Voluptuous Panic
The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin (Expanded Edition)
Published on 1. August 2008
305 pages
978-1-932595-97-0 (ISBN)
Description
This 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.
This 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."
Mel Gordon is professor of theater at the University of California, Berkeley, and is also the author of Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant (Feral House).
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Mel Gordon is Professor of Theater Arts at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of twelve books, including "The Grand Guignol," "Dada Performance," "The Stanislavsky Technique," and the Feral House titles, "Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant" and "The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber."
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- PREFACE
- ONCE IN BERLIN
- Mythological Roots of Weimar
- "Berlin is Still Berlin"
- THE COLLAPSE
- The Kaiser's Wand
- The Home Front
- Trench-Life and the Etappe
- The Paper Republic
- The Great Inflation
- CITY OF WHORES
- "Controlled" Prostitution
- "Berlin Is Becoming a Whore"
- Topology of the Sex Trade
- On the Line
- Indoor Varieties
- Acquired Tastes
- Child Prostitution
- Kietz
- GIRL-CULTURE AND THE ALL-NIGHT BUMMEL
- "Girl-Culture"
- Cabaret
- The Erotic Revue
- Theme Restaurants and Pleasure Palaces
- BERLIN MEANS BOYS
- The "Homosexual Question"
- German Gay Responses
- "Origins" of Homosexuality
- Homosexual Life in Weimar Berlin
- Wandervogel and the Wild-Boys
- Male Prostitution
- Gay Dielen and Entertainment
- HOT SISTERS
- A German-Speaking Lesbos
- Paris and Berlin
- Berlin, the Lesbian Eldorado
- Lesbian Nightlife
- Lesbian Social Clubs
- CROSSED BOUNDARIES
- "The Erotic Urge to Cross-Dress"
- The Transvestite Demi-Monde
- Transvestite Nightlife
- LAUGHING NUDITY
- German Life Reform and Nacktkultur
- Nude Berlin
- Adolf Koch and the "Society of Free Men"
- "League of Free Body Culture" and Surén's "Suncult"
- "New Sunland League" and Birkenheide
- THE NEW CALCULUS OF DESIRE
- "The Einstein of Sex"
- "Sexual Intermediates"
- Derangements of the Sexual Instinct
- The Institute of Sexology
- Hirschfeld's Enemies
- ALGOLAGNIA
- Metatropism
- The Raised Buttocks
- "Morbid" Fetishism
- "Scientific" Pornography
- SEX MAGIC AND THE OCCULT
- The Failed Crusade
- The Hauptstadt of Satan
- Aryan Love Cults and Barefoot Prophets
- Into the Fourth Dimension
- The Haeusser Revolution
- The Gottesbund Tanatra
- Dr. Musallam's Adonistic Society
- Karezza and Mazdaznanism
- Hypnotic and Paranormal Suggestion
- Ernst Schertel's Magic Dreamtheater
- Erik Jan Hanussen, The Magister Ludi of Sex
- The Ordo Templi Orientis
- The Great Beast Devours the OTO
- Fraternitas Saturni
- CRIME ON THE SPREE
- The Curious Career and Untimely Death Of Fritz Ulbrich
- Criminal Rings and the Underworld
- A WORLD IN FLAMES
- Nazi Cleansing
- Nazi Sex
- Revisionist History
- A DIRECTORY OF EROTIC
- AND NIGHT TIME BERLIN
- GIRL-CULTURE VENUES
- HOMOSEXUAL VENUES
- LESBIAN VENUES
- NUDIST VENUES
- SEX MUSEUMS
- TRANSVESTITE VENUES
- UNDERWORLD VENUES
- WEIMAR NAZI VENUES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Copyright Page
