The Sex Education Pamphlet That Sparked A Landmark Censorship Case

The Sex Education Pamphlet That Sparked A Landmark Censorship Case

by Sharon Spaulding: Women’s rights activist Mary Ware Dennett was arrested in 1929 for mailing a booklet deemed “obscene, lewd or lascivious…” It only took 42 minutes for an all-male jury to convict Mary Ware Dennett. Her crime? Sending a sex education pamphlet through the mail. Charged with violating the Comstock Act of 1873—one of a series of so-called chastity laws—Dennett,…

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