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Lubrication and lubricants

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  • Tales of gay sex. 9, Summer loving / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Jacket : gel lubrifiant, lubricating gel : just use it! / by Phicogis Europe.
  • Tales of gay sex. 9, Summer loving / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • The Terrence Higgins Trust : hot sex now / designed by Graham Ogilvie.
  • A woman lies back on a sofa holding a telephone as a man leans over with thoughts of condoms and lubricant looming in a speech bubble overhead; another woman sits on her knees in the centre exclaiming 'AIDS?' while a couple sit on the end, dreaming of pregnancy; an advertisement for safe sex and AIDS prevention by the Center for Youth Sexual Health and Contraception. Colour lithograph by Eulàlia Sayrach, 1993.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Q: Which of these condoms is suitable for gay sex? A: All of them : any thickness of condom can protect you and your partner from HIV / GMFA, London's Gay Men's HIV Prevention Partnership.

    | Date: [between 2000 and 2005?]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two red dotted arrows incorporating an 'Okeido' condom and a bottle of lubricant pointing towards the jeans pocket of a bare-chested man; with the message 'well-equipped'; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Helseutvalget For Homofile, the Norwegian Gay and Health Committte. Lithograph by Fin-Serck-Hanssen, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 676591i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Hawaiian Tropic supporting Rubberstuffers condoms and lubricant : safer sun - safer sex / RS Health Ltd. (Rubberstuffers).

    | Date: [1999?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Bodywise Limited of Richmond, Middlesex UK Liquid Silk : water-based 5ml.

    | Date: [1994?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Jacket : gel lubrifiant, lubricating gel : just use it! / by Phicogis Europe.

    | Date: [between 2010 and 2014?]
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