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Sexual ethics

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Images from the collections

Images about Sexual ethics

13 images from works
  • 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.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 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.
  • 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.
  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by P. Anderloni after Titian.

Works from the collections

165 works

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    Commonsense about sex / by Leonora Eyles.

    Eyles, Leonora, 1890- | Date: 1943
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    Developing sex education in schools : a practical guide / by Gill Mullinar.

    Mullinar, Gill | Date: [1994]
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    Sex & character / by Otto Weininger. Authorised translation from the 6th German ed.

    Weininger, Otto, 1880-1903. | Date: 1906
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    Hadriani Beverlandi De fornicatione cavenda admonitio, sive, Adhortatio ad pudicitiam et castitatem.

    Beverland, Hadriaan, 1650-1716 | Date: 1697
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    Sex and the social order / by Georgene H. Seward.

    Seward, Georgene H. (Georgene Hoffman), 1902-1992. | Date: 1954, ©1946

Related topics

Sex
Marriage
Sexual health
Sex Education
Adultery
Sexual Behavior
Sexuality
Religion and Sex
Christianity

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