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Sex and Our Children

Nichols, Dudley | February 6, 1929 issue

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The article presents information on a trial of Mary Ware Dennett for sexual heresy. Dennett was indicted under Section 334 of the United States Code for having distributed through the mails her pamphlet, "The Sex Side of Life, an Explanation for Young People." The spectators' benches were filled with doctors, lawyers, clergymen, educators and a multitude of representatives of the fourth estate. And concentric within this ring of crowding faces stood the adversaries, duelling with light and darkness, embodying and dramatizing the antagonized forces at work in the roomful of people. Morris L. Ernst, young, vital, clear reasoning, asked dismissal of the indictment.

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DENNETT, Mary Ware, 1872-1947 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; HERESY; OFFENSES against religion; SEX; PAMPHLETS; UNITED States
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