the use of the mails for the dissemination of obscene materials.

通过电子邮件传播淫秽信息的行为
These laws were used in 1914 to indict Margaret Sanger for sending

1914年玛格丽特·桑格由于
information about contraception across state lines,

跨国境传播避孕信息遭到起诉
and she had to flee,

她不得不逃跑
and she left the country to protect herself.

为求自保而离开了这个国家
So, just the description of how contraception worked was a violation

仅仅是描述避孕的作用机理就已经
of the Comstock laws; so of course we're happily

违反了康斯托克法幸好我们
out of that moment.

不处于那个时期
In 1933, for literature

在文学方面
there was a major decision by Judge Woolsey

1933年法官伍尔西宣布
declaring that James Joyce's Ulysses

詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》
was not obscene.

不是淫秽作品