You’re young, innocent, female. Perhaps 18 years old. You’re walking down the street in your hometown on a fine spring day.

A car pulls to the curb. A man gets out. He has a gun. And a badge.

“Come with me,” he says.

“Why?” You think perhaps someone has been hurt.

“You’re under arrest.”

“What? Why?”

The cop gives you a hard look. “Suspicion of promiscuity.”

Seems unlikely, doesn’t it? Laughable. But it’s no joke. Such things really happened, and not so long ago, to thousands of American women. One of those women was Nina McCall. Author Scott W. Stern tells us all about it.