As young people dance the twist carefree, a voice-over warns of impending sexually-transmitted diseases.
Dr. Alexander and Dr. Jensen, in turn, saved the beautiful Jenny from being attacked by Soviet soldiers at the end of the war.
Location shooting took place in Addis Ababa, Massawa, Asmara, Venice, Geneva, Munich, Vienna, and Hamburg.
Author Rolf Thissen regarded Teufel im Fleisch as a traditional "old" sex education film, which "on the one hand speculates on the viewer's fear of the undesirable consequences of lust and on the other hand encourages them by showing something that otherwise would not have been tolerated in the cinema" in contrast to the "new" educational films that appeared a few years later.
'"[2] The Münchner Merkur of January 9, 1964 summed it up: "But the fact that such a 'devil in the flesh' can be expelled by creating fatigue is probably the only novel aspect of this film".