Show me!

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Show me! is an educational book for children with photographs and texts by Will McBride . The first edition was published in 1974 by the youth service publishing house in Wuppertal, which is closely related to the Evangelical Church . The book achieved high recognition when it was published, has received several awards from the Art Directors Clubs in Germany and the USA and recommended by Pro Familia and organs of the Evangelical Church , among others . Several editions, some of which were expanded, were published by 1995 . The book was taken off the market after some criticism.

content

In the book the curious awakening childlike sexuality is shown through vivid pictures . The comments of the photographed children serve as accompanying texts. The foreword comes from Helmut Kentler , the appendix with explanations and information from Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt .

In 1988 another volume was published under the title Show more! (McBride, Herrath, Sielert ) , whose content was aimed at a somewhat older target group. The book has been translated into seven languages ​​and nearly a million copies have been sold worldwide.

criticism

Sexologist Gunter Schmidt valued the book more as an educational book for young people and adults than for children. His team often used the images in the 1980s and 1990s in counseling and treating couples with sexual problems. He finds the pictures "aesthetic, explicit and subtle at the same time."

From a sexual pedagogical point of view, there was already negative criticism in 1975, which identified McBride's clear techniques of traditional sex education in the ostensibly “progressive” pictures.

A passage in the foreword of the first edition, written by Helmut Kentler , is described by Stephan Hebel as an outright call for pedophilia .

In the 1990s, as a result of changing morals, there was increased criticism of the book, which has now been brought into the vicinity of the sexual abuse of children and child pornography . Some groups wanted to have the book banned and only achieved their goal in a few states of the USA, where in some cases the mere possession of the book is a criminal offense. In Germany, on the other hand, several applications for indexing were always rejected by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People.

After the Junge Union Wuppertal and the youth welfare office in Frankfurt am Main had submitted new indexing applications independently of each other in 1996 and Zeit accused Will McBride of promoting child sexuality in an article, the author himself had his work taken off the market.

In Germany, show me! continue to be held by public libraries without restriction and sold by the antiquarian bookshop. In the United States, however, a teacher was sentenced to probation in 1995 for possession of the English version ( Show Me! ); In July 2006 a court in Pittsburgh acquitted a 66-year-old pensioner of the charge of possession of child pornography because he was able to prove that he had legally bought the book in a university bookstore as early as 1975.

expenditure

  • Will McBride: Show me! Jugenddienst-Verlag, Wuppertal 1974. ISBN 3-7795-7318-0 . Published in partially expanded versions up to the 7th edition in 1986.
  • Will McBride: Show me more! Beltz, Weinheim 1988. ISBN 3-407-85089-1 . Published up to the 5th edition in 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Hermann Kotte: Sex researcher Gunter Schmidt: "Today you look at the victims". (Interview). In: Frankfurter Rundschau. May 11, 2010, accessed August 6, 2013 .
  2. ^ Friedrich Koch : Sex education and political education. Munich 1975, page 181 ff.
  3. ↑ Fuldaer Zeitung : Instructions for Pedophiles? , November 27, 2014, p. 3
  4. ↑ Susanne Mayer : Der Schatten von 1968. In: DIE ZEIT No. 42/1996; Addendum to this article
  5. ↑ http://www.inquisition21.com/pca_1978/ref/pb13/moody.html Autopsy May 30, 2009.
  6. ↑ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06207/708596-85.stm Autopsy April 11, 2007.

Web links