Traps for the Young (A John Harvard Library Book)

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xxxi, 262 pp. "'The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.' Thus spoke Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), self-styled guardian of the moral purity of y outh... During the forty-one years of his anti-vice--especially anti-obscenity--crusade he was responsible for the arrest of more than 3,600 men, women, and children. Comstock wrote Traps for the Young to publicize his activities during his first ten years of operations, and to justify his methods, which, according to his critics, verged on entrapment. The traps Comstock attacked so ferociously wre first of all light literature... theaters... rum traps, gambling traps, advertising traps, free-love traps, liberal traps, and even prize-candy traps." Show more