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Drug-infested, sex dens
That may actually be correct according to ~~braindead corporate~~ some mainstream style standards, but it feels in some way semantically wrong. 'Sex den' feels like a whole concept, not 'sex' as an adjective before 'den' that would require a comma before the only real descriptor of 'drug-infested'.
Also, my local library sucks, apparently, because I didn't even get a single suck last time I went.
I distinctly remember this eighth grade grammar lesson, because my teacher marked me wrong for not putting a comma in "red, pickup truck" even though the rule she taught us says there shouldn't be one. the rule supposedly is that you should put in a comma, if the comma could be replaced with "and," e.g. "the big, round, gray rock" could be "the big and round and gray rock." so tell me Mrs. B, who the hell is out here saying "the red and pickup truck"? who would say "the truck is red and pickup"?
If it makes you feel any better, Mrs. B is probably dead now.
This is straight-up incorrect grammar, and I don't know of any style guides that would condone this – let alone mandate it.
It's an obvious typo; my pet theory for the most likely explanation is that it was originally "Libraries turning into drug, sex dens", but then, at the last minute, somebody changed it to "drug-infested sex dens" and forgot to remove the comma.
Perhaps they're dens of drug-infested sex?
Well, did you ask the librarian for assistance or not?