1. Introduction: Family Reproduction, Children's Morals, and Censorship -- 2. The City, Sexuality, and the Suppression of Abortion and Contraception -- 3. Moral Reform and the Protection of Youth -- 4 ...
NPMMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Anthony Comstock was America's first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the ...
PERHAPS all the fuss about purity is nothing but a subtle publicity device to draw attention to this learned and scholarly tome, “Anthony Comstock, Roundsman of the Lord,” upon which the leisure of ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) If past is prologue, these efforts may backfire. In 2018, I published my book “Lust on ...
In the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, his administration has made many attempts to suppress speech it disfavors – at universities, on the airwaves, in public school ...