Porn liberalization in the 1970s: How the sex wave came to Germany
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50 years ago, the Federal Republic liberalized pornography. Peepshow star and film actress Sylvia Engelmann was one of the beneficiaries of the sex boom. But she also had traumatic experiences.
Hardly imaginable in times of OnlyFans and the like: It was only in January 1975 that the total ban on the distribution of pornography in the Federal Republic of Germany was lifted. How did that happen back then?
50 years ago, the social-liberal coalition relaxed the total ban on pornography. Previously “indecent” depictions became legal – despite bitter resistance from the CDU, CSU and the churches.

Hardly imaginable in times of OnlyFans and the like: It was only in January 1975 that the total ban on the distribution of pornography in the Federal Republic of Germany was lifted. How did that happen back then?
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