The study of ethical conduct in human sexuality, and sexual behavior

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Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Etching by W. Unger after Titian.

Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.

Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by W. Bromley after P.P. Rubens.

A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.

A physician trying to take advantage of a young woman patient by visiting her at home while her husband is out. Coloured lithograph, 1852.

A man looms over an old woman, telling her that it will not cost her anything if he has made her daughter pregnant, as she is on welfare support: the daughter lies dishevelled in the background. Colour photomechanical reproduction of lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1902.

Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by R. Pranker, 176-, after J. (?) Houbraken.

Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by P. Anderloni after Titian.

A mesmeric physician taking advantage of his female patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

Commonsense about sex / by Leonora Eyles.

Developing sex education in schools : a practical guide / by Gill Mullinar.

Sex & character / by Otto Weininger. Authorised translation from the 6th German ed.

Hadriani Beverlandi De fornicatione cavenda admonitio, sive, Adhortatio ad pudicitiam et castitatem.

Sex and the social order / by Georgene H. Seward.

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Sexual ethics

Images from the collections

Images about Sexual ethics

Works from the collections

Commonsense about sex / by Leonora Eyles.

Developing sex education in schools : a practical guide / by Gill Mullinar.

Sex & character / by Otto Weininger. Authorised translation from the 6th German ed.

Hadriani Beverlandi De fornicatione cavenda admonitio, sive, Adhortatio ad pudicitiam et castitatem.

Sex and the social order / by Georgene H. Seward.

Sexual ethics

Images from the collections

Images about Sexual ethics

Works from the collections

Commonsense about sex / by Leonora Eyles.

Developing sex education in schools : a practical guide / by Gill Mullinar.

Sex & character / by Otto Weininger. Authorised translation from the 6th German ed.

Hadriani Beverlandi De fornicatione cavenda admonitio, sive, Adhortatio ad pudicitiam et castitatem.

Sex and the social order / by Georgene H. Seward.

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