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  • Two bare-chested gay men in boxer shorts, one placing a hand with a boxing glove in the groin area of the other man; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for gay and bisexual men by the Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske. Lithograph by Robin Skjoldborg, ca. 1995.
  • Two personified female and male world globes holding hands; advertising awareness and education in AIDS prevention. Colour lithograph, ca. 1988.
  • Condoms stuffed into the rear jeans pocket of a man; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for gay and bisexual men by the Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske. Lithograph by Robin Skjoldborg, ca. 1995.
  • Museum Wormianum. Seu historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur / lao Worm.
  • Two bare-chested gay men in jeans holding each other, one black the other white; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for gay and bisexual men by the Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske. Lithograph by Robin Skjoldborg, ca. 1995.
  • The back view of a woman in a skimpy black skirt and pink high heels who points to a bowl of condoms bearing the label 'sikker sex' (safer sex) before a man who empties his pockets to find he has no money to pay for them; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Landsforeningen Ungdomsringen. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, 1993.
  • A man in dungarees with a thumb raised to hitch a lift from an approaching car; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for gays and lesbians by the Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske/Sundhedsstyrelsen. Lithograph by Robin Skjoldborg, ca. 1995.
  • Seven examples of foreign posters advertising safe sex; advertising the use of such posters in Denmark. Colour lithograph by De Baskerville, 1991.
  • A woman with an open burgundy coloured shirt revealing her breasts stares wide-eyed at a diver holding onto a tray on which sit condoms and a clockwatch; a personified condom flies into the air off a skateboard while a telescope bearing an eye sticks out of the woman's top pocket; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Landsforeningen Ungdomsringen. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, ca. 1995.
  • A man with his wife and his child on his shoulders walking through a park on the left and the same man chatting to another man by a tree on the right; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for bisexual men by the Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske. Lithograph by Robin Skjoldborg, ca. 1995.
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    A man with his wife and his child on his shoulders walking through a park on the left and the same man chatting to another man by a tree on the right; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for bisexual men by the Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske. Lithograph by Robin Skjoldborg, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 676458i
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    A woman kissing a man who is looking at another man passing by with a reminder to gay and bisexual men to use condoms; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for gay and bisexual men by the Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske. Lithograph by Robin Skjoldborg, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 676462i
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    Observatio de affectibus morbosis virginis Havniensis : cui plurimae acus e variis corporis partibus excisae et extractae sunt / auctore J.D. Herholdt.

    Herholdt, Johan Daniel, 1764-1836. | Date: 1822
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    Ársberetning 1954.

    Københavns universitet. Medicinsk-historiske museum. | Date: [1956?]
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    The museum of Ole Worm, Copenhagen: interior. Engraving, 1655.

    | Date: 1655 | Reference: 571887i
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIDS (Disease) - Prevention
Safe Sex
Gay men
Bisexual men
Condoms
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