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Images from the collections

Images about Sexuality

142 images from works
  • 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.
  • Two women embracing and using carrots as dildoes. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • L'orientation sexuelle / 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 Cambodian. Colour lithograph.
  • Relations de couple : be gay : bien être / Crips Île-de-France.
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Works from the collections

3,758 works

    • Ephemera

    Naughty schoolgirl : needs to be taken in hand : open late Mayfair.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Books

    Commonsense about sex / by Leonora Eyles.

    | Leonora Eyles | Date: 1943
    • Ephemera

    "New" Indian beauty 18 years : open early til late : water sport, hard sport, V.I.P, bubble bath, hotel visits : off Tottenham Ct Rd., Warren St., Gt. Portland St. : local.

    | Date: [2001]
    • Ephemera

    Little Miss Madam : 1 min from Baker Street.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Ephemera

    A touch of asian magic : busty masseuse.

    | Date: [1991]
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Related topics

Prostitution
Prostitutes
London
Sadomasochism
Corporal punishment
Sexual dominance and submission
Gender Identity
Blondes
Baker Street (London, England)
Sexual Behavior

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