In the preface the Kinsey Report was extensively quoted (such as the description of how a three-year-old feels hundreds of convulsive shocks on her first orgasm), as well as the diary of the “Kommune 2”, where the 24-year-old Eberhard was in bed with the 3-year-old Grischa, let her play around on his erection and finally gave in “to put it in”, as Grischa insisted. In an afterword, Basel child psychologist Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt stressed the pedagogical, ethical and psychological importance of an enlightened education. The liberation of sexuality from the straitjacket of common taboos and sanctions was the concern of Show me!. In the magazine Twen, which still defines aesthetic standards, he published several pictures of pregnant women, enraptured Hippies and naked children. The Art Directors Club awarded the large black and white work with a gold medal, in many media, it praised the lavish photo spreads by Will McBride, who was at one time the most respected photographer and chronicler of sexual liberation. When the sex education book from the Wuppertal Evangelical Youth Book Publisher came on the market in April 1974, it was praised not only by church representatives. Until then, it was a long journey – a kind of journey backwards in time. Thus a “clean and pure book” long ago has become a case for the morality police, the Department of Child Pornography. The publisher discontinued printing and distribution in the mid-1990’s in exasperation. Maybe you can still find it at the Library or buy a used copy from a bookseller. And the Kurier für die Polizei des Landes Baden-Württemberg (newspaper of the police of the state of Baden-Württemberg) added: “a clean and pure book.” That was in 1974.ģ0 years later you can not buy Show me! any more. A German Church Journal was very impressed: “This book is to help and guide parents for clear and realistic sex education, it will help save children from experiencing anxiety and guilt related to sexuality,” it praised. Two small penises, nestling together, a baby who is in the arms of his mother, Dad’s dick, which is in Mom’s pussy, a child who has a finger in his butt, a girl who looks at her naked pregnant mother. How lovely: two naked children, who play together, quite naturally and in large format. The story of “Show me!” shows how Society made its way backwards to an inhibited time – Biography of an enlightened book. The original German magazine article + photo-spread is here:
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Masao, the ADMIN of, a German-language resource of Free Spirits, graciously and generously helped me translate this insightful article about Show Me! last year. In reply to Banned Book Week posted by yoyoboy on 2012-October-7 11:00:42, Sunday one can hardly imagine a mainstream publisher in this day and age even getting close to such a project.Posted by Will Robinson on 2012-October-7 15:06:19, Sunday The book was withdrawn from publication in the U.S.
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With the sexual revolution in full swing, this facts-of-life book purported to offer readers "an explicit and realistic presentation of sex, spare children fear and guilt feelings related to sexuality.With much care and under great difficulty we succeeded in photographing the children in such a way that their natural behavior came through." A little too explicit it seems. Numerous full-page black-and-white reproductions.įine+ in Fine- dust jacket jacket show some tanning at extremities chip measuring 4" x 1/4" to upper rear of jacket. Hardbound in library protected dust jacket. Photography, captions, and design by Will McBride. Show Me! A Picture Book of Sex for Children and Parents. With the sexual revolution was in full swing, this facts-of-life book purported to offer readers "the first fully modern, completely informative, and pictorially honest encyclopedia on sex.It is modern because it looks upon sex and the human body as natural and beautiful." His photo essays appeared regularly in various German magazines and became an important a chronicle of the Kennedy and Adenauer years. Will McBride rose to fame in the 1950s and '60s as a pre-eminent documentary photographer. Numerous full-page black-and-white illustrations.įine in Near Fine dust jacket several small edge tears and some wear. Text by Martin Goldstein, Erwin Haeberle. The Sex Book: A Modern Pictorial Encyclopedia. THIS LOT CONSISTS OF 2 BOOKS WITH PHOTOS BY WILL McBRIDE: The Sex Book, 1971 and Show Me!, 1975 Bids are placed for you automatically up to your