Our team at the Center for Sexual Health Promotion, led by Drs. Yael Rosenstock Gonzalez, Deana Williams, and Debby Herbenick, identified a need for anatomical illustrations that showed a range of body types and skin colors and skin tones, for use in college-level human sexuality education courses. Following a publication of our findings in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, Drs. Rosenstock Gonzalez and Williams then led focus groups with students about the images that were available in human sexuality textbooks at the time of the study. They sought student feedback about the images and ideas for what kinds of images they would like to see as part of their sexuality education. This feedback was then shared with artists Ni-ka Ford, Donyá Collins, and Liu Light who developed images for the Body Project Illustration Project.
Through an agreement with the artists, we are able to offer these images for free, non-commercial use to other sexual health educators, clinicians, and other professionals who wish to use them in their work. These images cannot be sold or reproduced in textbooks or other for-profit materials without explicit permission from the artists. To learn more about these images, their availability for non-commercial use, and to download them, click here.