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  • Birth of lust.
  • Birth of lust.
  • M0008008: King David's lust, Old Testament miniature
  • Einer Trage des anderen Lust / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Foto Friedrich Baumhauer ; Gestaltung Wolfgang Mudra.
  • Einer Trage des anderen Lust / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Foto Friedrich Baumhauer ; Gestaltung Wolfgang Mudra.
  • Hast du Lust? : Klar, aber Safer Sex! : na gut, probieren wir's / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Illustration Hans-Heinrich Salmon.
  • Hast du Lust? : Klar, aber Safer Sex! : na gut, probieren wir's / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Illustration Hans-Heinrich Salmon.
  • The Christ Child shooting arrows into the believer's heart to conquer the fires of lust. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • A blue and yellow advertisement with the message 'What's important. Lust and love - but safe! Questions will cost nothing. Knowledge is fear! ...'; an advertisement for the AIDS counselling centres in Salzburg and Zell am See, Austria by the [Austrian] AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph.
  • Sexual-related words from 'Lust' to 'Analverkehr' (anal traffic) against a black background with a series of statements in pink about how you can and can't get AIDS; with a list of AIDS advice centres available in Kiel; an advertisement for World AIDS Day on 1 December by Landeshauptstadt Kiel. Colour lithograph.
  • The breast and hip of a woman resting on the arm of a man with the message "HIV positive - we have lust, we have sex"; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph.
  • Inula helenium L. Asteraceae. Elecampine, Elecampane, Enulae campinae Distribution: Britain, S. Europe to the Himalayas. Used medicinally for 2,000 years. Culpeper (1650) writes ‘Elecampane, is ... wholesome for the stomach, resists poison, helps old coughs and shortness of breath, helps ruptures and provokes lust
  • Two men with square heads bearing the positive and minus signs of HIV perform anal sex with the words 'safe-love', 'safe-lust' and two joined hearts across their bodies; a reminder to gay men to practice safe sex by the AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph by David McDiarmid, 1992.
  • The gnarled hands of 'sin' reaching out towards a woman in a figure-hugging dress representing 'lust' with a couple and a figure of death beside a grave; one of 4 drawings by students of C. C. Sweeting Senior High School, Nassau, Bahamas for World AIDS Day, November 1993. Photocopy reproduced from a drawing, 1993.
  • Dianthus caryophyllus L. Caryophyllaceae Carnation, clove-gilliflowers - Mediterranean Culpeper (1650) writes that ‘Clove-gilliflowers, resist the pestilence, strengthen the heart, liver and stomach, and provokes lust.’ They smell strongly of cloves, and an oil made from the petals is used in perfumery, soaps etc. The petals are sometimes used as a garnish for salads. In herbal medicine they are used to make a tonic. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However, he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation, Dodoens Histoire des Plantes (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades (1583), and Gerard's Herbal (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades(1583), and Gerard's (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Helianthus annuus Greene Asteraceae. Sunflower, Marigold of Peru, Floure of the Sun. Distribution: Peru and Mexico. It was much recommended by Gerard (1633) who advises that the buds, covered in flour, boiled, and eaten with 'butter, vinegar and pepper, far surpass artichokes in procuring bodily lust’. Sadly, today only the seeds of sunflower are consumed, as the source of sunflower seed oil used in cooking. It contains mono and polyunsaturated fats, linoleic acid and oleic acid, and is low in saturated fats. As such it was thought to lower cholesterol and so the risk of heart disease, but it may increase the risk of breast and prostatic cancer. However a recent report BMJ2013
  • Matthiola incana (L.)W.T.Aiton Brassicaceae Distribution: The genus name commemorates Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500/1–77), physician and botanist, whose name is Latinised to Matthiolus.. Incana means hoary or grey, referring to the colour of the leaves. Mattioli's commentaries on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides were hugely popular. Matthiola incana was first described by Linnaeus as Cheiranthus incanus, being changed to Matthiola by William Aiton, at Kew, in 1812. It is in the cabbage family. Commercial seed packets contain a mixture of single and double forms. The latter are sterile, but selective breeding has increased the proportion of double forms from the seed of single forms to as much as 80%. ‘Ten week stocks’ are popular garden annuals, flowering in the year of sowing, whereas ‘Brompton stocks’ (another variety of M. incana) are biennials, flowering the following year. Gerard (1633), called them Stocke Gillofloure or Leucoium, and notes the white and purple forms, singles and doubles. About their medicinal value he writes ‘not used in Physicke except among certain Empiricks and Quacksalvers, about love and lust matters, which for modestie I omit’. The thought of a member of the cabbage family being an aphrodisiac might encourage the gullible to take more seriously the government’s plea to eat five portions of vegetable/fruit per day. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Commentatio de personis vvlgo larvis sev mascheris, von der Carnavals-lvst critico historico morali atqve ivridico modo diligenter conscripta / a Christoph. Henr. nob. dom. de Berger.
  • Commentatio de personis vvlgo larvis sev mascheris, von der Carnavals-lvst critico historico morali atqve ivridico modo diligenter conscripta / a Christoph. Henr. nob. dom. de Berger.
  • Commentatio de personis vvlgo larvis sev mascheris, von der Carnavals-lvst critico historico morali atqve ivridico modo diligenter conscripta / a Christoph. Henr. nob. dom. de Berger.
  • Commentatio de personis vvlgo larvis sev mascheris, von der Carnavals-lvst critico historico morali atqve ivridico modo diligenter conscripta / a Christoph. Henr. nob. dom. de Berger.
  • A naked man in a sauna with a message promoting safe sex. Colour lithograph by Michael Bidner for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • The torso of a woman with a red heart shielding her body; advertising condoms and safe sex by AIDS-Hilfe Rhein-Sieg e.V. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • A naked man is held up by another; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Friedrich Baumhauer and Wolfgang Mudra for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A woman and a man sit on a bed staring at a condom as if it floats magically mid-air; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by R. Warzecha, M. Jahreiss and D. Pusch.
  • A man pulling down the trousers of another man beside a fountain; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by F. Baumhauer and W. Mudra for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • "Isabel": a woman outside her house in the country holding a letter from her departed lover. Woodcut and letterpress, ca. 1800.
  • Two bare-chested men in a nightclub agree to safe sex; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by H.-H.Salmon, 1990.