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  • Oriental Collection, Nepalese erotic MS, Ind
  • Oriental Collection, Nepalese erotic MS, Ind
  • Oriental Collection, Nepalese erotic MS, Ind
  • Oriental Collection, Nepalese erotic MS, Ind
  • Five erotic scenes. Oil painting by Summonte, 18--.
  • Five erotic scenes. Oil painting by Summonte, 18--.
  • A Japanese erotic scene of a man propositioning a woman for sex in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.
  • A Japanese erotic scene of a man and a woman having sexual intercourse in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.
  • A Japanese erotic scene of a man and a woman about to have sexual intercourse in a bedroom. Ceramic tile by Japanese craftsman.
  • Above, a red-figured wine bowl (krater); below, decorative detail including an erotic (?) scene between two men. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • A silk handkerchief printed with a description of an erotic encounter with the words in the form of breasts. Mixed media, 1802, after E. Parny.
  • Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.
  • Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.
  • Two unidentified actors as a pair of lovers in a pose suggesting an erotic encounter; a panoramic view of Fuji from Mukōjima Akiba in the background. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1860.
  • A cap in which is slotted a condom packet bearing the logo 'The Hot Rubber Black' with the words in German: 'bizarre, erotic: the new black'; a safe sex advertisement for condoms produced by The Hot Rubber Company (Zürich). Colour lithograph.
  • A fashionable young woman, exposing her breast and lifting her dress to take off a stocking. Colour drypoint by L. Icart, 192- (?).
  • While dining with two women, a man pleasures one of them with his foot. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1830.
  • A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • A figure in the form of a phallic motif. Process print, 1921.
  • 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.
  • A figure in the form of a phallic motif. Process print, 1921.
  • A depiction of a Maenad holding a thyrsus aimed at the erect penis of a seated satyr. Colour process print, 1921.
  • Two women embracing and using carrots as dildoes. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A man seducing a woman beneath an autumn moon. Gouache painting.
  • A naked Chinese man guides a naked woman out of a window. Gouache painting.
  • A plaster frieze depicting men and women. Process print.
  • A woman riding on an enormous winged penis. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A couple making love in the foreground; a woman in post-coital sleep behind. Gouache painting, 1890s.
  • A woman caresses another woman who uses a root vegetable as a dildo. Gouache painting.