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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Sexual self-gratification on stage" ...... "A strip-tease with clothes on".
In a letter to J. Edgar Hoover dated May 16, 1956, for instance, a purported former member of the Army Intelligence Service states that Presley is a "definite danger to the security of the United States" because he had driven girls and boys mad. The letter says that Elvis's "actions and motions were such as to rouse the sexual passions of teenaged youth. One eye-witness described his actions as 'sexual self-gratification on stage,' another as 'a strip-tease with clothes on.' The author further criticizes Elvis's "motions and gestures, like those of masturbation or riding a microphone," and adds that "Indications of the harm Presley did ... were two high school girls (...) whose abdomen and thigh had Presley's autograph. ... It is known by psychologists, psychiatrists and priests that teenaged girls from the age of eleven, and boys in their adolescence are easily aroused to sexual indulgence and perversion by certain types of motions and hysteria, the type that was exhibited at the Presley show. There is also gossip of the Presley Fan Clubs that degenerate into sex orgies. ... From eye-witness reports about Presley, I would judge that he may possibly be a drug addict and a sexual pervert."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_files_on_Elvis_Presley
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"Sexual self-gratification on stage" ...... "A strip-tease with clothes on". (Original Post)
Nye Bevan
Feb 2013
OP
1927, NYC, Grand Jury sends Mae West to jail for 8 days for her play 'Sex' they said:
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2013
#2
".......I would judge that he may possibly be a drug addict and a sexual pervert."
thelordofhell
Feb 2013
#6
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)1. oh, my. such perversion. What will we do?
We better hide our eyes or we will be violated and corrupted.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)2. 1927, NYC, Grand Jury sends Mae West to jail for 8 days for her play 'Sex' they said:
This obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure drama would abet the corruption of the morals of youth.
Autumn
(44,748 posts)3. Oh dear, I hope that young man never makes it to the national stage
who knows what could happen. "perversion by certain types of motions and hysteria"
riqster
(13,986 posts)5. Hysteria, eh?
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)7. Gee, I always thought the Vibrator was invented ....
...not, uh, naturally produced.
A comedy about the birth of the vibrator in Victorian England.
riqster
(13,986 posts)9. Rimshot!
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)4. "Teenage girls from the age of eleven..."
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)6. ".......I would judge that he may possibly be a drug addict and a sexual pervert."
Eventually proven correct...............
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)8. Oh my! I need a cigarette after just reading that!
snooper2
(30,151 posts)10. I wonder what Tipper Gore would say LOL