 Heins provides an overview of the history of censorship, including the 1873 Comstock laws, and then moves on to more topical case studies of attempts at suppression of free expression.The book argues that artists have been scapegoated by those advocating censorship, as a method of deflecting debate away from the suppression of human rights.The author asserts that censorship of works deemed obscene has been used as a tactic throughout history to suppress women's rights.