Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 . Traders in Prurience: Pariah Capitalists and Moral Entrepreneurs 15
5. 2. "Sex O'clock in America" : Who Bought What, Where, How, and Why 49
6. 3. "Hardworking American Daddy" John Saxton Sumner and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice 103
7. 4. "Fifth Avenue Has No More Rights Than the Bowery": Taste and Class in Obscenity Legislation 135
8. 5. "Your Casanova Is Unmailable": Mail-Order Erotica and Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals 179
9. 6. The Two Worlds of Samuel Roth: Man of Letters and Entrepreneur of Erotica 219
10. Notes 309
11. Selected Bibliography 381
12. Acknowledgments 397
13. Index 401