• Anthony Comstock: America's Busiest Body?

  • Apr 15 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Anthony Comstock: America's Busiest Body?

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  • Anthony Comstock was very invested in policing the activities of others. He was obsessed with it, really. The United States was a wild place around the time of The Civil War and old Tony just wanted to be the best dry goods merchant he could be - after he tried his hardest to single-handedly eradicate "vice" that he saw as the scourge of all humanity.

    Come along this week for part 1 of 2 in our double episode that wraps up season 1. We will tell you all about Comstock, his absolutely bonkers obsession with other people's lives and activities, and begin to discuss why it is critically important this very day that we learn about him, so we don't let people like him do what he did to try to suppress EVERYTHING he thought was amoral - which was a lot.
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Comstock Was White? The Horror!

I have no love or use for any Comstock laws. But I knew this podcast was going to be (at best) problematic when these hosts listed being a White Male as one of Comstock's flaws.

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