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The bishop’s profitable sex workers

How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.

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Naked, not nude

Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.

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John Walter on ‘Alien Sex Club’

I’m a painter, but I make worlds.

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Homes for the hives of industry

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

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  • A Russian bathhouse: men and women bathing in the steam and invigorating each other with bundles of twigs. Colour aquatint by E.M. Korneev, 1811/1813.
  • Men and women bathing in the fountain of youth, next to a bathhouse with a roof terrace where people disport themselves. Engraving, 16--, after S. Beham.
  • Men and women bathing in the fountain of youth, next to a bathhouse with a roof terrace where people disport themselves. Engraving, 16--, after S. Beham.
  • The interior of a bathhouse; a barber dressed in national costume (?) sharpens his razor; a customer sitting cross-legged on a bench awaits his turn. Coloured lithograph.
  • A plan of an Egyptian bath-house. Engraving with aquatint by G.B. Cecchi.
  • The interior of an Egyptian bath-house; a seated man is being washed and attended to by four male servants. Engraving by G.B. Cecchi after V. Denon.
  • Greek open-air shower baths for men. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.
  • Men bathing in a public gymnasium. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.
  • Greek open-air shower baths for men. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.
  • Women bathing in a public gymnasium. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
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