Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)

The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)

Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll

Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)

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

Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)

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

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

Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (1922)

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

Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art

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

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)

Glossary of Censored Words from a 1919 Treatise on Love

Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed (1828)

The False Young Man (1937)

Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony

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

Details from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (1908)

The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century)

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