EditorialSea horses Kaiba (title on object) A series with horses (series title) Umazukushi (series title on object), Paper cover with a few dried sea horses and box with two beetles. Both beetles and seahorses were seen as a powerful aphrodisiac, but seahorses ...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked man and woman having sex on a bed, attended by a cubicular slave bringing an aphrodisiac drink. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledo...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked woman riding on top of a man on a mattress on a bed with three sides. A cubicular slave looks back carrying a plate with an aphrodisiac. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples...
EditorialSemnopithecus johnii, Print, The Nilgiri langur (Semnopithecus johnii) is a langur (a type of Old World monkey) found in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats in South India. Its range also includes Kodagu in Karnataka, Kodayar Hills in Tamil Nadu, an...
EditorialSemnopithecus johnii, Print, The Nilgiri langur (Semnopithecus johnii) is a langur (a type of Old World monkey) found in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats in South India. Its range also includes Kodagu in Karnataka, Kodayar Hills in Tamil Nadu, an...
EditorialSea horses Kaiba (title on object) A series with horses (series title) Umazukushi (series title on object), Paper cover with a few dried sea horses and box with two beetles. Both beetles and seahorses were seen as a powerful aphrodisiac, but seahorses ...
EditorialSemnopithecus johnii, Print, The Nilgiri langur (Semnopithecus johnii) is a langur (a type of Old World monkey) found in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats in South India. Its range also includes Kodagu in Karnataka, Kodayar Hills in Tamil Nadu, an...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked man and woman having sex on a bed, attended by a cubicular slave bringing an aphrodisiac drink. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledo...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked woman riding on top of a man on a mattress on a bed with three sides. A cubicular slave looks back carrying a plate with an aphrodisiac. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples...
EditorialFour elephants, shown with their traditional enemy the dragon, and the mandrake plant which they use as an aphrodisiac. Dicta Chrysostomi. N. France or S. Netherlands; 1280-1300. Source: Sloane 278, f.48v. Language: Latin.
EditorialAphrodisiac food. The Ni'matnama-i Nasir al-Din Shah. A manuscript o. 1495 - 1505. Preparation of food for the Sultan Ghiyath al-Din. Preparation of aphrodisiac food. Ghiyath Shahi out of doors supervising his cooks, one of whom is holding a pot lid. S...
EditorialIllustration of field horsetail [hyppuris], and iris [? jacintus]; figures representing aspects of human sexuality. Herbal. Italy, N. (Lombardy). Botanical illustration of the plant Hyppurius (field horsetail), on the left, with a man and a woman sitti...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked man and woman having sex on a bed, attended by a cubicular slave bringing an aphrodisiac drink. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledo...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked woman riding on top of a man on a mattress on a bed with three sides. A cubicular slave looks back carrying a plate with an aphrodisiac. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked man and woman having sex on a bed, attended by a cubicular slave bringing an aphrodisiac drink. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledo...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked woman riding on top of a man on a mattress on a bed with three sides. A cubicular slave looks back carrying a plate with an aphrodisiac. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples...
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