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This is the classic illustrated exploration of pre-Nazi sex culture in Germany. This sourcebook of hundreds of rare visual delights from the pre-Nazi Cabaret-period of Weimar. Berlin has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring hip club goers, film-makers, gay historians, graphic designers and musicians like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson. This expanded edition includes the new illustrated chapter Sex, Magic and the Occult, documenting German pagan cults and their bizarre erotic rituals, including instructions for entering the Sexual Fourth Dimension. This deluxe hardback edition also includes sensational accounts of hypno-erotic cabaret acts, Berlin fetish prostitution (The Boot Girl Visits), gay life (A Wild Boy Initiation!), descriptions and illustrations of Aleister Crowley's Berlin OTO secret society and sex crime (The Curious Career and Untimely Death of Fritz Ulbrich).

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Mel Gordon is a professor of theatre at the University of California, Berkeley, and is also the author of The Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror (Da Capo) and Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant (Feral House, also available from Turnaround)

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