On American Horror Story: Freak Show, there is a flashback which depicts and talks about post WW1 Germans taking out their frustration in depraved sex brothels with some BDSM tendencies. Are there any records of anything like this?

by x_glo
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There's actually a lot of documentation on this subject. Weimar-era (1920s) Berlin really was a sex-tourism destination. A good book that I read recently is Voluptuous Panic: the Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon, who is a phenomenal historian of early 20th-century decadence.