By Wendy McElroy
ISBN-10: 0312152450
ISBN-13: 9780312152451
Whereas unflinchingly and unapologetically debunking anti-pornography feminist arguments, McElroy builds a smart and broad-minded testimony for tolerance, and for the proper of ladies all over to get pleasure from their sexuality.
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With no due process, postal officials confiscated, refused to accept, or simply destroyed any mail they didn't like. Postmaster General Wanamaker interpreted "obscenity" in very broad terms indeed: For example, he declared a book by the Christian pacifist Leo Tolstoy to be obscene. Comstock's major target, however, was contraception, which he associated with prostitution. Comstock zealously pursued birth control advocates. Using false signatures, he wrote decoy letters that asked for information.
Indeed, Ezra seemed to delight in ridiculing Comstock. At one point, The Word offered a contraceptive device for sale-a vaginal-douche syringe-which was called the Comstock syringe. Using the false name of E. Edgewell, Comstock wrote to the Heywoods and ordered a copy of Cupid's Yokes to entrap the editor. This was one of a series of letters that Comstock addressed to Ezra. On November 3, 1877, while speaking in Boston, Ezra was personally arrested by Comstock. The purity crusader recorded his reaction at having to sit in the audience, listening to the meeting's proceedings, while he awaited the right moment to bag his prize: "I could see lust in every face....
In 1883, Harman began publishing a periodical entitled Lucifer, the Light Bearer (1883-1907). The paper was so named because it was Lucifer, not God, who offered man the knowledge of good and evil. Like Prometheus, Lucifer brought light to man; like Prometheus; he became an outcast for doing so. Lucifer was the first political rebel; he questioned the status quo of authority called God. Lucifer quickly became the outstanding journal of sexual liberty of its day. It almost defined the limits of sexual freedom in late nineteenth-century America.
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