Breaking Down Patriarchy: "What if You Went to Jail for Using Birth Control?" | #Patriarchy101 #AnthonyComstock #TheComstockLaws #TheWestCure #MargaretSanger #TheWomanRebel #FreeSpeech #WombVeil #AmericanBirthControlLeague #PlannedParenthood #ThePill #PreventsAbortion
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His “Physical Culture” magazine began in 1899 to encourage women & men to build their bodies & be physically healthy—physcultopathy. Despite being a target for #AnthonyComstock, it sold 50 million copies between the World Wars.
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt.
DYK #MadameRestell provided #BirthControl & #abortion for 40 yrs & ran ads in NYC newspapers until 1878? She killed herself when #AnthonyComstock campaigned against her & her woman's health services. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #AbortionBan #ComstockAct #TrumpChristians #WmnHist
DYK in 1914, #AnthonyComstock brought a case against the novel “Hagar Revelly” about a poor girl who had to do #SurvivalSex? The jury gave a split decision. Judge Learned Hand found the publisher, Mitchell Kennerly, innocent because:
Officials arrested her in August of 1914. The maximum sentence she faced was 45 years. They gave her six weeks to prepare her defense. Instead, she wrote a little book on #BirthControl, “Family Limitation” & defied #AnthonyComstock again.
DYK In 1887, #AnthonyComstock triggered a public relations disaster for himself by arresting the owner of the Knoedler Gallery in NYC? He charged him with selling photos of Parisian Salon paintings. The court found that 35 out of 37 of them were not obscene. #ComstockAct
DYK the punishments #AnthonyComstock meted out under the #ComstockAct were often severe? #FreeLove publisher Ezra Heywood agreed the proliferation of #porn was “alarming”, nevertheless #Comstock had him arrested in 1876 for writing “Cupid’s Yokes”.
DYK, very much like #Trump, #AnthonyComstock did not apply his 1873 #ComstockAct to people he knew? Samuel #Colgate, a powerful member of the Society for the Suppression of Vice marketed #Vaseline w/a 12-pg mailer promoting it for #BirthControl:
DYK #AnthonyComstock established the NY Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1873 w/backing from the #YMCA? Its members assisted police in the suppression of materials that NY & the #ComstockAct forbade, including #BirthControl info.
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. #censorship
DYK #AnthonyComstock (#ComstockAct) claimed that schoolgirls & young women were among the most avid readers of #porn? He published “Frauds Exposed” in 1871. He developed his dogma about obscenity in it, defining it as anything that could instill impure thoughts among the young:
In 1872, the #YMCA gave #AnthonyComstock $30,000 to buy & destroy all the printing equipment & plates owned by porn publisher William Haines. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship #ComstockAct
It ran letters, advice, ads, jokes, poems, short stories, & bawdy pictures promoting sexual freedom for 5,300 women subscribers. Akerman earned about $1.5 million a yr in today’s dollars. #AnthonyComstock bought out his plant & stock for about $16,000. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
But soon after his death, Haines’ wife sold all the plates for his books to social purity reformer #AnthonyComstock, who destroyed them w/acid the same year he died. Ghosts of the #HistSex still haunt. howsexgotscrewedup.com #censorship #pornography
You know the tone & face Nancy Grace makes when she says "tot mom"? Thats exactly how I look & sound saying "TONY Comstock" 😒😤 #anthonycomstock #totmom #nancygrace
Image of a circle of knight pointing their swords together. They are pointing to the words "Hating Anthony Comstock. The swords are labeled as such: feminists, librarians, sexologists, authors, spiritualists, people he was in the military with, eventually also the ymca, pornographers, sex workers, cultural dance practitioners, medical doctors
Anth(O)ny (C)omstock was an asshole.
#anthonycomstock #comstockery #censorship
Finally working on my "Why I need to fist-fight Anthony Comstock behind a wafflehouse while listening to Peaches" and I keep finding more things I hate about him.
Every single day, no matter what the weather, Tony "jorkin' it" Comstock wore red flannel underclothes.
#anthonycomstock #comstockery
