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The Museum of Sex Objects

Your Simply Must See This!


A sex objects museum sounds like a dusty room with a few antique dildos in glass cases doesn’t it. Well, this much, much more than that …


The Museum of Sex Objects is an installation at the old Horse Hospital in London WC1 (very near Russell Square tube), from now until the 29th September, from 12-6pm Wednesday through Sunday. And it’s FREE!

 

The museum boasts a bountiful array of never-before-seen objects, artworks and relics, straddling the boundary between folklore, art and history. The Museum's compelling collection reveals the hidden tales of sexual heroes, moments, and places where assignations and confrontations changed the course of sexual history…

The Museum is entrusted to The Keeper and her proxies, sworn to protect these objects and the stories they preserve for generations to come. The current Keeper, Deborah Sim (above), states:

"Charting sexuality’s cultural origins is not easy, with clues often locked away in old documents or institutions, their truth deemed too subversive at the time. The Museum of Sex Objects’ mission is to bring history's blind spots into the light."


As part of that mission, The Keeper will be holding daily tours of the Museum’s realms, where she will:

● Guide you along the Museum's cobbled pathways to discover its origins with Lady Sexburga

● Share the Fallen Sisterhood's tragic tales and the perilous passions of the Haunted Feminine

● Bring to life the peccadilloes of the people celebrated in Ode to Perversion

● Take you through the clandestine rendezvous of A Space of Peril - the dangerous public spaces where gay men found each other in the days before Grindr – from the 18th Century Molly Houses to cottaging in the public toilets of the 20th Century

● Celebrate the people, places and objects that inspire the museum’s Makers to this day, represented on the Wall of Sexual Heroes


Tours are from Wednesday-Sunday until 29th September. Spaces are limited. Tours are free, but donations are appreciated. I do urge you to Take the tour and donate what you can!

 BOOK A TOUR HERE

Talks and Screenings


Also throughout September, The Museum of Sex Objects is hosting talks with authorities on sexual history, who will enlighten us on the link between witchcraft and the early LGBTQ+ community, the feminist appeal of Japanese rope art, Soho’s under-the-counter book trade, sacred rites for medieval sex workers, legendary leatherman Tom of Finland, and how one fetish pioneer went from running a No Cameras, word-of-mouth underground club scene to designing historically pertinent rubberwear for inclusion in a prestigious art collection. Plus films exploring eco-sexuality and the influence of black gay culture on film, fashion, dance and - well - everything!


Friday 16th - TALK From Der Putsch to Die Kunst: Westward Bound with Steve Beech. BOOK HERE


Saturday 17th TALK - Lucy Coleman Talbot: Sex Worker Rites at Crossbones Graveyard. BOOK HERE


Friday 23rd TALK - Everything You Wanted to Know About Shibari but were Too Shy to Ask - Anna Bones, Anatomie Studio

BOOK HERE 


Saturday 24th SCREENING - Beyond: There's Always a Black Issue Dear, plus Q&A. BOOK HERE 


Tuesday 27th TALK - I Put a Spell on You: Mara Gold on sapphic women and witchcraft.BOOK HERE 


Monday 26th SCREENING & live Zoom Q&A Water Makes Us Wet - Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens + Imagine The Earth Is Your Lover - The 23 Minute Series, Curated by Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens

BOOK HERE


Tours


Tours are from Wednesday-Sunday until 29th September. Spaces are limited. Tours are free, but donations are appreciated. I do urge you to Take the tour and donate what you can!

 BOOK A TOUR HERE


About The Keeper

The Museum of Sex Objects’ current Keeper Deborah Sim is an award-winning designer and art director. She was co-founder and creative director of the erotic emporium Coco de Mer. Originally studying Theatre Design, Deborah won the Sunday Times Young Theatre Designer of the Year Award. More recently, she went on to complete a master’s programme, specialising in Visual Culture and Gender Studies at Birkbeck under the tutelage of seminal philosopher Slavoj Žižek, who Freudianly once asked her to peer inside his mouth. Deborah is a devout historian and passionate storyteller who finds libraries the most sensual of public spaces.


About The Horse Hospital

The Horse Hospital is a progressive arts venue in a listed Georgian building, originally built to treat London’s sick working horses. V for Vendetta author Alan Moore describes it thus:

“…Anachronistic and outside of time, steeped in a hundred years of horseflesh with the past only a layer of paint away, the structure is a foundry where futurity is smelted; wherein artists and performers at the razor edge of their respective disciplines display their snorting steeds before an audience eager to examine teeth and study form.”


For more information please contact: [email protected]


www.museumofsexobjects.co.uk


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