„Невиност без заштите“– прича о првом београдском секс-скандалу
„Virginity without Protection“ – The Story of the First Belgrade Sex Scandal

Summary/Abstract: The end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century brought about major changes in everyday life and public life of Belgrade and its citizens. Some of these changes concerned the transition of communication from personal to public (media) and the opening of a women’s issue. After the First World War, female-male relations experienced changes, and one of them was the outbreak of public scandals in the field of intimate life and sex. The first case of sex affair was recorded in archival material and newspapers in 1924. The love affair of the young, not-well educated and poor twenty-year-old girl, Radmila Načić and the double-older Belgrade merchant Ristа Todorović, awakened interest of the broadest public. The crippled relationship presented by the girl as a fraud and breaking of the promise, and by the merchant as the relationship in which he paid for sexual services, shook Belgrade. The court dispute preceded the discrediting of Todorović in the Belgrade yellow press and anonymous reports to the Ministry of Justice against Radmila Načić, who was portrayed as a prostitute. The process that lasted three days attracted unprecedented public attention, both in the courtroom and in the newspapers, and the verdict showed that society was not yet ready for greater protection of women and their rights.

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