How libertine was sexuality in the Weimar Republic?

by chromehope

A common talking point I’ve heard from far-right traditionalists and Neo-Nazis is that the Weimar Republic was a period of decadent degeneracy among the masses with unrestrained sexuality running amok, but how true is this in reality? Did the Weimar Republic actually have loose sexual mores in the social and entertainment media sphere?

commiespaceinvader

This isn't mean to preclude further answers and discussions but /u/kieslowskifan has made several good points about this in this thread here discussing the research by Magnus Hirschfeld among other things. They correctly point out that the idea of a pro-sex Weimar Republic and an anti-sex Third Reich is unsupported by the evidence given the outlier status of Hirschfeld and his research and the partial climate in Berlin as well as the continuities between Weimar and Nazi Germany in this regard.