Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/2

... that New York City authorities asked the Museum of Sex (pictured) not to locate itself within 500 feet of a church or school?
... that the nature of the female orgasm is a field of research for academics studying female sexuality?
... that the term Cicisbei refers to legal and generally respected companions and often lovers of married women in eighteenth-century Italy? (1790 etching pictured)
... that a Mercedes roadster was colloquially named after a wealthy German call girl, Rosemarie Nitribitt (grave pictured), who was murdered in Frankfurt in 1957?
... that the scandalous tales of Aristides of Miletus are still being discussed after over two millennia, although not one word of them has survived?

January-June 2006