Sewer rats

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The sewer rats were a community for women with pedosexual inclinations founded in Berlin in 1983 as an offshoot of the Indian commune in Nuremberg and successor to the Orange Street Commune .

history

In 1979, the Orange Street Commune was founded in an occupied house in Berlin-Kreuzberg ( Oranienstraße 188) by girls and women from the area around the Indian Commune of Nuremberg. It existed from 1979 to around 1983 and then dissolved. The following year founded other girls and women, some in contact with the Indian community, in turn, a girl commune in West Berlin who are sewer rats named. The sewer rat activists increasingly sought contact with lesbian and feminist initiatives. Both groups of girls, similar to the “Nuremberg Indian Commune ”, took in young people from Trebegan , but only girls. Due to the poor information situation, the two initiatives, which are different in terms of personnel and content, are often insufficiently distinguished from one another in today's presentations.

At the beginning of the Orange Street Commune, Uli Reschke, the founder of the “Indian Commune”, was accused of acting paternalistic . The Orange Street Commune acted according to a similar pattern as the Indian Commune Nuremberg: hunger strikes in West Berlin and (together with the Indian Commune) West German cities, appearances together with the Nuremberg people at federal meetings of the Greens or even gay meetings. This commune first reached prominence in 1980 with its appearance in the Beethoven Hall in Bonn . Both municipalities saw themselves as part of an autonomous , anti-educational children's rights movement and criticized the prohibition of pedosexual relationships in this context. The sewer rats increasingly criticized the internalization of male social demands that lead to the reproduction of heteronormative “forced sexuality”.

effect

Both initiatives were not specifically attacked because of their dedicated criticism of patriarchal structures and their approach to consumer criticism, in contrast to other actors from the environment of the pedophile movement among feminist groups in the 1980s. As recently as 1989, the “Sewer Rat Manifesto” was printed in the “Autonomous Women's Calendar”, in which the communard women articulate their criticism of the debate about sexual abuse and criticize the feminist movement for reproducing conventional sexual morality. In cooperation with the “Indian Commune Nuremberg”, the “sewer rats” also temporarily published a circular with the title “The Pied Piper”. The documents from the two girls' communes are among the few evidence of female pedosexuality .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The pedophile debate among the Greens in the programmatic and social context - first and preliminary findings on the research project. (PDF; 884 kB) In: Demokratieie-goettingen.de. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institute for Democracy Research, July 16, 2015, p. 86 , accessed on July 16, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Alexander Hensel, Tobias Neef, Robert Pausch: From "Knabenliebhabern" and "Power-Pädos" - On the origin and development of the West German pedophile movement . In: Franz Walter; Stephan Klecha; Alexander Hensel (Ed.): The Greens and Pedosexuality: a Federal German story . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-647-30055-9 , pp. 149 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Girls' Commune . In: the daily newspaper . March 21, 1980, p. 10 .
  4. ↑ Why we “only live with girls” . In: the daily newspaper . March 21, 1980, p. 10 .
  5. ↑ There is no liberation for women without liberation for children . In: Paidika: The Journal of Pedophilia . tape 4 , no. 2 , 1992, p. 90-91 .