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Show Me! is a sex education book by photographer Will McBride. It appeared in 1974 in German under the title Zeig Mal!, written with psychiatrist Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt for children and their parents. It was translated into English a year later and was widely available in bookstores on both sides of the Atlantic for many years, but later became subject to expanded child pornography laws in jurisdictions including the United States. In Germany, the book was followed in 1990 by a second edition that included, among other additions, a discussion of the AIDS epidemic.
Cover of 2nd German language edition (1990) which included new material on the AIDS epidemic
Zeig mal. Ein Bilderbuch für Kinder und Eltern
While many parents appreciated Show Me! for its frank depiction of pre-adolescents discovering and exploring their sexuality, others called it child pornography. In 1975 and 1976, obscenity charges were brought against the publisher by prosecutors in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In all four cases, the judges ruled as a matter of law that the title was not obscene.
However, starting in 1977, some states began to criminalize the distribution of even non-obscene so-called "child pornography," or "images of abuse," which arguably is not protected by the First Amendment. New York State, home of the publisher, St. Martin's Press, criminalized the distribution of non-obscene "child pornography" in 1977, but the publisher promptly went to court and obtained an injunction against the State. The court granted the injunction because the First Amendment was interpreted to permit the banning of only obscene material.
In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision, New York v. Ferber,[1] which allowed the government to constitutionally ban the knowing distribution of even non-obscene "child pornography". Citing a chilling effect, St. Martin's Press then pulled the book, stating that though they believed Show Me! was not pornographic, they could no longer afford the legal expenses to defend it, and they did not want to risk criminal prosecutions of their own personnel and/or vendors who sold the book. The Court overruled a decision of the New York Court of Appeals, The People v. Paul Ira Ferber[1], which held that the First Amendment protected the dissemination of non-obscene sexual depictions. Show Me! was not the direct subject of the Ferber case, but the book was prominently featured by both sides in the litigation, and it played a significant role in the oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court.[2]
In its country of origin, Germany, the book first won several awards, even from church organisations, but due to rising pressure from a newly arising "moral majority" the publishers and McBride decided to take it off the market in 1996. By then over one million copies in seven languages had been sold. It was never officially banned in Germany. Public libraries there keep it on hand and out of print copies are openly sold at collectors' premium prices.
In New Zealand the book was banned by the Indecent Publications Tribunal in 1976. The ban was upheld in 1996.[3]
Show Me! received mixed reviews from the mass media when it was first published. The Los Angeles Times called the photographs "beautiful...graceful, charming, and elegant," yet accurately predicted, in a severe understatement of what actually happened, that the book "may start (an) uproar."[4] The Washington Post, on the other hand, described the photographs as "beautiful, assaultive, grotesque, and seductive," and concluded that Show Me! was only suited for "avant garde" parents.[5] Reviewer Linda Wolfe was more hostile in the New York Times, calling the book a "child-abusive joke".[6] The 13-year-old daughter of Chicago Tribune reviewer Carol Kleiman stated:
I'm too old for it myself. The last part, though, with no pictures, looks interesting to read. The book is good for little kids because they don't know what society terms 'dirty' yet. You know, Mom, it's PARENTS I'm worried about. They're not ready yet.[7]
A 2005 Amazon review by Dr. Russell A. Rohde claims that the book, "appropriately delves into the issues of breast feeding, adolescence, pubertal changes, menses, sexual anatomies, pregnancy, masturbation, contraception, sexual behavioral disturbances and venereal disease. [...] I am not aware of any book comparable to this illustrated primer that fills the needs of sexual education so well."[8]
D. F. Janssen places it at the one extreme of a late 20th-century visual and textual revolution that enabled parents to illustrate information that up to that time had been transmitted orally. He sees the work as subversive not for its "too frank" portrayal of childhood sexuality, but instead for the primacy that the image takes over the text. In his eyes, the work "comes out of a culture with a long history of pathologising so-addressed 'primal scenes,'" a history that became manifest in particular with regard to the works of Will McBride.[9]
The book is analyzed in an article on "Picturing Sex Education" (Discourse Volume 27, Number 4 / December 2006).
Moira Greyland mentions this book in her 2017 autobiography The Last Closet mentioning that her pedophile father showed the 1974 version to boys he molested and that she hated the book because her father made her read it multiple times when she was very young.
