A selection of the world's best sex museums

jasonnewman · 发表于 2014-5-19 21:11:29

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All in the best possible taste
If you've come to snigger you may be disappointed. The new breed of sex museum takes its subject seriously. Oliver Bennett picks 10 of the bestThe Observer
Sunday February 9 2003Last autumn, New York's Museum of Sex opened. It isn't a world first, because such museums have proliferated across Europe since Amsterdam's Venus Temple opened in 1985. Indeed, bidding for Polynesian penis sheaths and Ming Dynasty dildos must now be fierce at the world's auction rooms. But New York's museum is one of a new breed of culturally savvy sex storehouses. Last year, Australia gained its first sex museum, which is similarly high-minded. So where is Britain's sex museum? German porn baroness Beate Uhse had hoped to open a branch of her Berlin version here, but then she died. Now Daniel Gluck, director of New York's Museum of Sex, says he has an eye on London. But perhaps we need a local entrepreneur: possibly someone unemployed, who understands our peculiarly smutty appr澳洲旅游休闲 http://bbs.ozabc.com/forum-55-1.html

jasonnewman · 发表于 2014-5-19 22:50:22

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Museum of SexNot only does it have a groovy NY acronym - 'Mosex' - but founder Daniel Gluck boasts an 'academic, multi-disciplinary approach', underlined by co-founder Alison Maddex, girlfriend of Camille Paglia. Gluck wants the museum to be nothing less than the 'Smithsonian of sex', backed by posh supporters such as columnist Arianna Huffington. There are permanent exhibits on the burlesque tradition, sexual subcultures such as the gay disco scene, and lashings of sadomasochism, the end being to 'explore the development of modern attitudes about sex and sexuality'. But it will not take money from the adult entertainment industry, hoping instead to be a 'serious sex museum'. More for chin-strokers than the pocket billiards brigade. · 233 Fifth Avenue at 27th Street, New York (00 1 212 308 5991) Canberra
National Museum of EroticaOpened last spring in Australia's capital, cheekily coinciding with the launch of the nearby National Museum. Has the usual mix of the ancient and im澳洲旅游休闲 http://bbs.ozabc.com/forum-55-1.html

jasonnewman · 发表于 2014-5-19 23:54:29

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Amsterdam
Sex Museum/Venus TempleAs befits Europe's capital of the skin trade, Amsterdam has two competing sex museums. This one, on Damrak, the divey strip between the station and Dam Square, is the best. Has copies of Indian temple sculpture, pulsating Aubrey Beardsley penises, fun eighteenth-century engravings by Austrian 'orgy artist' Peter Fendi and flickery nineteenth-century films, alongside historical ethno-smut such as ivory dildos and Maori copulation carvings. Opened in 1985, this is the original sex museum. Bizarre touch: a life-size moving sculpture of a flasher. · Damrak 18, Amsterdam. Open daily, 10am- 11.30pm (00 31 20 622 8376) Erotisch Museum Amsterdam's other sex storehouse benefits from a location in the red light district, but is not as strong as Damrak's effort, although eye-catching artefacts include an early clockwork vibrator and erotic drawings by John Lennon presented to Yoko Ono. Bizarre touch: a theatre with mushroom-shaped chairs in front of television scr澳洲旅游休闲 http://bbs.ozabc.com/forum-55-1.html