Prospectus for 'An epoch-marking double erotic masterpiece...the Marquis de Sade's anthropologia sexualis of 600 perversions 120 days of Sodom or the school for libertinage and sex life of French age of debauchery from private archives of the French government by Dr. Iwan Bloch.' The 120 days of Sodom was an unfinished draft manuscript by the Marquis de Sade that was rediscovered in 1904. The book is limited to purchase by 'subscription - most rigidly restricted - to serious cultured adults'.

Prospectus for 'A profusely illustrated study of the world's strangest erotic ritual and the technique of sexual behavior among primitive and sexual races; anthropology of tribal esoterica and psychology of passion fully described in an interesting manner by Dr. Felix Bryk author of Voodoo Eros. Circumcision in man and woman. Illustrated with over 75 rare and unique photographs. Reproducing savage sexual practices and strange erotic operations.' The prospectus indicates that some of the topics covered include ethnological erotic data, the prepuce in erection and coitus, and erotic customs. The verso of the prospectus indicates that the book is only to be sold to doctors, lawyers, and adult students of the social sciences.

Mail order prospectus for 'Anthropologic studies in the strange sexual practices of all races in all ages, ancient and modern, oriental and occidental, primitive and civilized' by Dr. Iwan Bloch, physician of diseases of the sexual system, Charlottenburg, Berlin. Dr. Bloch was also the author of 'Sexual life of our time', 'origin of syphilis', and 'Marquis de Sade'. The work was translated from the German by Keene Wallis and printed by Blackfriars Press. The prospectus gives more information on some of the strange sexual practices discussed, including savage lesbian love, obscene cults, modern apparatus and pleasure expedients, sexual magic, and more. On the verso of the prospectus is a form to fill out to have the book mailed to you, with a note that only mature students of anthropology, sociology and allied subjects need apply.

Prospectus for 'Anthropology of the sex life of the Levant, by Bernhard Stern, M.D., author of 'Die Romanows; An des Wolga; Abdul Hamid II; Der Kranke Mann; Medzin und Aberglaube in Turkei; and so forth. Translated by David Berger M.A. completely from the German, illustrated with photographic studies taken from Prof. C. H. Stratz's Die Rassenschoenheit des Weibes and Prof. F.S. Krauss' Der Frauen Schoenheit.' Contents of the book include wedding customs of the people in Turkey [Turkiye], abortion, and midwives. Purchase of the book is limited only to members of the medical and legal sciences.

Prospectus for 'Bestiality, an encyclopedia of the carnal relations between human beings and animals. By Gaston DuBois-Desaulle, translated with copious addenda by A.F.N. one of American's foremost authorities on erotology.' Contents include bestiality and modern science, bestiality and heresy, and more. The sale of the book is restricted to members of the learned and social professions and to adult readers and collectors of privately printed publications.

Prospectus for 'Cultural and scientific pictorial studies in sex anatomy and the technique of coitus in man, woman, and the third and fourth sexes in 227 photographs and illustrations, diagrams, including over a hundred rare and hitherto inaccessible plates...by James Bruce, anthropologist, sexologist, author of 'the natural method of birth control' editor and translator of 'anthropological studies in the sexual relations of mankind' and other scientific works by Dr. Bloch; Prof. Mantegazza, etc.' Some of the topics included in the work are analyses of all types of female breasts, the miracle of birth, analysis of the third and fourth sexes: hermaphrodites and eunuchs, among others. The purchase of this book is 'rigidly restricted to the medical and scientific world and other cultured adults.'

Prospectus for 'the whole amazing record and fascinating account of the mysteries of flagellation...the weird sexual and mystic practices of whipping! We take pleasure in announcing the publication of one of the most extraordinary human documents ever written. The greatest psychological autobiography of the century. Merry order of St. Bridget by Margaret Anson. Personal recollections of the use of the rod, being the 'well of loneliness of flagellation' complete and unexpurgated.' The story is that of a maid who is initiated into a 'secret order of flagellants.' The purchase of the book was restricted to adult members of the learned professions and mature students of sexology and curiosa.

Catalogue no. 7, summer issue from Private Press Publishers, 21 east 17th Street, New York City. The catalogue advertises their sensational book sale, of books which are 'the finest in the exotic and curious field'. Almost all of the books advertised are erotica, some disguised as sociology.

Prospectus for 'Sex habits a vital factor in well-being by A. Buschke, M.D. and F. Jacobsohn, M.D. specializing physicians to the great continental Rudolf-Virchow Hospital. Foreword by Gerard L. Moench, M.D. Associate Professor of Gynecology, New York Post Graduate Hospital, Columbia University.' Some subjects included in the book are: value of regular sex, sex impulse, and sex dangers.

