Boundary Stones
The Rise and Fall of the D.C. Anti-Flirt Club
5/11/2026 | 4m 21s
In 1923, a group of women in D.C. founded the Anti-Flirt club to stop male harassment. Did it work?
In the 1920s, a group of D.C. women formed the Anti-Flirt Club, ostensibly to put a stop to the increasingly annoying, and at times dangerous, problem of men harassing women from motor vehicles and street corners. But a notorious womanizer in Congress became the club's biggest champion — and he wasn't the only one who joined the club with an ulterior motive.
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Boundary Stones is a local public television program presented by WETA
Boundary Stones
The Rise and Fall of the D.C. Anti-Flirt Club
5/11/2026 | 4m 21s
In the 1920s, a group of D.C. women formed the Anti-Flirt Club, ostensibly to put a stop to the increasingly annoying, and at times dangerous, problem of men harassing women from motor vehicles and street corners. But a notorious womanizer in Congress became the club's biggest champion — and he wasn't the only one who joined the club with an ulterior motive.
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