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The end of the first World War marked a period of profound change for the German nation, giving birth to Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic. The Weimar Republic ushered in one of the most creative and uninhibited periods of the twentieth century. This period witnessed advancements in the field of sexology and unprecedented change for German women as they flooded the workforce and gained full suffrage. As an increasing number of single women became financially independent and disillusioned with the prewar construction of the family unit, German men found themselves rendered impotent. Already humiliated by the loss of the war, men desperately clung to the prewar, Wilhelmine ideal of the quintessential real man by turning their attention to the sexual behavior of women and fostering a culture of systematically engineered marriages through sex reform. This article draws upon the works of several prominent sexologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most notably Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, as well as a variety of articles published in German magazines during the 1920s. By comparing these works, spanning from the end of the Wilhelmine era to the 1930s, it becomes clear that the Great War fundamentally altered the way that women conceptualized female identity, sex, and the family.

"Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge"--

Contents -- A Note on Translation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Translation and the Global Histories of Sexuality (Heike Bauer) -- Part I. Conceptualizations -- 1. Translation as Lexical Invention: An Intellectual History of Frigiditas and Anaphrodisia (Peter Cryle) -- 2. Translation as Transposition: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Darwinian Thought, and the Concept of Love in German Sexual Modernity (Birgit Lang) -- 3. Representing the "Third Sex": Cultural Translations of the Sexological Encounter in Early Twentieth-Century Germany (Katie Sutton)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section 1 Origin Stories of Safety & -- Care -- 1 Transforming Sex Education Curricula Through Media Literacy, Media Justice, and Power -- 2 We Vision Our Dreams of Safety into Reality: A Conversation with Kalash Magenta Fire -- 3 "Buying People Everyday": Power, Intimacy, and Money at Work -- 4 Sex Ed Happens -- 5 Solidarity as Liberation: A Queer Mad Legacy -- Section 2 Movement for BodyMinds -- 6 The Erotic Power of the Professional Nurse, and the Body They Move In -- 7 Yoga: A Liberatory Praxis -- 8 My Grandmother, the Unlikely Ally: How Binary Thinking about Social Change Impedes Social Change -- 9 A Vulgar Sex Education -- 10 Changing the Narrative: Abortion as a Family Value -- Section 3 Oral Narratives -- 11 Intersex Activism, Movement, and Joy: In Conversation with Sean Saifa Wall -- 12 Muslim Sexuality -- 13 The F.A.C.E Model: Introduction to Using Fashion as a Sexual Health Tool -- 14 BJ: Bianca and Juan in Conversation -- List of Contributors -- Index.

The growing acceptance of a biopsychiatric model for women's sexual health issues and the dramatic increase of pharmaceutical industry research funding over the last decade have both contributed to ethical and professional crises in sexology and psychiatry. Although conflict of interest (COI) policies deal with some of these issues, public trust is compromised in such an industry-dominated climate. This article describes why the lack of transparency in diagnostic and clinical guidelines is an important public health issue for women, presents data about financial associations between expert members of diagnostic guidelines panels and `Big Pharma', and relates the discussion to concepts of biopower and biopolitics. One element in these developments — the overuse of diagnostic checklists — undermines an appreciation for the diversity of women's sexualities, reinforces the authority of only certain kinds of research, and privileges biomedical interventions. The authors emphasize the need for a paradigm shift, analogous to that advanced by the New View Campaign, that promotes diagnostic instruments and treatment interventions more fully supportive of consumer, rather than corporate, interests.

Introduction -- The walk-in closet: situational homosexuality and the always of desire -- Anthropologia sexualis, universalism, and the macro environments of sex -- Magia sexualis, sexual subjectivity, and the willfulness of sexual aim -- Sex in the age of Fordism: the standardization of sexual objects -- Volitional etiologies: toward a weak theory of etiology -- After Sedgwick: the Gordian knot of the great paradigm shift