Sex In America: Boston

May, 1980

Boston proper, which proudly knows itself as the Athens of America, is a town of 620,000 souls bordered by 76 smaller cities that bring the population of the metropolitan area up to 3,700,000. Boston is a dozen variegated layers. It is Beacon Hill, the heart of the old Yankee establishment where the Cabots used to converse with God, with its narrow streets, red-brick sidewalks and 23-kt.-gold domed Statehouse. It is the North End, the city's oldest neighborhood, first a haunt for Yankee settlers...