101 Men's Places in Frankfurt

After three volumes around Unorte, followed by books about women's places and money places, now follows with "101 Männerorte" the next city guide of a somewhat different kind. The beauty of these books is that they present Frankfurt as a very multifaceted city, delve a little into the history of the Main metropolis and at the same time also present places that you as a Frankfurter might know from passing by, but whose significance has so far remained hidden from you. This is also the case with the 101 Men's Places visited in this book. What is different compared to the other volumes of the series is that here is worked with much more irony and wink.

To come as close as possible to social reality, as the authors themselves write in the preface "a gay, a straight and a woman have come together amicably. The three did not want to be restricted by political correctness, which is why there are a few male places here that one might not have expected to find in the book - although they are clearly male places. But just in such moments men should read the book with a certain self-irony, because with such it is also written.

Next to some very clear and yet enormously different men's places like the brothels in the station district or the information center for men's issues, but there are also such places that are not per se men's places and only by the predominance of the male sex there to such. These include, for example, the drunkenness cell on platform 24 of Frankfurt's main railway station as well as the board of directors of the DZ-Bank or the model flight group of the Frankfurt Aviation Association.

As in the other books, "101 Männerorte" is characterized by the fact that it takes a look at very different facets of our city, revealing some previously unknown sides. The reader learns here about places that one passes by regularly without knowing what is hidden there or what of historical relevance once took place there. And even though it is much more about sex and about toilets than in the other books, there is no need to fear that we men are reduced here only to our lower body region. An interesting, humorous and really colourful city guide - not only for men. Recommendable!

An article by Frankfurt-Tipp