For nearly a century in the U.S., it was illegal to send anything through the mail deemed “obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious.” That included certain novels now considered classics (hello, Ulysses), educational material on birth control and female reproduction, and, yes, pornography and erotica. Anyone who broke these laws faced federal prison time and hefty fines. Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner was on the front lines of getting these so-called Comstock Laws overturned, risking his own liberty to challenge them all the way to the... More >>>