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Statue of a nymph and satyr once held in the Secretum

The Secretum was a British Museum collection of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that held artefacts and images deemed sexually graphic. Many of the items were from pre-Christian traditions and covered wide ranges of human history and geography. Many of the early artefacts with erotic or sexually graphic images acquired by the museum were not put on public display. Modern scholars believe this segregation was probably motivated by a paternalistic stance from the museum to keep what they considered morally dangerous material away from the public. By the 1860s there were around 700 such items held by the museum. In 1865 the antiquarian George Witt donated his phallocentric collection of 434 artefacts to the museum, which led to the formal setting up of the Secretum. Beginning in 1912 items were gradually transferred from the Secretum into departments appropriate for their time frame and culture. The last remaining items were moved out of the collection in 2005. (Full article...)

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Tricanas de Coimbra

I wanted to put a new article on Wiki concerning tricanas de Coimbra - see my sandbox https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Andreypl/brudnopis?venotify=created but it is not accepted. Maybe you could help me ? Originally it was on my blog: http://varia-ap.blogspot.com/2013/08/tricanas.html Melhores cumprimentos da Polonia ! Andreypl