March 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Filth Doesn’t Need To Be Filthy: They Did Dirt Better, Smarter In The 30s, 40s and 50s…

The old Coasters song Poison Ivy is about a woman that carries a dose of the clap – “you’re gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion” – there are warnings the whole way through the song, most obviously “you can look but you better not touch”. But even in the song’s opening line the overtly […]