In his 2014 book, professor Robert Beachy documents the rampant degeneracy of the German capitol before the Nazis set things straight.
By Caroline Howe (Daily Mail) | November 13, 2019
November 25, 2014
Think Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray in Carberet. Think West Hollywood, Greenwich Village and Provincetown and the Castro, known as hotbeds of homosexuality.
But they are nothing like the uninhibited urban gay sexual scene and vast homosexual subculture that flourished in Berliin under Germany's Weimar Republic.
Sexual experimentation between the same sexes and medical advances of helping genders 'trapped within the wrong body' in Germany more than one hundred years ago shaped our understanding of gay identity today.
The city's liberal years - before the rise of Hitler - are detailed in a new book, Gay Berlin.
The science of 'transsexuality' was founded in Berlin at the Institute of Sexual Science where the first male-to-female surgery was performed. The words 'homosexual' or 'transvestite' were German innovations.
Police mugshots of Berlin prostitute Johann Scheff, arrested in July 1932. Youths dressed in women's clothing who successfully passed for women, descended on department stores en masse stealing large quantities of merchandise.
The cover of Die Intel, December 1930, advertising a serialized installment of Men for Sale (Manner zu verkaufen). German gay magazines also offered gay and lesbian friendly services to the gay subculture including medical doctors specializing in 'sexual disturbances', detective agencies offering to investigate blackmail threats, as well as dressmakers and restaurants
Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey starred in the film version of Carbaret in 1972
Male prostitution, homosexual bars and nightclubs, cabarets populated by gay men, lesbians and transsexuals flourished in a wild, incomparable sexual subculture that was exciting yet dangerous.
It was in Berlin where scientists concluded that 'same sex love was a natural, inborn characteristic and not merely the perversion of a ‘normal’ sexual tendency', author and scholar Robert Beachy writes in his compelling book, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Knopf Publishers.
The Weimar Republic emerged out of the wreckage of Germany's war. The Kaiser was gone, the 1919 Versailles Treaty saw the abolition of the German Empire and the loss of significant amounts of its territory.
It was a troubled and tortured time for Germany, but Berlin, the old imperial capital became its most liberal city.
High living, a vibrant urban life and relaxed social attitudes, along with the influx of American money defined the Golden Twenties in Berlin that was the most creative period in German history.
Writers, poets, artists from London, France, the United States arrived in the German city to witness and experience the wild erotic sexual freedom along with curiosity seekers, voyeurs, and homosexuals.
Western Europeans, Scandinavians and Russians all came to indulge their sexual appetites in the hedonistic nightlife and party culture of the German capital – or they came to witness the ‘luridly licentious Berlin', spiking their own voyeuristic impulses.
'The pervasive prostitution (both male and female), the public cross-dressing, and the easy access to bars and clubs that catered to homosexual men and lesbians were just a few of the features that supported Berlin's sex industry'.
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Source: The College Fix
Harvard hosts 'Anal Sex 101,' 'Oral Sex 101' and 'fatphobia' workshops
By BRITTANY SLAUGHTER • LIBERTY UNIVERSITY • NOVEMBER 8, 2019
Annual, student-led Sex Week tradition returns to Ivy League institution
"Anal Sex 101," "Oral Sex 101" and "fatphobia" workshop are among 13 different offerings students at Harvard University have the option of attending as part of its annual Sex Week.
Harvard Sex Week launched Nov. 4 and runs through Nov. 10.
The workshops are organized by the student organization Sexual Health Education and Advocacy Throughout Harvard. Its members did not respond to repeated requests for comment. A Harvard spokesperson also declined comment.
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