“Kink” @ Museum of Sex

While we've always loved checking out the exhibitions at New York City's Museum of Sex, we have to admit that our visits there have often been frustrating, what with all of those antique sex toys and skin mags tantalizingly displayed just out of our reach behind the plexiglass walls of their vitrines. So we're especially eager for the opening of guest curator and social anthropologist Katherine Gates' hands-on "KINK: Geography of the Erotic Imagination" in February, which according to the press release "will allow visitors to try on fetish costumes, climb into bondage furniture, and play with kinky props, all the while learning about the larger narrative themes that bind all human eroticisms together, from the most 'vanilla' to the most kinky." Whether or not it will also allow visitors a taste of the delights of cannibal fetishism remains to be seen; in any case, we hope they budgeted enough for plenty of antibacterial wipes and rubber gloves to last them for the duration of the show. Take it from us—that bondage furniture isn't always as easy to keep clean as you might think.

· "KINK: Geography of the Erotic Imagination to open" (artdaily.net; also spotted @ sexblo.gs)
· Museum of Sex (museumofsex.com)
· Katherine Gates' "Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex" (Amazon)
· Thumbnail via the inimitable Muki's Kitchen