The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin

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Summary: Totally Titilating
Review: Barbara Ulrich did a terrific job of giving one a sense of the sexual/sensual excitement of pre-Nazi Berlin. The wonderful photos and paintings evoke the sublime decadence of the period.

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Summary: Forgotten Sexual Revolutions
Review: Every time I read a book like this i am reminded that when women's sexual freedom is taken away for moral reasons, or for so-called emancipation, because they can't like men, have both, sex and a career, or sex and emancipation, as for 100 years they were told that their sexual freedom and right to choose over biology would help emancipate women. Apparently because all women are not beautiful, as all men are no handsome, women who are beautiful and enjoy emancipation and freedom from Victorian morality, are now finding out they are not free to be individuals of free expression and association. Identities have no boundaries, but one, the sexual freedom that 70-80% of all women prefer with their male partners. Whenever sexuality disappears and prostituion is not legal (feminists in UK and US made it illegal while pushing for temperance to the Prohibition Act of the 1920, we see the grey totaltarian state not far behind. Feminists need to trace their movement back to Christianity and admit that's where many of their ideas on sex originated. Ironically, like the Middle Eastern man who must cover the sexuality of women, feminism seeks this very same concept, believing that women have no sexual longings of their own as long as men are not around to corrupt women's character, they will not become fallen women of disgrace. Muslim fundamentalists practice the same concept believing sexuality is in women and if they remove the sexuality of women from public space, men will not be led into temptation.

wallace stevens

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Summary: Forgotten Sexual Revolutions
Review: Take note, this is a MUST HAVE for art historians, art students, curators and anyone else interested in paintings, drawings and pop art of pre-Nazi Berlin. An extraordinary collection of images forgotten!

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Summary: Art Historians
Review: Take note, this is a MUST HAVE for art historians, art students, curators and anyone else interested in paintings, drawings and pop art of pre-Nazi Berlin. An extraordinary collection of images forgotten!

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Summary: Old Fashioned Sexual Liberation
Review: The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin is a dreamy collection of mesmerizing images that give the reader a most privileged sneak peak into a lost world of feminine sexual liberation and splendour. Who knew such a place in time existed? I applaud Feral House and Barbara Ulrich for keeping forgotten worlds like these alive. This book frees the imprisoned spirit.

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Summary: Old Fashioned Sexual Liberation
Review: The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin is a dreamy collection of mesmerizing images that give the reader a most privileged sneak peak into a lost world of feminine sexual liberation and splendour. Who knew such a place in time existed? I applaud Feral House and Barbara Ulrich for keeping forgotten worlds like these alive. This book frees the imprisoned spirit.

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Summary: Artful Decadence
Review: While paging through the Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin I kept musing that the era depicted within its covers was probably the last that really celebrated a decadence that was actually artful. None of the flat crassness of our contemporary world where decadence has become more and more processed and commodified existed back then. Maybe if such artfulness was somehow revived, most hetero men would not be so threatened by lesbianism, cross dressing,s/m etc. Rather they may be more than intrigued by it all and seek to tangibly actualize something along the lines so colorfully depicted in Hot Girls after all, in cabaret fashion

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