{"product_id":"9780981504001","title":"The Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex \u0026 Sin in New York City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Theres a great history of racy entertainment covering itself, if scantily, in a cloak of righteous education. Kat Long describes these protective measures, or ruses...Long also chronicles the way that initiatives to eradicate vice only helped pave the way for its further evolution in the city.\"— \u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Kat] Long covers the great upheavals that have pushed the advantage in the sex wars one way or the other...\"— \u003cb\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Long's \u003cb\u003eThe Forbidden Apple\u003c\/b\u003e is a fast-paced and vivid overview documenting the conflicts between evangelical moralists and defenders of sexual expression, commercial and otherwise.  Anyone interested in New York City or sex will have to pick this up.”— \u003cb\u003eTimothy Gilfoyle\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003eCity of Eros\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Pickpocket’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Long has provided a fascinating overview of sex in New York City since the Civil War.  Everything you always wanted to know—and a lot you would never have suspected!”— \u003cb\u003eKevin Baker\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eStrivers Row\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eParadise Alley\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDreamland\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex \u0026amp; Sin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ein New York City\u003c\/b\u003e reveals the endless battle between outlaw sex and moral righteousness that has been fought on the streets of America’s most licentious city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Gilded Age New York, where upper-class men of society routinely slummed with prostitutes and burlesque dancers—then wrote scathing condemnations of the “Lost Sisterhood” for the next day’s papers—and ending with Rudolph Guiliani’s crackdown on the city’s sexual life, \u003ci\u003eThe Forbidden Apple\u003c\/i\u003e details the major trends in New York’s sexual history, including the Victorian-era battles over prostitution; the women’s movement at the turn of the twentieth century; the hedonistic roaring twenties; the rise of Times Square as the city’s sexual epicenter in the 1940s and 1950s; the birth of the gay rights movement in the 1960s; the decadence and pornography of the 1970s, and the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first-ever comprehensive sexual history of New York City, \u003cb\u003eThe Forbidden Apple \u003c\/b\u003e shows how many of this country’s most important sexual trends got their start in New York, and also demonstrates how the repressive forces of morality and decency have waged war against the forces of sexual liberation and freedom throughout the city’s history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ig Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035571405040,"sku":"9780981504001","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780981504001_p0.jpg?v=1763876670","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780981504001","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}