Vice Capades | 
Yesterday, Mark Stein discussed how people use vice and vice laws to maintain or obtain power. Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present. Not only bowling; dancing, too, was prohibited at some point in the US.
Yesterday, Mark Stein discussed how people use vice and vice laws to maintain or obtain power. Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present. Not only bowling; dancing, too, was prohibited at some point in the US.
pickDid you know that bowling promoted idleness during Puritanical times? That tobacco grown in the colonies was considered sinful? Author Mark Stein details the history of sin and vice and the attitudes placed upon society. Vice in all forms were both a political and economic move that even censorship and Prohibition did nothing to curb the community's ills of the time. A really, fascinating read
