Michalina Wisłocka


Michalina Anna Wisłocka was a Polish gynecologist, sexologist, and author of Sztuka kochania, the first guide to sexual life in Communist countries. 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 of the Ciołek coat of arms. She had two younger brothers: Andrzej and Jan. Her niece was Ewa Braun, an Academy Award-winning set decorator and costume designer.
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. During the 1970s, she was chief of Cytodiagnostic Laboratory of Family planning Society.
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.

Commemorations

On September 9, 1997, she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
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 :pl:Sztuka kochania. Historia Michaliny Wisłockiej|Sztuka kochania. Historia Michaliny Wisłockiej directed by Maria Sadowska.

Publications