The Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex and Sin in New York City

Beginning 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 Giuliani’s crackdown on the city’s sexual life, The Forbidden Apple details the major trends in New York’s sexual history.