“Anthony Comstock was a mono-maniac,” says Amy Sohn, author of The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, a book about Comstock. “He was obsessed with purity and chastity.”
Comstock Act nearly toppled Playboy. Now, it's targeting abortion pills by mail.
The Comstock Act nearly toppled Playboy in the '50s, and now the same anti-obscenity law is back to target abortion.
