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The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is a Christian organisation for young men and, since 1971, for young women, founded in 1844 by George Williams. Its aim is to encourage Christian morality and qualities of leadership.
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Anthony Comstock was an American puritan. He was born in 1844 and died in 1915. One of fourteen children, and of little education, Anthony Comstock was opposed to pornography and birth control in all its forms and after vecoming involved with a YMCA campaign to suprress pornography he helped to form the New York Society for the Supression of Vice. He was later appointed Special Agent of the Post Office in America to prevent what he deemed obscene material from being sent through the post. In this role he had many doctors arrested for sending their patients information about birth control, over 4000 people arrested - many of whom subsequently committed suicide.
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YMCA is an abbreviation for Young Men's Christian Association
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The Y is American slang for the YMCA..
The Y is American slang for the male homoseual community.
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Y is American slang for the YMCA.
Y is American slang for the male homosexual community.
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