Lutz Sauerteig

Newcastle University, Institute of Population Health Sciences, Faculty Member

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I am a cultural historian who is working in the field of medical humanities with a focus on history of medicine, sexualities, and bodies.
Address: University of Newcastle, Population Health Sciences Institute, Sir James Spence Building, 5th Floor, Newcastle, United Kingdom

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RWTH Aachen University

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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)

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University of Edinburgh

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German Historical Institute Rome

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Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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Bern University of the Arts

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Lutz D.H. Sauerteig and Roger Davidson (eds): Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth-Century Europe, London, New York: Routledge, 2009 (ISBN: 978-0-415-41114-1); from May 2012 also as paperback (ISBN: 978-0-415-54218-0)

The history of sex education enables us to gain valuable insights into the cultural constructions... more The history of sex education enables us to gain valuable insights into the cultural constructions of what different societies have defined as 'normal' sexuality and sexual health. Yet, the history of sex education has only recently attracted the full attention of historians of modern sexuality.

Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution not only to the cultural history of sexual enlightenment and identity in modern Europe, but also to the history of childhood and adolescence. The essays collected in this volume treat sex education in the broadest sense, incorporating all aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and awareness of the young. The volume, therefore, not only addresses officially-sanctioned and regulated sex education delivered within the school system and regulated by the State and in some cases the Church, but also the content, iconography and experience of sexual enlightenment within the private sphere of the family and as portrayed through the media.

Krankheit, Sexualität, Gesellschaft. Geschlechtskrankheiten und Gesundheitspolitik in Deutschland im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart 1999, 542 pp., illustrations (ISBN 3-515-07393-0)

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Les Kinsey des deux Allemagnes: recherche empirique en sexologie, enquêtes sur la sexualité et normalisation de la sexualité de la jeunesse pendant la guerre froide [The East and West German Kinseys: Empirical Sex Research, Sex Surveys, and Normalising Young People’s Sexuality During the Cold War]

Sextant: Structure de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sure le Genre, L’Egalite et la Sexualité, Dec 2020

This paper investigates how, in the aftermath of the publication of the Kinsey reports, East and ... more This paper investigates how, in the aftermath of the publication of the Kinsey reports, East and West German sexology turned towards empirical sex research. It specifically looks into the political and cultural context of the Cold War under which West and East German sexologists and social scientists conducted surveys about young people’s sexual behaviours and moral beliefs. I argue that statistical data produced by these sex surveys not only created a historical reality of young people’s sexual attitudes and behaviours but also shaped new standards of «normality». Statistical data were turned into discursive events as they were often referred to, popularised, and produced as reader surveys by the wider media, and visualised through infographics. Such discursive events invited young people to relate their sexual moral judgements and behaviours to the statistical average of their peer-group and, hence, had the potential to shape young people’s understanding of what was acceptable in a specific cultural setting.

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