Abel, Alan - Alan & Jeanne Abel: Inside SINA: The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals

An unprecedented exposé of an infamous hoax campaign to clothe animals that, decades later, remains completely uproariousPerpetrated from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA) was a fabricated moralist campaign that received unimaginable amounts of international attention in newspapers, radio and on the TV news.Its goal? To clothe all animals higher than 4 inches and longer than 6 inches.Its leader? G. Clifford Prout, a bespectacled fuddy duddy with an inheritance to burn through and an even better catchphrase: "Decency Today Means Morality Tomorrow." A pioneering prank that lasted way longer than anyone would have expected, SINA was the comedic pipe dream of Alan and Jeanne Abel, a pair of anarchic lovebirds who perpetrated dozens of ambitious hoaxes and hysterical deceptions for well over 50 years.They were joined in this confounding crusade by their friend, Buck Henry, who served as the organization's honorable spokesman in the years