MAE WEST SEX (1925)

A breakthrough show for Mae West's fame was titled "Sex", created in 1925. The title of this show was itself controversial, using a word that was not uttered comfortably in most newspapers of the time. Nevertheless this show was a hit and toured widely in the US. However there was a potent resistance to sexual libertarianism. In 1927 a police raid was conducted against her show, with the argument that it was considered to have offended public morality. Mae West's arrest on a charge of "corrupting the morals of youth" was ironically to be a great boost. The publicity surrounding her arrest and imprisonment for 10 days provided nationwide exposure.