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So reports the Washington Post.

When I was a kid, it was comic books.

A few years before I was born, a Senate subcommittee investigated “comic books and juvenile delinquency.” It reported:

“The so-called crime and horror comic books of concern to the subcommittee offer short courses in murder, mayhem, robbery, rape, cannibalism, carnage, necrophilia, sex, sadism, masochism, and virtually every other form of crime, degeneracy, bestiality, and horror. These depraved acts are presented and explained in illustrated detail in an array of comic books being bought and read saily by thousands of children. These books evidence a common penchant for violent death in every form imaginable. Many of the books dwell in detail on various forms of insanity and stress sadistic degeneracy. Others are devoted to cannibalism with monsters in human form feasting on human bodies, usually the bodies of scantily clad women.”

Moms everywhere seemed to know about this report, even though comics largely had been cleaned up by the time I came around.