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	Anthony Comstock - Encyclopedia.com
		As secretary of the society until his death, Comstock was responsible for the destruction of 160 tons of literature and pictures.
		The groom is the son of Stephen and Roseann Comstock of East Syracuse.
		V.S., Boston A. That was Anthony Comstock, a pudgy, mutton-chopped reformer...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ComstockA.html (946 words)

	Anthony Comstock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anthony Comstock (March 7, 1844 - September 21, 1915) was a United States reformer dedicated to imposing his ideas of Victorian morality.
		In 1873 Comstock created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an institution dedicated to supervising the morality of the public.
		Comstock is also known for his persecution of Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin, and those associated with them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Comstock (493 words)

	Comstock Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Comstock Law was a 19th century United States law that made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
		The Comstock Law not only targeted pornography as such, but also all contraceptive equipment and many educational documents such as descriptions of contraceptive methods and other reproductive health related materials.
		The Comstock Law prohibition of birth control was not overturned until United States v.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comstock_act (185 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Paladin of Purity
		Anthony Comstock was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, on March 7, 1844, the son of Polly and Thomas Anthony Comstock.
		Comstock could be a very persuasive speaker; often when he described the evil he was fighting and the way it was sending unsuspecting youths into the fiery pit, tears would stream down his face.
		Comstock approached her in the guise of a man whose wife was pregnant with an unwanted child, and when Restell demurred at helping him, he beseeched her aid, so she said, by claiming that he was all but destitute and that another mouth to feed would ruin him.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1973/6/1973_6_4.shtml (6409 words)

	Anthony Comstock
		Comstock began his decency crusade in the early 1870s, launching raids against Manhattan booksellers sidelining in erotic books, bringing him to the attention of the New York Young Men's Christian Association.
		Comstock's success in this case led to the YMCA appointing him secretary of their New York Society for the Suppression of Vice in November 1872.
		Comstock was deputized as a special agent in the New York Post Office, empowering him to inspect the mail, seize what smut he found there, and arrest the senders responsible.
	www.nndb.com /people/230/000117876 (351 words)

	American Experience \| The Pill \| People & Events
		The driving force behind the original anti-birth control statutes was a New Yorker named Anthony Comstock.
		Born in rural Connecticut in 1844, Comstock served in the infantry during the Civil War, then moved to New York City and found work as a salesman.
		Anthony Comstock was jubilant over his legislative victory.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/e_comstock.html (577 words)

	Anthony Comstock (1844 - 1915)
		Anthony Comstock (March 7, 1844 - September 21, 1915) created the Society for Supression of Vice in 1873, an institution dedicated to supervising the morality of the public.
		The Comstock Law was a 19th century United States law that made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious books through the mail.
		Peter Fryer has pointed out in his book "The Birth Controllers" that from its inception in 1873 to the end of 1882, Comstock's New York Society for the Suppression of Vice was responsible for 700 arrests 333 sentences of imprisonment totalling 155 years and 13 days, fines totalling $65,256, and the seizure of 27,856 lb.
	www.jahsonic.com /Comstock.html (824 words)

	Encyclopedia: Anthony Comstock (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hoover in 1961 John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 â€“ May 2, 1972) was the founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in its present form and its director from May 10, 1924 until his death in 1972.
		Anthony Comstock (1844-1915) was a self-appointed anti-vice crusader from New York, who in the 1870s managed to shepherd through Congress a stringent anti-obscenity statute.
		Comstock was so zealous and effective in the enforcement of these laws that by the late 19th century, the subject of contraception had become unmentionable -- even in major medical textbooks.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Anthony-Comstock (1236 words)

	The Height of Comstockery - July 6, 2005 - The New York Sun
		Anthony Comstock crusaded against what he saw as vice in all its manifestations, from contraceptives to pornography.
		Comstock was appointed a postal inspector charged with enforcing the law, particularly by seizing mail he deemed objectionable.
		When Comstock, curiosity piqued, arrived at the gallery, he found several boys outside "pointing at the picture, uttering expressions of unholy glee." Reichenbach had paid each lad 50 cents for the performance.
	www.nysun.com /article/16526 (842 words)

