Indigenous Australia

Simon Hogan, Ian Rictor, Roy Underwood and Lennard Walker.
Spinifex people. Pukara, 2013

The sixth largest country in the world, with 7,617,930 square kilometres, is also a big unknown. Besides having the Great Barrier Reef, Australia is one of the most developed and wealthy countries (in terms of wealth, in 2013 Australia took up the second place in the world ranking after Switzerland). Its quality of life and its health and education systems make this nation one of the most perfect places to live.

The best known part of the Australian history better known started in 1788, when the British colony was established. The first of January, 1901, the six states (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia) along with the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory formed the Commonwealth of Australia.

The Institute of Sexology

In this photograph, taken in the late 1920s, we can see a nurse next to the Marie Stopes birth control clinic. Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist, academic, eugenicist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of birth control. 

This picture, property of the Wellcome Library, is part of the exhibition The Institute of Sexology. This unique exposition will be at the Wellcome Collection until the 20th of September, 2015.

'The Institute of Sexology' brings together the pioneers of the study of sex through films, photographs, sculptures, archives and sexual instruments.

Besides this picture of Marie Stopes, the show collects some works and objects from Magnus Hirschfeld, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, Virginia Johnson or Richard von Krafft-Ebing, among others.

Undress your mind and explore how sex was observed and analysed, since the 19th century, from different points of view as perversion, sadomasochism or homosexuality.