The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-04-17
FOR CRYIN'
OUT LOUD
BY CHARLES G. MENDOZA

WIN carrie NaU0n flalr Tor f1Snt-
eouSness has been writing learned
ly(?D for an out-of-town newspaper
about the prostitution bugaboo in
Key West and vicinity. He believes
that the hasty, unheralded closing
of Mons Tea Room on Stock Is
land win usher in for us a Utopian
law-abiding era like that which
exists in Miami today. In fact, Key
West might become so law-abiding
that we viii permit prisoners to
lice from eseape-proof jails once a
week as they do in Miami.
Miami, as our friend would have
us understand, has advanced far
in moral sense. The moral at
mosphere there is killing moral
disease. I guess that the moral
atmosphere is so sitting in Miami
that the Ku KIux Khan there is
resorting to gentler types Of may
hem. presume that even Philip
Wylie has quit writing about a
seamier side of Miami and is now
engaged in writing books for chill
dren.
Miami, in fact, is so occupied
with consuming thoughts and goals
that it no longer has to depend
on immortality or, per Sc, pro-
stitution. as a means of preoccu-
patton. In fact. all that Miami
preoccupies itself with these days
is the doings Of their reporters in
infested Key West.
The cracker-jack law.enforce-
ment agencies in Miami have al
most solved the prostitution prob
lem by stamping out the cause and
effect. This means that the Miami
police have closed all bOrdellos in
| their area in order to give the pros
flutes the opportunity to free-lance
as call-girIs or to operate in hotels.
When any community says that
it is stamping out prostitution it
is saying, in effect, that suddenly
| there is no longer need for the
Oldest profession in the world,
that this need has been replaced
| by wholesome recreational activi-
ties that viii interest and occupy
men. In other words, that men
have miraculously succeeded over
night in curbing their animal pas
sions by devoting themselves to
| literature, shuttle board, hobbies,
tiddIywinks, bowling, baseball, ten
mis-, swimming, and other whole
some recreational activities.
This is baloney!
You can give man all the OPP
portunities in the world for whole
some recreational activities and,
granted, he win make use of these
opportunities. Not to the extent,
however, of permitting them 70
completely sublimate his devices.
II man cannot satiate his bio.
logical urgings by means that soc.
iety has conveniently placed at his
disposal such as tea rooms, be viii
find other means. And desperate
men often use desperate meansl
Innocent women should not be raw.
aged or Seduced when there are
countless women who are willing,
aye glad, to sell their bodies.
You can legislate morals but you
cannot legislate mstinctual drives.
If we had to put every sex-offender
behind bars we would have ninety
percent Of the adult male pop
ulation in jail. The Kinsey Report
on the Sexual Behavior Of the
American Male is very explicit 10
this regard.
Americans should desist in keep
ing sex sub rosa topic. Sex
should be openly recognized and
| acknowledged for what il is = a
biological necessity. II isn't a
matter Of advocating either pro-
or-anti arguments about sex.
Where sex is concerned the only
truthful admission is that. it is part
and parcel Of our lives. What you
do with sex life comes under pr.
yate business.
II prostitution Is illegal then
most Of the American males must
have terribly guilty conscience.
In fact, the National guilt must
reach vast proportions. No wonder
the pSyehiatriSts are oyerworked.
Pornography is also illegal sci
what is the percentage Of the adult
males in this community who have
not attended a stag" show where
pornographic movies are shown
Very little. Nest of the civic on
social organizations in this town
and IN towns all over the country
have given stag shows and VIII
consinue 20 do so.
Drunkenness Is also Illegal YET
millions continue 10 get drunk,
including the highest ard nobicSt
do not cppdone drunkenness,
/ p0rnography. or prostitution.
merely accept them as social pat
terms Of behavior. To eonkione is
TO forgive. especially hy seeming
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that have been gong On since tire
earliest recorded sine7 Society
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