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Comstockery

NOUN
  1. censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality

How To Use Comstockery In A Sentence

  • The ‘puritan forebears’ who didn't drink, swear, gamble, or fool around are pretty much an invention of 19th and 20th century Comstockery.
  • Comstockery, George Bernard Shaw, I see you smiling. Crystal Syben Haidl: The Morning After--America's Most Underappreciated Anniversaries for Money, Sex and Song
  • Comstockery has been given a new lease on life by this Congress. Comstock Act Still On The Books
  • ` Comstockery, 'because I think we have to acknowledge that elements of Comstockery are all too present today. Comstock Act Still On The Books
  • Every imaginable form of Comstockery is represented in this array of antichoice measures. Comstock Act Still On The Books
  • And Rudy, shocked down to his adulterous Underoos, went off on a rampaging fit of Comstockery that made even ardent supporters think he was an overreaching jerkbag. December 2006
  • So Comstockery remains alive and well, and until the Congress is motivated to renounce Comstockery once and for all, I fear that women will pay a disproportionate share of the price, with the dark shadow of Anthony Comstock hanging over our health-related speech on critical topics such as abortion. Comstock Act Still On The Books
  • But she and others did not officially oppose Comstockery.
  • Every imaginable form of Comstockery is represented in this array of antichoice measures.
  • Be it understood that the shocking thing which we know as Comstockery, goes back into the centuries for its origin; being, indeed, the perfect flower of that asceticism, which was engrafted on the degraded Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906
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