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Lust on Trial - Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock (Hardcover)
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Lust on Trial - Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock (Hardcover)
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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 pictures, postcards, and
books he judged to be obscene. But as Amy Werbel shows in this rich
cultural and social history, Comstock's campaign to rid America of
vice in fact led to greater acceptance of the materials he deemed
objectionable, offering a revealing tale about the unintended
consequences of censorship. In Lust on Trial, Werbel presents a
colorful journey through Comstock's career that doubles as a new
history of post-Civil War America's risque visual and sexual
culture. Born into a puritanical New England community, Anthony
Comstock moved to New York in 1868 armed with his Christian faith
and a burning desire to rid the city of vice. Werbel describes how
Comstock's raids shaped New York City and American culture through
his obsession with the prevention of lust by means of censorship,
and how his restrictions provided an impetus for the increased
circulation and explicitness of "obscene" materials. By opposing
women who preached sexual liberation and empowerment, suppressing
contraceptives, and restricting artistic expression, Comstock drew
the ire of civil liberties advocates, inspiring more open attitudes
toward sexual and creative freedom and more sophisticated legal
defenses. Drawing on material culture high and low, including
numerous examples of the "obscenities" Comstock seized, Lust on
Trial provides fresh insights into Comstock's actions and
motivations, the sexual habits of Americans during his era, and the
complicated relationship between law and cultural change.
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