Summer reading picks and why a YMCA-funded crusade against obscenity matters today

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Summer time studying picks and why a YMCA-funded…

The Trendy Legislation Library

Summer time studying picks and why a YMCA-funded campaign towards obscenity issues at present

By Lee Rawles

July 10, 2024, 3:15 pm CDT

Do you want some distractions throughout trip journey or whereas mendacity straight below your A/C unit and sweating? It’s time for The Trendy Legislation Library’s summer time suggestions episode, during which host Lee Rawles shares her popular culture picks with you, plus a re-airing of certainly one of our older episodes with present relevance.

As states navigate a post-Dobbs world, a sequence of federal and state rules generally known as Comstock legal guidelines are being mentioned as avenues to additional prohibit entry to abortion medicine and contraception.

In 2018, with Roe v. Wade nonetheless the legislation of the land, Rawles and Amy Werbel mentioned the fiery namesake of these legal guidelines and Werbel’s ebook Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity within the Age of Anthony Comstock.

It sheds gentle on how a nineteenth century U.S. Postal Service agent funded by the Younger Males’s Christian Affiliation created obscenity restrictions so sweeping that medical textbooks had been seized and destroyed for displaying anatomical diagrams.

Rawles additionally shares some favorites from what she’s been studying and listening to since our 2023 year-end popular culture picks episode. When you’ve got favourite reads up to now in 2024, ship your suggestions to [email protected] with a short description, and we could select to spotlight them on our social media.

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