According to the Naturist Federation Netherlands, the number of naked walkers is still increasing. Cozy camping or sports together in your nakedness. It gives the common man goosebumps, but it happened long before the Second World War. Its delicious, you should try it yourself! said Nel Molenkamp-Q
The COC will be 60 years old this weekend. The organization founded in 1946 made major breakthroughs in gay emancipation. But the real work is just beginning. “Changing the mindset is much more difficult.” Homosexuality was banned in the Netherlands for a long time. It was seen as unnatural, as a d
It has happened! The young lovers Arent Simonszoon and Brechje Jansdatter from the Noord-Hollandse Broek in Waterland promised each other eternal fidelity on this sunny Sunday in 1610. The whole village turned out for this peasant couple. A report of an exuberant party. The preparations for this da
The Netherlands first became acquainted with AIDS in 1982, under the name GRID (Gay Related Immune Disease) because until then only homosexual men were infected. In 1984 it became known that the disease is the result of infection with the HIV virus, with which anyone can become infected. The Dutch
Homosexual activities were life-threatening in the eighteenth century. Gays caught in the act were given the death penalty. In 1674 a large part of the Utrecht Dom Church had collapsed during a storm. The ruins of the church remained until the 19th century. The dark corners of the ruins were an ide
A survey by Management Team shows that ten percent of those surveyed sometimes cheat at work. A century ago, the fear of sex in the workplace was a reason to keep women out of the workforce. One big brothel was Regouts Pottery Factory in Maastricht. Young workers were found to have sex with their b
Tight leather pants or a shapeless, all-covering burqa. Clothing can emphasize the body, but also conceal it. Many examples of this can be found over the centuries. At the same time, the idea of what is sexy or not is shifting. Just showing a womans ankle in a lace-up boot was considered very ero
A family with ten children. It is hard to imagine now, but this was common until the 1960s. When the pill came on the market, the curse of fertility was over. The population grew much less rapidly. The contraceptive pill, an American invention, conquered the Netherlands from 1962. In 1977, more tha
It used to be no fun to go through life as a gay or lesbian. People thought it was weird when a man fell in love with a man, or a woman with a woman. Someone with such strange sexual behavior had to be a stickler. Homosexuality was not socially accepted until well into the twentieth century. Celebr
Chickie, sex bomb, babe:men know how to describe an exciting woman. But it only really gets exciting when its dangerous, that attraction. At the end of the nineteenth century, it was all the rage among male artists:they painted and wrote en masse about the fatal woman. That woman is so irresistibl
Learning about sex was a chore a hundred years ago. If you asked about it, you were told that children were bought from the bakery, grew from a cabbage or were delivered by a stork. Young people were aware that there was something dirty and only going on with having children. In 1909, the feminist
The famous PSP poster was less disarming than expected. Many people criticized the sexist exploitation of the female body. During the election campaign of 1971 there was a lot of commotion about a poster of a cow with a stark naked woman in front of it. The Pacifist Socialist Party (PSP) founded in
IVF fertility treatment is working better and better:the chance of pregnancy is increasing. Our ancestors already knew the necessary remedies to give little happiness a hand. “Whoever thinks he is enchanted because he cannot make love should carry a magnetic stone with him. Then its over, accordin
If we are now concerned about the influence of sexy R&B clips, in the 1950s it was rock n roll that threatened morality. In the 1950s, a new kind of music came over from America:rock n roll. Adults reacted strongly to it:they were afraid that young people would break loose because of the exciting r
The government is going to put videos on YouTube to educate immigrants about sex. Until the 1970s, Catholics received private information from the pastor at home. A now eighty-year-old Limburger remembers well that he and his wife had to talk to a very old pastor when they got married in 1954. He s
Masturbation, homosexuality and prostitution were spoken of with horror in the nineteenth century. Every effort was therefore made to combat these forms of sexuality. In the nineteenth century, many people were afraid of sex. It could make you sick. Masturbation or onania made you deaf, your eyes d
Every election campaign has its strange birds. In 1970 it was the Free Sex Party during the Amsterdam municipal elections. The bill featured program items such as free sex education for everyone, free sex for prisoners, free pills and condoms for the people and pornography free. Did the Amsterdamm
At the Kamasutra fair you can get everything in the field of eroticism and lifestyle. Sex is fun, and everyone should know that. Not so long ago, sex and sexuality were dirty and forbidden. Porn was only available on the sly and sex was for the bedroom. Since the sixties of the last century, a chan
His Blood Council and other performances gave him a tough and ruthless image. The Duke of Alba traveled from Spain to the North in 1567 to put an end to the revolt there. After the iconoclasm, Philip II sent the Duke of Alba to the Netherlands to restore peace. He gave him 10,000 soldiers and he wa
An independent (Dutch) state where Catholics and Protestants were both welcome. That was the ideal of William of Orange. Before this became a reality, a deadly bullet hit him in the chest. I have always honored the king of Hispanje, said William of Orange in the Wilhelmus. And that was initially th
Cunning, fierce, wild and perverse. He drank, he was a rascal and the crowd rebelled. His parents were beaten and chased out of the cottage. In the last days of February 1846, a gang under his leadership murdered almost the entire Bogusz family. He was never punished for that. Dead by sorrow, c
The Apollo 11 spacecraft conquer the Moon exactly 53 years ago:You knew how the moon smelled , or how activists reacting to the launch ended up sitting in VIP seats ? The diary read, like today , July 20, 1969 :It was a small day of the year for man, but a long one for mankind... Something like th
It was one of those battles that decided the fate of the world. Hitler seemed to have victory almost in his pocket, and was only a step away from ruling the British Isles. Fortunately, we managed to fight him off. And the Poles contributed greatly to this. In June 1940, almost all of Western Eur
In 1882, Oskar Wilde lamented:From the sixteenth century to the present day, no torture has been invented that is not imposed on our girls, nor can women endure in the name of a mindless and monstrous Fashion. He was right. His era gave birth to the first fashion victims. And it is quite literal.