Theodore Schroeder

Albert Theodore Schroeder (September 17, 1864 – February 10, 1953) was an American author who wrote on issues pertaining to freedom of expression. Schroeder challenged the state of freedom of speech in the United States by claiming that the US government may be a tyranny and that Americans view their liberties in a way that makes them hypocrites.

Schroeder was a freelance psychoanalyst who studied the sexual basis of all religious experience. His interest in free speech, as well as his psychosexual theories, led him to study the controversial life of the 19th-century free speech and women's rights advocate Ida C. Craddock.

Career Schroeder entered the University of Wisconsin in 1882 to study engineering and earned a law degree in 1889. Schroeder practiced law for ten years in Salt Lake City, Utah, working for statehood for Utah. In his later years, he lived in Greenwich, Connecticut. Obscene Literature and Constitutional Law, 1911. Phallic Worship to Secularized Sex Shaker Celibacy and Salacity What About You? 1951 (Was a compilation which consisted, in part, of articles criticizing religious beliefs and questioning the existence of God. The titles of certain of its chapters were "The Love-Hate Complex," "Three Attitudes toward Sex," "Why Is Obscenity?" "Where Is Obscenity?" "'Obscenity' and Mental Health," "My Bigotry," and "My Envy.") Why Priests Don't Marry