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  • Merryland displayed: or, plagiarism, ignorance, and impudence, detected. : Being observations upon a pamphlet intituled A New Description of Merryland.

    • Stretzer, Thomas, -1738.
    Date
    MDCCXLI
    • Books
    • Online
  • Gay UK Mail Order : [Christmas catalogue].

    • Gay UK Mail Order (Firm)
    Date
    [1998]
    • Books
  • Huguette Caland : everything takes the shape of a person, 1970-78 / edited by Aram Moshayedi.

    • Caland, Huguette, 1931-
    Date
    2017
    • Books
  • Sex ephemera. Box 1.

    • Ephemera
  • A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.

    Date
    [1852?]
    Reference
    563205i
    Part of
    Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Bookleggers and smuthounds : the trade in erotica, 1920-1940 / Jay A. Gertzman.

    • Gertzman, Jay A.
    Date
    [1999], ©1999
    • Books
  • Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England : literary representations in historical context / Claude J. Summers, editor.

    • Summers, Claude J.
    Date
    [1992], ©1992
    • Books
  • The natural history of the frutex vulvaria, or flowering shrub: as it is collected from the best botanists both ancient and modern. By Philogynes Clitorides, Botanist, and one of the Missionaries of the Society of Jesuits for propagating Knowledge in foreign Parts.

    • Clitorides, Philogynes.
    Date
    [1732]
    • Books
    • Online
  • Official showguide : erotica for your imagination 2002 / [editor: Carol Milligan].

    • Milligan, Carol.
    Date
    2002
    • Books
  • Witkowski, Gustave Jules Alphonse (1844-1923)

    • Witkowski, Gustave Jules Alphonse, 1844-1923, surgeon, writer and medical historian
    Date
    1865-1922
    Reference
    MSS.5036-5088 and 8049
    • Archives and manuscripts
  • Eroticism and the body politic / edited by Lynn Hunt.

    • Hunt, Lynn, 1945-
    Date
    [1991], ©1991
    • Books
  • Fathom swimsuit special 2000. Vol. 1, issue 1 / editor Renae Geerlings.

    • Geerlings, Renae.
    Date
    2000
    • Books
  • Die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers : den Müttern, Ärzten und Künstlern gewidmet / von C.H. Stratz.

    • Stratz, C. H. (Carl Heinrich), 1858-1924.
    Date
    1899
    • Books
  • Poetical charades

    Date
    c. 1790
    Reference
    MS.3927
    • Archives and manuscripts
  • Pornography : men possessing women / Andrea Dworkin.

    • Dworkin, Andrea
    Date
    1994
    • Books
  • Collected papers on gynaecology and obstetrics.

    Date
    c.1750-1913
    Reference
    MS.1720
    • Archives and manuscripts
  • Pornography : the Longford report.

    • Longford Committee Investigating Pornography.
    Date
    [1972]
    • Books
  • No condoms, no piece! : why condoms should be mandatory in pornography.

    • Harmonica
    Date
    2013
    • Books
  • The national police gazette. [Vol. 160, no.10], October 1955.

    • National Police Gazette Corporation.
    Date
    1955
    • Books
  • Explicit utopias : rewriting the sexual in women's pornography / Amalia Ziv.

    • Ziv, Amalia
    Date
    [2015]
    • Books
  • Wilkes, John (1727-1797)

    • Wilkes, John, 1727-1797
    Date
    1768
    Reference
    MS.5004
    • Archives and manuscripts
  • L'enfer de la Bibliothèque, Eros au secret / sous la direction de Marie-Françoise Quignard, et Raymond-Josué Seckel.

    • Bibliothèque nationale de France.
    Date
    [2007], ©2007
    • Books
  • Die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers : den Müttern, Ärzten und Künstlern gewidmet / [Carl Heinrich Stratz].

    • Stratz, C. H. (Carl Heinrich), 1858-1924.
    Date
    1905
    • Books
  • Krafft-Ebing, Professor Richard Freiherr von

    • Krafft-Ebing, Richard Freiherr von, 1840-1902
    Date
    1863-1901
    Reference
    PP/KEB
    • Archives and manuscripts
  • Die Aufklärung : Monatsschrift für Sexual- und Lebensreform. 2, März 1929 / herausgegeben von Magnus Hirschfeld und Maria Krische.

    • Hirschfeld, Magnus, 1868-1935
    Date
    1929
    • Books
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