Michalina Wisłocka

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Michalina Anna Wisłocka
sexologist
  • author
    • CitizenshipPolish
    Notable worksSztuka kochania (A Practical Guide to Marital Bliss)
    PartnerSunny
    RelativesJan Tymoteusz Braun (father), Anna Żylińska (mother)

    Michalina Anna Wisłocka (

    sexologist, and author of Sztuka kochania (verbatim: The Art of Loving, English edition A Practical Guide to Marital Bliss, 1978),[1] the first guide to sexual life in a communist country.[2]
    Her book became a bestseller, with a total circulation of 7 million copies, and started greater openness about matters of sex and sex life in Poland.

    Life

    She was born to father Jan Tymoteusz Braun, a teacher and mother Anna (née Żylińska) of the

    Academy Award-winning set decorator and costume designer.[3]

    She was a co-founder of the Society of Sensible Maternity, in which she worked on infertility treatment and birth control. She was chief of first in Poland Dispensary of Sensible Maternity in Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw.[4] During the 1970s, she was chief of Cytodiagnostic Laboratory of Family Planning Society.[5]

    Wisłocka died in the Solski Hospital in Warsaw due to complications from a heart attack. On 11 February 2005, she was interred at the

    Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg Confession in Warsaw.[citation needed
    ]

    Commemorations

    On September 9, 1997, she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.[6]

    The Park of Love in Lubniewice and the square in Łódź are dedicated to her memory.

    Cultural depictions

    Wisłocka's life is depicted in the 2017

    biopic Sztuka kochania. Historia Michaliny Wisłockiej ("The Art of Loving: The Story of Michalina Wisłocka") directed by Maria Sadowska. Wisłocka was played by Magdalena Boczarska.[7]

    Publications

    References

    1. ^ Wisłocka, Michalina (1987) A Practical Guide to Marital Bliss, Translated by Waldemar Podolak, Ray Cichon, M & A Publishing company Inc. Worcester
    2. ISBN 9781108341332. Retrieved 3 April 2020. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help
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    3. ^ "Ewa Braun". IMDb. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
    4. ^ "Where the Most Common Method of Contraception Is Prayer". Aspen Institute Central Europe (in Czech). Retrieved 3 April 2020.
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    6. ^ "M.P. 1997 nr 84 poz. 845". Retrieved 26 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
    7. ^ The Art of Loving. Story of Michalina Wislocka, retrieved 3 April 2020
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