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Purity, Pornography and Eugenics in the 1930s (Part II)

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurSeptember 26, 2010

September 26, 2010. Continued from PART I. EUGENICS AS EROTICA In the first science-drunk decades of the twentieth century in the United States, when open discussion of sexuality was severely circumscribed by custom and law, efforts to understand and control sexuality – all the institution-funded studies of prostitution, journals on birth control, books on eugenics,…

Purity, Pornography and Eugenics in the 1930s (Part I)

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurSeptember 11, 2010Leave a comment

Revised 30 May 2016 As far as the U.S. Post Office was concerned in 1930, birth control and pornography were one in the same thing. An 1873 federal anti-obscenity statue known as the Comstock Act prohibited the mailing of both dirty pictures and “rubber goods.” According to scholars, this act, along with associated state regulations…

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