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Há 5 dias · Anthony Comstock, anti-vice activist and namesake of the Comstock Act, got his political start when he campaigned against saloons in Brooklyn. Later introduced to the YMCA, Comstock would form a close ties with the organization.
18 de jun. de 2024 · Learn more about why this man from the 1800s and his fans are current threats to abortion access — despite the fact that court rulings, Congress, and the U.S. Department of Justice have all been clear that the Comstock Act doesn’t apply to lawful abortions.
18 de jun. de 2024 · Anthony Comstock was a mama’s boy who hated sex. His mother died when he was 10 years old, and the shock apparently never left him; women who didn’t live up to her ideal were his open and declared enemies, as were pornography, masturbation, and abortion.
Há 14 horas · The law was named after Anthony Comstock, U.S. Postal Inspector and founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, who was known for his crusades against sexual expression and education. Comstock's name became a byword for censorship, inspiring terms such as "comstockery" and "comstockism" to refer to such activities.
Há 2 dias · Nevertheless, obscenity law was not strongly or consistently enforced throughout the United States until the Comstock Act in 1873. Anthony Comstock, founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, targeted Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass along with publications by advocates for feminism, free love, and birth control.
22 de jun. de 2024 · But by the 1870s, Anthony Comstock’s New York Society for the Suppression of Vice was ascendant, the mood of the city had changed, and Restell’s old allies could no longer defend her. In 1878,...
21 de jun. de 2024 · Named colloquially for the fanatical postal inspector Anthony Comstock, the 1873 act — which is actually a set of anti-vice laws — bans the mailing of “obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent ...
