But what is the deal with the stereotype that Germans are sexually deviant? And how did that begin? But it occurs to me that a lot of the famous sado masochistic literature is actually French. The Story of O is French. I mean, I make those jokes too, but why? Hopkins all of the sex toys came from Germany. My Wag is that they did not have the restrictive laws of England or France RE: porn and sex toys back in the 18th and 19th century.
Yes, but deSade was writing about horrific sex toys and practices in the time of Napoleon. He was proclaimed a horrendous deviant and yet his books live on in wide circulation. A dear friend of mine has a German boyfriend they met while he was studying in the US and has travelled extensively in Germany, and she swears that this stereotype has at least some basis in truth.
She claims that German men really do tend to be more into being dominated than their American counterparts. Was Meyers really creating this kind of incestuous Anglo-Germanic sentence? Then again, probably even more of it is American, but the foreign stuff tends to stand out. And of the various foreign films, German stuff tends to the more deviant.
The only real competition is Japanese porn, who are probably the most into BDSM, but not so much into golder showers, fisting and some of the stomach turning stuff. All this of course is strictly modern, and it depends on how far back this stereotype goes. The difference however, is that the Germans are mainly associated with the really nasty stuff like Scat, Pain, and Fisting the French for homosexuality and orgies. Much more so than most English speaking countries at least.
The internet has made these films available and therefore fostered the spread of the perception. The jokes grew from that. Work is important, and they release this rigid lifestyle in the bedroom. They say its true, the more powerful the man, the more likely that he wants to be tied up and dominated. The more repressed they are in public, the more likely they are to want to be kinky in private. If you buy this, perhaps thats why the Germans, Americans and Japanese tend to feauture prominently in the porn world as a whole.
