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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.
Anthony Comstock (born March 7, 1844, New Canaan, Conn., U.S.—died Sept. 21, 1915, New York, N.Y.) was one of the most powerful American reformers, who for more than 40 years led a crusade against what he considered obscenity in literature and in other forms of expression.
May 13, 2022 · The Comstock Act is named for Anthony Comstock, a prominent anti-vice crusader who became the U.S. Postal Inspector during the Ulysses S. Grant administration.
The driving force behind the original anti-birth control statutes was a New Yorker named Anthony Comstock. Born in rural Connecticut in 1844, Comstock served in the infantry during the Civil...
May 2, 2016 · At an early age, Anthony Comstock felt he was destined for glory. As a child in New Canaan, Connecticut, he was enchanted when his mother read him stories from the Bible about saintly heroes battling satanic foes. Comstock never smoked.
May 23, 2017 · Anthony Comstock was a US postal inspector and politician who advocated for the suppression of obscenity and vice throughout the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Comstock considered any sexually explicit material like pornography and literature related to birth control and abortion as obscene.
May 15, 2024 · Once again, Anthony Comstock’s vision of a U.S. under the dominion of government agents who swear their allegiance to Christ, imperils women’s lives.
Jan 1, 2009 · Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), a dogged reformer, imposed his Victorian values on a rapidly urbanizing United States, sometimes in disregard for the protections afforded by the First Amendment. Born in New Canaan, Connecticut, Comstock was raised in a strict religious family.
Aug 15, 2017 · Anthony Comstock’s early life experiences fueled his fight against immorality in the 19th century, and his efforts can still be seen today. Within the past 150 years, no figure is more identified with sexual repression and the movement for moral purity than Anthony Comstock.
The Comstock Act is a federal statute passed by the U.S. Congress in 1873. Named for Anthony Comstock, a zealous crusader against what he considered to be obscenity, the act criminalized, among other things, the distribution of devices or medications for abortion or contraception.
