Alongside Magnus Hirschfeld, we should also learn from "...the Marxist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Reich had opened free sex clinics in working class districts of Vienna. He also had a mobile centre, from which he lectured on “the sexual misery of the masses under capitalism”, warning of the dangers of abstinence, the importance of premarital sex, and the corrupting influence of the family. The clinics provided contraception and arranged illegal abortions. In 1930, Reich moved to Germany and set up the German Association for Proletarian Sexual Politics—Sex-Pol. Crowds of up to 20,000 would attend Sex Pol events." (--Socialist Worker, UK ) Reich was suppressed by the Nazis, but unfortunately, too many communists still held to patriarchal norms, too.
Alongside Magnus Hirschfeld, we should also learn from "...the Marxist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Reich had opened free sex clinics in working class districts of Vienna. He also had a mobile centre, from which he lectured on “the sexual misery of the masses under capitalism”, warning of the dangers of abstinence, the importance of premarital sex, and the corrupting influence of the family. The clinics provided contraception and arranged illegal abortions. In 1930, Reich moved to Germany and set up the German Association for Proletarian Sexual Politics—Sex-Pol. Crowds of up to 20,000 would attend Sex Pol events." (--Socialist Worker, UK ) Reich was suppressed by the Nazis, but unfortunately, too many communists still held to patriarchal norms, too.