Helga Sophia Goetze (12 March 1922 – 29 January 2008) was a German artist, writer and free love activist.

[1] In 1968, on a trip to Sicily, she met a Sicilian lover with whom she said she experienced her first orgasm; this inspired her to leave her husband, join the free love movement, and live in a variety of communes and shared apartments.

[2] From the late 1960s onwards, Goetze embroidered hundreds of canvases, most featuring images of genitalia and female sexuality, and some depicting scenes from the Christian Bible and other religious texts.

[1][3] She appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's films Red Love (1982) and City of Lost Souls (1983) with Jayne County.

[4] A collection of her embroidery is displayed at the Collection de l'art brut museum in Lausanne; a biographical commentary published by the museum notes that Goetze's combination of embroidery and sexual imagery "proclaims women's sexual liberation via a technique that was once the symbol of their subjection".