Cupid's Yokes (pamphlet): Difference between revisions

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'''Artist:''' Ezra Heywood

'''Artist:''' Ezra Heywood (1829 - 1893)

'''Confronting Bodies:''' Anthony Comstock, a post office special agent and a leader of the social purity movement; The Society for the Suppression of Vice of New York

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'''Results of Incident:''' Shortly afterwards, the National Defense Association began a campaign to free Heywood. The pamphlet was brought to the attorney general, who analyzed it and found it not obscene. President Hayes pardoned Heywood and declared that it was no crime to advocate the abolition of marriage. <P>

However, a year later (1879), D.M. Bennett, a publisher of the free-thought paper ''Truth Seeker'', was arrested by Comstock for distributing ''Cupid's Yoke'' through a mail order campaign. This time censors from the Society for the Suppression of Vice of New York wrote in to President Hayes, describing the pamphlet as "advocating indiscriminate intercourse" and being destructive to the "moral, physical, and spiritual life of youth." A pardon was not granted for Bennett. <P>

However, a year later (1879), D.M. Bennett (1818 - 1882), a publisher of the free-thought paper ''Truth Seeker'', was arrested by Comstock for distributing ''Cupid's Yoke'' through a mail order campaign. This time censors from the Society for the Suppression of Vice of New York wrote in to President Hayes, describing the pamphlet as "advocating indiscriminate intercourse" and being destructive to the "moral, physical, and spiritual life of youth." A pardon was not granted for Bennett. <P>

'''Source:''' Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. Chicago; London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.

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 '''Results of Incident:''' Shortly afterwards, the National Defense Association began a campaign to free Heywood. The pamphlet was brought to the attorney general, who analyzed it and found it not obscene. President Hayes pardoned Heywood and declared that it was no crime to advocate the abolition of marriage.    <P>
-However, a year later (1879), D.M. Bennett, a publisher of the free-thought paper ''Truth Seeker'', was arrested by Comstock for distributing ''Cupid's Yoke'' through a mail order campaign. This time censors from the Society for the Suppression of Vice of New York wrote in to President Hayes, describing the pamphlet as "advocating indiscriminate intercourse" and being destructive to the "moral, physical, and spiritual life of youth." A pardon was not granted for Bennett. <P>
+However, a year later (1879), D.M. Bennett (1818 - 1882), a publisher of the free-thought paper ''Truth Seeker'', was arrested by Comstock for distributing ''Cupid's Yoke'' through a mail order campaign. This time censors from the Society for the Suppression of Vice of New York wrote in to President Hayes, describing the pamphlet as "advocating indiscriminate intercourse" and being destructive to the "moral, physical, and spiritual life of youth." A pardon was not granted for Bennett. <P>
 '''Source:''' Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. Chicago; London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.