This 1962 Propaganda Film Shows How Porn Will Turn You Into a Murderer

This ridiculously hilarious anti-pornography film from 1962 warned parents that porn might turn their children into murderers.

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Watch out. If your teenager gets ahold of a porn magazine he'll probably turn into a sex maniac that kills underage girls in between reading copies of Night of Whores magazine. 

At least that's what the producers of Pages of Death, a newly unearthed anti-porn propaganda masterpiece from 1962 wanted to tell the nation. 

The Oregon Historical Society recently found a 16mm print of the long-lost and ridiculously sensational movie in its archives and posted it to YouTube, and damn are we glad they did. 

A quick synopsis: A meatloaf-loving, Catholic girl goes missing after school and a couple of hard-nosed detectives realize she was last seen in a local corner store frequented by the neighborhood's porno mag-loving youths. When her body turns up, the detectives track down the killer, a teenage boy, and uncover his gigantic porn stash, which includes titles like Scorching Sex Stories and Home of the Stripper

After showing the "strictly hardcore stuff" to the kid's mom (seriously, not cool), he confesses tearfully as he shouts "I don't know why I did it!" But the cops know why: porn. Porn makes you murder. 

If a few  "girly magazines" could make a '60s kid kill indiscriminately, we'd really hate to see what YouPorn and Pornhub could have made him do.

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