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Showing posts with label Jews and Judaism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jews and Judaism. Show all posts

The History of Sex: Prague -- Spies and Czech Mates: From Big Brother to Big Sister: The Metamorphosis -- (Chapter X, Part 1)

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Chapter Ten  SPIES AND CZECH MATES  From Big Brother to Big Sister: The Metamorphosis  'The twentieth century has taught us th...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- An Uncomfortable Question -- (Chapter IX, Part 27)

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At which point, I decide to go for broke and ask a question that sounds more controversial than it should be. Let me explain: lots of peop...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- Back to the Party -- (Chapter IX, Part 24)

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Which all sounds eminently reasonable. When I see him later that night, though, I begin to wonder if there isn't something to the ...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- Gay-Bashing and Class Warfare -- (Chapter IX, Part 23)

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Another thing that's very zeitgeisty is the fear of Europe's Other Semites—its growing Muslim population. One gay man I spoke to s...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- 'This Righteous Little Jew' -- (Chapter IX, Part 22)

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Bizarrely, there's even a burgeoning subgenre of memoirs by the descendants of Nazis trying to atone for their families' sins. The...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- Jew-Loving Germans -- (Chapter IX, Part 21)

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What with all the stuff about Sodom and Gomorrah, though, Judaism isn't the most gay-friendly religion. Before coming here, then, it w...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- 'The Hottest City for Israelis' -- (Chapter IX, Part 20)

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Gad's family already knew he was gay when he told them he planned to study in Berlin in 1986. His grandfather was fine about the move;...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- Home of the Gay Israeli -- (Chapter IX, Part 19)

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One of the more unlikely revelers in this new freedom was a gay Israeli who'd moved to Germany a few years earlier. Since then, he...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- 'Such Nice, Pretty Boys' -- (Chapter IX, Part 15)

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However, sex was so much a part of Gad's survival that you wonder whether a straight man in his position would have lasted as long as he...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- 'I Don't Even Know What That Is' -- (Chapter IX, Part 14)

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Likewise, whereas the modern view of homosexuality tends to focus on anal sex and penetration—one expert on 'Greek Love' dates this ...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- 'A Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin' -- (Chapter IX, Part 13)

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Amazingly, some gays managed to survive in the heart of the Reich. One of the most extraordinary examples is Gad Beck, whose autobiography...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- A Jumped-Up Chicken Farmer -- (Chapter IX, Part 12)

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To justify the murders of so many loyal Nazis , Hitler backed up his prefabricated charges of treason by denouncing Röhm as a homosexual and...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- 'We Knew Too Much' -- (Chapter IX, Part 10)

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But the sniping from his own side must have been even more hurtful. While young foreigners like Isherwood admired Hirschfeld as a 'her...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- 'Berlin Meant Boys' -- (Chapter IX, Part 9)

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Among the countless foreigners attracted to this milieu was Christopher Isherwood , who'd heard about Berlin from his friend, Wystan (W...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- Splitting the Third Sex Into Two Camps -- (Chapter IX, Part 8)

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The first gay-rights activist died in self-imposed exile in Italy before he could see the culmination of his life's work. On May 15, ...

The History of Sex: Berlin -- Well, Blow Me! -- (Chap. IX, Pt. 5)

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As with the S&M tea in Paris , I was a little nervous about wandering into a basement of biker types where no one could hear me scream. ...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- The Prophet of the Second Sexual Revolution? -- (Chapter VIII, Part 37)

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In keeping with the demented sci-fi theme, the modern videos on display promoting 'orgone therapy' are cheesily reminiscent of Scien...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- 'Habemus Papam!' -- (Chapter VIII, Part 26)

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The reason Fliess was able to lead Freud around by the nose, so to speak, was because his friend thought that he, too, was 'on the scent...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- 'Repeated Doses of a Normal Penis' -- (Chapter VIII, Part 24)

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Likewise, most nineteenth-century 'hysterics' were probably suffering from ailments we now know as epilepsy, closed-head injuries, T...

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- How Masochism Got Its Name -- (Chapter VIII, Part 9)

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In reality, the end of Sacher-Masoch's affair with Fanny was far less melodramatic: 'Gregor' and his Mistress simply split up wh...