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: 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 Posted by Will Robinson on 2012-October-7 15:06:19, Sunday
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