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Zur Geschichte der subkutanen Injektionen und Injektabilia in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts mit besonderer Berücksichti-gung der Quecksilbertherapie / von Gottfried Schramm.
Schramm, Gottfried, 1927-Date: 1987
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A painting of African men being seduced by a female prostitute and being infected with AIDS; advertising an exhibition "Sexuality and death. AIDS in contemporary African art". Colour lithograph, 2003.
Date: 2003Reference: 679209i
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Splendeurs et misères : images de la prostitution (1850-1910).
Date: 2015
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A man in a white suit smoking by the sea. Colour process print after P.V. Bradshaw, 1908.
Bradshaw, Percy V. (Percy Venner)Date: [1908?]Reference: 2059355i
Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
Ephemera
19 year old art student : gives solo exhibition for your pleasure.
Date: [1992]
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An account of the rise, progress and present state of the Magdalen Hospital, for the reception of penitent prostitutes. Together with Dr. Dodd's Sermons ... to which are added, the Advice to the Magdalens; with the ... rules, list of subscribers; and an abstract of the Act for establishing the charity.
Magdalen Hospital (London, England)Date: 1770
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Saga. Chapter nine / written by Brian K. Vaughan ; art by Fiona Staples.
Vaughan, Brian K.Date: 2012
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Two mercenary soldiers approach a seated prostitute while Death sits in a tree, pointing to an hourglass. Etching after Urs Graf, 1524.
Graf, Urs, approximately 1485-approximately 1527.Date: 1524Reference: 33730i
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Figures of ill repute : representing prostitution in nineteenth-century France / Charles Bernheimer.
Bernheimer, Charles, 1942-Date: 1989
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Harlot's progress : Les étapes d'une courtisane anglaise ... d'après les six compositions de William Hograth, Londres, 1733 / commentaires & notes par L. Le Pileur.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1905
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A group of women posing naked. Halftone, 1898, after A. Vignola, 1897.
Date: [approximately 1898]Reference: 538448i
Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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Figures of ill repute : representing prostitution in nineteenth-century France / Charles Bernheimer.
Bernheimer, Charles, 1942-Date: 1989
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Hottentotten und Prostituierte : zu einer Ikonographie der sexualisierten Frau / Sander L. Gilman.
Gilman, Sander L.Date: 1984
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Black kiss / story and art by Howard Chaykin ; lettering by Ken Bruzenak.
Chaykin, Howard V.Date: [2010], ©2010
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Ethnological and cultural studies of the sex life in England : illustrated, as revealed in its erotic and obscene literature and art; with nine private cabinets of illustrations by the greatest English masters of erotic art / Iwan Bloch ; translated and edited by Richard Deniston.
Bloch, Iwan, 1872-1922.Date: 1934
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Art labor, sex politics : feminist effects in 1970s British art and performance / Siona Wilson.
Wilson, Siona, 1970-Date: [2015]
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The landing strip / Kader Attia ; [essay by Tarek El-Ariss].
Attia, Kader, 1970-Date: 2019
Ephemera
Sohoboyz : working with male and transgender sex workers to promote their sexual health, rights and positive choices / Sohoboyz.
Date: [2009?]
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A woman falling headfirst through an open cellar-door outside a pharmacy, and a man expressing his concern. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank after G.M. Woodward, 1798.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: April 28 1798Reference: 46948i
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Black Venus, 2010 : they called her "Hottentot" / edited by Deborah Willis ; with research assistance by Carla Williams.
Date: 2010
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The Pattaya sex bubble. 4, 'In your eyes I can see you are good or bad' / by Jan Hoek.
Hoek, Jan, 1984-Date: [2015]
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Constructions of the classical body / edited by James I. Porter.
Date: [1999], ©1999
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A rentboy at a railway station with a message emphasizing his right to safe sex. Colour lithograph by Alan Warren for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 673821i
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Red : a history of the redhead / Jacky Colliss Harvey.
Harvey, Jacky CollissDate: 2015
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The Pattaya sex bubble. 2, Paying Nancy to go with me to a theme park / by Jan Hoek.
Hoek, Jan, 1984-Date: [2015]

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Zur Geschichte der subkutanen Injektionen und Injektabilia in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts mit besonderer Berücksichti-gung der Quecksilbertherapie / von Gottfried Schramm.

A painting of African men being seduced by a female prostitute and being infected with AIDS; advertising an exhibition "Sexuality and death. AIDS in contemporary African art". Colour lithograph, 2003.

Splendeurs et misères : images de la prostitution (1850-1910).

A man in a white suit smoking by the sea. Colour process print after P.V. Bradshaw, 1908.

19 year old art student : gives solo exhibition for your pleasure.

Saga. Chapter nine / written by Brian K. Vaughan ; art by Fiona Staples.

Two mercenary soldiers approach a seated prostitute while Death sits in a tree, pointing to an hourglass. Etching after Urs Graf, 1524.

Figures of ill repute : representing prostitution in nineteenth-century France / Charles Bernheimer.

Harlot's progress : Les étapes d'une courtisane anglaise ... d'après les six compositions de William Hograth, Londres, 1733 / commentaires & notes par L. Le Pileur.

A group of women posing naked. Halftone, 1898, after A. Vignola, 1897.

Figures of ill repute : representing prostitution in nineteenth-century France / Charles Bernheimer.

Hottentotten und Prostituierte : zu einer Ikonographie der sexualisierten Frau / Sander L. Gilman.

Black kiss / story and art by Howard Chaykin ; lettering by Ken Bruzenak.

Ethnological and cultural studies of the sex life in England : illustrated, as revealed in its erotic and obscene literature and art; with nine private cabinets of illustrations by the greatest English masters of erotic art / Iwan Bloch ; translated and edited by Richard Deniston.

Art labor, sex politics : feminist effects in 1970s British art and performance / Siona Wilson.

The landing strip / Kader Attia ; [essay by Tarek El-Ariss].

Sohoboyz : working with male and transgender sex workers to promote their sexual health, rights and positive choices / Sohoboyz.

A woman falling headfirst through an open cellar-door outside a pharmacy, and a man expressing his concern. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank after G.M. Woodward, 1798.

Black Venus, 2010 : they called her "Hottentot" / edited by Deborah Willis ; with research assistance by Carla Williams.

The Pattaya sex bubble. 4, 'In your eyes I can see you are good or bad' / by Jan Hoek.

Constructions of the classical body / edited by James I. Porter.

A rentboy at a railway station with a message emphasizing his right to safe sex. Colour lithograph by Alan Warren for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.

Red : a history of the redhead / Jacky Colliss Harvey.

The Pattaya sex bubble. 2, Paying Nancy to go with me to a theme park / by Jan Hoek.