A new article by Christopher Ewing and Junior Professor Ulrike Schaper, titled “Sexual Frustrations and Dream Vacations: Gay Tourism, Straight Tourism, and the Role of Racialized Desire after West Germany’s Sexual Revolution”, has just been published in Central European History. Read more

Abstract

The article argues that sexualized travel was a crucial site in which the ambivalences of the so-called sexual revolution were negotiated. Focusing on the experiences of white, West German men between the late 1960s and early 1990s, the article draws on a wide range of travel literature—as well as criticism of sex and travel—to document the ways in which tourists made sense of sexual ambivalences at home through discussions about sex abroad. Regardless of sexual orientation, white, West German men drew on overlapping languages of racialized desire to describe perceived pleasures abroad, revealing that race and racism are inextricable from the history of the sexual revolution in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Cite

Christopher Ewing, Ulrike Schaper: Sexual Frustrations and Dream Vacations. Gay Tourism, Straight Tourism and the Role of Racialized Desire after West Germany’s Sexual Revolution, in: Central European History, Jg. 57 (2024) Nr. 4, 517 - 536.