We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. In Germany, stripping down to your birthday suit is a popular pastime for people of all ages, shapes and sizes. It's a part of German culture, just like techno music and "Spargelzeit," the asparagus season. By the late 19th century, many Germans believed it was healthy to strip off and bathe "textile free" at one of the country's many lakes. At the time there was a move away from polluted industrialized cities to nature in pursuit of good health. Some people also enjoyed hiking or doing exercise in the nude. This picture dates back to and shows two women at Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria. Starring controversial German actor and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, it was one of the country's most popular educational films of the silent era. It contained scenes of physical exercise such as dance and bathing.

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P aradise is a brothel in Stuttgart. In Bangkok aged 19 I checked in to a place called Mango Inn with two school friends. But that scuzzy little concern, with its scarlet-haired manager and beery tourist crowd, was seriously small fry compared to this. Paradise is a chain, like Primark or Pizza Hut, with five branches and three more on the way. So business is booming, I say to Michael Beretin, a partner in the company. Each of its six floors is picked out with a thick stripe of burgundy cladding making it look from the outside like a very tall, stale slice of red velvet cake.
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Please refresh the page and retry. T he "mega brothel" in tonight's Channel 4 documentary of the same name isn't that big, by German standards. Paradise is six stories high - half the size of Pascha in Cologne. The answer? I met people running escort apps, online virgin auctions and outdoor "sex boxes" where men queued up in their lunch breaks.
Alexandre Dupouy is a sex archaeologist. The French collector has spent his entire life collecting what he defines as "erotic and pornographic junk. It's a sort of small museum that traces the history of sex in France. In , he received a call from a bookseller friend who said that he had an old gentleman with "something special to show him.