Ideal Men and Dream Women: Computer Matchmaking in twen during the West German Sex Wave, 1967–1970*.
Between 1967 and 1970, the West German youth magazine twen embarked on an ambitious experiment to match young heterosexual pairs using computer programming. Named Rendezvous , the program emerged during a moment of particular promise and transformation in West German history. The so-called 'sex wave...
| Published in: | German History Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 107 - 123 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2022
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