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
August 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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”.
August 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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:
August 24, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. #censorship
August 23, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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
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:
August 22, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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
August 20, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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
The title was “A Memorandum Respecting New York as a Field for Moral & Christian Effort among Young Men: Its Present Neglected Conditions; & The Fitness of the New York Young Men’s Christian Association as a Principal Agency for Its Due Cultivation” #AnthonyComstock #SocialPurity
August 19, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The title was “A Memorandum Respecting New York as a Field for Moral & Christian Effort among Young Men: Its Present Neglected Conditions; & The Fitness of the New York Young Men’s Christian Association as a Principal Agency for Its Due Cultivation” #AnthonyComstock #SocialPurity
It ran letters, advice, ads, jokes, poems, short stories, & bawdy pictures promoting sexual freedom for 5,300 women subscribers. Akarman earned about $1.5 million a yr in today’s dollars. #AnthonyComstock bought out his plant & stock for about $16,000. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
August 19, 2026 at 4:23 PM
It ran letters, advice, ads, jokes, poems, short stories, & bawdy pictures promoting sexual freedom for 5,300 women subscribers. Akarman earned about $1.5 million a yr in today’s dollars. #AnthonyComstock bought out his plant & stock for about $16,000. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK #AnthonyComstock wanted to keep people from using #BirthControl? He got Congress to pass the Postal Act of 1873, which made it a federal crime to circulate devices or information about #abortion & birth control through the mail, as though it was the same as #porn.
August 18, 2026 at 4:06 PM
DYK #AnthonyComstock wanted to keep people from using #BirthControl? He got Congress to pass the Postal Act of 1873, which made it a federal crime to circulate devices or information about #abortion & birth control through the mail, as though it was the same as #porn.
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
July 1, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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
DYK #MargaretSanger’s arch-enemy, #AnthonyComstock, got Congress’ 1873 Postal Act to ban information about #abortion & #BirthControl? He felt it was obscene. He had horror of all things sexual & kept a journal of his struggles w/the Devil & #SoloSex. Here are 2 entries:
May 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM
DYK #MargaretSanger’s arch-enemy, #AnthonyComstock, got Congress’ 1873 Postal Act to ban information about #abortion & #BirthControl? He felt it was obscene. He had horror of all things sexual & kept a journal of his struggles w/the Devil & #SoloSex. Here are 2 entries:
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh01...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh01...
What if You Went to Jail for Using Birth Control?
YouTube video by Breaking Down Patriarchy
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March 8, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh01...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh01...
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.
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt.
February 24, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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.
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
December 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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:
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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.
October 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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
July 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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”.
July 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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:
July 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. #censorship
July 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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
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:
July 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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
July 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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
July 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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
June 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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
March 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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