| Some well-known phallic symbols include the Eiffel Tower, Cleopatra's Needle, the Washington Monument, the Empire State Building, and the space shuttle. |
| The great poet, Walt Whitman, preferred the company of men to women and in a post-mortem examination it was revealed that he was probably born a eunuch. |
| Rasputin, the Mad Monk of Russia, was in rapid succession, poisoned, shot, raped, castrated and then drowned. His penis, a massive 12 3/4 inches long, was apparently retrieved and carefully preserved in a specially made velvet-lined box. |
| The Marquis de Sade, born June 2, 1740, died in an insane asylum in 1814 at the age of seventy-four. |
| North American poachers are paid $400-$600 for the gallbladder of the black bear, another sought-after aphrodisiac in the Far East. |
| In the wake of the AIDS epidemic, child prostitution has increased dramatically in Asian countries such as Thailand, Taiwan, and the Philippines, driven by client demand for disease-free virgins. |
| The most common sexual activity among homosexuals is fellatio. |
| More than 289 rapes occur everyday in the United States-- about one rape every 5 minutes. |
| It is claimed that Theodora, the wife of Byzantine emperor Justinian (527-565 B.C.), performed as a striptease dancer and entertained thousands of spectators with he shocking display of geese pecking grain from her genitals. |
| Wealthy Roman men would often keep a preferred child slave for sexual purposes. |
| It's claimed that the first publicized nude performance of our era occurred at the Paris Folies Bergese in 1912. |
| The April 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan featured actor Burt Reynolds as the first nude male centerfold of a popularly read magazine. |
| To obtain a divorce in the 1920s, Russian citizens didn't need their spouse's consent. The party desiring divorce merely notified the registrar's office, which in turn mailed a certificate of divorce to the other spouse. The period of the famous "divorce postcards" lasted until 1936, when new divorce laws were enacted. |
| An accepted marital custom of the seventeenth-century Italian society was for a husband to provide his wife with a cicisbeo, a male escort, confident, and lover. |
| Among the Afican Benin and Nama tribes, the only acceptable form of homosexuality is mutual masturbation. |