Anthony Comstock

The law, named after the anti-obscenity crusader Anthony Comstock, made it illegal to distribute through the U.S. Postal Service any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” materials “or any article or thing designed or intended for the prevention of conception or producing of abortion.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The greatest vice fighter of the day, Anthony Comstock, saw her as a terrible menace, depicting her as both disgracefully sacrilegious and "indescribably nasty."

Leigh E. Schmidt: The History Of Yoga And Religion In America Leigh E. Schmidt 2011

The greatest vice fighter of the day, Anthony Comstock, saw her as a terrible menace, depicting her as both disgracefully sacrilegious and "indescribably nasty."

Leigh E. Schmidt: The History Of Yoga And Religion In America Leigh E. Schmidt 2011

In another case, the firm took on an obscenity defense, going toe to toe with the priggish reformer Anthony Comstock, who gained subsequent fame with the Comstock Act making it illegal to send obscene material through the mails.

Rogues In the Dock Scott Greenfield 2010

In an era when hysteria over "white slavery" and prostitution dominated the news, his conduct fed into a "moral panic" (as Mr. Love puts it) fueled by yellow journalists and the purity crusader Anthony Comstock.

Life in an Awkward Position 2010

One would think, listening to Strossen and her ilk, that Anthony Comstock were still screening our mail.

FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

Named after their principal architect and chief enforcer, Anthony Comstock, these laws did not succeed in suppressing the traffic in contraception, but did push it underground, out of the jurisdiction of government bodies that might have regulated price and quality.

Birth Control Movement in the United States. 2009

Eventually, he also drew the attention of vice-fighting postal inspector Anthony Comstock, who had him arrested on obscenity charges in 1905 after seeing the posters promoting a Physical Culture "exhibition" that included scantily clad female athletes.

Strong Circulation 2009

Or so were the claims of a young J. Edgar Hoover who modeled his career after Anthony Comstock who seized on moral issues as crusades of self-promotion and aggrandizement.

The War on Sense 2009

These publications prompted a Religious Right backlash in the form of crusader Anthony Comstock and his Society for the Suppression of Vice, leading to federal and state anti-obscenity laws against mailing, distributing or receiving “lewd or lascivious” materials – the Comstock laws.

What Indy Media Heroes Can Teach Us 2008