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By Mel Gordon

Voluptuous Panic is concurrently appalling and exciting, repellent and seductive, ugly and gorgeous—not a customary espresso desk booklet. it'll cross higher with absinthe under the influence of alcohol from a human skull.”—Gary Meyer, Clean Sheets

When Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic global of Weimar Berlin first seemed within the fall of 2000, it encouraged extensive acclaim and a number of printings. awaiting the elevated variation, Feral condominium put Voluptuous Panic out of print, and for the previous 12 months dealers paid up to $460 to on-line buyers for a used copy.

This sourcebook of enormous quantities of infrequent visible delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period “Babylon at the Spree” has the excellence of being praised either via students and avatars of latest tradition, inspiring hip clubgoers, filmmakers, homosexual historians, photograph designers, and musicians just like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson.

Voluptuous Panic’s extended version comprises the recent illustrated bankruptcy, “Sex Magic and the Occult,” documenting German pagan cults and their weird and wonderful erotic rituals, together with directions for getting into the “Sexual Fourth Dimension.” The deluxe hardcover version additionally contains sensational bills of hypno-erotic cabaret acts, Berlin Fetish prostitution (“The Boot woman Visit”), homosexual existence (“A Wild-Boy Initiation!”), descriptions and illustrations of Aleister Crowley’s Berlin OTO mystery Society, and intercourse crime (“the Curious occupation and premature demise of Fritz Ulbrich”).

Mel Gordon is professor of Theater at collage of California, Berkeley, and likewise the writer of Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyant (Feral House), and The Grand Guignol: Theatre of worry and Terror (DaCapo).

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Fancy whorehouses and sham fronts for underage sex were tucked away in the quiet neighborhoods abetting the Potsdamer Platz. The Nolldendorfplatz, an out-of-the-way Below: Posed photograph of a Racehorse Above: Kontroll-Girl 38 On the Line The lowest (or Class Three) were known on the Kontroll-Girls crowded Berlin’s streetcorners in flush street as Bone Shakers. Older and most experienced times and bad. They formed the nucleus of the 30,000 than the others, they looked down upon the undocu- round-the-clock itinerant whores.

Despite clubs near resort areas, but mostly it was stimulated by the ubiquitous presence of beggars and hideous 19 Right: W. Krain, Berlin Illustrirte Zeitung, Naked Dance, 1920 war-wounded, demobilized aristocrats and the children selves with their silly exercise in extreme social recti- of Germany’s affluent classes gravitated to the country’s tude. Dance was made legal and censorship in Berlin financial and cultural center. basically ceased. Then thousands of posters from the health minis- A dizzying panic overtook Berlin in October 1919.

Extremist parties of the left and right attained turned their “peasant-proletariat” communes. Berliners immense power in the first national election and then returned to their business of pleasure. ultimately dominated the workings of the Weimar Assembly. 18 The municipal chiefs of the great city had little to say about prostitution, which, resulting from an over- supply of females (primarily war-widows), had shown a massive increase since the Armistice. The dignitaries had other moral concerns.

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