During the Nazi regime, lesbians could not continue to live and socialize as they had during the Weimar Republic. Much of German society saw lesbians as social outsiders, meaning people who did not fit into the mainstream. As such, they had a higher risk of being denounced and then targeted by the Nazi regime. Yet, denunciations could cause unwanted scrutiny for lesbians. Sometimes a denunciation led the police to discover criminal offenses. For example, it could reveal ties to a resistance organization, friendship with Jews, or subversive political behavior. In those cases, women could be arrested and sent to concentration camps. The Case of Elli Smula and Margarete Rosenberg Call V, Sprecher S, & Schwartz P (1995). The incidence and frequency of marital sex in a national sample. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57,639–652. 10.2307/353919 [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar]

Doll does the cooking and Kitten does the cleaning. Sometimes, Kitten also helps me with my hair and make-up before I go to work.' Omid Scobie's book 'names the royal racist': Endgame is pulled from shelves in Holland after Dutch translation appears to reveal identity of person The Nazis classified prisoners in concentration camps into groups according to the reason for their imprisonment. By 1938, these groups were identified with various colored badges worn on camp uniforms. Men imprisoned for allegedly violating Paragraph 175 had to wear a pink triangle. The badge identified them as “homosexual” ( homosexuell ) according to the classification system.

People assign meaning to sex in light of their social positions. Although cultural norms of gender and sexuality fluctuate in relation to ever-changing social and institutional discourses and performances (see Connell, 2005; Segal, 1990), the “sexual double standard” remains a pervasive and durable gender schema ( Crawford & Popp, 2003). Such double standards are dynamic sets of social rules, norms, and beliefs that differ for men and women but are consistently linked to notions of agentic heterosexual male subjects and passive female objects whose purpose is to arouse the male sexual response (see also Connell & Messerschmidt, 2005). Findings that link sexual activity and satisfaction to relationship satisfaction and stability must be examined with an eye toward how satisfaction is embedded in larger gendered schemas of sex and marriage. Two primary yet competing gendered and sexual norms typically found in scientific and popular discourse posit that (a) consistent and frequent sexual activity is the measure of a successful marriage (see Giddens, 1992), but (b) sex inevitably declines in marriage over time (see Call et al., 1995). Both lesbian and straight women are exposed to these broad sexual marriage norms, but their divergent social positions suggest that these norms may shape their interpretations of sexual experiences in different ways. Moreover, only straight women reported feeling unable to communicate with their spouses about their desire to improve the quality or increase the quantity of sex in their marriages; these women reported stress but no work. When Annette (straight) was asked whether she discussed her desire for more sex with Curtis, she said, “Oh, no, he cannot talk to me about it at all, no… So, I can’t talk to him about it and I probably would want to talk about it but he doesn’t want to talk about it at all.” Curtis did not share Annette’s distress, instead saying: Jada Pinkett Smith reveals whether she and estranged husband Will Smith are 'staying together forever' after secretly separating SEVEN years ago We’re just like all the other couples who have kids. You know, [sex] gets to be a challenge once you have children and then you get tired… I think [our sex life is] pretty normal, like any married couple… the normal having kids stuff.

Distinct lesbian communities developed around this time. Lesbians founded social clubs and associations to foster networks and connections. The most famous lesbian associations were the Violetta and Monbijou women’s clubs ( Damenklub Violetta and Damenklub Monbijou) in Berlin. These associations held informal gatherings in lesbian bars and nightclubs, such as the dance club Monokel-Diele. Lesbians also gathered at the famous Eldorado nightclub. DeLamater JD, & Sill M (2005). Sexual desire in later life. Journal of Sex Research, 42( 2), 138–149. 10.1080/00224490509552267 [ PubMed] [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar] To encourage Aryan procreation, the Nazis adopted a variety of programs and laws. One example is the Lebensborn program. It encouraged Aryan women to have many children, even outside of marriage. At the same time, the Nazi regime tried to prohibit or limit the procreation of other supposedly inferior groups. In July 1933, a new law mandated sterilization of people with supposedly hereditary disabilities. Other laws, such as the 1935 Nuremberg Laws , defined who could have sex with whom. How Omid Scobie decided to reignite 'royal race row' over Archie's skin colour because he was 'confused' when Harry and Meghan 'suddenly' didn't mention it in their Netflix special and Spare

