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Traps for the Young

Traps for the Young

Buckley, J. M.
Comstock, Anthony

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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 160520918X
ISBN13: 9781605209180
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Jan 1 2010
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice sounds like the satirical invention of a modern wag, but it was a very real organization dedicated to policing public morality in the late 19th century. Its founder, Anthony Comstock, was notorious as a crusader for decency and a strident advocate of censorship-so strident, in fact, that George Bernard Shaw coined the term comstockery to refer to his zeal for the cause. (Shaw was one of Comstock's victims; so were Theodore Dreiser and D.H. Lawrence.) In this rare 1883 work, hard to find today in an elegant edition, Comstock offers the warnings, restraints, guidance and sympathy that alone might save the youth from vileness and corruption, and compulsively itemizes the traps that were seducing American youngsters into lives of debauchery and vice, including pernicious literature, gambling, free love, lewd art, and more. A hilarious artifact of 19th-century scandal, this inadvertently delightful book makes for wonderfully iniquitous reading today.

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