New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
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Oct 2, 2026
Sheri LynchHOST
As far as he was concerned, easily available birth control was an invitation to lewdness and promiscuity, so he shifted his focus to the contraceptive industry.
Sheri LynchHOST
He founded the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and then in 1872, Mr. Comstock went to Washington to speak to Congress.
Sheri LynchHOST
He brought with him the anti-obscenity bill he'd written himself, complete with a ban on all contraception.
Sheri LynchHOST
Congress passed the Comstock Act in 1873.
Jordan FeigenbaumHOST
That's slogan number two, if you're keeping count.
Jordan FeigenbaumHOST
In October of 1905, Anthony Comstock of the Society for the Suppression of Vice raided McFadden's offices and arrested him over two posters for a physique show at Madison Square Garden.
Jordan FeigenbaumHOST
One showed the women who had won the previous year, 10 or 12 of them in white union suits with sashes, and the other showed the men's winner in sandals and leopard skin.
Jordan FeigenbaumHOST
The plan backfired completely.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
Comstock laws were essentially decency laws.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
And Comstock was part of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
And one of the things that Comstock was able to get passed was a bill that outlawed obscene literature.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
Now, of course, there's a whole Supreme Court case coming up, and what is obscenity? But nonetheless, Comstock got obscene literature to be illegal.
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Its chapters ran in the American magazine The Little Review until February 1921, when a New York court ruled the work obscene and fined the editors, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, $50 each.
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The case began after a complaint attributed to the New York Society for Suppression of Vice.
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The judges refused to let certain passages be read aloud during the hearings.
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Joyce could not find an American publisher and Britain was no friendlier.