And Lord, imagine you are a horny young bachelor in pre-sexual revolution Houston. Thousands of guys who read McCann's lurid description of easy, blissed-out sex must have been mortified — that they had not yet found that veritable Oriental palace. (Which, by the way, sounds so much better than modern-day equivalents like pre-crackdown Treasures. Not that we would know.)
And then McCann told the whole city where this fleshpot was and helpfully narrowed down which to look for among the many in the area.
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Maybe this "secret agent" worked in PR and not for the government and this whole article was a plant placed in the Chron by the madam of the establishment, an early form of fiendishly clever advertorializing for her stately pleasure dome. Hell, maybe this "McCann" was the madam herself.
At any rate, according to the article, the only penalty for being a "hop-head" was having the cops tell you to beat feet outta town. Beats a lifetime as a felon and months or years in the slammer.
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