Sex in the Museum | Sarah Forbes | knygos.lt

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Sarah Forbes was a graduate student when she stumbled upon the museum dedicated to "the history, evolution, and cultural significance of human sexuality." She was reluctant when her boyfriend suggested she apply for a job. Little did she know that a part-time position would lead her to her current gig as the Museum's curator. That was twelve years ago. Now Sarah - a mother of two - spends her days examining human sexuality and sexual artifacts. And every day she shouts to her colleagues, a Did you know:

Did you know that the word vanilla comes from the Latin word for vagina because at some point in history someone saw a resemblance?

In SEX IN THE MUSEUM, Sarah invites readers to travel from suburban garages where men and women builds 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 MOSEX, 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? Importantly, in our hyper-sexualized world, is it still possible to fall in love?