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