^ New York v. Ferber, Findlaw.com
^ Oral argument at Oyez.org. Accessed 23 May 2008
^ "New Zealand Censorship Database". Office of Film & Literature Classification. 1976 Publication No. IPT 76-860. 1996 Publication No. 9400964. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
^ "Is America Ready?", Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1975
^ "Kiss the Stork Goodbye," Washington Post May 5, 1975
^ "The birds and the bees were never like this", New York Times July 13, 1975
^ "New sex ed: All kids ever wanted to know...and how!", Chicago Tribune, July 5, 1975
^ Russell A. Rohde MD (February 17, 2005). "Show Me!"...unique, explicit & sadly controversial... ASIN 0312722753. 5.0 out of 5 stars
^ D. F. Janssen, Growing Up Sexually. Volume II: The Sexual Curriculum: The Manufacture and Performance of Pre-Adult Sexualities (October 2002)
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Xeni Jardin 12:54 pm Thu Aug 31, 2006
Update: After the jump, a full English translation in which we learn the meaning of the obscure biological term "Mother-Cake."
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During a "writing for the web" course I was taking, the professor did a Google search for "Untitled Document" to illustrate a point.
One of the first results was entitled "Where Babies Come From In Germany."
With a title like that how could I resist clicking further? What I found was one of the strangest picture books I have ever seen.
Reader comment: Brian Johnson says,
That German sex ed book for kids? I don't know if it was originally German or what, but I first discovered that book in the kids section of a book store in England. I was about 7 or 8 years old at the time and THAT book, weird illustrations and all, clued me in to EXACTLY how babies were conceived. I was stunned at the time. That was a revelation that obliterated the concept of "girl cooties".
One bit of text that stuck with me through the years was something along the lines that "when the man gets a loving feeling, his penis becomes big" and cue the "wokka-chikka wokka-chikka wow wow" music…
What a pity planetdan.net doesn't tell us where this
book is coming from. The text is German, ok, but the visual style of the
pictures (e.g. the flower-power VW Beetle) as well as some elements of the
text suggest for me that this book is from the 1970s. If that is true, I
guess, that explains why it is like it is. I mean, that's the time of
Willy McBride and — I don't know if it was translated, and I can't find
scans on the net — Günter Amendts book "Sexfront" (that's more or less
the same as the scanned childrens book, only without the baby, and with
real photos of naked adults and also naked kids, and more slang in the
text …). Born 1975, I find it quite difficult to image a society were
books like those were accepted by the societal mainstream. Even if
Germany is not as puritanistic as the USA are, as far as I know, someone
who would write such books in such a style today would be looked at
rather strange.
So, to cut it short: it would be great if BoingBoing could research from
when the book the pictures are from really is, and what the context is.
It appears that it is originally Danish by Per Holm Kudsen. Here is a cite from WorldCat:
The true story of how babies are made, by Per Holm Knudsen
* Type: English : Book Book : Juvenile audience
* Publisher: Chicago, Childrens Press [1973, ©1971]
* ISBN: 0516036408
* OCLC: 549281
photographer Will (not Willy!) McBride's extraordinary sex-ed book "Zeig Mal!" (Show Me!) had to be hidden when friends from my 1970's German neighborhood came around; yet if there's anything shocking about it, it's its honesty in focussing on the emotional intensity that should surely be highlighted in any sex-ed. the link is to an article (in German) relating the plight of McBride's book; it includes some of the (sadly NSFW) photos. PDF Link.
Update: Whoah, we now have an English translation of the text for anyone who'd like to know how German goatse-babies are made. After the jump…
This is a translation by a friend of mine named Russell…
"Here you see a baby. Do you know how it came into the world?"
"Here you see a mother and father. They have a baby, and another one coming."
"Here Father and Mother have no clothes on. You can see Mother's breasts and Mother's vagina [lit: slot]. People call the vagina "the Scheide [seperation, slit, chasm]".
"You can see Daddy's little penis [lit: little tail]. People call the little penis 'Penis [/member, equally sterile word]' You can also see the little sack that he has between his legs; it is named 'Scrotum'."
"Mother and Father love each other very much. They kiss each other. Father's penis is growing large. It sticks out rigidly."
"Mother and Father would like for Father's penis to go into Mother's slit. It is indeed beautiful."
"Mother and Father lay themselves upon the bed. They put the penis in the vagina. Thusly can they play with each other. Father and Mother swing [?] back and forth with each other."
"That is what people call 'sleeping together [lit: sleeping by someone]'. That can be very nice. Like so can Mother and Father create a child, when they want to."
"Mother and Father love each other very much. They very much want to have a child. In his little sack of the father are many little sperm. If Father and Mother sleep together, the sperm goes into the vagina."
"The sperm swim inside of the mother's vagina, and come to the hole in Mother's belly."
"This hole [lit: excavation, cavity] is called the uterus. In it, from time to time, is a little egg."
"It has been many, many days. Nine months have passed, since the little sperm and the egg have found each other. Now is the child so large, that is wants to get out."
