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As strong a tonic as concealment may have been in Greeley's era--according to an 1851 document prepared by the legendary vice hunter Anthony Comstock, there were more than 6,000 gaming establishments in New York City, at the time--it turns out that when you draw back the curtains, advertise gambling via huge neon cowboys, and put a lottery machine in every grocery store, gambling flourishes even more. Men like Anthony Comstock, a crusader against "immorality," which extended to condoms and medical anatomy textbooks, led the crackdown. Nicola Beisel, Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America (Princeton, 1997). |
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Anthony Comstock - United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915)