Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin (Expanded Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mel Gordon
Publisher: Feral House
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 134203
Media: Paperback
Edition: Expanded
Pages: 300
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0922915962
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780922915965
ASIN: 0922915962
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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pThis seductive sourcebook of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period "Babylon on the Spree" has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring hip club goers, filmmakers, gay historians, graphic designers, and musicians like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson./ppThis expanded edition includes "Sex Magic and the Occult," documenting German pagan cults and their often-bizarre erotic rituals, including instructions for entering into the "Sexual Fourth Dimension."/ppbMel Gordon/b is professor of theater at the University of California, Berkeley, and is also the author of iErik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant/i (Feral House)./p
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 A warning: how the moral collapse breeds monsters November 22, 2008
Old Grumbler (Canada)
The abysmal depth of human depravity in the Weimar Republic, shown graphically in this publication, goes a long way toward explaining why many decent Germans preferred even Hitler over this seething mass of degeneration, corruption and pure filth. A lesson for the future?
Stellar Research November 16, 2007
David Boechler
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has proven to be an astonishingly valuable source in my research of the period, and I would absolutely recommend it to anyone interested in the social history of this remarkable time and place. As a costume designer, the photo references are first-rate, and not available anywhere else. As a collaborator in the theatre and an amateur social historian, I found VP one of the most thorough and colourful pieces of research I have encountered in a long while. Pony up the dough, folks, it's well worth it!
Voluptuous Panic by Mel Gordon July 5, 2007
Kya (NV, USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Excellent book, which had lots of information regarding Berlin, Germany in the wild 20s. I only wish there was more in depth material to read and more photo's. Especially interesting was the "Occult" section, which could have had a more in depth coverage, but I'm not complaining. Dietrich Eckhart, who belonged to a number of Occult Societies introduced Hitler to Ernst Rohm The Criminal Elements or crime section was also heady. Overall, well put together and very interesting. I think including the individuals and activies of some subversive groups in Berlin at the time would have been helpful in understanding the rise of Naziasm in the 20's. I understand there were a number of "White Russian" exiles that supported Hitler's cause.
 explosive! May 11, 2007
Darryl K. Clark (springfield, missouri)
voluptuous panic is a great title. it's an even greater resource of smut, art nudes, photos of cabaret artists from weimar berlin. br / br /and there's text, too! br / br /if someone is going to do 'cabaret' send them here for ideas for set decorations, costume ideas and makeup tips for the kit-kat girls. then look at what others did with information like this because this should be one of the primary sources in re-enlivining that crazy, mad and very short period.
a horrifying and unprecedented view of pre-nazi berlin March 18, 2007
jefferson metcalf (cleveland)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I suppose there is the inherent interest and entertainment of antique hardcore erotica for some people, which this book provides, but the things depicted (photographically) and described in this book may completely alter your view of the past. br / br /I guess it is known that Berlin, prior to the rise of the nazis, was a decadant, burlesque place. But the variety and pervasiveness... and SEVERITY of this is not commonly known. In this book you will see gay nomadic boy scouts, theatrical spanking machines, nudist priests, gleefuly incestuous families (depicted in lifestyle journals for apparent mass consumption) and manuals of dentist chair molestation. It really is shocking - and all the more when you recognize these images as decisively in the past, and apparently NORMAL for this time period. br / br /I used to look through this book whenever i went to this bookstore in 2000-2001, mostly browsing and skimming. It made a lasting impression and i have never been able to find similar information elsewhere. According to some of the reviews I've read, the author makes an unsubstantiated claim/conclusion that this period ended not because of social outrage or exhaustion, but because of particular economic and political circumstances. But for myself, foreign to this place and time (and culture), it completely changes my picture of germany, world war ii and modernity. Apparently there were sprawling nihilist fiends BEFORE mankind was confronted with the possability of nuclear annihilation. br / br /I personally consider this a "coffee table book", albeit for SM yuppies. It is way too flashy and consumable for research purposes. (I would hesitate to site it as a source for any paper.) However, as far as I can tell, it is one of the only accessable documentations of ...something I can't believe I've never heard of.
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