CONSUMING SEX: A PHOTO-ESSAY ON THE LEGACY OF MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD IN THE WEST GERMAN EROTICA INDUSTRY, 1945–1975

Elizabeth D. Heineman

doi:10.3998/mpub.9238370.20

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CONSUMING SEX: A PHOTO-ESSAY ON THE LEGACY OF MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD IN THE WEST GERMAN EROTICA INDUSTRY, 1945–1975

Elizabeth D. Heineman

Not Straight from Germany, pp.332-373

University of Michigan Press

11/22/2017

DOI: 10.3998/mpub.9238370.20

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Abstract

Magnus Hirschfeld is best remembered today for his work as a sexual scientist and for his advocacy of the rights of homosexuals. But he also played a significant role in the history of sexual consumption. Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Science helped to shape a consumer environment that bridged the nascent but heavily suppressed market of the late nineteenth century and the permissive marketplace of the late twentieth century. We might see the modern erotica marketplace as moving through three stages, with the general contours of the German experience similar to that of other Western industrialized regions despite the

Adult entertainment

Advertising

Advertising media

Applied arts

Architecture

Arts

Barrier contraception

Behavioral sciences

Birth control

Buildings

Business

Cataloging

Classified advertising

Clothing

Clothing industry

Commercial buildings

Communications

Condoms

Consumer goods industries

Consumers

Contraception

Customers

Entertainment

Erotic literature

Family planning

Fiction

Health care industry

Health care services

Health sciences

Human populations

Industrial sectors

Industry

Information science

Leisure studies

Library operations

Library science

Lingerie

Literary genres

Literature

Manufacturing industries

Men

Personal health services

Persons

Population studies

Pornography

Recreation

Reproductive health services

Retail stores

Social sciences

Under garments

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Title: Subtitle: CONSUMING SEX: A PHOTO-ESSAY ON THE LEGACY OF MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD IN THE WEST GERMAN EROTICA INDUSTRY, 1945–1975
Creators: Elizabeth D. Heineman
Contributors: Michael Thomas Taylor (Editor)
Annette F. Timm (Editor)
Rainer Herrn (Editor)
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: Not Straight from Germany, pp.332-373
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.9238370.20
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Date published: 11/22/2017
Academic Unit: International Programs; History; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
Record Identifier: 9984277639002771

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