{"id":7537,"date":"2016-11-17T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2016-09-16T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:24:11","slug":"sinner-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2016\/11\/17\/sinner-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner man"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.
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\"Img0045\"<\/a>\u00a0“Here, in this taut, fact-crammed\u00a0volume, you’ll be taken into the fifteen most infamous vice centers of the entire\u00a0hemisphere, you’ll see for yourself how crime flourishes within each city.”<\/strong> \u00a0America’s cities of sin<\/em><\/a> is an anthology of articles from popular 1940s and 50s magazines targeted for men. \u00a0It is a fascinating look at public sentiments of the time regarding drugs and sex. \u00a0The text of the articles is taken without abridgment\u00a0from the serial publications of Male, Stag,<\/em> and Eye<\/em>. \u00a0The editor, Noah Sarlat, states that these three magazines turned the spotlight onAmerican sins\u00a0including crime, prostitution, gambling, and drugs by writing exposes that informed the public.<\/p>\n

\"hooked\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hooked<\/em> is another anthology that takes articles exclusively dealing with drugs from Challenge for Men Magazine<\/em> and Man’s Magazine<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0 Editor Phil Hirsch compiled a number of articles with extremely sensational titles such as<\/p>\n

“I Peddled Dope for Houston’s Cops!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Pep Pill Junkie”<\/strong> and<\/p>\n

“$500 a day Habit.”<\/strong> \u00a0If you have been reading these posts\u00a0regularly it may not surprise you to learn that\u00a0we have already processed a\u00a0few of the original issues of\u00a0Man’s Magazine<\/a>\u00a0which can be found in Hollis+. \u00a0The covers of all of these publications are designed to snag the viewer with pulpy\u00a0images which are accompanied by incendiary statements about sex, drugs, and death.<\/p>\n

\"mans_mag_1\"<\/a> \"mans_mag_2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

These delightfully lurid and sensational covers are not all that different from popular tabloid journalism of today. \u00a0The following titles can\u00a0be found in Widener’s collection:<\/p>\n

America’s<\/span> cities<\/span> of<\/span> <\/a>sin<\/a> \/\u00a0selected and with an introduction by Noah Sarlat.\u00a0New York : Lion Books, 1951\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hooked<\/a> \/ compiled by Phil Hirsch.\u00a0New York, Pyramid Books [1968]<\/p>\n

Man’s<\/span> magazine<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0New York : Almat Publishing Corp., 1962-<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. \u00a0“Here, in this taut, fact-crammed\u00a0volume, you’ll be taken into the fifteen most infamous vice centers of the entire\u00a0hemisphere, you’ll see for yourself how crime flourishes within each city.” \u00a0America’s cities of sin is an anthology of articles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72741],"tags":[2346,159406,2347,3897,72720,3847,159405,159407,579],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-widener-library","tag-addiction","tag-anthology","tag-crime","tag-drugs","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo-collection","tag-junkies","tag-mans-magazine","tag-prostitution","tag-sex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-1Xz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7646,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions\/7646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}