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May 2, 2016 · Comstock kept a watchful eye on Heywood, who had grown bolder since his presidential pardon. In the fall of 1882, Comstock pretended to be “J. A. Mattock of Nyack-on-the-Hudson, N.Y.” and placed an order for Cupid’s Yokes , an edition of the Word with Walt Whitman poems from Leaves of Grass , and another containing the offending advertisement for a birth control device mischievously ...
- Devin Leonard
Unit. 17th Connecticut Infantry Regiment. Anthony Comstock (March 7, 1844 – September 21, 1915) was an American anti-vice activist, United States Postal Inspector, and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV), who was dedicated to upholding Christian morality. He opposed obscene literature, abortion, contraception ...
Jul 19, 2021 · Angela Heywood, for instance, was a working-class woman from rural New Hampshire who, with her husband, Ezra, became a public advocate for “free love,” which they defined as “the regulation ...
In 1873, a high school dropout and Civil War veteran traveled to Washington, D.C., and persuaded Congress to pass a law that would impact obscenity law and women’s reproductive health for more than 150 years. His name was Anthony Comstock, and the law would come to be known as the Comstock Act. It was the first federal law to categorize ...
Jul 21, 2021 · To get inside Comstock’s mind was difficult, as he left behind few personal writings. When two Algonquin circle–era writers, Heywood Broun and Margaret Leech, published his biography in 1927, they had access to his diaries—spanning his Civil War service to the early years of marriage—which proved to be rich material, focused on his constant need to masturbate and his hatred of anyone ...
- Amy Sohn
Jul 20, 2021 · Speech is a form of power. My new book, The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, & Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, chronicles eight women “sex radicals” who went up against the restrictive 19th-century federal Comstock law—named after the obscenity fighter Anthony Comstock—which criminalized the mailing and selling of contraceptives with harsh sentences and […]
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In the fall of 1877, Comstock used an assumed name to order a copy of one of Heywood's books. On November 2, 1877, he appeared at a Boston meeting of the Free Love Society and arrested Heywood for mailing obscene literature.
