Existing comment:
The Sex Side of Life
Mary Ware Dennett, 1928
Dennett's educational pamphlet for young people included detailed illustrations of male and female reproductive organs. The post office deemed Dennett's work obscene and had her arrested in 1928 for sending the material through the mail. Dennett successfully overturned her conviction with the help from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1930, when the court ruled that the law must not interfere with "serious instruction regarding sex matters unless the terms in which the information is conveyed are clearly indecent." |