Bad: Betty A. Dodson & the Liberation of Masturbation, a Tribute
Cam Life
Superfunland: Journey Into the Erotic Carnival
James Bidgood: Reveries
Laia Abril: On Abortion
The Museum of Sex announces its newest exhibition in collaboration with Laia Abril–On Abortion: And the Repercussions of Lack of Access. This will be Laia Abril’s first-ever solo show in the US, displaying her career-long research exploring the debate over abortion restriction worldwide. A special selection of antique medical tools relating to abortion from The Burns […]
Punk Lust: Raw Provocation 1971-1985
The Museum of Sex presents Punk Lust: Raw Provocation 1971-1985, a survey looking at the way Punk culture used the language of sexuality–both visually and lyrically–to transgress and defy, whether in the service of political provocation, raw desire, or just to break through the stifling gender norms and social expectations that punks refused to let define […]
Stag: The Illicit Origins of Pornographic Film
From the early 1900s until the late 1960s, pornographic films were predominantly short, black-and-white, and anonymously produced—known as ‘stags.’ The first stag films appeared independently in the United States, France, Austria, Germany, Russia, Argentina, and North Africa between 1907 and 1919. From the 1910s through the early ‘30s, stag films often interlaced their depictions of […]
Leonor Fini: Theatre of Desire, 1930-1990
Mariette Pathy Allen: Rites of Passage, 1978-2006
The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death in the Works of Nobuyoshi Araki
