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    *The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity* (1901 edition)
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    Customs & Culture, Sex, Classical World

    The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)

    “On This Desolate Island”: *Sodomy Punish’d* (1726)
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    Customs & Culture, Sex, Travel & Exploration

    “On This Desolate Island”: Sodomy Punish’d (1726)

    Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)
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    Sex

    Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)

    *Ostentatio Genitalium* in Renaissance Art
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Sex

    Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art

    Judith Sargent Murray’s *On the Equality of the Sexes* (1790)
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    Politics, Sex

    Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)

    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Bed Series: An Intimate Look Behind the Scenes at a Paris Brothel (1890s)
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    Love, Sex

    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Bed Series: An Intimate Look Behind the Scenes at a Paris Brothel (1890s)

    Glossary of Censored Words from a 1919 Treatise on Love
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    Love, Sex, Language

    Glossary of Censored Words from a 1919 Treatise on Love

    Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed (1828)
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    Love, Sex

    Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed (1828)

    The Sexual Life of our Time in its Relations to Modern Civilization ([1906] 1909)
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    Sex

    The Sexual Life of our Time in its Relations to Modern Civilization ([1906] 1909)

    The Book of Exposition: A Collection of 15th-Century Erotica from the Middle East (1900)
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    Sex

    The Book of Exposition: A Collection of 15th-Century Erotica from the Middle East (1900)

    The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century)
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    Sex

    The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century)

    Emanuel Swedenborg’s Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year 1744 (1918)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Sex

    Emanuel Swedenborg’s Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Year 1744 (1918)

    Erotic Cameos from Antiquity (ca. 1771)
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    Sex

    Erotic Cameos from Antiquity (ca. 1771)

    Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (1836)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Sex

    Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (1836)

    Photograph Collection of a 19th-Century Sexologist
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    Victorian, Fashion, Sex

    Photograph Collection of a 19th-Century Sexologist