The plague of lust : being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brothels, the nousos theleia (feminine disease) of the Scythians, paederastia, and other sexual perversions amongst the ancients, as contributions towards the exact interpretation of their writings / by Julius Rosenbaum ; translated from the sixth (unabridged) German edition by an Oxford M.A.

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Credit: The plague of lust : being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brothels, the nousos theleia (feminine disease) of the Scythians, paederastia, and other sexual perversions amongst the ancients, as contributions towards the exact interpretation of their writings / by Julius Rosenbaum ; translated from the sixth (unabridged) German edition by an Oxford M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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