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Concept

Sexual ethics

Images

  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Etching by W. Unger after Titian.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by W. Bromley after P.P. Rubens.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • A physician trying to take advantage of a young woman patient by visiting her at home while her husband is out. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • A man looms over an old woman, telling her that it will not cost her anything if he has made her daughter pregnant, as she is on welfare support: the daughter lies dishevelled in the background. Colour photomechanical reproduction of lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1902.
  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by R. Pranker, 176-, after J. (?) Houbraken.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by P. Anderloni after Titian.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Commonsense about sex / by Leonora Eyles.

    Eyles, Leonora, 1890- | Date: 1943
    • Books

    Developing sex education in schools : a practical guide / by Gill Mullinar.

    Mullinar, Gill | Date: [1994]
    • Books

    Sex & character / by Otto Weininger. Authorised translation from the 6th German ed.

    Weininger, Otto, 1880-1903. | Date: 1906
    • Books

    Sex and the social order / by Georgene H. Seward.

    Seward, Georgene H. (Georgene Hoffman), 1902-1992. | Date: 1954, ©1946
    • Books

    Sex life & sex ethics / by René Guyon; translated from the French by J.C. and Ingeborg Flugel with an introduction and notes by Norman Haire.

    Guyon, René. | Date: [1933]
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