Playboy's History Of The Sexual Revolution Part Iii (1920--1929): The Jazz Age

April, 1997

At a small church in Muncie, Indiana, a well-meaning Sunday school teacher talks of the temptation, the spiritual dangers posed by physical comfort, wealth and fame."Can you think of any temptation we have today that Jesus didn't have?" he asks."Speed!" one boy shouts out.Speed. Not just the urge to step on the gas in the family Ford, but an entirely new feeling of acceleration and excitement. Thomas Edison tells the readers of The Saturday Evening Post that "the automob...

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