Anthony Comstock was America\'s first professional censor.
But as Amy Werbel shows in this rich cultural and social history, Comstock\'s campaign to rid America of vice in fact led to greater acceptance of t.
From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and Obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three million pictures, postcards, and books he judged to be obscene.
Anthony Comstock was America\'s first professional censor