Did the East love differently? - Sex in divided Germany
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Did the East love differently? - Sex in divided Germany |
| original language | english , german |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 51 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | André Meier |
| script | André Meier |
| production | Heino Deckert |
| camera | André Bohm |
| cut | Thomas Kleinwächter |
Did the East love differently? - Sex in a divided Germany (English title: ? Do communists have better sex ) is an English- and German-language documentary by André Meier in 2006. The film, which on 27 November 2006 for the first time in the ARD has been sent compares, sex life and sexual morality of the people in the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany .
content
The film tries, in a humorous way, but also with the help of sex and social scientists , to answer the question of whether sex was better in the GDR or in the Federal Republic. The film consists of a collage of historical recordings, excerpts from feature films and original sounds by historians, sociologists and sexologists. These excerpts are connected by cartoons created for the film, in which simplified figures with square heads symbolize the respective country's inhabitants.
Right at the beginning of the film, the thesis is put forward that the frequency of orgasms among GDR women was about twice as high as in the West. Overall, the GDR citizens were more enlightened, more self-determined and more active in their sexuality. This is justified in the following with the barely existing influence of church morals in the GDR, with a higher degree of women's emancipation, but also with the lack of distraction through pornography or striptease, which were frowned upon in the GDR. In particular, the equality of women and men , the film writes a large share of the more liberal sexual morality in the GDR. The sexologist Kurt Starke says in an original, love had in the GDR had a much more important role than the institution of marriage. Unlike in the Federal Republic of Germany, almost all women were employed and therefore financially independent of a husband. As a result, they were free to choose a partner, according to the film, and this has led to better sexuality. Contraceptives were readily available and since abortions were exempt from punishment up to the 12th week from 1972, the fear of unwanted pregnancies was not as great as in the Federal Republic. However, it should also have been less of a problem early on to have children and get married, the cultural scientist Dietrich Mühlberg in an interview. The historian Dagmar Herzog describes the sexual revolution in the Federal Republic of the 1970s, although as liberating, but it was still an urban phenomenon, while accepted in the GDR outside and premarital sex more and had been practiced.
The film ends with pictures of the fall of the Wall and the conclusion that East and West German sexuality will now come closer again - at least in bed.
reception
“Now the tireless explorers of the lost workers and peasants state in the First Program - which is still more popular in the West than in the East - hold up the great mirror of the Enlightenment. And, lo and behold: the Eastern man was, all in all, happier in sexual matters. You were freer, came earlier, more often and better, so the summary of the new series of programs Did the East Love Different? - Sex in divided Germany. After the 45 minutes of the opening documentary, the hitherto unenlightened person can't help but say: Yes, the East really loved better. If only it hadn't been for this stupid socialism. "
Web links
- Did the East love differently? - Sex in divided Germany in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Production company information
Individual evidence
- ↑ Did the East love differently? - Sex in divided Germany (film lexicon). Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Sex in GDR and FRG: Das Land der Libido , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 19, 2010, accessed on May 21, 2020