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  • Prostitutes in Bern (Berne) being punished by collecting night-soil in the streets. Engraving by C. Warren, ca. 1790.
  • Thoughts on the plan for a Magdalen-House for repentant prostitutes / [Anon].
  • Prostitutes being led through the streets of Naples watched by men from the side and from a window. Engraving by Collyer after S. Wale.
  • The rake carouses in a tavern full of prostitutes. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.
  • A prostitute wearing a short tight skirt steps between a doorway into a corridor raising her arm with her bag and some tissues; advertisement for safe sex by the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC). Colour lithograph.
  • A nobleman and his friends drink with prostitutes in a brothel. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • John and Petra, two prostitutes who think they don't need to use condoms except with customers; advertising safe sex. Lithograph.
  • Reformed prostitutes being led in a group through the streets of Naples for fund-raising, watched by people from a window. Engraving.
  • HIV : the facts for women who sell sex : no-nonsense information about HIV for women who work as prostitutes / Immunity Publications Ltd.
  • HIV : the facts for women who sell sex : no-nonsense information about HIV for women who work as prostitutes / Immunity Publications Ltd.
  • HIV : the facts for women who sell sex : no-nonsense information about HIV for women who work as prostitutes / Immunity Publications Ltd.
  • HIV : the facts for women who sell sex : no-nonsense information about HIV for women who work as prostitutes / Immunity Publications Ltd.
  • HIV : the facts for women who sell sex : no-nonsense information about HIV for women who work as prostitutes / Immunity Publications Ltd.
  • HIV : the facts for women who sell sex : no-nonsense information about HIV for women who work as prostitutes / Immunity Publications Ltd.
  • HIV : the facts for women who sell sex : no-nonsense information about HIV for women who work as prostitutes / Immunity Publications Ltd.
  • HIV : the facts for women who sell sex : no-nonsense information about HIV for women who work as prostitutes / Immunity Publications Ltd.
  • A man walks arm in arm with a woman while looking back at a prostitute in a check coat; representing the need for prostitutes to use condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph after Ullstein Bilderdienst for Hydra, 199-.
  • A man walks arm in arm with a woman while looking back at a prostitute in a check coat; representing the need for prostitutes to use condoms to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph after Ullstein Bilderdienst for Hydra, 199-.
  • The legs of a prostitute standing on a roadside representing a warning about the dangers of working on the street with a list of seven safe sex guidelines for prostitutes by the SOA Stichting, Utrecht. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Two prostitutes stand on a street waiting for clients; advertisement for safe sex to reduce the risk of AIDS by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • Moll Hackabout, dressed in fine clothes, is beating hemp, used for making rope, with a mallet, in a prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • A red stiletto heel wearing a condom against a turquoise and black crocodile skin background; an advertisement by Hydra, a meeting and counselling place for prostitutes. Colour lithograph by Sehstern Kommunikation.
  • Dressed in fine clothes Moll Hackabout beats hemp with a mallet, which will be used to make rope; she is in prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving after William Hogarth.
  • Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after J. Sheringham, 1821.
  • Myth, only prostitutes, homosexuals and 'slack' people go to sexual health clinics so its not for me : Fact, people who use sexual health clinics are people with the sense to get tested / Shaka Services.
  • Myth, only prostitutes, homosexuals and 'slack' people go to sexual health clinics so its not for me : Fact, people who use sexual health clinics are people with the sense to get tested / Shaka Services.
  • Girls watching cars cruise and pick up teenage prostitutes representing today's behaviour and tomorrow's results represented by a girl dying of AIDS in bed and a pregnant teenager; a warning about safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A woman pushes a trolley down a dilapidated street in Lima, Peru representing poverty; with 4 smaller images depicting social issues associated with AIDS including packets of money in bank safes, drugs and male prostitutes; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Pecos, the Programa Especial de Control del SIDA. Colour lithograph by Juan L. Gargurevich, ca. 1995.
  • A young woman casting aside her virginity to become a prostitute. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A young woman casting aside her virginity to become a prostitute. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.