comstockery

We pledged ourselves to defend the book against the forces of comstockery.

Shaw coined the term Comstockery, for the strict censorship of material thought to be immoral.

Shaw remarked that "Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States.

The publication staunchly advocated free love and women's rights, and critiqued "Comstockery" - censorship of sexual information.

The term 'comstockery' was actually first coined in an editorial in The New York Times in 1895.

In 1905 George Bernard Shaw coined the noun "comstockery" as a synonym for meddling, blue-nosed censorship.

But it seems unlikely that historians will ever talk about "Starrism" in the same way they now talk about McCarthyism and Comstockery.

Mr. Kendrick provides a discerning sketch of the progress of Podsnappery, but he is at his best charting the course of Comstockery.

Kevles (and perhaps Tone herself) paints too rosy a picture of how the courts held "sacrosanct the privacy of the mails" in the face of Comstockery.

George Bernard Shaw used the term "comstockery", meaning "censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality", after Comstock alerted the New York City police to the content of Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession.

Tone shows that even in the heyday of Comstockery, the courts in practice reflected "broadly based support of bootleg birth control" - holding sacrosanct the privacy of the mails, for example, and denying that Congress had any power to criminalize the use of contraception.

During her brief and brilliant mid-'80s career in rock 'n' roll Comstockery, she convinced some labels to affix "voluntary" warning labels to mature material--a ratings system that many younger listeners embraced as a sort of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.

And while the right to sell and use contraceptives was sanctioned by two decisions of the United States Supreme Court some 30 years ago, Comstockery persists in the United States, causing battles, like that over RU-486, fraught with implications for a woman's right to control her reproductive life.