Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/6


 * ... that the French lawyer and historian Nicolas Chorier was also a writer of erotic fiction (work pictured)?
 * ... that Charles de Talleyrand described his wife, Catherine Grand (pictured), as "an Indian, very beautiful, very lazy, the most idle woman he had ever known"?
 * ... that before becoming King of the United Kingdom, Edward VII was a frequent visitor to the luxurious Belle Époque brothel Le Chabanais in Paris and had himself built a special "love seat" there? (painting of Le Chabanais by Toulouse-Lautrec pictured)
 * ... that some birds, including flamingos, display homosexual behavior?
 * ... that more than 200 species of mammals display homosexual behavior including oral sex, genital stimulation, and urolagnia?
 * ... that the erotic depiction on the Oinochoe (pictured) by the Shuvalov Painter is one of the most frequently illustrated works of Greek vase painting?

August - December 2007