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Sex in graphic novels

Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.

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Sex work and critical campaigners

When campaigners filmed secretly in the club where she worked, exotic dancer Ella Smith felt frightened and degraded. Here she speaks out about the attack on her livelihood.

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John Walter on ‘Alien Sex Club’

I’m a painter, but I make worlds.

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Selling sex and sacrificing safety

Sex workers who report crimes against them can face a “what do you expect?” attitude. But one organisation is working to protect vulnerable people in the sex industry.

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  • A female patient sits on her doctor's lap. Lithograph.
  • An old doctor, about to vaccinate a young lady, leers at her chest; he says he can see two injections that have taken well. Process print by Rousset after J-A. Faivre.
  • A physician molests a young lady. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.
  • A besotted physician asks his young patient to cure him of his heartache. Coloured lithograph after C. Philipon, c. 1830.
  • Honey Bee
  • Honey bee (unknown species)
  • Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquis of Anglesey, seated by a tree.
  • Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquis of Anglesey, seated by a tree.
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