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| - This museum is needed, and apparently closed and reopened a short time ago.
Having been to one of the best erotic museums in the world, in Montmartre, Paris, France, where the sexuality and practices of cultures all over the planet were thoroughly covered, this was really a disappointment.
Every museum has to decide what to display and where to devote their resources, and there were some poor decisions here. There is an entire huge section on the first floor devoted to promotional materials from the video pornography industry (mainly Vivid and Wicked stars) that likely was donated free after a convention. It only covers 1990-1995. There is a display from a Star Wars themed pornographic video.
Where was the historical pornography, stag films, or the heritage of comics and photo books that numbered in the millions from 1910-1950?
There are tons of blown up infographics taken from magazines. Yawn. If I wanted to read magazines, I didn't need to come here. And strangely, there are literally hundreds of plaster and plastic casts of genitals and breasts. Hundreds. And this is not even a historical "heritage" of pornography, or a mainstream practice.
Speaking of mainstream practices, this museum could also choose to cover all aspects of sexuality or eroticism, or limit things to the most common practices. There is one display about necrophilia, which is limited to a partial interview with a woman that had "sex" while working in a funeral home with tens of dead bodies.
The second floor had celebrity sex tapes from recent memory. It also has a collection of hundreds of what looks like 1950s and 1960s watercolor paintings from Germany and some from France. Unfortunately, almost all of them have zero captions, so you are left to guess what they say (the ones that have captions) or who the artist is or was, what the significance of them is, or the date they were created. Very frustrating if you're interested in what is being displayed.
Like the problems with the first floor, there is one extremely small exhibit with mannequins on dominance and submission and bondage and masochism. No explanation or exhibit plaque explaining how common (and this may be one of the most common practices) this may be, or what "erotic heritage" these practices have contributed to.
However, there were two - yes two - exhibits and videos showing scrotal inflation, which is the practice of adding saline solution or air to the scrotum until it inflates to the size of a small volleyball. I am willing to guess that most people have not heard of this practice, and it certainly isn't common enough to warrant two repeating videos and two stations detailing the practice, over BDSM or the use of vibrators and other sex toys throughout history.
I wish this museum well, and the lower your expectations (or the higher your blood alcohol) the more you may just view, and not think too much. But this could be so much more. I would love to see a remodel and planned out exhibits instead of what you see now.
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