[The making of the sexual and erotic body in the West German youth magazine BRAVO, 1960s-70s].
This paper analyses the very successful popular youth magazine BRAVO as a central element of the West German youth culture. The focus is on BRAVO's contribution to the shaping of the sexual and erotic knowledge of the young in West Germany since the mid-1960s. Using a definition of popular culture that is inspired by the cultural studies and by an understanding of gender as a construct, the paper scrutinizes discourses on homosexuality, impotency and frigidity, moral debates on premarital sexual intercourse and changes of sexual behaviour of the young at the end of the 1960s, as well as discourses on the erotic body in the 1970s. By mediating authoritative knowledge about sex BRAVO contributed to stabilizing the heterosexual matrix in West Germany's youth culture.
Sauerteig
Lutz
L
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University, Stockton-on-Tees TS17 6BH, United Kingdom. l.d.sauerteig@durham.ac.uk
D004882:Erotica / Q000266:history*; D005860:Germany, West; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D012736:Sex Education / Q000266:history*