Anthony Comstock
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title:
Anthony Comstock
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Anthony Comstock was an American anti-vice activist, United States Postal Inspector, and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV), who was dedicated to upholding Christian morality. He opposed obscene literature, abortion, contraception, masturbation, gambling, prostitution, and patent medicine. The terms comstockery and comstockism refer to his extensive censorship campaign of materials that he considered obscene, including birth control advertised or sent by mail.
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American anti-vice activist (1844–1915)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Comstock
date created:
2004-06-15T12:13:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T22:25:11Z
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