Horny History: Ervin Arnold and the Newport Sex Scandal
Horny History: Ervin Arnold and the Newport Sex Scandal
It’s real history, as told by some horny dude in my inbox and me
This post contains sensitive content on homophobia. Reader discretion is advised.
It’s 1919 and gay sex is illegal in Rhode Island. It turns out that doesn’t stop people from doing it though. The man of dishonor for this story, Ervin Arnold, really wanted to know what those secret gay men were up to. This is the story of how he and many other government men, including Franklin Roosevelt, assigned presumably straight navy sailors the job of enticing and sleeping with other men, in order to find and arrest the gay men who fell into their trap.
This guy Ben had to live out the rest of his life wondering what happened to Arnold.
The next man is a gem. If Carl weren’t a stranger likely copy and pasting the same romantic line to multiple women on Reddit, he’d be charming.
Carl never found that time to hear more history. Usually I’m glad when they block me but Carl was admittedly very funny and I will miss him.
Well, would you?
Some of the Navy sailors recruited for this said afterwards that they felt they had to participate. They felt forced into these sex acts for their country. Yet, all these men in power got away with their heinous, corrupt behavior. Behavior that if they had been regular citizens, they would have never gotten away with. They would have been imprisoned with the men they entrapped.
Sources:
The story and quotes from Arnold were researched by Lawrence Murphy. Without Lawrence there wouldn’t be easily accessible quotes from Arnold. He poured over Arnold’s notes to give us this. Sadly, during his time his book was rejected because it was too scandalous, and he never lived to see when it was published.
Perverts by Official Order: The Campaign Against Homosexuals by the United States Navy Lawrence R. Murphy
Other Sources:
I Did It For The Uplift Of Humanity And The Navy Sherry Zane
MIT interview with Sherry Zane
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This is a new version of this story. I originally made this last year but I decided one of the guys from the post just was not funny enough and needed to be replaced, so, you got a new one!
I love this but hate the history haha