Strange Country Ep. 245: Anthony Comstock
Nov 3, 2022
Dear Dash Hounds: Be thankful you can listen to Beth and Kelly today because, if ol’ misogynist Anthony Comstock had any say, we would have been shut down years ago. Our episode dives into the mayonnaise jar that is vice and the mailing of such materials. The Comstock Laws were created in 1873 and took until Roe v Wade in 1973 to be overturned. That’s a lot of suppression for one man to handle- but handle he did! Thanks always for listening—much love!
Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands
Cite your sources:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldman-free-love/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/arts/design/rebel-women-museum-of-the-city-of-new-york.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/style/misogyny-women-history-photographs.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Craddock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v23/n17/jenny-diski/oh-andrea-dworkin
https://www.thefire.org/the-mind-of-the-censor-and-the-eye-of-the-beholder-introduces-a-new-generation-to-the-infamous-and-often-absurd-anthony-comstock/