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Excerpts:
Ladies were admitted only on specified days, when Kahn insisted the most offensive models were removed from display.
The Museum, and its educational focus, initially found favour with publications like the Lancet and Medical Times. However, the establishment turned against Kahn when he started selling quack remedies. The Lancet then labelled the Museum ‘a den of obscenity… determinedly arranged for the purposes of depraving the minds of the ignorant and unwary’.
Taken to court by The Society for the Suppression of Vice, Kahn was successfully prosecuted under the 1857 Obscene Publications Act, which made it illegal to publish texts on venereal disease and sexual health aimed at a general audience.
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