A family of nudists like this can scare a whole parish out of its wits.
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An ABZ of Love [NSFW], or, Inge and Sten Hegeler's bewitchingly illustrated 1963 book that Kurt Vonnegut told his wife to read, "[if] you are as interested in sex as you say you are."
Maria Popova writes about finding a copy of what turns out to be a, "dictionary of romance and sexual relationships covering everything from radical-for-the-era topics like birth control and homosexuality to mundanities like bidets and picnics to abstractions like disappointment and excess."
You can purchase a paperback reprint. At the time of this post, there are still one or two 1963 editions available for purchase on Amazon.
Little information seems to be available about Danish illustrator Eiler Krag, save for a guide to his 155 works of art available in Danish museums.
Maria Popova writes about finding a copy of what turns out to be a, "dictionary of romance and sexual relationships covering everything from radical-for-the-era topics like birth control and homosexuality to mundanities like bidets and picnics to abstractions like disappointment and excess."
You can purchase a paperback reprint. At the time of this post, there are still one or two 1963 editions available for purchase on Amazon.
Little information seems to be available about Danish illustrator Eiler Krag, save for a guide to his 155 works of art available in Danish museums.
This book is not the place I would have expected a bunch of new yorker cartoons to show up.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 3:50 PM on December 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 3:50 PM on December 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
Sten Hegeler is still alive and active, both as a writer, debater and a therapist. His biological father was the Danish architect and intellectual Poul Henningsen, and he has often told in interviews how his father was an inspiration.
The Hegeler were very influential when they were young, not only inspiring a sex-positive attitude in wide circles here in Denmark, but also influencing pedagogical theory and practice, and as far as I remember, even starting a pre-school as part of a larger group of idealists.
Every Danish child of a certain age had a book called, "How, mum?" (First edition 1948) about where the babies came from. Often given as a christening gift. I must admit that I didn't give it to my children. There was a backside to the liberties the Hegeler promoted and I was tired of that when I was a young mother. Today, my opinions are different because of the backlash I have seen during my life.
Eiler Krag was distant family by marriage. I don't remember meeting him, though I must have, but while I was at the art-academy, I was really inspired by his style of drawing and painting - so elegant. This is his most famous painting, of a famous resistance hero and politician.
posted by mumimor at 5:42 AM on December 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
The Hegeler were very influential when they were young, not only inspiring a sex-positive attitude in wide circles here in Denmark, but also influencing pedagogical theory and practice, and as far as I remember, even starting a pre-school as part of a larger group of idealists.
Every Danish child of a certain age had a book called, "How, mum?" (First edition 1948) about where the babies came from. Often given as a christening gift. I must admit that I didn't give it to my children. There was a backside to the liberties the Hegeler promoted and I was tired of that when I was a young mother. Today, my opinions are different because of the backlash I have seen during my life.
Eiler Krag was distant family by marriage. I don't remember meeting him, though I must have, but while I was at the art-academy, I was really inspired by his style of drawing and painting - so elegant. This is his most famous painting, of a famous resistance hero and politician.
posted by mumimor at 5:42 AM on December 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
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Having just scrolled through the first link, this seems to check out.
It's delightful.
posted by Mezentian at 2:51 PM on December 24, 2015