	The Comstock Act
		Behind the new law was Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), a former dry goods clerk and self-appointed crusader against obscenity.
		Comstock later bragged that he had convicted enough people to fill a train with 61 passenger cars -- roughly 4,000 citizens.
		The Comstock Act first began crumbling in 1936, when the courts allowed doctors to prescribe contraceptives "for the purpose of saving life or promoting the well-being of patients." Finally in 1971, Congress removed the prohibition on birth control.
	www.monitor.net /monitor/abortion/comstock.html (449 words)

	Gifts of Speech - Patricia Schroeder
		Comstock was one of these people who decided only he knew what was virtuous and right, and somehow he managed to convince all sorts of people that this was correct.
		Anthony Comstock was a religious fanatic who spent his life in a personal crusade for moral purity--as defined, of course, by himself.
		Women seemed to particularly offend Anthony Comstock, most particularly women who believed in the right to plan their families through the use of contraceptives, or in the right of women to engage in discussions and debate about matters involving sexuality, including contraception and abortion.
	gos.sbc.edu /s/schroeder.html (1357 words)

	Marxism message, Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Comstock, using an entrapment tactic that soon became characteristic, bought a sexually explicit volume from a book dealer, and, evidence in hand, persuaded the local police to arrest the dealer and seize his merchandise.
		Comstock argued that obscene literature, "designed and cunningly calculated to excite the imagination and inflame the passions of the youth into whose hands they may come," induced children, both boys and girls, to masturbate, a habit which many Gilded Age parents believed destroyed children's morals, minds, and bodies (p.
		Comstock, then, was a tenacious opponent of the one group in Gilded Age America, free-lovers, that offered the most forceful defense of the sexual and reproductive freedom of women.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/marxism/2000w37/msg00257.htm (2212 words)

	Journal of Social History: Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America. - Review ...
		Instead of viewing Comstock as a singular causal force in these reform efforts, Beisel looks at Comstock's work as part of a joint effort by the upper classes to transform the public world for their own cultural reproduction.
		Comstock garnered their support by speaking to their fears that their children would not be able to replicate their parent's class position.
		Comstock was successful because this rhetoric resonated with the concerns of powerful people, in particular, their fear that their own people would be excluded from social contacts and networks vital to their future success." (p.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/m2005/2_32/53449359/p1/article.jhtml (963 words)

	Anthony Comstock Essays\| Anthony Comstock Dissertations
		Anthony Comstock (March 7, 1844 - September 21, 1915) was a former United States Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas of Victorian morality.
		Later that year, Comstock successfully influenced the United States Congress to pass the Comstock Law, which made illegal the delivery or transportation of both "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" material as well as any methods of, or information pertaining to, birth control.
		A biography of Comstock written in 1927, "Anthony Comstock: Roundsman Of The Lord" by Heywood Broun and Margaret Leech of the Algonquin Round Table examines his personal history and his investigative, surveillance and law enforcement techniques.
	www.marketing.degree-essays.com /anthony-comstock-essays.html (797 words)

	Anthony Comstock Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Anthony Comstock was born in New Canaan, Conn., the son of a well-to-do farmer.
		As an agent of the government and secretary of his society, Comstock was fearless and resourceful.
		Comstock's last days were shadowed by reports that he was to lose his post as inspector and by his belief that he was the victim of a conspiracy.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/anthony-comstock (491 words)

	Traps for the Young - Anthony Comstock (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Comstock wrote Traps for the Young to publicize his activities and to justify his methods, which, according to his critics, verged on entrapment.
		One clergyman described Comstock as a man whose work was displeasing to Satan and whose methods were displeasing to saints.
		Anthony Comstock (1844-1915) was the self-styled guardian of the moral purity of youth, special agent of the Post Office Department, founder and leading spirit of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and premier anti-vice crusader in American History.
	www.englishbooks.it /BUS/1583484337/Traps_for_the_Young.htm (242 words)

	Women who would not be ignored \| csmonitor.com
		Holding up the standard for the other side is Anthony Comstock, a former ribbon seller who was on a crusade to stamp out pornography and "obscene objects" - including fine art, literature, all forms of birth control, and feminism.
		Piercy's biggest misstep is to try to write as Comstock, a man for whom she feels such repugnance that's she's unable to successfully get inside his head.
		Piercy pounds home Comstock's creepy devoutness to such an extent that, early on, I thought she was going to turn him into a serial killer.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/1220/p13s02-bogn.html (1032 words)

