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Anthony Comstock was an anti-vice activist and United States Postal Inspector who opposed obscene literature, abortion, contraception, gambling, prostitution, and nudism.
He is responsible for the Comstock Laws, a set of federal acts passed in 1873, which criminalized the use of the USPS to distribute obscenity.
Famous texts that were suppressed as obscene under the Comstock Laws included Ulysses, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, The Decameron, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and many more.
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