Kristin Hunt is a Brooklyn-based writer who covers pop culture and history. She's previously contributed to Atlas Obscura, GQ, Esquire, Thrillist, and Smithsonian.com. She also writes Hollywood Codebreakers, a weekly newsletter on movies that challenged the Motion Picture Production Code.
The Hays Code, a censorship system that saw movies as "business, pure and simple," kept Hollywood on a short leash... until a 1952 Supreme Court decision declared it unconstitutional.
