The New Boom in White Slavery (1963)

Cyrus W. Bell, “The New Boom in White Slavery,” Spree (Los Angeles), vol. 1, no. 38, 1963, pp. 22-3, 44, 58-9, at 23, 44. A lurid exposé of sex trafficking from a third-rate men’s magazine.

Not long ago, […] in one of Athen’s [sic] second-run movie houses, 18-year-old Ileana Papas, a gorgeous brunette of eye-popping proportions, is watching the film, Ben Hur. Quietly an usher approaches her, taps her on the shoulder and summons her to the telephone in the manager’s office. “Ileana,” the voice on the phone says, “rush home as quickly as possible. Your mother is in the hospital after a bad accident. The doctor says she may die in a matter of minutes. Hurry! Take the first cab you see!” The startled girl utters a cry and rushes out through the lobby. Outside near the marquee an empty taxicab waits. Hurriedly she boards it with her eyes in tears, and it speeds off. That is the last anyone in Greece ever sees of Ileana Papas.