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Through the tumultuous 1950s in the us, love-making was as intimidating to the nation's moral order as communism. NY was the capital of the post-World War II world and the epicenter of an fierce culture warfare over music, theatre, films, fashion, and literature, as well as birth control, homosexuality, adolescent love-making, pornography, and prostitution. Over the last half-century, America's cultural life - especially notions of culture, sexuality, and politics - has fundamentally changed, and what were once sinful or subversive sexual procedures have been built-into the marketplace, irreversibly changing American moral principles; the once illicit is becoming an industry of more than $50 billion. Attracting on first-person interviews, unpublished memoirs, newspapers accounts, modern-day studies, federal government documents, and recent scholarship, Sin, Intimacy & Subversion argues that "deviant" sexuality was subversive, and this unique NY "outsiders" of the 1950s establish the level for the next decades and the earth we know today. In each chapter, writer David Rosen examines a crucial moral issue through an in-depth profile of figures such as Liberace, Samuel Roth, Bettie Page, the Rosenbergs, and more. Through these individuals, Rosen shows how those who handled outside the legislations or who challenged popular principles, even if indeed they were silenced in their time, finished up paving the way for a new normal.
