Eberhard and Phyllis Kronhausen
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Phyllis (1929) and Eberhard Kronhausen (1915) are two American curators of erotic art, mainly active in the 1960s and 1970s, being part of the sexual revolution. On May 3, 1968, the exhibition The First International Exhibition of Erotic Art opened in Lund, Sweden. In the late 1960s and early 1970s they turned to filmmaking and directed Why (Hvorfor Goer De Det?)[1] and were interviewed in the documentary film Danish Blue[2]. Phyllis had already made Psychomontage[3], probably before she'd met Eberhard. Both Psychomontage and Why were screened at Amos Vogel's Cinema 16 and anthologized in FAS. Later The Kronhausens had a San Francisco branch of the Erotic Art museum, which was located at 540 Powell Street.
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Eberhard Kronhausen is name-checked on the cover of "Freak Out!" (1966) under the heading "These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them".
The Sexually Responsive Woman
In 1964, "The Sexually Responsive Woman" (New York, Grove Press, preface by Simone de Beauvoir).
- "Woman (is) the untouchable saint who through her spiritual purity raises and ennobles the grosser, baser male".
- "What modern women seem to want is not just more sex, but better sex. Together with increased aggressiveness in mature women, there appears to be a trend toward demanding, and if necessary, seeking, better sexual performance from male partners".
- "One should not... be surprised to hear that failure to achieve sexual happiness is likely to have an adverse effect on the woman’s total relationship with her partner and may lead to the breakdown of their relationship".
Incomplete bibliography
- Kronhausen, Phyllis, Kronhausen, Eberhard, The Complete Book of Erotic Art, Bell Publishing Company, 1978.
- Kronhausen, Phyllis, Kronhausen, Eberhard, Erotic Book Plates, Bell, 1970.
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