Kotryna Bėčiūtė’s presentation: The Illusion of Freedom? Cultural Changes of Sexuality in Lithuania in the 1990s

Kotryna Bėčiūtė – PhD candidate at the Faculty of History, Vilnius University, researching the history of sexuality in the 20th–21st centuries and the development of public sexual culture in Lithuania.

During the EROS festival, Kotryna Bėčiūtė will give a talk The Illusion of Freedom? Changes in Public Sexual Culture in Lithuania, 1990–2000. After Lithuania regained independence in the 1990s, the public sphere was flooded with sexualized images and new topics of sexuality. But did a true sexual revolution actually take place in Lithuania during the 1990s? The presentation will explore how, in the early years of independence, the press, advertising, and pop culture shaped a new sexual culture – from the first erotic magazines and the politics of nudity to outbreaks of moral panic.

The lecture will take place on November 21, 19:00–19:30, at the Talks Stage (Hall 4).