Censorship in Flux: Sex and Sexological Knowledge at the Great Police Exhibition of 1926 in Weimar Germany

Lang examines multiple sites and directions of regulatory and policing practices in 1920s Germany. She uses the example of the Great Police Exhibition (1926), which took place during the establishment of a new democratic regime. While the protection of youth was at the center of both authoritarian a...

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Published inJournal of the history of sexuality Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 102 - 129
Main Author Lang, Birgit
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Austin University of Texas Press 2024
University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press)
Subjects
1926 AD
Art exhibits
Censorship
Exhibitions
History
Law enforcement
Multiple sites
Openness
Police
Political aspects
Relativism
Sex crimes
Sexuality
Social aspects
Teaching
Weimar Republic
Germany
Weimar Germany
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Summary:Lang examines multiple sites and directions of regulatory and policing practices in 1920s Germany. She uses the example of the Great Police Exhibition (1926), which took place during the establishment of a new democratic regime. While the protection of youth was at the center of both authoritarian and democratic censorship regimes in Germany, the democratic authorities' quest for acceptance translated into their public recognition of the historical relativism of what constituted sexual offense and openness about current censorship practices. Drawing on an array of sexological materials designed with the assistance of sexologists, the exhibition presented a teleological history of German censorship, a progression from punitive censorship during the authoritarian Wilhelmine era toward censorship as a form of sexual pedagogy in the democratic Weimar Republic.
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ISSN:1043-4070
1535-3605
DOI:10.7560/JHS33106