Status Updates From Politika touhy

"The demographers who advised the state on population issues were unambiguously for liberalizing access to abortion, and their discourse was more rights driven than scholars usually acknowledge. (...) Abortion might have been publicly introduced as a measure for improving women's health but in expert circles it was hailed as a tool for equality and reproductive freedom."

In divorce court rulings, "'marital contact', 'living as husband and wife' or 'living together' were synonyms for sex: if present, judges were reluctant to grant a divorce. If sex was absent though, even marriages with children could end in divorce. Sexual matters trumped violence, especially in cases where the wife left a husband who beat her; wife battering was seen as compatible with marriage, adultery was not."

"Historian Josie McLellan uncovered evidence that the censors of Mann und Frau Intim [a GDR sex manual] suggested revisions to its author. Surprisingly, the recommended modifications were more progressive than the original. For example, the author was 'chided for presenting female sexuality as a male object, lecherously describing "charming" women, "beautiful breasts", "delightful figures" and their effect on men.'"

In the 1950s, "a zoophile man who abused cows was not prosecuted for offending sexual propriety, but instead, because he damaged collectivized farms"