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Originally published on July 7, 2021 5:44 pm In 1873, Congress passed a law outlawing the distribution, sale, mailing and possession of "obscene" materials — including contraception. The Comstock Act, as it became known, was named after Anthony Comstock, an anti-vice crusader who later became a special agent to the U.S. Post Office, giving him the power to enforce the law. In her new book, The Man Who Hated Women, author Amy Sohn writes about Comstock — as well as eight women charged with violating the Comstock Act . While working for the post office, Sohn says, Comstock "decoyed peop...