HISTORY 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Demimonde, Socalled, Thomas
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First published as "die verhurung berlins," das tage-buch i (november 6, 1920), 1381 1383. Anton kaes, martin jay and edward dimendberg, eds. , the weimar republic sourcebook (berkeley: university of california press, 1994), pp. I do not speak lovingly of the poor streetwalkers. Only those who have lost all sense of taste and memory of the natural beauty of the human body can report on the nature and morality of the street girls of berlin. But there they exist mainly for the ugliest and therefore most shunned of men, for the cripples, the alcoholics, and the degenere. The healthy adult male does not need them. In berlin, however, i saw men who were from all appearances good, strong, and in their own way capable of loving arm-in-arm with ghastly females. But it was not of the proletarian merchants of love that i wanted to speak.
