Dagmar Herzog, Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.

摘要

As Michel Foucault has taught us, the regulation of sex is always about morenthan the regulation of sex. And having more sex does not necessarily get onenout of its regulation. This book makes frequent reference to Foucault’snHistory of Sexuality, but this case is a distinctly German history told withnincredible detail and from an important range of sources. Herzog argues thatnthe ‘68-era sexual revolution was not necessarily distancing itself fromnfascism by discovering and demanding sexual pleasure, since Germannfascism itself continued the liberalization of sexuality begun in the Weimar era. The difference of the Nazi era was the strict racial prohibitions and the par-nticular emphasis on anti-Semitism—what appeared as sexual conservatism wasndirected explicitly against Jews, who were blamed for brothels and pimping.nAccording to Herzog, however, within youth organizations the Nazis encour-naged premarital sex and children out of wedlock, especially during the war.nOn the other hand, as is well known, homosexuality was severely punished.nWhile Herzog emphasizes the permissiveness within heterosexual “Aryan”nrelationships, she points out that the major legal prohibitions against homo-nsexuality were not ended in West Germany until the late 1970s. In EastnGermany, these were put to rest in the 1950s.