Children support the picture shows at a cost to their little souls and bodies and minds that no one can compute... This new form of entertainment has gone far to blast maidenhood and has led many boys to criminal careers...
There is a new form of degeneracy born of these shows. Boys and girls are together in the room darkened while the pictures are on, and, as the entire show lasts usually an hour and a half, indecent assaults upon the girls follow, often with their acquiescence...
The Society has prosecuted many for leading girls astray through these picture shows, but God alone knows how many are leading dissolute lives begun at the "moving pictures."
— Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Volume 5, 1909
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