Victims of Sexuality

Doubtless surmising my interest in sex—where would any of us be without it?—some weeks ago Dr. Paul Gebhart, director of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, courteously invited me to visit his premises. Thither I went, and some poking into the Institute’s collections has inspired these reflections.

Dr. Gebhart showed his guests curiosa not revealed to the casual visitor. By way of reciprocation, I was able to inform him, out of my own not inconsiderable researches, about the phallic pottery of Ibiza, and Ruthven Todd’s most instructive study of the obscene drawings of Fuseli.

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Russell Kirk

Doubtless surmising my interest in sex—where would any of us be without it?—some weeks ago Dr. Paul Gebhart, director of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, courteously invited me to visit his premises. Thither I went, and some poking into the Institute’s collections has inspired these reflections.

Dr. Gebhart showed his guests curiosa not revealed to the casual visitor. By way of reciprocation, I was able to inform him, out of my own not inconsiderable researches, about the phallic pottery of Ibiza, and Ruthven Todd’s most instructive study of the obscene drawings of Fuseli.