Anthony Comstock was America’s first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a

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A survey of the changing and charged relationship between pornography and legislation in 20th century America. Groups battling pornography must demonstrate that