Sixty Years of Germany's Beate Uhse When Sexual Liberation Arrived By Mail

In the 1950s, Germany was a place where many women were terrified of getting pregnant and kept woefully ignorant about sexual matters. One dauntless woman changed that almost single-handedly. The empire of Beate Uhse started small as a mail-order provider of sex-education brochures. But it grew to become the world's largest seller of sex toys.