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What is comstockery?

What is comstockery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality.
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Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States.
Besides, the average mother, if she will but admit the truth, is ashamed to talk with her daughter about Comstockery things.
By what extraordinary process does Comstockery conjure decency into the stomach and indecency into the bowels?
But the frightful results of Comstockery, as applied to life and to real purity, cannot be so lightly passed over.
Comstockery, as we know it, is apparently an organized effort to regulate the morals of the people.
It is no exaggeration to say that Comstockery is the arch enemy of society.

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