An Ideal For Living: Lust in Nazi Art

[Einsamer_Wolf]

SALUT!

I feel bound to submit this passage from Bleuel's Sex and Society in Nazi Germany, it is just to good not to share with you all:

It was this pin-up aspect of nudity which, uncurbed by genuine artistic appreciation of any kind, lent spice to the tasteless hotchpotch of sterile National Socialist hero- and warrior-figures by Thorak or Moelnir, Willrich or Brecker. Racially conscious lust was as much as part of the muscular tumidity of this mediocre visual art as it was of the sentimental slush interspersed with passages such as this: "It was the marvelous, godlike purity of her skin. Her slender little neck, her bare shoulders, the beginnings of her apple-sized breast. The urge to slide Thilde's dress down, far down, all the way, so as to revel in the beauty of this superb girlish body just like someone vieiwng a work of art, arose unbidden and was hard to supress."

Any comments? I could not help but laugh when I read that. Yes, lifting up Thilde's dress does seem part of a lofty and worthy ideal for living to me, and I suppose I am that much more sympathetic to certain tenets in Nazi ideology now, but this failed attempt to accomplish lyrical prose came across to me like something from Penthouse forum. What a riot! Again, I heartily welcome any comments or reflections.

Einsamer Wolf

[HaEn]

Almost sounds like song of Salomon from the bible, does it not ?
I rather look at a naked beautiful body of ONE woman , than TEN naked men
Oops, off subject. Mea Culpa. HN.

[Einsamer_Wolf]

Haen

Yes it does, Haen, yes it does. And that in principle is a very good thing. I just think sudden reference to the skirt was a bit abrupt. Subtlety is a good thing, you know.

EW