Private Eyes: Amateur Works From the Kinsey Institute Collection March 10, 2010

'Private Eyes: Amateur Works from The Kinsey Institute Collection' explores the unique characteristics of homemade erotic artifacts. These one-of-a-kind items include drawings, paintings, carved figures, handmade cards, scrapbooks, and altered coins from The Kinsey Institute's permanent collection of art. These "artworks" were intended for private consumption and created with specific individuals in mind, unlike mass-produced, commercially distributed pornography. To date, these materials have received scant scholarly or sociological attention, and The Kinsey Institute is displaying the majority of these items for the first time.