"Mother's belly is getting so big that she almost doesn't fit into a dress anymore. 'I can feel my uterus contracting,' says the mother to the father. Now it is almost time that I will bring our child into the world."
"Mother lays in the clinic, in the bed. Then comes a doctor and speaks with Mother and Father. The doctor will help Mother with the birth of the child."
"Then the mother begins to give birth [lit: then begins mother to birth]. First comes the head of the child out of Mother's vagina. Then the arms of the child come out."
"Now is the child all the way outside of the mother. The doctor has cut the umbilical cord. Also the placenta. [lit: mother cake] Now is the child born."
"Mother and Child rest themselves for a day. Then they come back home. If the child is hungry [lit: if the child has hunger], it drinks milk from Mother's breasts."
Dr. Bethany Nowviskie, Research Scientist at the University of Virginia, says:
Hey, I'm sure you'll hear this again and again, but that's a really crappy translation you've posted of that German sex-ed book. You might consider yanking it. It's generally poor and in several places just plain wrong — well, except for the "mother-cake" part. (Yuck. Am nine months pregnant and extremely disgusted right now.)
Maybe somebody will offer a better translation. If not, I'll dust off my disused Deutsche dirty words and write again!
while reading the article, i felt like i was back in my kindergarten days, because if my memory serves me right, this book started my sex education when i was maybe 4 or 5 years old. over the years, i sometimes thought of the same grotesque glance mother and father (and the doctor) had in every stupid picture and that it looked like lego character's faces. anyways, because some commenters are intending that it would be quite puritanistic to have a book like this nowadays, i thought it could be an interesting information that i found this in a german kindergarten around 1984 or 1985 (i was born in 1981) and nobody seemed to care about its flower-power elements and such.
in addition, to me the translation seems quite right, except that in the second picture, the text doesn't say "Here you see a mother and father. They have a baby, and another one coming." but more like "Here you see mother and father. They have the baby brought into the world together [lit: They have gotten the baby togehter]." i think the crappy effect comes from the intention to write a text that even small children can understand.
as for "mother-cake", i think it's a german crankiness to prefer dumb word creations that everyone will understand to more sophisticated expressions that don't sound that disgusting. e.g. most germans say "augenarzt" (lit: eye doctor) instead of "oculist" or even "frauenarzt" (lit: woman doctor) instead of "gynecologist". it's a mad country with mad inhabitants… and i am one of them. sigh.
In Dutch we call it like the germans 'moederkoek' But you cannot translate 'koek' or the German 'kuchen' as 'cake'. Koek has also the meaing of 'clot'. So in English it must be 'mother clot'.
Here is a better translation of the german sex-ed book:
"Here you see a baby.
Do you know how it came into the world ?"
"Here you see a mother and father.
They are going to have a baby together."
"Here Father and Mother have no clothes on. You can see Mother's breasts and Mother's * .
People call it the vagina.
{* word for female genital that a child would use}
"You can see Daddy's **.
People call it the penis.
You can also see the little sack that he has between his legs; it is named 'scrotum'."
{** word for male genital that a child would use}
"Mother and Father love each other very much. They kiss each other. Father's penis is growing large.
It sticks out rigidly."
"Mother and Father would like for Father's penis to go into Mother's vagina.
That is really beautiful."
"Mother and Father lie down on the bed.
They put the penis in the vagina.
They play with each other.
Father and Mother rock to and fro."
"That is what people call intercourse.
That can be very nice.
That's how Mother and Father create a child, if they want to."
"Mother and Father love each other very much.
They would like to have a child.
There are many little sperms in the Father's little sack.
When Father and Mother sleep together, the sperm cells come out of the penis."
"The sperm cells swim into the Mother's vagina, and come to a cavity in Mother's belly."
"This cavity is called the uterus.
Sometimes there is is a little egg in it."
"Many, many days are passing by.
Nine months have passed, since the little sperm and the egg have found each other.
Now the child is so large that is wants to get out."
"Mother's belly has become so big that she almost doesn't fit into a dress anymore.
'I can feel my uterus contracting,' says the Mother to the Father.
'Soon I will give birth to our child.' "
Father drives Mother to the hospital.
"Mother lies in the hospital in a bed.
The doctor comes and talks to Mother and Father.
The doctor will help Mother with the birth of the child."
"Then the Mother begins to give birth.
First the head of the child comes out of Mother's vagina .
Then the arms of the child come out."
"Now the child has come all the way out of the Mother.
The doctor has cut the umbilical cord.
Also the placenta has come out. "
"Mother and Child rest for a few days.
Then they come back home.
If the child is hungry , it drinks milk from Mother's breasts."
Mutterkuchen (lit. mother's cake) is really the german word for placenta
as is Fruchtwasseer (lit. fruit water) for amniotic fluid.
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