Word: antiporn
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After the Civil War young men flocked to the cities, and a porn business grew up to provide for this new market. Shocked by what he saw around him, a New York City clerk, Anthony Comstock, launched a national crusade. The results: stiffer laws, more prosecutions and a firm antiporn stance became the official American posture for nearly a century...
...raided eleven midtown Manhattan bookstores, confiscating material on bestiality and sex with children. The next day the stores were open for business as usual, though the offending material had disappeared?temporarily. Hobbled by cumbersome legal procedures, picayune fines for offenders and a lack of popular support, New York's antiporn effort so far has had little effect. Says Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau...