![]() ![]() I don’t agree with any suggestion that it’s child pornography. ![]() At best, it keeps us thinking about how society has changed in terms of how we view, touch and interact with children – as parents, friends or strangers – highlighting the state of paranoia and paralysis we are in now, where all forms of intimacy and sensuality are actively repressed through fear. The book is challenging on so many levels – exposing the limits of photography, society and our own moral boundaries. The publishers found themselves in court for six years in the US defending it, until they finally pulled its distribution, unable to afford the legal costs. Originally published as Zeig Mal! in 1974, it was developed as a sex-education book, but with explicit images of sometimes pre-pubescent children engaged in sexual acts. Show Me! by photographer Will McBride and psychoanalyst Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt had a profound effect on me.
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