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Dial ‘S’ for sex

In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War

In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.

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The healing power of breathing

The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.

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  • A personified condom wraps its arms around an embracing couple representing an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Education Center and Central Youth Union in Vietnam. Colour lithograph ca. 1995.
  • Humphrey Bogart wearing his characteristic coat and hat and smoking, with a message about how he always wore appropriate clothing to protect himself; an advertisement for condoms and safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Senate Department for Health and Social Affairs and the Senate Department for Women, Youth and Family in Berlin. Colour lithograph.
  • A couple sit on the edge of a bed next to a lit candle, the man holds a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the organisation Youth Link Inner City, sponsored by the City of Toronto Public Health. Colour lithograph by HM.
  • A couple sit on the edge of a bed next to a lit candle, the man holds a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the organisation Youth Link Inner City, sponsored by the City of Toronto Public Health. Colour lithograph by HM.
  • A woman lies back on a sofa holding a telephone as a man leans over with thoughts of condoms and lubricant looming in a speech bubble overhead; another woman sits on her knees in the centre exclaiming 'AIDS?' while a couple sit on the end, dreaming of pregnancy; an advertisement for safe sex and AIDS prevention by the Center for Youth Sexual Health and Contraception. Colour lithograph by Eulàlia Sayrach, 1993.
  • Cartoon figures with fool proof instructions for safer sex by the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Colour lithograph by Don Herron, 1989.
  • An Asian man points to a globe watched by three youths representing an advertisement for sex education to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS by the World Health Organization (WHO). Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • An Asian man points to a globe watched by three youths representing an advertisement for sex education to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS by the World Health Organization (WHO). Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A personified condom pokes its head between two youths who stand with a football before 4 flirtatious girls within a courtyard; an advertisment by the Foreningen for Familieplanlaegning Sex og Samfund. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, ca. 1995.
  • A group of youths talking about HIV and AIDS beside a wall adorned with graffiti representing a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Kuleana Centre for Sexual Health in Tanzania. Colour lithograph by Marco Tibasima, ca. 1997.
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