Prospectus for 'Sex life of the world illustrated. An erotic voyage around the exotic love-lands of the globe photographing their amatory curiosities and love-arts in color! 500 curious racial erotic photographs and illustrations - all in color!!! From anthropological expeditions, field studies, museum archives, portraying the strangest phases of the erotic life of the savage and civilized races of mankind. Collected, arranged, annotated with complete and unexpurgated descriptions by the anthropologist Robert Meadows translator and editor of 'The Erotikon' by Dr. Cabanes.' Contents of the book include tattooing and acts of love, bizarre childbirths, and sex frenzies in witchcraft among others. The purchase of the book is limited to only those who are 'cultured adults'.

Prospectus for 'A book for mature collectors of literary curiosa. Strange loves, a study in sexual abnormalities by La Forest Potter, M.D. Late member of the New York County Medical Society, Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston Gynecological Society, Associate Professor of Rhinology, Laryngology, and Otology, New York School of Clinical Medicine, Surgeon Malden Hospital. The book makes reference to "twilight men and women" which appears to be a euphemism for homosexuals. The purchase of the book is limited to adults only.

Prospectus for 'Tale of the '90's by Henry Von Rhau, a naughty tale uproarious and saucy as Mark Twain's 1601.' The book follows the lives of the three daughters of Judge and Mrs. Hoar and promises to revive in the reader 'the care-free abandon of the glorious nineties'. The prospectus also warns that only the initiated reader, who is rugged in literary taste will be able to handle the delectations of this book.

Prospectus for 'The abuses, abberrations [aberrations], and crimes of the genital sense, done into English direct from the original manuscript of Dr. Jacobus X...French army surgeon and author of: 'untrodden fields of anthropology', ;ethnology of the sixth sense', 'genital laws', etc. etc. The book is apparently endorsed by Havelock Ellis and includes such topics as: on onanism in general; azoophilism; and erotomania among others. The sale of the book was limited to adult students of the sciences or physicians, lawyers and anthropologists.

Prospectus for 'World's greatest authority on esoteric anthropology lays bare in the ONLY complete authentic esoteric treasury. The erotikon. The 1001 strangest sexual and amatory curiosa in the erotic life of men and women across the ages. Unexpurgated, amazingly illustrated, by Doctor Augustin Cabanes France's greatest sexual anthropologist: author of 60 previous esoteric manuscripts.' Topics in the book include astonishing sexual freaks, strange arts of love and 1001 other amatory curiosa. The book is limited to be sold only to mature students of anthropology, sociology and allied subjects.

Prospectus for 'A history of obscene religions, the Gods of generation: by Jacques-Antoine Dulaure. Translated with a special preface by A.F.N. one of American's foremost authorities on erotology. Including a biography of the author by Alcide Bonneau one of the greatest French writers on phallicism.' The work is advertised as the most comprehensive guide on the worship of obscene Gods and phallic religions.

Prospectus for 'The real anthropological studies in the sexual relations of mankind, illustrated by Professor Paolo Mantegazza, professor of Anthropology at University of Florence, universally renowned author of 'physiology of love,' 'hygiene of love,; etc. etc. The greatest, completest and frankest book on the sex relations of all the races of mankind - includes unexpurgated information to be found in no other work.' The prospectus indicates that some topics covered include the conquest of woman, fidelity and adultery, male and female prostitution, and more. The purchase of the book is restricted to 'members of the learned processions and mature students of sexology and anthropology.'

Prospectus for 'The only complete and authentic work on the erotic-life in the Orient...the scented garden anthropology of the art of love in the Levant. Rare and secret facts of love. For the first time published in English. Illustrated with photographs of feminine beauty taken from life in Asia-Minor, Arabia, Persia, Egypt, India, Japan et cetera by Stratz, Krauss and a host of others. Complete and unexpurgated edition limited to 600 numbered copies.' The book is to be sold only to 'physicians, lawyers and adult students of sexual-anthropology.'

Prospectus for 'a frank book...Doctor Caufeyon's unisexual love, a documentary study of the sources, manifestations, the pgysiology and psychology of sexual perversions in the two sexes'. In this work, unisexual love is a term for homosexuality. The prospectus notes that the book was originally suppressed in France and is sold only to 'advanced students of psychopathia sexualis'.

Prospectus for 'Woman as a sexual criminal by Eric Wulffen, M.D. Director of Penal Institutes and the Minister of Probation in Saxony. Author of 'criminal psychology; the sexual criminal; the sexual mirror of art and crime, etc. Complete and unexpurgated, over 500 pages, fully illustrated with unique photographs from the secret archives of the German police, hundreds of cases.' Contents include female swindlers and cheats, female homosexuality, murder of husband, and more. The book is only to be sold to doctors and lawyers.