The play is a sex farce involving several couples in a tangle of adulterous affairs, and was considered indecent by many critics, as well as some government officials who censored performances.

After the first matinee, a group of 25 local clergy complained to Trenton police the play was immoral.

Muckracking journalist Samuel Hopkins Adams counted it as one of many plays of "dubious character" that had invaded American theater.

[5] He decried its suggestive dialogue, as well as its portrayal of loose women and lecherous men, and described the final act as "the grossest bit of action that I have ever seen on an English-speaking stage".

[7] The New York Times review of the Broadway production said Potter "appears to have gone as far as he thought the police would allow".

[8] In The Evening World, reviewer Charles Darnton said the play "tries very hard to be bad, but it only succeeds in being stupid".