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Museum of Sex

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“Sexy Robots” Are Coming to Miami

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 22, 2022December 23, 2022

The Museum of Sex, based in New York, has revealed plans for an expansion to Florida in 2023.

Posted inArt

How Softcore Porn Penetrated Mainstream Media

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel August 23, 2022August 23, 2022

The exhibition Porno Chic to Sex Positivity at the Museum of Sex traces how once-verboten depictions of sex became gradually acceptable in pop culture.

Posted inArt

How Porn Holds Up a Mirror to Society Through the Ages

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly August 21, 2019August 26, 2019

Stag, on view at the Museum of Sex, presents the history of pornographic film going all the way back to the silent era.

Posted inArt

Leonor Fini’s Erotic Theater

Avatar photo by Tim Keane February 16, 2019February 15, 2019

Fini’s art disarmed male authority and dissolved gender norms, with delicate, nude men attended by sumptuously dressed, leonine females.

Posted inArt

How Corporations Harness — and Hijack — the Idea of the Museum

by Mitchell Kuga April 3, 2018April 3, 2018

The trendy adoption of the word “museum” has the potential to undermine the trust placed in cultural institutions, perhaps altering our relationship to culture, art, and commerce in the process.

Posted inArt

Divulging the Erotic Secrets of Self-Taught Artists

by Claire Voon May 15, 2017May 15, 2017

An exhibition at the Museum of Sex is the first to bring together sexually charged works by outsider artists.

Posted inArt

An Exhibition About Erotic Desire Suffers from Being Overly Sexy

by Hannah Stamler January 15, 2016

How should a sex museum excite visitors while staying true to a sex-positive mission?

Posted inArt

Museum of Sex’s New Cocktail Tastes Like Kissing a Man Who Has Just Shaved and Smoked a Cigarette

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 15, 2013October 16, 2013

The Museum of Sex has opened its own cocktail bar with rotating artist-designed drinks, and one of the first is called Lickable Skin. It’s meant to taste like kissing an older man who has just shaved and smoked a cigarette.

Posted inOpinion

Museum of Sex Offers Tim Tebow a Lifetime Membership

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian September 25, 2012

Sure, it’s probably a publicity stunt but we love the idea that the Museum of Sex in New York is offering a lifetime membership to infamously virgin football player Tim Tebow.

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