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religious ceremonies on her behalf.
After that, the fish returned and the
fisherman were able to work again.
The dongs did it!
There is also a small space in
the park called the “Village Folk
Museum” that displays art objects
by Korean artists devoted to “sex
iconography” for “joy, spirituality,
and sexuality.” And the town of
nearby Samcheok held a “Penis
culture festival” featuring gigantic
totem pole penises, which was no
doubt a source of endless dick
jokes. During the 2018 Winter
Olympics in Seoul, the penis park
was a popular tourist attraction for
Olympians from around the world,
who reportedly used 110,000 free
condoms on their own totem poles.
FIND MO’ SEX IN NYC
The mission of New York City’s
Museum of Sex is to “preserve
and present the history, evolution,
and cultural significance of human
sexuality,” while also “encouraging
public enlightenment, discourse,
and engagement.”
In a town with great museums—
including the Metropo­ litan Museum
of Art and the Museum of Modern
Art—the Museum of Sex has
endured since opening in 2002.
It draws tourists from around the
world to prove that sex and art are
both important in people’s lives.
According to founder Daniel
Gluck, “New York has tended to
favor innovation, and learned to
tolerate difference. But ‘only in New
York’ could this particular Museum
of Sex been born—in a city bold
enough, bad enough, bizarre
enough and brazen enough to
have a sexual history unlike that
of any other city. In investigating
this history, we draw inspiration
from those who have struggled in
New York—whether as activists
or hucksters, intellectuals or
entrepreneurs, leaders or lovers—
to transform sex in America.”
The museum has a gift store as
well, which earlier this summer
offered a showcase of Satisfyer
pleasure toys. Jerome Bensimon,
vice president at Satisfyer, noted
that the exhibit was focused on
its new Luxury Line as well as the
colorful Satisfyer Vibes collection.
One window highlighted the Vibes
line in a “fun and playful frame of
bubbles,” with each vibe featured
in its own magnetic pod..
Current exhibitions include “Stag:
The Illicit Origins of Pornographic
Film.” According to the curators,
before the 1970s, porn movies
were “short, black-and-white and
anonymously produced—known
as ‘stags.’ Screenings of stag
films, called ‘smokers’ or ‘stag
parties,’ were clandestine events
that attracted a heteronormative,
white, male audience who would
gather at American Legion halls,
fraternities, or brothels. At these
raucous events, audiences would
drink, laugh, tease and nudge
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