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Prex Americanae a Prayer for Columbia Prex americanae a PrayeR For columbia WE CAN DO NO OTHERWISE Issue 1 Summer 2021 Inside The History of Sexual Liberation in Weimar Germany The roots of sexual degeneracy go back far, further than most people think. How far? Read this piece by external Twitter contributor @EttoreFan to find out! Page 1 The Pride Movement: a Danger to us All Contrary to the rhetoric commonly pushed, it is THE HISTORY OF SEXUAL not 'loving' to allow people to live in sin. LIBERATION IN WEIMAR People who engage in homosexual acts actively GERMANY harm themselves and the By Nikelaos society around them. Page 6 Over the past century, hormone replacement liberal ideas about sex, the therapy— all trace back to family, and human value the influence of a small Rhapsody on Pride have come to dominate group of vocal Berlin elite. The primary sin of the discourse in Europe and These people successfully homosexual lobby is America. The decadent managed to reclassify pride, not sodomy. But in institutions and blasé sexual deviancy as a our fight for the family, attitudes of westerners positive good deserving of have we fallen into the towards all manner of liberation, and traditional same sin that we sexual perversion— be it moral values as repressive denounce in others? homosexuals, and regressive attitudes in Page 8 transvestites, abortion, need of stamping out. And, birth control, even child for our part, many of us who have been indoctrinated into this the first ever instances of homosexual culture have uncritically accepted it as activism, as well as the ideation and rise 'the norm,' when it is anything but; by of transsexualism. Culturally, too, we tracing the history of this movement, we see the first ever homosexual can better equip ourselves with the publications (like the "Die Freundin," a knowledge we need to fight against it. lesbian magazine published in Berlin), And so I begin my humble tale of the the first ever gay and lesbian movies, collapse of a nation: and much more. After the end of the First World War, a ----------------------------- failed Socialist revolution, guided by One cannot try to understand this Rosa Luxenberg and Friedrich period of spiritual and moral decay in Liebknecht, saw the end of the German Weimar Germany without mentioning monarchy and the abdication of the Magnus Hirschfeld. An openly gay and Emperor Wilhelm II. What followed was very influential "sexologist," he founded the establishment of a democratic the Scientific Humanitarian committee, parliamentary republic somewhat the first ever advocacy group for modelled on the French republic, with homosexual and transsexual rights (he freedom of religion, individual rights, coined that latter term himself). He also freedom of movement, etc., as integral produced and co-wrote a film called parts of its constitution— things which "Different from the Others," which is all sound very familiar today. What considered the first pro-gay film in the followed, however, as a portent to our world. He was so popular, in fact, that times, was an increase in social and he was called to court to analyse the moral decay in the short lived Weimar state. Berlin, dubbed "Babylon Berlin," rapidly became one of, if not the most, degenerate cities in modern history. Berlin became a center of gay living, and Magnus Hirschfeld, a famous sexologist living at the time (of whom we'll talk about soon) stated that there were more gay places in Berlin than in any other city. In the period between the two wars, male prostitution reached its maximum, with about 22,000 famous prostitutes, many of whom were young and unemployed due to the economic crisis. Homosexual clubs like the "Eldorado," where organized drag queen shows were not uncommon, became Magnus Hirschfeld quite popular. During this period we see Page 2 Prex Americanae accused in the Harden–Eulenburg affair Lenz, the first ever doctor to perform (a scandal that saw the Prince of sex-change operations on transvestites. Eulenburg at the centre of a homosexual Dr Levy-Lenz is infamous for performing allegation). a "sex change" operation on Dora Together with Arthur Kronfeld in 1919, Richter, the "first known person to Hirschfield opened the "Institue fur undergo a complete male-to-female Sexualwissenschaft", a sexology gender reassignment surgery." Levy- research centre. The institute quickly Lenz made him go through an became popular for researching orchiectomy (removal of his testicles), everything "sex" related, including after which he had a penectomy developing methods for the first ever (removal of his penis), after which, in transsexual surgeries, as well as June of 1930, Richter was given an contraceptives and treatments for artificial vagina by Berlin surgeon Prof. venereal diseases. The group was so Dr. Erwing Gohrbandt. popular that it was visited several times Another worker in the institute was the by health officials and scientific dermatologist and endocrinologist researchers from the Soviet Union, and Bernard Shapiro (Bernhard Schapiro, in