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Public toilets

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  • Two men engage in oral sex in a public toilet; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Friedrich Baumhauer and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A man and woman about to kiss, a pair of hands joined, children dancing, a novel toilet seat, a table set for dinner, a razor and a toothbrush, an extended condom and a splatter of blood; with a warning that the only protection from AIDS is information on protection; an advertisement by AIDES Lorraine Nord. Colour lithograph by Communatuté Municipale de Madrid.
  • Safe activities in which the AIDS virus is not transmitted including top left shaking hands to blood donation bottom right with subtitles to diagrams in French; advertisement by CRAM, [La Caisse Régionale d'assurance Maladie de Bourgogne Franche-Comté]. Colour lithograph.
  • Sex klappt sicher / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Foto Wilfried Behner ; Gestaltung Detlev Pusch.
  • Sex klappt sicher / Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe ; Foto Wilfried Behner ; Gestaltung Detlev Pusch.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Where India goes : abandoned toilets, stunted development and the costs of caste / Diane Coffey and Dean Spears.

    Coffey, Diane | Date: 2017
    • Books

    G*ndershit zine : toilet talk. Issue 1.

    Malhotra, Kamal | Date: 2021-2022
    • Books

    Ladies and gents : public toilets and gender / edited by Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner.

    | Date: 2009
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    Cartoons illustrating ways in which you can't get AIDS including eating at restaurants and using toilets in public places; advertisement for the Minnesota AIDS Project by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph by Max.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 668066i
    • Books

    The big necessity : the unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters / Rose George.

    George, Rose, 1969- | Date: 2008
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