Largest Collection
The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (a fully accredited graduate school, let me assure you) holds the largest pornography collection ever. The institute is packed, floor to ceiling, with sundry erogenous wares: erotic posters, dirty playing cards, 75,000 books, 150,000 magazines and pamphlets, 50,000 videotapes, 200,000 films, and more than 900,000 photographs and slides—enough to fill eight warehouses throughout San Francisco. The collection is divided among 15 specialty libraries and is currently being cataloged with their new computer system. Ted McIlvenna, founder and president of the institute, has been trying to unload the collection on some archive for years, and has since been turned down by the Library of Congress. Runner ups: the Kinsey Institute possesses the second largest library of erotica in the world, comprised of 12,000 books, 50,000 photographs, 25,000 pieces of flat art, 3,700 films and 1,300 art objects. The British Museum in London once held 20,000 volumes in its famous "Private Case" collection, but theft, vandalism, and other causes have reduced it to somewhere between 1,800 and 5,000 volumes.
Collections of erotic art
The largest collection of arotic arts belongs to the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. This collection is full of such pornography works of art as: 200,000 films, erotic posters, 75,000 books, dirty playing cards, 50,000 videotapes, more than 900,000 photographs and 150,000 magazines and pamphlets. 15 libraries divided all these masterpieces. Also, according to new technologies there are many catalogues of these products in computer system. Before this collection was unloaded in some archive and was turned down by the Library of Congress.
Nowadays, this collection is in the first place but after it follows another one. At the Kinsey Institute there is also the library of pornography with 50.000 photographs, 3.700 films, 1.300 art objects, 12.000 books and 25.000 pieces of flat art.
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Largest Collection
