One that bears a caption indicating that it will illustrate circumcision is completely unintelligible and seems merely an excuse to get two penises in a picture spread instead of one. Ultimately, the pictures perplex rather than clarify. Several prepubescent females to whom I showed the book told me the picture made them feel they would never want to have babies. It is the only way to explain his use in a birth sequence of a terrifying -and totally unnecessary-shot of a delivering mother in a moment of absolute excruciating agony. One begins to suspect that the photographer enjoys scaring children. Too often to be considered accidental the book's producer-an American photographer-has chosen photographs that cause his leading characters, the little boy and girl, to report being scared or worried about what they have just seen. Some of these pictures are frightening, and I do not think they are unintentionally so. (It is important to note that in “Show Me!” oral sex is presented as something males get females to perform upon them, a one‐way act and not a reciprocal one the approach is that of the classic pornographer, not of the sex counselor.) Later, we are treated to magnified pubic hairs, grotesquely enlarged testicles and angles on intercourse no child will ever see, no matter how obliging his adolescent siblings, unless he is face up between the legs of the participants.
We also witness awesome adult‐sized penises being masturbated and mouthed. The girl has watched her older sister rub her clitoris, and we see that too. The boy has seen-and we see through his eyes-his teen‐age brother and a barely pubescent girlfriend having intercourse. But soon these children are pondering the sexual behavior of their adolescent siblings. She turns bottoms‐up so he can see close up what she's got, and he shows her how he “pees” and “poops.” The book at this point seems to be directed to satisfying the sexual curiosities of kindergartners. We puzzle with them over their bellybuttons and the fact that he has a penis and she a vagina. The photographs reveal the world of sex through the eyes of two exquisite noble savages of about 5 years of age. English Language Adaption by Hilary Davies. But is “Show Me!” realistic? Is it for children? And if so, what are children?Ī Picture Book or Sex for Children and Parents.
It had occurred to me that such a book was needed the cut‐outs, cartoons and drawings which illustrate most mating and reproduction books For children make sex whimsical and distant, and thus do not satisfy the needs of some children for realistic sexual information.
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I opened “Show Me!” a photographic sex‐instruction manual for children and their parents, with enthusiasm.
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