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Mon - August 11, 2003
Off to the Museum
Back in Brooklyn, with a whole new perspective on sex in the city. Our only goal for today was to visit the Museum of Sex .
Yes friends and neighbors, I said it: Museum of Sex. God bless New York City.
Inge had read about the Museum which had opened last November. We were there
when the doors opened, eager to see what our Bible Belt upbringing had omitted.
The museum turned out to be about the history of sex in New York, and the
influences the city had on ideas about sex. It started with exhibits about
prostitution and brothels (in the 1800s there were actual guide books to
brothels in the city, kind of a Zagat's Guide to Whorehouses) and covered topics
such as the burlesque and porn, finishing with aids epidemic. Very interesting
(and graphic) stuff. Worth seeing but not for anyone under 18 (and you probably
don't want to go with your
grandmother).
Interestingly, that night we went to an oyster bar where she polished of 1 1/2 dozen. I had a sandwich. |
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