Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin (Expanded Edition)

This is an excellent book if you want to get a sense of the decadent side of Weimar Culture. I don't know of any other book that discusses this side of Germany between the wars in such detail. There is Peter Gay's book which is fine, but it has an entirely different focus. There are lots of

pictures. If you have an interest in gender relations, nudism, eroticism in the arts or hedonism, this book will be of interest. Between WW1 and 2, Germany and in particular Berlin, was the sex capital of the world. This book points out the many prescient features of the clubs. If you don't know already, you may be surprised to learn that naturism, nudism, homeopathy, the hippie movement, body culture all started in Germany. The German culture has had a huge effect on the world and this book focuses on one aspect of it.
If you liked this, you may also find the following of interest: The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Depravity, Naked Germany: Health, Race and the Nation and Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935.
(I used this book for research I'm doing for a novel I'm writing.) The back of the book categorizes it under Popular Culture, Art History and Gender Studies. The book discusses homosexuality and nudism quite a bit, so if those topics interest you, then this book might be of interest.

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