n
If you're ever in New York City and looking for something different but fun to do, look no further than the Museum of Sex (MoSex). Located on E 27th Street and 5th Ave, this erotic series of exhibitions is something anyone over the age of 18 would enjoy... as long as they have a spicy side to them.
Walking in the entrance, you are hit with the typical product placement of a gift shop. However, this isn't just any ordinary gift shop, and I'm not sure you'd want to give any of these items as a present to anyone other than your BFF, your significant other, or yourself. From top-of-the-line sex toys and literal "cum rags", to books with giant penises, to cherry vanilla flavored lube and clitoris stimulant spray, MoSex's little shop has it all.
Tickets are $18.50, ($16.50 if you're a senior, student, or military personnel), and for an additional $3.00, you can enter their special exhibit, "Jump for Joy", which we'll get to later.
Walking up the steps, you reach the first exhibition, "Hardcore: A Century & A Half of Obscene Imagery". Many of the pieces in this collection were once shared secretly and kept private among those who had access to them. The exhibit showcases artifacts from the last two centuries, involving pornographic images and films of our ancestors performing various sexual encounters, including same sex, interracial sex, group sex, oral sex, and sex toy utilization. This display is ongoing.
The next exhibition showcased is "Splendor in the Grass: Kinesthetic Camping Ground". A fully interactive experience, you are invited to check out five different tents in a forest-like setting, all sexually stimulating and arousing to the five senses. One tent in particular is entirely black and produces fumes, which are scented specifically to exemplify the smell of endorphins released during sex, hence the phrase "it smells like sex in here." This display will run through Spring 2016.
Moving on to a more natural habitat is "The Sex Lives of Animals". From insects, to mammals, to sea creatures and more, this exhibition displays various uncensored images and films of animals mating, as well as masturbating and showing-off their interesting genitalia. In the center of the room, you will find an intense deer-threesome and some lovely panda-humping. Who knew animals fornicating could be so beautiful? This display is ongoing.
The final exhibition before the "boobie bounce house" is "Objectxxx: Selected Artificats from the Museum of Sex Archive". This display is definitely interesting, as you view the history of many items such as the first artificial hymen, or the first series of female vibrators and dildos. One highlighted legacy in the exhibit is Hugh Hefner's smoking jacket. This display is ongoing.
Now, the exhibit most people talk about when planning to visit MoSex: "Jump for Joy: Bouncy Castle of Breasts". For five minutes, you and whoever you came along with can jump around in a huge bounce house filled with boobs! There are breasts on the wall, breasts on the floor, and you have no idea how much fun it is to throw yourself and friends against giant areolae until you actually experience it.
MoSex is definitely a wild time and one of the more unique museums out there. If you live in Manhattan, or are planning to visit NYC and are wondering what to do besides eat and shop, definitely take a stop to experience the history of intercourse and all the fun elements to it.