	Thirty Years Of New York Book Destruction To WW1. Anthony Comstock US POSTAL LAWS.
		For the next 42 years, until his death in 1915, Anthony was a special, unpaid postal inspector, with the power to enter any post office and confiscate any material he deemed obscene.
		All of which came as a surprize to Anthony Comstock who didn't have a clue as to who Shaw was.
		True to his word, Comstock and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice moved against the play, losing in court, thereby assurring the play a profitable run and establishing Shaw as a major playwrite.
	www.interfarfacing.com /comstock.htm (897 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Anthony Comstock
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	Anthony Comstock (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His campaign to put Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claphin in prison began Anthony Comstock's forty-year crusade to "suppress vice." One of his early targets was D.W. Bennett, a self-styled "truth seeker" and publisher of "Cupid's Yokes," a pamphlet Comstock considered obscene.
		The effect of Comstock seeking to ban an issue of Mother Earth, a magazine she published with Alexander Berkman, was to enormously increase the audience for her essay.
		Comstock explained his crusade and justified his methods in an interview in 1915.
	www.assumption.edu /acad/ii/Academic/history/Hi113net/his213/Comstock.html (302 words)

	Anthony Comstock - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Anthony Comstock - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Anthony Comstock contains research on
		Anthony Comstock, External links, American activists, 1844 births and 1915 deaths.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Anthony_Comstock (511 words)

	History of Banned Books
		Comstock viewed dime novels as the equivalent of children's pornography and claimed the devil used such novels to entice children to a life of crime and lust.
		In the years following the campaign of Anthony Comstock, implementing outright bans on books and materials has proved to be more difficult.
		West, Mark I. “The Role of Sexual Repression in Anthony Comstock's Campaign to Censor Children's Dime Novels.“ Journal of American Culture.
	www.wsu.edu /~accessnw/resources/Bannedbooks.htm (1081 words)

	ANTHONY Comstock not to be confused with our Tony - Topic Powered by Groupee Community
		At least fifteen suicides were attributed to Comstock's harassments in the first five years after the passage of the Comstock Act.
		One particular enemy of Comstock was a New York "woman's doctor," Madame Restell, who made her living dispensing birth control and abortifacients.
		The ironic thing about Comstock's anti-birth control mania was the fact that his own mother had fourteen children and died young.
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	Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz \| Victoria Woodhull, Anthony Comstock, and Conflict over Sex in the United States in the 1870s ...
		In this case Comstock's arrest of Woodhull reveals the fault lines rumbling beneath the surface of America's sexual culture.
		To understand the division between Woodhull and Comstock, we must imagine anew the complicated and intriguing discussions about sexuality in the United States from the early nineteenth century until 1872.
		I add a new interpretation of the law of obscenity and its relation to the commercial side of urban male culture, elements essential to understanding how America's public sexual culture was reshaped in the late nineteenth century.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jah/87.2/horowitz.html (696 words)

	Anthony Comstock -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		He was an early agitator against abortion and pornography, lobbying successfully for the enactment (1873) of a severe federal statute outlawing the transportation of obscene matter in the mails (the Comstock Law).
		In the United States Anthony Comstock lobbied to pass an Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and the Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use.
		Dutch airplane builder Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker was born in Java, Netherlands East Indies.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9361327 (600 words)

	The Champ (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His name was Anthony Comstock, and he was born in 1844, in Connecticut.
		Under Anthony's personal direction, more than 120 tons of literature was burned.
		The portly, side-whiskered ghost of Anthony Comstock remains a threat to anyone who pushes the envelope of literature or journalism, determined to remain in death what he was in life, the world's greatest book burner.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/censorship_books/7468 (393 words)

	Beisel, N.K.: Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America.
		Beisel, N.K.: Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America.
		Moral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraception, information on the sexual rights of women, and "obscene" art and literature.
		One tactic was to link moral corruption with the flood of immigrants, which succeeded in New York and Boston, where minorities posed a political threat to the upper classes.
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/5899.html (470 words)

	Custom essay on Biographies / Anthony Comstock - Essay Empire
		Comstock" that he got the dog "before a single child had been bitten," but it was "one of the heart sorrows of his life" that this could not be said "of the more dangerous beasts of prey against whom his life work is directed."
		That this was Comstock's own view of his peculiar career is sufficiently evident from
		He "fought the devil," in fact; and, says Trumbull, "the devil has had greater difficulty in making deposits in childhood banks, to draw upon at will, since Anthony Comstock entered business against him." But although this was Comstock's conscious psychology and his intellectual rationalization of his conduct, one does not have to read
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