Social history

Of vice and female impersonation – meet Ernst, victim or perpetrator?

IToday, I’d like you to meet Ernst Algot Frank. At the age of seventeen, he was arrested in Malmö as part of a major razzia against men who “indulged in immoral practices”. Ernst Frank and various other men were arrested on a square that “everyone” knew was used for casual hook-ups, seeing as it was […]

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Shining a light into the darker corners

Sweden has the dubious honour of being second only to Third Reich Germany in the number of people sterilised against their will. It is one of those “skeletons in the closet” things, in that the Swedish establishment avoided talking about it for a number of years, preferring to bury this rather sordid aspect of our

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