The book is challenging on so many levels – exposing the limits of photography, society and our own moral boundaries. The publishers found themselves in court for six years in the US defending it, until they finally pulled its distribution, unable to afford the legal costs. Originally published as Zeig Mal! in 1974, it was developed as a sex-education book, but with explicit images of sometimes pre-pubescent children engaged in sexual acts. Show Me! by photographer Will McBride and psychoanalyst Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt had a profound effect on me.
