Sex in the Museum

2016-04-05 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Sarah Forbes
Release : 2016-04-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 678/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sex in the Museum by : Sarah Forbes

Download or read book Sex in the Museum written by Sarah Forbes. This book was released on 2016-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Forbes, an anthropology student, stumbled upon a museum dedicated to sex she hesitated to apply for a job. Twelve years later she proudly sports her title as Curator of Sex. Here she invites readers to travel from suburban garages where men and women build sex machines, to factories that make sex toys, to labyrinthine archives of erotica collectors. She asks readers to grapple with the same questions she did: when it comes to sex, what is good, bad, deviant, normal? Do such terms even apply? And, in our hyper-sexualized world, is it still possible to fall in love?

Sex Museums

2016-01-11 Art

Author : Jennifer Tyburczy
Release : 2016-01-11
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 24X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sex Museums written by Jennifer Tyburczy. This book was released on 2016-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums have lengthy history, going back to the Renaissance Cabinets of Curiosity, and they are indices of changing fashions of perception insofar as the categories museum curators use to classify objects change over time. The major focus of Tyburczy s study is sexuality on display, which sets up, in turn, her investigation of the effects of museum display on the history of sexuality. Historical context for the museum is one of her themes (and how categories of normacly and perversity change over time), with another themes being the work of sex museums n redefining what sex means in the modern public sphere; she also folds in consideration of the pleasures and dangers of exhibiting marginalized sexual subjects (women, nonwhite races, LGBT individuals, and the like); last, she explores the paradox of asserting (as she does) that all museums are sex museums bodies move around and toward objects on display, they reshape the typical dances of museum-goers along with their preconscious motivations in visiting a museum. She proposes that explicit display or restagings of sexual artifacts provides new ways for approaching and understanding issues of desire, sexual identity, and sexual practices as they intersect with the history of the modern museum and with sexual history during the past two centuries. Her fieldwork sites are: the Leather Archives & Museum in Chicago, the Museum of Sex in New York, the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami Beach, and El Museo del Sexo in Mexico City. Such institutions allow Tyburczy to show how alternative sexuality (inclusive of kink, fetish, and sadomasochistic cultures) and slavery dangerously crisscross on the surface of objects. There are plenty of cases here, in short, to keep the casual reader titillated and the erudite reader surprised."

A Little Gay History

2013 Art

Author : R. B. Parkinson
Release : 2013
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 63X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Little Gay History written by R. B. Parkinson. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: The British Museum Press, 2013.

Sex on Show

2013 Erotic art

Author : Caroline Vout
Release : 2013
Genre : Erotic art
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Book Rating : 205/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sex on Show written by Caroline Vout. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greeks and Romans were not shy about sex. Phallic imagery, sex scenes, and the lively activities of their promiscuous gods adorned many objects, buildings, and sculptures. Drinking cups, oil-lamps, and walls were decorated with scenes of seduction; statues of erect penises served as boundary-stones and signposts; and marble satyrs and nymphs grappled in gardens. Caroline Vout examines the abundance of sexual imagery in Greek and Roman culture. Were these images intended to be shocking, humorous, or exciting? Are they about sex or love? How are we to know whether our responses to them are akin to those of the ancients? The answers to these questions provide fascinating insights into ancient attitudes toward religion, politics, sex, gender, and the body. They also reveal how the ancients saw themselves and their world, and how subsequent centuries have seen them. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this lively and thought-provoking book not only addresses theories of sexual practice and social history, it is also a visual history of what it meant and still means to stare sex in the face.

Sex in the Museum

2016-04-05 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Sarah Forbes
Release : 2016-04-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 574/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sex in the Museum by : Sarah Forbes

Download or read book Sex in the Museum written by Sarah Forbes. This book was released on 2016-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Forbes was in graduate school when she stumbled upon a museum dedicated to . . . sex. The anthropology student hesitated when her boyfriend suggested she apply for a job, but apply she did, and it wasn’t long before a part-time position at New York’s MUSEUM OF SEX lead to a gig as the museum's curator. That was over twelve years ago. Now Sarah—a married mother of two—proudly sports her title as Curator of Sex. In SEX IN THE MUSEUM, Sarah invites readers to travel from suburban garages where men and women build sex machines, to factories that make sex toys, to labyrinthine archives of erotica collectors. Escorting us in to the hidden world of sex, illuminating the never-talked-about communities and eccentricities of our sexual subcultures, and telling her own personal story of a decade at The Museum of Sex, Sarah asks readers to grapple with the same questions she did: when it comes to sex, what is good, bad, deviant, normal? Do such terms even apply? If everyone has sexual secrets, is it possible to really know another person and be known by them? And importantly, in our hyper-sexualized world, is it still possible to fall in love?

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