Gruppensex: eine Bildreportage [Groupsex: a Photo-report].

JACOBI (Peter) (Translator), KENTLER (Helmut) (Preface) & CHRUXIN (Christian) (Designer).

Beschreibung

Largely photo-illustrated in b&w with many doublespreads. First German language edition. Oblong 8vo., (14.8 x 20.8 cm.), half-title, title/imprint, [1p.] foreword, [1p.] blank, [4pp.] text, [47pp.] b&w photos, [7pp.], text, [1p.] blank, [48pp], b&w photos, in the original plain paper boards attached to a pink paper overwrapper with fold ins, decorated in b&w photomontage in frames, titles in black on the upper portion, German text. Berlin, Gerhardt Verlag, 1970. Crisp copy, light, wear on the faded backstrip head and tail, light edgewear on fragile overwrapper. Very scarce with three copies only on Worldcat, all in Germany (one at ZKM in Chruxin's archive|). We have also found another in the Swiss Musée de l'Elysée. The sole copy of the first Danish edition that we can find, entitled ?Den der hvaderdetnudenhedder!', is in the Royal Danish Library's locked case. Not in Parr & Badger or Bertolotti. An important erotic book overlooked by the great collectors including Julio Santo Domingo. A beautiful photobook from a Denmark in the throes of a ?Seksuelle Revolution', that was designed as two ?experiments' in "group dynamics" that were staged in Copenhagen in June 1969. The same year that pornography was legalised in Denmark and two years after porn publisher ?The Colour Climax Corporation' was founded. The expert ethnographic photographs look more like a professional fashion shoot, than a sexology study, they capture disrobing, horseplay, ?encounter', nervous conversation, kissing, digital foreplay, congress, postprandial embraces and joints, head shots of joy and reflection. The photographers wander amongst the orgy, even disrobing and joining in, amidst bowls of fruit and beer and wine bottles scattered around an ultra white room with a large bed of futons or a huge gym mattress covered in white sheets. All very evocative of John and Yoko's Bed Ins for Peace in March and April of 1969, staged mere months before the experiment. Indeed, the floor mounted speakers suggest some kind of pre-recorded rock music was played at the sessions. All in all, it is a rather utopian portrayal from the Age of The Pill and before AIDS. It depicts ?consequence free', sexual relations outside of the traditional, romantic dyad of a male and a female in a monogamous relationship. The experimental sample was made up of a cohort of five attractive, unmanicured, young women and seven hirsute men with Danish forenames who were complete strangers before they engaged in so called ?group sex' (there's no substantial male bisexual behaviour depicted). All were blindfolded before the first of two seven-hour encounters and then allowed a glimpse of each other before the follow-up session. After a fortnight, the subjects met again and in a follow up study they were interviewed about the experience and quoted in the text. If the pictures are true depictions, the group had become a sort of sexual monad by the end of the second session, pleasuring each other communally in a meld of bodies. Peter Jacobi was a leading figure working on the rather moist cutting edge of Northern European SexPol. As an ultra-leftist primary school teacher and sex educator, he had released another work on ?youth sexuality' published by the long-established Riksförbundet för Sexuell Upplysning (the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education,) in 1968. Notably, in terms of international countercultural history, he translated the German edition of the controversial and provocative ?Little Red Schoolbook' from the original Danish. A book, which, amongst other things, advocated bulk buying of condoms by the schoolkid proletariat.On view at Blue Mountain School. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers PostNY

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Titel: Gruppensex: eine Bildreportage [Groupsex: a ...

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