Long before television and video games, or before comic books and D&D, novels were the new and scary form of entertainment. They were accused of corrupting the youth, of planting dangerous ideas into the heads of housewives, and distracting everyone from more serious, important books.
1926: Jazz, Movies, Motor Car, and Sex Novels Blamed for 'Wild Youth'merged1926
π Wed, Feb 24, 1926 Β· Page 18
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