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  • Various sex aids, including dildos, artificial vulva, penis supports etc. Colour woodcut, ca. 1830.
  • An ancient oil lamp: a relief on the lid shows two boys. Process print, 1921.
  • A man and a woman making love in a well-appointed room, while a boy looks on from the next room. Gouache painting.
  • A Chinese man and woman making love outside. Gouache painting.
  • A man copulating with a goat or deer. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A crocodile controlled by a female devil to give her sexual pleasure by applying its mouth to her vagina. Gouache painting.
  • A couple engaged in sexual intercourse. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A flying penis copulating with a flying vagina. Gouache painting.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A man and a woman making love. Oil painting by Summonte, 18--.
  • A group of aristocrats visit a young man in hospital. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by P. Hérault, c. 1925.
  • An oryx whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • An oryx whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • A camel whose body is composed of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • A horse whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • A camel whose body is composed of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • A horse whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • A bewildered doctor checking the pulse of lovesick young woman, her concerned mother comforts her, in the background Cupid is grinning and pointing to one of his arrows. Coloured mezzotint by W. Ward, 1802, after J. Opie.
  • A young Indonesian man cutting up coconuts. Process print, ca. 1906.
  • Two Sri Lankan tree climbers in the canopy.
  • Two Sri Lankan tree climbers in the canopy.
  • A young Indonesian man cutting up coconuts. Process print, ca. 1906.
  • Photograph of Susuga Malietoa Laupepa
  • Photograph of Susuga Malietoa Laupepa
  • A Chinese painting in which a woman baring her genitals is pushed on a swing towards a man with an erect penis. Colour lithograph, ca. 1989.
  • Kamasutra vatsyayana
  • A physician auscultates a lady. Photomechanical reproduction by Jean Plumet, c. 1910.
  • Häagen-Dazs fresh cream ice cream.
  • Häagen-Dazs fresh cream ice cream.