Diana I’s nudity offended moral crusader Anthony Comstock. To mollify Comstock’s offense to the statue and to increase the likelihood of its catching the wind, Saint-Gaudens draped the figure in cloth, but the cloth blew away. Anthony Comstock was the founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice1, an organization that wanted to supervise the morality of the public. Nude statues, such as the Diana, offended their traditionalist views. A clinger to Victorian ideas of morality, he amassed both support and hatred from the American people. His political power gave him a say in New York, allowing him to push his agenda on the more liberal side of the city. The Women's Christian Temperance Union, a similarly minded group, also opposed