Abstract
In the American city of Minneapolis members of a religious sect recently organised a public burning of works of ‘messengers of Satan’. By that they meant records by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and other youth idols. In other cities library personnel have been plagued by citizens demanding that certain ‘immoral’ books be removed from public collections. In the United States today there is a virtual crusade being waged against immorality, one that has been gathering momentum since Ronald Reagan became President.