Any act or set of actions performed for reproduction, sexual pleasure or both

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Hindu deities: Shiva, Chhinnamasta, Kamadeva and Rati. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

Porcelain fruit containing couple engaged in sexual foreplay

Persian couple copulating

Lovers sitting in a wood. Colour lithograph, 18--.

A man and a woman engaged in sexual intercourse leaning on a canopied neoclassical bed. Etching, ca. 1780.

A man and a woman engaged in sexual intercourse on a chair; folding screen in the background. Etching, ca. 1780.

Chinese ivory statue man and woman engaged in sexual foreplay

A couple making love; outside the room, a garden is seen by moonlight. Gouache painting.

A Chinese man and woman making love outside. Gouache painting.

The conjugal directory, or, The joys of hymen : a poem; in three books.

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Sexual intercourse

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Images about Sexual intercourse

Works from the collections

Persian couple copulating

A couple making love; outside the room, a garden is seen by moonlight. Gouache painting.

A Chinese man and woman making love outside. Gouache painting.

Persian couple copulating

The conjugal directory, or, The joys of hymen : a poem; in three books.

Sexual intercourse

Images from the collections

Images about Sexual intercourse

Works from the collections

Persian couple copulating

A couple making love; outside the room, a garden is seen by moonlight. Gouache painting.

A Chinese man and woman making love outside. Gouache painting.

Persian couple copulating

The conjugal directory, or, The joys of hymen : a poem; in three books.

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