Form in which people experience and express themselves sexually

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An oryx whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.

Cupid presides over a group of naked women who sit separated from groups of yearning men; symbolising the passion of love. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.

A map of Zambia containing numerous women saying no to sex before marriage; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Anti-AIDS Project and Copperbelt Health Education Project in Zambia. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Homo, bi, hétéro, qui suis-je? / Ligne Azur.

A devil buggering a man. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.

Two women embracing and using carrots as dildoes. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.

L'orientation sexuelle / Crips Île-de-France.

A prostitute leading an old man into the bedroom and taking money from him; implying that her services will act like a tonic and preserve his state of health. Coloured etching, 18--, after T. Rowlandson, 1811.

A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Cambodian. Colour lithograph.

Relations de couple : be gay : bien être / Crips Île-de-France.

A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Chinese. Colour lithograph.

Commonsense about sex / by Leonora Eyles.

Love is.... Divine : latest additions / Divine.

Sexuality, print, and popular visual culture in the United States, 1830-1870 / by Katherine Noel Hijar.

Fundamentals of human sexuality / Herant A. Katchadourian, Donald T. Lunde.

A ritual for married lovers / Jules Guyot ; translated by Gertrude Minturn Pinchot.

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Sexuality

Images from the collections

Images referencing Sexuality

Works from the collections

Commonsense about sex / by Leonora Eyles.

Love is.... Divine : latest additions / Divine.

Sexuality, print, and popular visual culture in the United States, 1830-1870 / by Katherine Noel Hijar.

Fundamentals of human sexuality / Herant A. Katchadourian, Donald T. Lunde.

A ritual for married lovers / Jules Guyot ; translated by Gertrude Minturn Pinchot.

Sexuality

Images from the collections

Images referencing Sexuality

Works from the collections

Commonsense about sex / by Leonora Eyles.

Love is.... Divine : latest additions / Divine.

Sexuality, print, and popular visual culture in the United States, 1830-1870 / by Katherine Noel Hijar.

Fundamentals of human sexuality / Herant A. Katchadourian, Donald T. Lunde.

A ritual for married lovers / Jules Guyot ; translated by Gertrude Minturn Pinchot.

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