Show Me!
Cover of 2nd German language edition (1990) which included new material on the AIDS epidemic
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| Author | Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt |
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| Original title | Zeig mal. Ein Bilderbuch für Kinder und Eltern |
| Translator | Hilary Davies |
| Illustrator | Will McBride |
| Cover artist | Will McBride |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Subject | Sex education |
| Genre | Photo-book |
| Publisher | Jugenddienst, St. Martin's Press |
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Publication date
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1974 |
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Published in English
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1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 195 (176 eng. edition) |
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| OCLC | 74145406 |
| LC Class | 74-343028 |
Show Me! is a controversial sex education book by photographer Will McBride. It appeared in 1974 in German under the title Zeig Mal!, written with psychiatrist Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt for children and their parents. It was translated into English a year later and was widely available in bookstores on both sides of the Atlantic for many years, but later became subject to expanded child pornography laws in jurisdictions including the United States. In Germany, the book was followed in 1990 by a second edition that included, among other additions, a discussion of the AIDS epidemic.
While many parents appreciated Show Me! for its frank depiction of pre-adolescents discovering and exploring their sexuality, others called it child pornography. In 1975 and 1976, obscenity charges were brought against the publisher by prosecutors in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Toronto, Canada. In all four cases, the judges ruled as a matter of law that the title was not obscene.
However, starting in 1977, some states began to criminalize the distribution of even non-obscene so-called "child pornography," or "images of abuse," which arguably is not protected by the First Amendment. New York State, home of the publisher, St. Martin's Press, criminalized the distribution of non-obscene "child pornography" in 1977, but the publisher promptly went to court and obtained an injunction against the State. The court granted the injunction because the First Amendment was interpreted to permit the banning of only obscene material.
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