Mel Gordon

The first contemporary biography of a notorious actor, dancer, poet, and playwright who scandalised sex-obsessed Weimar Berlin during the 1920s. In an era where everything was permitted, Anita Berber's celebrations of Depravity, Horror and Ecstasy were condemned and censored. She often haunted Weimar Berlin's hotel lobbies, nightclubs, and casinos, radiantly naked except for an elegant sable wrap, a pet monkey...

Horizontal Collaboration is the first English-language narrative that focuses solely on Paris' expansive sexual life. Divided into 10 chapters, this exotic book features the Erotic Liberation following the Armistice, Flapperism in the Jazz-Age Era, Montmartre Entertainments, Legal Brothels and Prostitution, Sex Tourism, Gay Culture, Erotomania, Wartime Collaboration during the German Occupation, and Postwar Retribution against Vichy period collaborators. It is...