Mrs. Henderson Presents is a biographical comedy about Laura Henderson and her general manager Vivian van Damm, and how they challenged the societal norms of London by their productions of “nudie revues” during the 1940’s, around the time World War II began (Frears, 2005). The movie shows a glimpse of sexuality during the 1940’s, permitting an examination of that time; also, how there was an attempt by the United Kingdom government to shut down Mrs. Henderson’s theater due to its explicit nature, and a tendency for a large amount of people to congregate in the area, making it a bomb risk (Frears, 2005). Nonetheless, there has been similar attempts by governments, such as the United States, in the 1940’s that attempted to restrict human sexuality.
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Such as illegal drug use, tax fraud, and murder. However, that does not always mean that they are strictly followed. Specific laws have been in place to target people of certain sexualities, and identities, to keep people constrained. Around the mid 1930’s there was faction in the United Kingdom that was encouraging a change in the age of consent (Robertson, 2017). Besides, adolescents were gaining sexual freedom, and girls and boys around that age began to experiment with their sexuality freely, to an extent. To clarify, the age of consent laws in London, was the highlight of the 1940’s in the spectrum of sex laws; most laws that restricted homosexual sex, sodomy, and oral sex were written previously to this time. As seen in the movie, the women in the London that were preforming naked were part of this push for sexual freedom. They were displaying their bodies to empower themselves and sexually empower the men that these shows were for (Frears, 2005). This came with the changes in laws of the time, due to the changing nature of societies views on …show more content…
Although, Van Damm exclaims his skepticism that the people of London would not accept this racy idea, he agrees to it (Frears, 2005). This is a small example of how the beliefs on how sex and sexuality should be is shifting away from a nuclear family mindset. People wanted to be sexual beings, therefore a SEXUAL REVOLUTION was capable to happen during that time (Chiang, 2010). After the World War II, people didn’t want to go back to the nuclear sense of family. Hence, people began to push the boundaries of themselves, and their sexual
Such as illegal drug use, tax fraud, and murder. However, that does not always mean that they are strictly followed. Specific laws have been in place to target people of certain sexualities, and identities, to keep people constrained. Around the mid 1930’s there was faction in the United Kingdom that was encouraging a change in the age of consent (Robertson, 2017). Besides, adolescents were gaining sexual freedom, and girls and boys around that age began to experiment with their sexuality freely, to an extent. To clarify, the age of consent laws in London, was the highlight of the 1940’s in the spectrum of sex laws; most laws that restricted homosexual sex, sodomy, and oral sex were written previously to this time. As seen in the movie, the women in the London that were preforming naked were part of this push for sexual freedom. They were displaying their bodies to empower themselves and sexually empower the men that these shows were for (Frears, 2005). This came with the changes in laws of the time, due to the changing nature of societies views on …show more content…
Although, Van Damm exclaims his skepticism that the people of London would not accept this racy idea, he agrees to it (Frears, 2005). This is a small example of how the beliefs on how sex and sexuality should be is shifting away from a nuclear family mindset. People wanted to be sexual beings, therefore a SEXUAL REVOLUTION was capable to happen during that time (Chiang, 2010). After the World War II, people didn’t want to go back to the nuclear sense of family. Hence, people began to push the boundaries of themselves, and their sexual