Sex and the Weimar Republic
Sex and the Weimar Republic Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany's Weimar Republic have become legendary. Immortalized - however misleadingly - in Christopher…
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Sex and the Weimar Republic
Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany's Weimar Republic have become legendary. Immortalized - however misleadingly - in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and the musical Cabaret, Weimar's freedoms have become a touchstone for the politics of sexual emancipation.Yet, as Laurie Marhoefer shows in Sex and Weimar Republic, those sexual freedoms were only obtained at the expense of a minority who were deemed sexually disordered. The home of the world's first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation.
In Weimar Germany, the citizen's right to sexual freedom came with a duty to keep sexuality private, non-commercial, and respectable.Sex and the Weimar Republic examines the rise of sexual tolerance through the debates which surrounded "immoral"