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| - Found this place on Groupon before a recent visit and reviews here made it seem worth visiting, so bf and I fit it into our travel plans this past week. Not sure I would recommend it to any friends though.
Though it is in a seedy part of town, effort is made to make this place as professional as possible. Art is labelled with accompanying plaques, shelves and display cases are clean and organized, and quite a bit of unique items are available here.
However, this place just falls short. The employee who let me in said the trip should take about an hour, and it did, but it wasn't a riveting hour- I was mostly looking around for substance, and didn't really find it. The section on peepshows was detailed and cohesive, with several examples and display items to accompany the narrative text. I enjoyed that part.
The rest of the museum was largely a mishmash of objects and pictures without much in the way of a guide or narrative, or any discernible path or process by which you were supposed to tour the museum displays. There was a section of Persian art, then a rack of labelled vintage sex toys, then cardboard cutouts of various porn stars and a few bondage sex furniture pieces. Most of it was interesting, but it was just not thorough and everything seemed very dated.
Another thing I'd like to point out is the lack of material discussing erotic literature or pornography as an industry. I know this isn't a porn museum, but all they had was just some standard biographical posters of well established porn stars and a "cam girl display" which was unfortunately not working when we were there. It, also, was painfully put of date. Would have liked to see well developed material discussing and detailing the impact of the Internet on the porn industry, or recent legislation that has impacted the field such as that involving mandatory STD testing and/or condom usage.
All things said, this is not a place to bring your more prudish friends. There were places where actual porn footage is playing, and loudly so, which may make some uncomfortable. I myself did not mind, but think I would not have lingered if other patrons were present nearby, but as it is, we were alone for nearly the entire duration of our visit, for which I am thankful.
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