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20 de sept. de 2019 · Before Gamergate, Anthony Comstock was the original anti-feminist crusader. Sept. 20, 2019 An illustration by L.M. Glackens depicting “St Anthony Comstock, the Village Nuisance,” from a 1906 ...
23 de may. de 2017 · Anthony Comstock was a US postal inspector and politician who advocated for the suppression of obscenity and vice throughout the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Comstock considered any sexually explicit material like pornography and literature related to birth control and abortion as obscene. In 1873, Comstock lobbied US Congress to pass an anti-obscenity law titled An Act ...
Anthony Comstock. Anthony Comstock. Anthony Comstock was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1844. He had a strict Puritan upbringing that would influence his later life. After having served in the Civil War, Comstock moved to New York City, which was seeing a rapid expansion in businesses of all types, including saloons and gambling halls.
26 de feb. de 2023 · Anthony Comstock's "Chastity" Laws. As late as 1960, the American legal system was not hospitable to the idea of birth control. Thirty states had statutes on the books prohibiting or restricting ...
30 de mar. de 2024 · Comstock Act, federal statute passed by the U.S. Congress in 1873 as an “Act of the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use.”. Named for Anthony Comstock, a zealous crusader against what he considered to be obscenity, the act criminalized the use of any post office to send, among other things, any “obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent ...
The symbol of Comstock's New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.. The Comstock laws are a set of federal acts passed by the United States Congress under the Grant administration along with related state laws.: 9 The "parent" act (Sect. 211) was passed on March 3, 1873, as the Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use.
2 de mar. de 2013 · Thus, Comstock embarked on the life work in which he would serve for the next 42. This thrilling and remarkable story tell the account of how Anthony Comstock fought the battle for national purity and won. “Fear thou not; for I am with thee. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.” (Isaiah 41:10; 54: 17)
