Glamerous Harold:
The Harold Lloyd Collection

Harold Lloyd, an American actor and filmmaker during the first half of the 20th century, was fascinated by 3D photography. Lloyd used his passion and fame to capture more than 5,000 Hollywood beauties, including Marilyn Monroe. His photos capture the nude female form against the exquisite composition of exterior and interior photography.

Men without Suits

Set against a timeline tracing male nude imagery from classical Greece to the 21st Century, Men Without Suits explores the impact of photography on American culture. Challenging the statement "Clothes make the man," the exhibition uncovers the facades and personae created in our society with what men wear. Interestingly, it also reveals that these guises continue when the clothes come off. Who makes the images? What is their purpose? Who consumes them? Men Without Suits asks and answers these and many more questions, exploring the nature of male erotic appeal, the objectification of the male physique.

Sex Machines

While researching a story about independent inventors in the spring of 2002, Timothy Archibald, a San Francisco photographer, came across a small web community of inventors of sex machines. Archibald's photographs as well as excerpts from his book Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews were featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Sex November 4, 2005 through January 10, 2006.

US Patent Office Sex Inventions

The CAD illustrations in this interactive installation were taken from seventeen patent applications submitted between 1862 and 1984 to the United States Patent Office, the federal agency dedicated to the administration and protection of intellectual property. The devices depicted here represent over a century of American sexual technological innovation, and offer a unique look into the history of American ideas about sex and sexuality. Variously designed for pleasure, protection, analysis, and restraint, these devices not only demonstrate evolving technological capabilities, they reveal changing beliefs about the body, emotional and physical health, and the goals and limits of sexual practice.