anthony comstock was a self-made man and he saw sin in everything, including medical books.as well as everything else. so there were some cartoons made and one was where he is standing of the woman next to him and saying your honor, this woman just gave birth to a naked baby. >> that was a situation where he then happened to make this with the federal law and made it tougher and he was against everything that all the best writers wrote an walt whitman and against george bernard shaw and he chased margaret sanger out of the country. and he said when you talk about the anti-movement to the women, i think he has had a steady backlash for the males and females and the women's movement in the 60s started because the antiwar movement was leaving the mouth, not letting them run anything in one of them said i got mad and tom hayden got off the plane and handed me his dirty laundry and said to clean it. and so we have had this back and forth for a long time. >> before we take questions, i would like to ask you a very current question that may not seem important, but i think it does g

they were put in jail by anthony comstock.from les miserables, he put them back and over and over again for what was a really small offense and absolutely joining that of course are the tube teacher sisters who wrote. rowed uncle tom's cabin and call them tramps and and prostitutes by catherine and this is very funny to me. catherine was the martha stewart everyday. she supposedly told you had to be a house maker, how to be a good mother, the many steps to ironing her husband's shirts and she was an old spinster. she had never been married. she didn't know anything she was writing about. she never had children. she joined something like 5000 women petitioning against the vote at the very same time when the others were. so there was always that kind of standoff i think between two different -- sometimes that religious connotation but also it was how dare you be so incredibly audacious? this comstock the bad thing about what the sisters were able to do is sit turned around and made him a hero. he was anthony comstock ,-com,-com