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    *Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs* (1869)
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    Love & Lust, Science & Medicine

    Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)

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

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

    Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ *Lonesome* (1928)
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    Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)

    The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)
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    The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)

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

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

    Chromatic Aberrations: *The Toll of the Sea* (1922)
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    Love & Lust, Colonialism & the 'Other'

    Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (1922)

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

    *Ostentatio Genitalium* in Renaissance Art
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    Love & Lust, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art

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

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

    Theresa Babb’s Photographs of Friendship (ca. 1898)
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    Customs & Culture, Landscapes, Love & Lust, People

    Theresa Babb’s Photographs of Friendship (ca. 1898)

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

    Glossary of Censored Words from a 1919 Treatise on Love

    Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed (1828)
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    Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed (1828)

    The False Young Man (1937)
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    Love & Lust, Crime & Law

    The False Young Man (1937)

    Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony
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    Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony

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

    Details from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (1908)
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    Details from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (1908)

    The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century)
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    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, Love & Lust

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

    Le Centre de l’Amour (ca. 1687)
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    Le Centre de l’Amour (ca. 1687)

    The Friendship Book of Anne Wagner (1795-1834)
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    People, Love & Lust

    The Friendship Book of Anne Wagner (1795-1834)

    Erotic Cameos from Antiquity (ca. 1771)
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    Erotic Cameos from Antiquity (ca. 1771)

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

    Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (1836)

    Barbara Allen performed by Frank Luther (1928)
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    Death, Love & Lust

    Barbara Allen performed by Frank Luther (1928)