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Bridges SK, & Horne SG (2007). Sexual satisfaction and desire discrepancy in same-sex women’s relationships. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 33( 1), 41–53. 10.1080/00926230600998466 [ PubMed] [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar] Well [sex] is less, a lot less than it was. And we have to be more, what’s the word I’m looking for? Proactive and sort of thoughtful about it, like really, but I mean, at first [we] had to start mak[ing] these dates, and kind of set aside each time, like, this is, you know, “We’re going to be intimate this night.” And when this first kind of came into our lives, we were like, “Eh.” You know, kind of takes out the, you know, like, what if you’re just not in the mood? Or whatever, but you do. You just have to try and do those things. In lesbian prisoners’ paperwork, camp authorities usually listed a racial, political, social, or criminal reason as the primary cause for their arrest. In a few cases, the authorities also noted their sexuality. The Nazis did not systematically prosecute or persecute lesbians solely because of their sexuality. Under the Nazi regime, there was no official law or policy prohibiting sexual relations between women. This is unlike the case of gay men. In the camps, women who self-identified or were identified as lesbians did not wear the pink triangle. Instead, they wore badges that corresponded to the official reason for their arrest and internment. Sexual Relations between Women in Concentration Camps

Holmberg D, Blair KL, & Phillips M (2010). Women’s sexual satisfaction as a predictor of well-being in same-sex versus mixed-sex relationships. Journal of Sex Research, 47( 1), 1–11. 10.1080/00224490902898710 [ PubMed] [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar]Strictly's Bobby Brazier gives dance partner Dianne Buswell a warm hug after long day of rehearsals for sizzling Dirty Dance routine Although commonalities in straight and lesbian women’s narratives suggest similarities in how women interpret changes in sex in light of midlife events, narrative differences indicate how gendered relational contexts may differentially shape women’s experiences ( Springer et al., 2012). Lesbians interpreted their and their spouses’ similar embodied experiences in midlife as buffering distress about sexual changes by facilitating mutual understanding, which enhanced closeness. For example, lesbians emphasized that concurrent experiences of menopause resulted in mutual, diminished desire for sex in both spouses. Lesbians also said that because both spouses were women, they were not on “different planets,” which they interpreted as advantageous for weathering this change. Unlike the straight couples in our sample, lesbian couples conveyed a sense of closeness amid change that challenges sexually detrimental notions of lesbian merger ( Blumstein & Schwartz, 1983). This finding suggests that lesbian spouses’ shared embodied experiences of midlife processes (such as menopause) and heightened communication about change may diminish distress and encourage “working on” sexual relationships. In contrast, straight spouses offered conflicting interpretations of how aging processes affected sex. Straight women similarly framed menopause as inhibiting sex drive, but—citing the norm of limitless male sexuality—expected their husbands’ interests in sex to remain stable and were distressed when this was not the case. Menopause was all but absent from straight men’s narratives, and men often attributed their diminished sex drive to their own natural aging process. This reinforces Lodge and Umberson’s (2012) finding that in midlife, husbands often express diminished interest in sex, which distresses women by disrupting their ability to successfully perform emphasized femininity. Weiss RS (1994). Learning from strangers: The art and method of qualitative interview studies. New York: Free Press. [ Google Scholar] Segal L (1990). Slow motion: Changing masculinities, changing men. London: Virago. [ Google Scholar] Debbie: I don’t want to go that far, but there is an acceptance… I do think that people have different ideas about the meaning of how important sex is within a relationship, and I would say for both of us it’s not the most important thing.