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Asia Week in New York means highly suggestive Japanese handscrolls are selling like hotcakes.
In the prestige air of an auction house floor room, a steamy encounter between an older man and his sexy male concubine may be the last thing you’d expect to find (depending on the auction house). Yet, for an estimated price of $35,000 to $45,000, a rare look into Japanese homoeroticism could be yours at the Bonhams’ sale taking place during New York’s Asia Week.
The Exodus Trust is nonprofit organization that provided its archives for academic and research purposes to the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. The Institute grew out of research in the 1960s highlighting the general lack of understanding of and formal training in human sexuality. The library and archives are a collection of adult films, academic sexological and erotological resources, and sex therapy training materials. With over 24 warehouses, the Exodus Trust has one of the largest repositories of erotic ephemera, erotic, film and literature.
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Dr. Laura Henkel, Ph.D. in Erotology, specializes in appraising and curating rare, culturally significant art and library collections. She offers expert valuation services for museums, galleries, and auction houses.
