Comstock laws

Coat of arms of the Comstock-led Society for the Suppression of Vice

Comstock laws (Engl. Comstock laws ) are after Anthony Comstock referred named limitations of sending fonts and objects through the mail in the United States. They had far-reaching effects on, among other things, the freedom of the press and in some respects are still in use today.

The Comstock Act of March 3, 1873 was a US federal act with far-reaching consequences for the mailing of erotic literature and contraceptives . It was illegal under the law to send obscene materials, including contraception, through the federal mail. Twenty-four states passed similar domestic mail legislation.

Individual evidence

↑ William N. Eskridge: Gaylaw: challenging the apartheid of the closet . Harvard University Press , 2002, p. 392.
^ Daniel J. Kevles : The Secret History of Birth Control , The New York Times. July 22, 2001. Retrieved October 21, 2006.

[1] William N. Eskridge: Gaylaw: challenging the apartheid of the closet . Harvard University Press , 2002, p. 392.

[2] Daniel J. Kevles : The Secret History of Birth Control , The New York Times. July 22, 2001. Retrieved October 21, 2006.