Mara L. Keire, a member of the history faculty at the University of Oxford, has made a career out of studying debauchery. Her published works have included “Dope Fiends and Degenerates: The Gendering of Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century,” and “The Vice Trust: A Reinterpretation of the White Slavery Scare in the United States, 1907-1917”; now, with her new book “For Business & Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890-1933,” Keire explores the culture that developed in the seedier spots within New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, and points between. Recently, Keire answered my questions about vice’s history—and its present-day role—in America. Read more at newyorker.com…
Olde-Tymey Vice
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