#343 - Kelsy Burke on THE PORNOGRAPHY WARS
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The Obscenity of Anthony Comstock
Kelsey: Anthony Comstock was a Civil War Union vet who was so disturbed by the amount of profanity and porn in his camp that he started a crusade against it. He made enough of an impact Kelsey that his name was turned into a noun by his critics with Comstockery coming to represent the effort to suppress sexual material. Among his critics was a man named George Francis Train, who was trained and how did he prove an excellent point about the hypocrisy and subjectivity of Comstock's crusade? Kelsey: His case was eventually dismissed. It really was sort of before its time in that he argued that all of the passages that he published that were identified as obscene were in
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