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Within the past 150 years, no figure is more identified with sexual repression and the movement for moral purity than Anthony Comstock. His efforts to eradicate sex and indecency from America’s consciousness launched the anti-vice movement in late nineteenth century New York City, and the results of his work can still be felt.
Comstock’s Childhood and Early Philosophy
Comstock was born on March 7, 1844, in New Canaan, Connecticut. His father, Thomas, was an affluent landowner with a farm and two sawmills; he and Anthony’s mother Polly descended from old Puritan families. The seven Comstock children endured an austere Protestant upbringing, and Anthony in particular loved to read Bible stories with his mother. Unfortunately he never excelled in secular subjects and was a particularly terrible speller.
But Comstock was absolutely suited for a purpose that did not require hours of book-learning: doing the Lord’s work, as he interpreted it. At school, Anthony often encountered advertisements for French decks (playing cards with photographs of nude women) or other salacious amusements for gentlemen. The presence of sexuality for sale directly opposed Anthony’s infallible sense of Godly propriety: he was developing his view that women and children were to be protected from men’s lusts at all costs; that their innate innocence was the ultimate example of God’s wisdom and grace, and must be preserved from male desire.
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