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Images

  • An oryx whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • Cupid presides over a group of naked women who sit separated from groups of yearning men; symbolising the passion of love. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • A map of Zambia containing numerous women saying no to sex before marriage; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Anti-AIDS Project and Copperbelt Health Education Project in Zambia. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Das Weib in der Natur- und Völkerkunde : anthropologische Studien / von Heinrich Ploss und Max Bartels.
  • A devil buggering a man. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Two women embracing and using carrots as dildoes. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Two women embracing and using carrots as dildoes. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Cambodian. Colour lithograph.
  • A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Chinese. Colour lithograph.
  • Series of graphic hearts with a block of text about HIV and AIDS; an advertisement for the National Aids Helpline by the Liverpool Health Promotion Service. Colour lithograph, 1997.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Sexual Reform Congress : London, 8-14: ix: 1929; proceedings of the third congress / edited by Norman Haire.

    World League for Sexual Reform 1929 : London, England) | Date: 1930
    • Ephemera

    Naughty schoolgirl : needs to be taken in hand : open late Mayfair.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Books

    Commonsense about sex / by Leonora Eyles.

    Eyles, Leonora, 1890- | Date: 1943
    • Ephemera

    "New" Indian beauty 18 years : open early til late : water sport, hard sport, V.I.P, bubble bath, hotel visits : off Tottenham Ct Rd., Warren St., Gt. Portland St. : local.

    | Date: [2001]
    • Ephemera

    Little Miss Madam : 1 min from Baker Street.

    | Date: [1993]
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