How Did The Government Regulate Sexuality In Nazi Germany

In this essay, I will look at how the Nazi regimes policy on sexuality was inconsistent; I will also explore how the policies were vague and affected women. I will also look at how the Third Reich regime regulated sexuality, and had ambiguous definitions for classifying unacceptable sexual behaviour.
In Nazi Germany, there was a façade of chastity or rather of women only having sexual intercourse in the privacy of their wedded home. The aim of the Third Reich system was to uphold, reinforce and strengthen the image of a racially healthy heterosexual family whilst it controlled, regulated and dictated what qualified as acceptable sexual behaviour for its own needs.
Although the system was meant to preserve the ideal of a heterosexual family, due to wartime and population numbers dwindling there was the legalisation of prostitution. Even though it was regulated, the government worked hard to control the commercialisation of prostitution.
Timm (2002) states that the regime had contradictory laws that went against what they stood for, at first they were against extramarital sex and prostitution but they soon legalised
This meant that the acceptable and unacceptable sexual behaviour of women was contrastingly ambiguous; women’s sexuality was intrinsically linked to her reproductive capabilities yet as for the prostitute, she was both marginalised and treated as a ‘respectable’ woman (Timm, 2002). All this meant that women’s sexuality was only important as a function for serving the needs of the regime, since the image of family and legitimate children was waived by the state. They allowed military men to have sexual intercourse with women as a form of increasing support for the state but in reality, it was for increasing the population of the Aryan