For this week’s blog post I visited the Museum of Sex with my boyfriend. I have to admit that this experience, by far, has been the most interesting museum visit I’ve had in nearly ten years. The various exhibitions definitely opened our eyes to unpopular topics such as sexual history, sexual art as well as the different sexual approaches and habits of animals throughout nature.
After we presented our Groupon and wrapped our wrists with the wristbands, Sebastian and I made our way up to the first exhibit: ObjectXXX. On the second floor, this room was lined with displays of quite interesting artifacts from the Museum of Sex archives. The artifacts consisted of erotic toys, fetishized outfits and vintage forms of protection. The second floor also contained the famous erotic bouncy house which we decided to skip over for time’s sake.
Sebastian and I continued on to walk through the exhibit showing the sexual habits of animals in their natural habitats. We (especially Sebastian) found it appalling that humans aren’t the only creatures who have homosexual and other exotic tendencies. Other creatures of the animal kingdom go about having sex with more than one partner and with the same gender without having to deal with social stigmas and judgement as do many people in our society.
Prior to ending our experience at the museum’s store we swiftly went through multiple art galleries based on feminist artists’ views of sexualization and historical aspects of feminism, showing the audience how we’ve developed our current views and approaches to expressing ourselves as strong, independent, cultured women.