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Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany s Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world s first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized however misleadingly in Christopher Isherwood s <em>Berlin Stories</em> and the musical <em>Cabaret</em>, Weimar s freedoms have become a touchstone for the politics of sexual emancipation.<br /><br />Yet, as Laurie Marhoefer shows in <em>Sex and Weimar Republic</em>, those sexual freedoms were only obtained at the expense of a minority who were deemed sexually disordered. In Weimar Germany, the citizen s right to sexual freedom came with a duty to keep sexuality private, non-commercial, and respectable.<br /><br /><em>Sex and the Weimar Republic</em> examines the rise of sexual tolerance through the debates which surrounded immoral sexuality: obscenity, male homosexuality, lesbianism, transgender identity, heterosexual promiscuity, and p