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Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:10 PM Feb 2013

"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

Plus ca change......

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"Sexual self-gratification on stage" ...... "A strip-tease with clothes on". (Original Post) Nye Bevan Feb 2013 OP
oh, my. such perversion. What will we do? liberal_at_heart Feb 2013 #1
1927, NYC, Grand Jury sends Mae West to jail for 8 days for her play 'Sex' they said: Bluenorthwest Feb 2013 #2
Oh dear, I hope that young man never makes it to the national stage Autumn Feb 2013 #3
Hysteria, eh? riqster Feb 2013 #5
Gee, I always thought the Vibrator was invented .... DreamGypsy Feb 2013 #7
Rimshot! riqster Feb 2013 #9
"Teenage girls from the age of eleven..." Brickbat Feb 2013 #4
".......I would judge that he may possibly be a drug addict and a sexual pervert." thelordofhell Feb 2013 #6
Oh my! I need a cigarette after just reading that! Demo_Chris Feb 2013 #8
I wonder what Tipper Gore would say LOL snooper2 Feb 2013 #10
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
2. 1927, NYC, Grand Jury sends Mae West to jail for 8 days for her play 'Sex' they said:
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:23 PM
Feb 2013

“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
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:24 PM
Feb 2013

who knows what could happen. "perversion by certain types of motions and hysteria"



DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)
7. Gee, I always thought the Vibrator was invented ....
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:49 PM
Feb 2013

...not, uh, naturally produced.

A comedy about the birth of the vibrator in Victorian England.



thelordofhell

(4,569 posts)
6. ".......I would judge that he may possibly be a drug addict and a sexual pervert."
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:42 PM
Feb 2013

Eventually proven correct...............

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