Muehl, called Papa by his followers, built his commune with the belief that humanity's future lay in a life of 'free love' while all his followers had to have sex four times a day.
Founded by a sick paedophile artist in Vienna in the 1970s, the Friedrichshof Commune was a radical experiment in communal living that saw its leader encourage polygamous sex between the cult's 600-strong membership before he was thrown behind bars for raping underage girls.
Now, almost 35 years after the far-left Friedrichshof Commune was dissolved following Muehl's conviction of widespread sexual abuse of minors who grew up with him, MailOnline has taken a look inside the extreme 'sex cult' that found brainwashed women and girls pining for a touch, a kiss or an invitation to 'Papa's' bed.The Founder
After the war had ended, Muehl retired from the battlefield and studied teaching German and history, and Pedagogy of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He had sought to create a community that would tear down traditional bourgeois values, in favor of communal living and uninhibited sexual expressionMuehl went on to gain notoriety for his scoptophilic 'performances' that involved naked people rolling around in paint, mud, and feces groping each other, and often ended with the artist either defecating on someone or urinating in a performer's mouth.
The Kunst und Revolution - Art and Revolution - saw the group of five breaking several taboos: nudity, relieving oneself, masturbation, whipping, self-mutilation, smearing one's own excrement on one's naked body and vomiting by irritating the esophagus - and all while singing the Austrian national anthem while lying on an unfurled Austrian national flag.
But under this pretense of freedom, Muehl would eventually steer his community down a dark and sinister path of perverse sexual destruction.Muehl ruled over his members with an iron fist, creating a series of rules and demands that controlled the sex lives of each of his followers. The practice involved public confessions, role-playing, and often sexually explicit performances that intended to break down social barriers and individual inhibitions.
Foreplay and affection during sex was not permitted under the artist's strict rules and regulations, and if a man failed to find a woman to sleep with on a particular night, he wouldn't have a bed. Women began viewing Muehl as an esteemed sexual figure who they would begin fighting each other over for just a second of his attention.
Muehl could rarely walk through the commune grounds with fewer than 30 women swarming around him while they shoved each other out of the way in a bid to steal a kiss, a touch, or better yet - an invitation to his bed. Muehl's practices also involved separating children from their biological parents to break traditional familial bonds and banning monogamous relationshipsAccording to reports from former communards, personal sexual initiation for girls within the community began at age 14, and 14-year-old boys would be initiated with Claudia - his wife or 'First Woman'.
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