Sex Montage
How sexual attitudes changed over the 20th Century for the good - and not so good
How sexual attitudes changed over the 20th Century, with the arrival of birth control, the sexual revolution and AIDS.
Gad Beck, a Jew and a homosexual describes gay life in Berlin during the 1930s and 1940s and how he lost his one true love to the Nazi concentration camps.
At 90 Kiharu Nakamura tells the story of her life as a high class Geisha woman in Japan in the 1920s.
In this emotional and graphic account, Ingrid describes how she found herself unwittingly part of a sterilization programme in Sweden when she applied for a termination. In a foreign country and living with an abusive husband she recalls the callousness with which she was treated by the medical profession and tells how the sterilization left her with permanent mental scars.
Maureen was one of the first women in Britain to be prescribed the contraceptive pill. She describes her life before the pill and how it changed once she'd started to take it.
A Nigerian man talks about the challenge of being HIV+. He describes how the discovery that he had contracted the virus made him determined to continue to lead a normal life and to help combat the disease by teaching others about safe sex.
Produced by Bridget Harney.
