My secret eye

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My secret eye - The Erotic Yearbook is the name of a series of illustrated books that are published annually by the bankruptcy book publisher Claudia Gehrke in Tübingen . The editors are Claudia Gehrke and Uve Schmidt.

content

The theme of the series is “Multisexual eroticism in words and images”. Erotic pictures, paintings, art and private photography as well as texts, including essays , stories, poems and conversations, on the topics of sexuality and eroticism are published. The photographers include Thomas Karsten . Readers can also apply with submissions for the selection of the next volume.

Volumes

The first volume under this title was published in 1982, the second in 1985. Starting with number IV, "small thematic focuses" were set:

  • No. IV: Gender swap
  • No. V (1990): Beyond the Sexes
  • No. VI: Sex & Politics
  • No. VII (1992): Pleasure in procreation
  • No. VIII: Sexual Learning
  • No. IX: Trembling before an erotic encounter, insecurities ...
  • No. X: What happens in long-standing love stories ...
  • No. XI (1996): Attraction. What is it that attracts us, that keeps erotic experiences going ... beauty, seduction, or something "animal" ...
  • No. XII: Crossing borders
  • No. XIII: (Self-) censorship
  • No. XIV: "The 'big' orgasm"
  • No. XVI: Longing for romance
  • No. XVII: Beginnings of lust (guilt and shame, prohibition and transgression, male and female "beginnings" ...)
  • No. XVIII: What arouses - memories and the present?
  • No. XIX: The great love

Pornography process

A trial brought against a volume of Mein Secret Eye in 1995 for alleged pornography ended in 1999 with an acquittal by the publisher. There were also criminal charges against the pro familia sales company , as a result of which pro familia ceased sales in 1996. Hans Langendörfer , secretary of the German Bishops' Conference, commented on the yearbooks: "Such dirty work helps to remove any inhibition threshold in the sexual area." do not speak.

literature

  • Claudia Gehrke (ed.), Uve Schmidt (ed.): My secret eye - The yearbook of eroticism.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Information on the publisher's website ( online )
  2. ↑ My secret eye. Retrieved October 1, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Deutschlandfunk ( online )
  4. ↑ Time ( online )
  5. ↑ Rhein-Zeitung ( online )
  6. ^ Agency report by the Catholic News Agency (KNA) of August 29, 1996.
  7. ↑ Jörg Metelmann (Ed.): Porno-Pop: Sex in the surface world . Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, p. 33 ( online ).