A Vision Of Sexology

This is a promotional still from The Labyrinth Of Sex, a 1969 Italian “documentary” of sexual perversions. The internet has little to say about the film, but the scene depicted supposedly has something to do with the sexology research of famed sexologists Masters and Johnson:

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Mad Science, In The Service Of Misogyny

At first glance this illustration looks like a perfect example of mad-scientific erotica. If sexology is a science, this could be a perfectly-normal sex lab:

Sadly, it’s from a spread in the November 1965 Adam magazine titled “Why A Woman Can’t Be Like A Man.” My scanset is incomplete and doesn’t include whatever non-lurid back pages contained most of the text, so we’ll never know what sexist nonsense Dr. Irwin Ross was selling.

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Sexology (Illustrated)

I came upon this advertisement in an old magazine from 1909:

Who wouldn’t want “the knowledge vital to a happy marriage”? I was thinking it might be fun to see the whole book, and then I realized, Internet Archive might have it. And, they do!

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Orgasm, Illustrated (1949)

Remember that awesome “tickling the tip of the iceberg” artwork that went viral on Twitter in late 2014 illustrating the look of what an orgasm feels like?

Well, in 1949 the imagery was rather more terrifying, all raw nerves and lightning bolts:

A version of this artwork was also to be found all over Twitter (and on the less-contemplative copycat viral sites) in 2014, where it was typically attributed to the November 1949 issue of Sexology magazine. Although a good set of scanned pages for this magazine does not appear to exist online, I did find the cover, which confirms the existence in that magazine of an illustrated article on the “Evolution of The Female Climax”:

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