Perversion for Profit is a 1963[1] Eastmancolor propaganda film financed by Charles Keating through Citizens for Decent Literature and narrated by news reporter George Putnam.

Although Perversion for Profit was serious in its suggestion that pornography could erode the integrity of American culture, Peter L. Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote in a 2003 review that it was "shrill and sometimes comical".

[2] In 1963, Putnam narrated Perversion for Profit, in which he warned viewers about magazines containing nudity and homosexual material, saying gay people were "perverted" and "misfits",[3] as well as implying they were child molesters, and that they weakened U.S. "resistance to the Communist masters of deceit.

[4] To exemplify corrupting literature, Putnam reads a passage from the pulp fiction novel Sex Jungle (1960) by Don Elliot, a pseudonym for novelist Robert Silverberg.

[5] In a 2000 interview, Silverberg explained that the erotic fiction that he published under the Don Elliot pseudonym ... ... was undertaken at a time when I was saddled with a huge debt, at the age of 26, for a splendid house that I had bought.