In the later half of the nineteenth century, conservative moral crusaders such as Anthony Comstock, who had lobbied for the 1873 "Comstock Law" barring obscene material from the U.S. mail, struggled against purveyors of obscenity and a growing cadre of men and women who advocated frank discussion of sex, birth control, woman's rights in marriage, and other controversial issues. The 1873 law was very strict and defined any mention of sexual relations as obscenity. It was, therefore, simply impossible to address sexual issues without breaking the law. The struggle between moral reformers such as Comstock and more-libertarian individuals can be seen in a case involving a citizen of Valley Falls, Kansas, who published a weekly newspaper called Lucifer, the Light-Bearer. The newspaper had for a motto "Perfect freedom of thought and action for every individual w i t h i n the limits...