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  • Top, three bandaged heads; centre, a naked surgeon sets the arm of a naked patient both flanked by bandaged women; bottom, bandaged bodies and limbs. Engraving.
  • A voyeur watches women taking a bath while above a monk is martyred; representing the sense of sight. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Krishna sitting in a tree above water with the gopis' clothes, while the naked gopis plead for their garments. Chromolithograph.
  • Top, three bandaged heads; centre, a naked surgeon sets the arm of a naked patient both flanked by bandaged women; bottom, bandaged bodies and limbs. Engraving.
  • Krishna, playing the flute, seated in a tree with the milkmaids' clothes, while they, naked and in water gather around the tree begging for their clothes. Chromolithograph.
  • Two naked men embrace: a recommendation to use safe sex. Colour lithograph by Will McBride and Detlev Pusch for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A naked man is held by another who looks directly at another man in the foreground; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Norbert Heuler and Detlev Pusch.
  • A provocative naked young woman lying on a bed, death (a cloaked skeleton) sits at her side, a naked man walks away from the bed with his head bowed, towards a throng of diseased and dying people; representing syphilis. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Krishna seated in a tree above a river with the gopis' clothes and making the gopis plead for their garments. Chromolithograph.
  • An embarrassed female patient is caught undressed by a leering medical assistant. Colourprocess print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Three pink naked men stand holding their hands together with leaves covering their genitals; advertising The Hot Rubber Company (Zürich), makers of condoms. Colour lithograph by Pfeffer und Salz, ca. 1992.
  • Krishna sitting in a tree with all the gopis clothes while they naked in the water, beg for their garments. Chromolithograph after Ravi Varma.
  • A naked man lying submerged in sand on a beach; representing an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph, 199-, after Michael Rock, 1986.
  • A naked figure standing pleased with himself as he wears a condom on his erect penis with the words 'in: with a condom'; below, the same naked figure stands red with embarrassment holding his head and genitals without a condom with the words 'out: without a condom' in German; an advertisement for safe sex by the AHS [AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz], ASS [AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA] and AAS [Aiuto AIDS Svizzero]. Colour lithograph.
  • A man's hand on the back of the damp neck of another man with the message 'remember condoms'; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS-Tukikeskus, the AIDS support centre by the Finnish AIDS Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The back view of a standing naked woman with the message 'Alone overnight. Condoms reassure'; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS-Tukikeskus, the AIDS support centre by the Finnish AIDS Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A man bleeding a woman in her arm by using a bow and arrow. Etching.
  • A naked man lies face down on a bed; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Norbert Heuler and Detlev Pusch for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A diver and a personified condom holding a ladder discuss how to ascend the naked bottom of a woman standing within a barren orange landscape; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, 1991.
  • The body of a naked man covered in a transparent veil holding a condom packet bearing the logo of The Hot Rubber Company near his genitals; a safe sex advertisement by the Hot Rubber Company Deutschland, [a department of the Deutschen AIDS-Hilfe e.V]. Lithograph by Vincent von Ballmoos.
  • 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.
  • A naked man with goose-pimples (goose-flesh), represented by a cooked goose, with a safety pin, representing safe sex among gay men. Colour lithograph for AHS [AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz], ASS [AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA] and AAS [Aiuto AIDS Svizzero].
  • A naked man lies back with a condom on his erect penis; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Apoio Fundação Mac Arthur. Colour lithograph by 4 Mãos, 1993.
  • A woman representing Nature gives a baby to a mother; representing man's vulnerable and naked birth. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
  • The naked torsos of two men touch with a message about AIDS and safer sex; an advertisement by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph, 1984/1985.
  • A woman representing Nature gives a baby to a mother; representing man's vulnerable and naked birth. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
  • The naked bodies of a man and woman embracing with the message 'the desire to live'; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS-Tukikeskus, the AIDS support centre by the Finnish AIDS Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The naked are led to hell on the day of judgement. Etching.
  • A magnified view of the pubic area of a man bearing the words 'Oh ja'; an advertisement by the Real AIDS Grazer Kunst Verein. Colour lithograph by Matthias Herrmann, 1993.
  • The Fall: Adam and Eve driven out by the Angel for eating the forbidden fruit. Etching by C. Lasinio after Masaccio and Masolino.