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  • A furious cuckold rushes at his rival with a sword; representing vice as its own punishment. Engraving after O. van Veen (Vaenius), 1612.
  • Basil Valentine contemplates a chemical jar containing homunculi of a man and woman holding hands, and a child emanating from them (alchemical symbol of conception); he is suddenly visited by Sabine Stuart de Chevalier, who reveals that she has the key to his works and crowns him as the king of alchemists. Etching by J. Le Roy, ca. 1781, after Hostoul after Sabine Stuart de Chevalier.
  • 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 Ilocano. Colour lithograph.
  • A horse whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • Häagen-Dazs fresh cream ice cream.
  • Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées. Avec la bonne et veritable méthode de les bien aider en leurs accouchemens naturels, & les moyens de remedier à tous ceux qui sont contre-nature, & aux indispositions des enfans nouveau-nés: ensemble une tres-exacte description de toutes les parties de la femme qui sont destinées à la generation ... / composé par François Mauriceau maistre chirurgien iuré à Paris.
  • An orange background bearing the white lettering: "Vous pouvez parler librement du SIDA, de la sexualité et de la toxicomanie. Votre médecin est tenu au secret professionnel." [You can talk freely of AIDS, sexuality and drug addiction. Your doctor is bound by professional secrecy]; an advertisement by the Swiss Physicians [FMH] and Swiss Federal Office of Public Health [OFSP]. Colour lithograph.
  • A yellow cat crying behind bars with four smiling pink naked couples in various sexual positions below with the message in German: 'Imagine AIDS threatens us ... and all make safer sex' an advertisement for safe sex by the AHS [AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz], ASS [AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA] and AAS [Aiuto AIDS Svizzero]. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman wearing a necklace bearing the words 'sex', an off-the-shoulder top and holding a paint spray can; two men in caps, one bearing the letters 'CRIPS' stand behind with graffiti and pink condoms between; an advertisement by CRIPS with the help of the Ministère de la Culture. Colour lithograph by Marko, 1993.
  • The black silhouettes of gay male and female couples engaged in different sexual positions representing an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS and HIV by Spitnac, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
  • Der Ablauf des Lebens : Grundlegung zur exakten Biologie / von Wilhelm Fliess.
  • Psychopathia sexualis : with especial reference to antipathic sexual instinct a medico-forensic study / by R. v. Krafft-Ebing ... The only authorised English translation of the tenth German edition.
  • A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
  • Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. 1, Sexual inversion / by Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds / by Havelock Ellis.
  • A young man with an exhausted expression after sex pulls on his breeches beside a woman who gazes up at him and holds his arm; on the wall is an image of Cupid pointing to a downward-pointing rocket. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1736.
  • A man copulating with a goat or deer. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Sadomasochism leather gear including a mask, a dildo, handcuffs, nipple piercing chains, a collar and a whip; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by J. Mang and Trash Line Design for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • Two couples: the young women putting antlers on to the heads of the older men, indicating their cuckoldry. Engraving.
  • A cobbler purposely disturbing his beautiful wife and a rich merchant from beginning to repay his debt with sexual favours. Etching by P. Fillœul, 1736, after J.-B. Pater.
  • Cupid, armed with a bow and arrow, flies in through the window to a room where two naked lovers lie asleep on a couch. Etching.
  • A mesmeric physician taking advantage of his female patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.