Theories of Adolescent Sexuality and Homosexual Seduction -- The League for Human Rights, Print Culture, and Homosexual Rights -- The Allure of Youth in the League for Human Rights' Publications -- The 1926 Trash and Smut Law, Youth Protection, and Homosexual Publications -- The Pitfalls of Boy Love -- Male Prostitution, Age of Consent, and the Decriminalization of Homosexuality -- Conclusion: The Seduction of Youth, Respectability, and the End of Weimar's Homosexual Rights Movement.
Summary:
"A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture, consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany's first mass homosexual organization. The Seduction of Youth is the first study to focus on the League and its leader, using his position at the centre of the Weimar-era gay rights movement to tease out the diverging political strategies and contradictory tactics that distinguished the movement. By examining news articles and opinion pieces, as well as literary texts and photographs in the League's numerous pulp magazines for homosexuals, Javier Samper Vendrell reconstructs forgotten aspects of the history of same-sex desire and subjectivity. While recognizing the possibilities of liberal rights for sexual freedom during the Weimar Republic, the League's "respectability politics" failed in part because Radszuweit's own publications contributed to the idea that homosexual men were considered a threat to youth, doing little to change the views of the many people who believed in homosexual seduction."-- Provided by publisher.
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