ABSTRACT
Sexuality burst into public view in the new modern society of the interwar years, as artists depicted sex as raw energy, entrepreneurs sold cars with sexual images, and doctors advised couples how to find sexual happiness. In Weimar Berlin, gay, lesbian, and trans people openly asserted their identities and found each other in raucous, vibrant clubs. Reformers represented sex as something that had to be freed from Victorian repression, but they also wanted to manage this energy for the good of society.
