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7 - Eric Berkowitz

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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The Importance of the Comstock Law

His signature achievement was getting a federal law passed barring transmission of anything, I forgot the words, of elude, let's civious nature, through the mail. Margaret Sanger got into trouble with him, right? He apparently masturbated feverishly as a child and wrote about that, feeling that he was possessed by the devil.

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