Blue Movie 2 - The History of Porn - Berlin Burns, America Buys

Berlin, 1924.Hyperinflation. Maimed soldiers. Cocaine cabarets. Early gender-affirming surgery. Queer films screening publicly. Magnus Hirschfeld arguing homosexuality is innate, not criminal.

In this episode of Blue Movie, we trace how the sexual laboratory of the Weimar Republic burned bright and brief — and how its collapse under Adolf Hitler reshaped the future of pornography.

During WW2, attitudes shifted again -

From the liberal sexual attitudes of Berlin to Nazi book burnings and raidsFrom underground American stag films to the Hays Code.From wartime pin-ups to mail-order bondage empires.From Alberto Vargas to Bettie Page.

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