Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/1
• ... that because of an effort to curb the spread of
STDs,
prostitution in Germany has been legal since the
1920s? (German prostitute pictured)
• ... that some people in the
BDSM
community are
sexually aroused by being
gagged? (ball gag pictured)
• ... that a
strap-on dildo (pictured) may be used by
heterosexual couples for the sexual practice of
pegging?
• ... that the
Exotic World Burlesque Museum is located on the site of an abandoned
goat
farm?
• ... that the story of
Sada Abe (pictured), a woman who cut off her dead lover's
genitals and carried them around with her for days, is one of
Japan's most notorious
scandals?
2004-2005
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/2
January-June 2006
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/3
July-December 2006
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/4
January - March 2007
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/5
April - July 2007
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
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/7
January - June 2008
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/8
July - December 2008
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/9
January - July 2009
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/10
August - December 2009
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/11
January - February 2010
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/12
March - August 2010
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/13
September - December 2010
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/14
January - June 2011
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/15
July - December 2011
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/16
January/February 2012
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/17
March/April 2012
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/18
May - December 2012
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/19
January - March 2013
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/20
April - December 2013
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/21
January - June 2014
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/22
July/August 2014
The following "Did you know" items have appeared on Wikipedia's main page. For more information about "Did you know" procedures (including how to nominate new articles for "Did you know" inclusion on Wikipedia's main page), see Wikipedia:Did you know.
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/1
• ... that because of an effort to curb the spread of
STDs,
prostitution in Germany has been legal since the
1920s? (German prostitute pictured)
• ... that some people in the
BDSM
community are
sexually aroused by being
gagged? (ball gag pictured)
• ... that a
strap-on dildo (pictured) may be used by
heterosexual couples for the sexual practice of
pegging?
• ... that the
Exotic World Burlesque Museum is located on the site of an abandoned
goat
farm?
• ... that the story of
Sada Abe (pictured), a woman who cut off her dead lover's
genitals and carried them around with her for days, is one of
Japan's most notorious
scandals?
2004-2005
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/2
January-June 2006
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/3
July-December 2006
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/4
January - March 2007
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/5
April - July 2007
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
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/7
January - June 2008
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/8
July - December 2008
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/9
January - July 2009
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/10
August - December 2009
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/11
January - February 2010
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/12
March - August 2010
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/13
September - December 2010
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/14
January - June 2011
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/15
July - December 2011
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/16
January/February 2012
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/17
March/April 2012
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/18
May - December 2012
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/19
January - March 2013
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/20
April - December 2013
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/21
January - June 2014
Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/22
July/August 2014
The following "Did you know" items have appeared on Wikipedia's main page. For more information about "Did you know" procedures (including how to nominate new articles for "Did you know" inclusion on Wikipedia's main page), see Wikipedia:Did you know.