After a year of searching through the nation’s mail, U.S. postal inspector Anthony Comstock had seized more than twelve tons of obscene literature, as well as 200,000 pornographic items including photographs, rings, knives, song-lyric sheets, playing cards, and what he referred to as “obscene and immoral rubber articles.” Comstock was just getting started.
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