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Kurt Starke

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After receiving his doctorate in 1967, Kurt Starke became the head of the Central Institute for Youth Research of the German Democratic Republic in 1972; in 1981 he also obtained a professorship at the University of Leipzig. Among his books are Fit for Sexpower? Eine sexualwissenschaftliche Untersuchung zu Bravo Girl (“A Sex-scientific Inquiry into Bravo Girl” 2001), Schwuler Osten. Homosexuelle Männer in der DDR (“The Gay East: Homosexual Men in the GDR” 1994), Pornografie und Jugend. Jugend und Pornografie (“Pornography and Youth; Youth and Pornography” 2010), and Lexikon der Erotik (“Lexicon of Eroticism” 1996).