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The 28 pages that link to Comstock laws, each with the reason it gives.

• Censorship of filmRelated: Older obscenity laws supplied legal precedents for restricting films on moral grounds.

• Censorship in the United StatesBroader topic: They extended censorship through postal law and moral regulation.

• ObscenityRelated: They made postal censorship a major instrument for enforcing nineteenth-century obscenity rules.

• Sexual revolutionCompared with: They exemplify the legal restrictions on sexual information that reformers opposed.

• American burlesqueRelated: Obscenity enforcement shaped the conditions under which erotic stage acts could operate.

• Victorian moralityCompared with: They show a related but distinct American campaign for sexual purity.

• Erotic literatureRelated: They constrained the circulation of erotic books alongside sexual-health materials.

• Sexual politicsRelated: They demonstrate state control over sexual knowledge and reproductive choices.

• Margaret SangerRelated: These restrictions shaped the legal risks of Sanger’s pamphlets and clinics.

• Theodore DreiserRelated: The legal climate around obscenity shaped the risks faced by Dreiser’s candid fiction.

• Griswold v. ConnecticutNarrower topic: Connecticut’s prohibition belonged to a broader tradition of anti-contraception laws.

• United States v. One Book Called UlyssesCompared with: The case challenged the longer censorship regime associated with banning sexually explicit literature.

• Literary censorshipBroader topic: They extended moral censorship into national systems of postal distribution.

• Obscenity lawBroader topic: They institutionalized federal suppression of sexual material through postal regulation.

• Sexual normsRelated: They show how moral expectations became state restrictions on sexual knowledge.

• The Little ReviewNarrower topic: Federal obscenity law enabled the prosecution of the magazine’s Ulysses serialization.

• Birth controlRelated: They constrained the distribution of contraceptive information and devices.

• United States Postal ServiceRelated: Postal channels became a means of enforcing federal restrictions on printed material.

• Abortion debateBroader topic: They show how federal restrictions once constrained reproductive information and services.

• Golden Age of PornRelated: Their weakening and uneven enforcement helped reshape the legal risks facing erotic filmmakers.

• Fanny HillRelated: Their enforcement helped keep the novel and similar works out of American circulation.

• Sex shopRelated: These laws constrained mail-order access to sexual products and information.

• Victoria WoodhullRelated: Woodhull and Claflin’s publication of explicit sexual controversy brought federal enforcement against their newspaper.

• Faith BaconRelated: Such laws contributed to the legal climate surrounding burlesque and public nudity.

• Gay pornographyRelated: Postal obscenity enforcement constrained the distribution of early erotic materials.

• History of abortionBroader topic: They show how nineteenth-century moral campaigns turned reproductive information into a legal target.

• History of birth controlRelated: Federal censorship laws criminalized distributing contraceptive information and supplies.

• History of reproductionRelated: They show how law constrained access to reproductive knowledge and supplies.