its works inspired Fabian socialists like the German), who developed a the sexologist and eugenicist Havelock treatment for impotence, and Ellis. "Prajaculin," a treatment for premature One particular aim of this group was to ejaculation. Shapiro was the first person repeal Paragraph 175 of the German to successfully apply hormonal Criminal Code, which made treatment to the problem of homosexuality, prostitution, and undescended testicles. He was, in fact, bestiality illegal, and was actively the first to employ chorionic enforced by the Republic. Among the gonadotropin, which can potentially be signatories of the petition to repeal this used as an anti-fertility agent, and code were famous physician Albert would go on to become the centre of a Einstein, Nobel Prize winner Hermann US scandal because of its possible Hesse, as well as SPD (the Social involvement in contaminated Tetanus Democratic Party— the largest political vaccines. party in Germany at the time) leader Hirschfield, however, wasn't the only Eduard Bernstein. person creating groups to advocate for Incredible to believe, yet the people sexual degeneracy. Perhaps less known, working for Hirschfield were probably a but a major financier of Hirschfield who lot worse than the founder of the gave substantial financial support to institute himself. In addition to the co- Magnus' institute, was the anarchist founder of the institute— Arthur Benedict Friedlander. Friedlander, along Kronfeld, a psychiatrist who fled to with Adolf Brand (the founder of "Der Moscow to receive full USSR citizenship Eigene," the world's first gay magazine), and become a university professor— we founded the "Gemeinschaft der also find the gynaecologist Ludwig Levy- Eigenen," or Community of One's Own. Issue 1 Page 3 communists and socialists, but her primary means of elevation to the world stage came about through her collaboration with Hirschfeld and his institute, when the two advocated for the abolition of paragraph 218 of the German code, which outlawed abortion. Together with Hirschfeld, Stöcker built many abortion, sterilization, and family planning clinics all over Germany to provide men and women with so-called sexual health services. The BfM, with Stöcker at its head, was also one of many groups that attended the World League for Sex Reform, hoping to, as historian Atina Grossman says in Reforming Sex, "continue the tradition begun in 1911, when the first international conference for birth control was convened in Dresden." Though the BfM was one of the most influential, there were many other birth control groups that emerged in Germany during the interwar period. For instance, GESEX, also known as the Eva Katter, a transsexual "Society for Sexual Reform," was patient of Hirschfeld's founded by the sexual reformer Felix This group rejected the ideas of Theilhaber. Disgruntled GESEX activists Hirschfield's feminine understanding of later split off and merged with the homosexuality and instead advocated National League for Birth Control and for a return to pagan Greek pedæresty, Sexual Hygiene, or RV. The RV was even while being married. important in Germany, and their work ----------------------------- remains impactful today— Ernst Gräfenberg, the doctor and researcher The degeneracy in Weimar Germany who theorized the eponymous "G-spot" also included large strides forward in of female orgasm, worked in the RV birth control. The BfM (short for Bund clinics when he developed the intra- fur Muttershultz— in English, The uterine device (more well known by its German Federation for Maternity acronym IUD), a birth control tool used Protection) was the primary birth to this day to prevent pregnancy. control advocacy group, and was led by a radical feminist named Helene This degeneracy, however, though it had Stöcker. Stöcker worked alongside its heartland in Germany, wasn't limited Page 4 Prex Americanae to just one country. Conferences became figure in the development of analytic very popular as ways of spreading ideas philosophy, and Fabian socialist. He was under the guise of "sexual/scientific a birth control advocate and, along with discoveries," and naturally attracted his very feminist wife, travelled international audiences. The first enthusiastically to the USSR to see the important such congress would be the effects of the communist revolution. First International Congress for Sexual Russell was instrumental in bringing his Reform organized by Hirschfield's liberal ideas to both a popular and elite "World League for Sexual Reform," audience throughout Britain and the whose ideals were policy reforms English-speaking world at large. related to the tolerance of sodomy in And the spread did not stop there. We society, spread of eugenic and feminist Christians, living in 2021 America, now ideals, and, of course, the normalization have to contend with the fruits of the of birth control. sexual liberation movement started One of the people who attended this halfway across the world nearly a congress was a doctor named Norman century ago.
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