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NYC Sex in the City

The Museum of Sex recently opened in New York City. Unlike the
wow TV series Sex in the City, which is strangely, obliquely
conservative (well, with a small ‘c’), this museum intends to show
how even sex in America transforms its meaning and purpose (not
part of the war aims in Texas). Like a massive version of a porn
shop, the building façade that confronts the passer-by as
he or she rounds the corner on East 27th Street, is curiously composed
of a frontage of frosted green glass. The Fifth Avenue address belies
a certain perceived sleaziness not dispelled by underdressed females
at the pay points. The museum aims to reveal all sexual antics and
vices galore. There is also a curious sideshow, a cabinet where
revolting medical pornography is set out together with cautionary
exhibits of the effects of tertiary syphilis.

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