Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock
by
Amy Werbel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
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 crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three million...