Women in Prague, 1956 | FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0
In the early 1950s, communist Czechoslovakia embarked on pioneering nationwide research into the female orgasm. In 1961, it decriminalised homosexuality. These are just two examples of an overlooked history of sexual liberation in eastern Europe’s socialist states, according to the author of a groundbreaking new book on the topic.
