For first-time buyers, we prefer a credit card and we will only ship to the billing address on the card. We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, checks and wire transfer. For some items, we can also email digital photographs.Īll of our items are guaranteed as described and are shipped on approval. If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. With captions by McBridge, explanatory text by Dr. First edition in English, preceded by the 1974 German edition, Zeig Mal!. The American-born McBride lives and works in Germany, where his body of work earned him the German Photographic Association’s prestigious Erich Salomon Prize.
WILL MCBRIDE SHOW ME BOOK FREE
Folio, original black paper-covered boards, original photographic dust jacket.įirst edition in English of McBride’s controversial photobook, with 125 black-and-white photogravures (many double-page).ĭesigned as a “serious book about sex education,” McBride’s Show Me! is presented “from the point of view of a child learning about sex… a bright and breezy text along the top of each double-page image, while the pictures are shot in a grainy, graphic 1960s style… Free of the coy prurience that so often degrades this genre of photobook,” Show Me! remains “the most sexually explicit book ever published by a mainstream U.S. Meanwhile, the book remains legal in Germany and, if the reviews on its now deleted Amazon page are any indication, has its fair share of fans.FIRST EDITION OF SHOW ME!, WITH 125 BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAVURES The company has not publicly commented on the issue, but an Amazon representative thanked RT Deutsch reporter Timo Kirez for the “hint” in a phone call, and explained that it was difficult for the staff to keep track of all the items on sale due to their sheer number. In mere hours, all links to the book’s page were deleted. When RT Deutsch alerted Amazon about the disturbing content of the book, the company promptly removed it from the online store. Also on rt.com Berlin politicians knowingly sent children to live with PEDOPHILES for decades, new report reveals The city authorities supported the scheme throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The same psychologist, who argued against people alerting law enforcement if they become aware of children involved in involuntary sexual contact with adults, has now been revealed to have run an “experimental program” in Berlin to place foster children into the care of known pedophiles. In the introduction, Kentler wrote that “if such relationships are not discriminated against by the environment, then the more the older person feels responsible for the younger one, the more likely they are to have positive consequences for personal development.” Back in 2014, the text by Kentler was described by German reporter Stephan Hebel as an “open call for pedophilia.” Kentler was an open advocate of pedophilia, and spent much of his career arguing for the normalization of sex between adults and children, claiming it could have a “very positive effect on a boy’s personality development.” The work is considered highly controversial in Germany, but has never been subjected to a formal ban.Īside from the nude child photos, the German edition contains a foreword by disgraced psychologist Helmut Kentler, whose name was at the center of a child abuse scandal that Berlin is still reeling from. graceful, charming, and elegant.”īut later the work was condemned as child pornography and banned in countries including New Zealand, as well as several US states. The book initially received some positive reviews on the both sides of the Atlantic, including from the Los Angeles Times, which called the photographs “beautiful. “Zeig mal!” ( “Show Me!”) was first published in Germany in 1974 as an “educational book for children.” It was authored by American photographer Will McBride, who mostly lived and worked in West Germany, and contains nude photos of pre-adolescents “ discovering and exploring their sexuality.” Also on rt.com ‘It was just a game’: Estonian mother flees to Russia with 2 girls after court clears Norwegian ex-husband of pedophilia charges The US retail giant ditched the publication only after an alert from RT Deutsch. Amazon’s German website has halted the sale of a controversial photo book widely considered to be a work of child pornography, and featuring an introduction by a known pedophilia advocate.