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Concept

Vagina

Images

  • A man ejaculating, while holding a bird-trap on a bamboo pole to catch flying vaginas. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A naked couple lying on a pink heart shaped bed from which an arrow protrudes; a personified condom jumps excitedly out of a framed picture above on to the bed; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, 1990.
  • Two diagrams of a childs head starting to emerge from the vagina; two cross-sections of an exposed uterus and two diagrams of a single child and twins in the womb. Engraving by W. Taylor, 1791, after F. Birnie after W. Smellie.
  • A man ejaculating, while holding a bird-trap on a bamboo pole to catch flying vaginas. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A clay figure in the form of a vagina assumed to have been made as a votive offering. Watercolour.
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Catalogue

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    Procédé et instruments nouveaux pour détruire le polypes de l'utérus, du vagin et du rectum, quelque volumineux qu'ils soient / par le Dr Prosper Hullin ...

    Hullin, Prosper M.L. | Date: 1845
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    Ways in which the HIV virus is transmitted representing one of a series of posters in an advertising campaign about AIDS by the Agence Française Lutte Contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 672705i
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    The wonder down under : a user's guide to the vagina / Nina Brochmann, Ellen Støkken Dahl ; translated by Lucy Moffatt ; illustrations by Hanne Sigbjørnsen.

    Brochmann, Nina | Date: 2018
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    Womanhood : the bare reality / Laura Dodsworth.

    Dodsworth, Laura | Date: 2019
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    Recherches sur l'hymen et l'orifice vaginal / par P. Budin.

    | Date: 1879
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