prostitution and other furtive sexual activities. The immediate public reaction was…

A viral song from 1909 turned American music sexy, rude, and violent

Bybilllefurgy

Posted on February 20, 2020 by billlefurgy Sex elbowed its way into American popular culture during the early years of the twentieth century. I learned more about this while researching my novel, Into the Suffering City, which is set in 1909 Baltimore. Romance had, of course, long been a staple of music played in the home and other…