Where the driving force of the society is to strive after profit but rather the coincidence of the individual and social interests, there is no ground in which egoism, self-glorification and oppression of women can grow.
- However, East Germany did develop its own distinct form of femininity and masculinity - ideals proclaimed by the leadership were not empty - they shaped the daily interplay between social conditions and individual negotiations
- East German expert's obsession with the idea that socialism produced especially charmed conditions for mutually satisfying sex - a figment of their own fantasy lives
- West German sexual revolution was seen as a threat but was not imitated in the East
- Emphasis was always on the constant declaration that the future belongs to socialism
- Love and sexuality became absolutely crucial elements in this struggle to win popular approval
- The majority of citizens were not taken by the romance of socialism itself, however.
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