DYK worry about #SexFiends caused a #SexPanic from 1945–55? All states renewed legal action against “sodomy”, whether or not the players were willing. Sentences could be severe. In Wyoming it was five years. In Indiana, 14. In California, 15. #homophobia #LavenderMenace
"Sexual panic, moral panic, national-security panic — these narratives are deliberately braided together to justify surveillance, censorship, and coercive state power." https://c4osl.org/january-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #surveillance #censorship #SexPanic #MoralPanic #NationalSecurity
DYK the murder of several kids in 1949 led to a #SexPanic about men who had sex with men? After CA Gov. Earl Warren set up a conference on “Sex Crimes Against Children”, 14 other states set up commissions to review the problem, & in 1956, a pulp exposé became a police handbook.
Don't you just love when the truth is censored 🙄 #Tiktok #ContentModeration #SexPanic (it is in fact true that "porn addiction" is something made up by christians because they have this deep-rooted shame and fear around the topic of sex)
DYK 1938 a media #SexPanic led Illinois to be the 1st of 29 states to send POTENTIAL #SexCriminals to insane asylums for life or until they no longer posed “sexual danger”? It included #queers & teen #delinquents. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #adolescent #HistSex #QueerHistory
DYK 1938 Illinois, responding to a media #SexPanic, became the first of 29 states to send POTENTIAL #SexCriminals, including #queers & teen delinquents, to insane asylums for life or until they no longer posed “#SexualDanger”? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
DYK Debbie Nathan & Michael Snedeker’s 1995 Satan’s Silence exposed ALL charges of #SatanicRitualAbuse as fake? Innocent parents & child-care givers spent years in prison. Yet our #SexPanic about #ChildSex & #ChildSexualAbuse still harms kids. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
DYK American #SexPanic in the ‘80s led to imprisonment & ruined lives of 100s on charges of #SatanicRitualAbuse, a kind of #ChildSexualAbuse that the FBI found doesn’t exist? Even #SexPlay among kids is now #SexualAssault..com #CSA
