Hjördis Levin

Hildur Charlotta Eriksson was born in Smedby, Östergötland County on 4 June 1930. Levin is the daughter of the gardener Karl Erik Karlsson and Hildur Schwarz. she studied office education at an early age and was an office employee until 1968. She received a B.A. degree in 1971, and earned a doctoral degree at Umeå University in 1994. She was a course leader in speech and argumentation techniques in Stockholm from 1973, and worked as a speech trainer in her own company, Juno Speech Training, from 1986.^[1]

Levin's 1994 thesis "Masken inuti rosen - Nymalthusianism och födelsekontroll i Sverige 1880-1910. Propaganda och motstånd" (Neo-Malthusianism and Birth Control in Sweden 1880-1910. Propaganda and Resitance) deals with the sexual debate in 1880–1910 and how it led to the so-called Preventive Law in 1910, which prohibited the dissemination of use or knowledge of contraception among the public.^[2] She details how influence of French authors such as Marquis de Sade, had a profound impact on the Swedish debate in that it sparked a strong resistance to bohème literature, and gave rise to a new morality. Other deciding factors in the debate on birth control were fear of STD's, prostitution and fear of workers having less children, thus reducing the labor force.

Levin has since continued to survey and describe the subsequent period 1923–1936 with a women's struggle for sexual equality and gender equality, and which led, among other things, to the abolition of the Prevention Act 1938.

In "Testiklarnas herravälde" (The Empire of Testicles) (1986, 352 pages) she draws a history of how sexual morals, albeit changing, always have benefited men's contemporary desires and interests.

In "Kampen mot den vita slavhandeln" (2015) she writes about the "white slave trade" at the end of the 1800´s. As it was discovered that minor British girls were sold to Belgian brothels, a national society was formed to combat trafficking.