LISTEN: How a Gilded Age Anti-Sex Law Bred the Modern State’s Criminalization of ‘Dangerous’ S

Published   Dec 21, 2024 12:30PM

Author and veteran columnist Amy Sohn talks with Harry Siegel about her book, The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, and explains why the “zombie” Comstock Law still on the federal books kept coming up during 2024’s presidential election. Sohn details how the lives of two “sex radicals,” […]
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