Comments on: Anniversaries: The Museum of Sex http://www.wakingvixen.audaciaray.com/2007/10/04/anniversaries-the-museum-of-sex/ Audacia Ray's Adventures in Smart Sex Culture Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marion KC http://www.wakingvixen.audaciaray.com/2007/10/04/anniversaries-the-museum-of-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-21373 Marion KC Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:41:47 +0000 http://www.wakingvixen.com/blog/?p=854#comment-21373 My wife,a friend and I visited the Museum in 2005. I remember the various exhibits and loved the gift shop, but my most vivid memory was while viewing the sex films from the 70's I looked over and three Danish female sailors walked in. What a fanasy! My wife,a friend and I visited the Museum in 2005. I remember the various exhibits and loved the gift shop, but my most vivid memory was while viewing the sex films from the 70′s I looked over and three Danish female sailors walked in. What a fanasy!

]]> By: Marcelle Manhattan http://www.wakingvixen.audaciaray.com/2007/10/04/anniversaries-the-museum-of-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-21144 Marcelle Manhattan Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:13:11 +0000 http://www.wakingvixen.com/blog/?p=854#comment-21144 Funny- I didn't know this was MoSex's anniversary, because I blogged about it today. And from a positive but somewhat ambivalent standpoint, I must say. I guess I just see it as falling into the trap of Foucaldian surveillance, and maybe a way out of that would be to do as you sugggest and connect more with the community on an activist level. Funny- I didn’t know this was MoSex’s anniversary, because I blogged about it today. And from a positive but somewhat ambivalent standpoint, I must say. I guess I just see it as falling into the trap of Foucaldian surveillance, and maybe a way out of that would be to do as you sugggest and connect more with the community on an activist level.

]]> By: Melissa Gira http://www.wakingvixen.audaciaray.com/2007/10/04/anniversaries-the-museum-of-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-20994 Melissa Gira Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:08:30 +0000 http://www.wakingvixen.com/blog/?p=854#comment-20994 I visited MoSex on a weekend of absolutely menacing torrential rains, and probably smeared up the looking-glass on the Edison stereoscope peep show machines. But even given my retro fetish, what touched me most were the pieces from the very recent past: bathhouse posters and memorabilia, shards of the AIDS crisis and public sex panic. Reminds me how quickly sex history can be lost if we don't keep it. I likely have my own reminiscence to write, on my employment experience at one of SF's sex culture landmarks. Thanks for the inspiration to be open about that. Again, if we don't keep our history, who will? I visited MoSex on a weekend of absolutely menacing torrential rains, and probably smeared up the looking-glass on the Edison stereoscope peep show machines. But even given my retro fetish, what touched me most were the pieces from the very recent past: bathhouse posters and memorabilia, shards of the AIDS crisis and public sex panic. Reminds me how quickly sex history can be lost if we don’t keep it.

I likely have my own reminiscence to write, on my employment experience at one of SF’s sex culture landmarks. Thanks for the inspiration to be open about that. Again, if we don’t keep our history, who will?

]]> By: libby http://www.wakingvixen.audaciaray.com/2007/10/04/anniversaries-the-museum-of-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-20987 libby Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:49:26 +0000 http://www.wakingvixen.com/blog/?p=854#comment-20987 even your shit-talking is academic. my first impression of mosex was "this is it?" the second visit in 2005 was a little more interesting, but the exhibits should be a lot more engaging and provoking, what with being in the middle of nyc. what a rich cherry-popping experience though, even with the drama. even your shit-talking is academic.

my first impression of mosex was “this is it?” the second visit in 2005 was a little more interesting, but the exhibits should be a lot more engaging and provoking, what with being in the middle of nyc.

what a rich cherry-popping experience though, even with the drama.

]]> By: Graydancer http://www.wakingvixen.audaciaray.com/2007/10/04/anniversaries-the-museum-of-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-20978 Graydancer Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:52:50 +0000 http://www.wakingvixen.com/blog/?p=854#comment-20978 The Museum of Sex was one of the most influential places in my life. My wife and I were on our honeymoon in NYC and it was near the top of our list of places to go. We loved every bit of it, from the outside in - and its nerdy geeksex appeal was a lot of the charm for me, the guy who used to piss off his buddies for reading the articles in the skin mags we passed around, not just wanking to the pictures. As it happened, the day we went there Carol Queen was doing an evening lecture on "the History of Vibrators". I convinced my wife to attend, and when the crowd was invited to the after-party, convinced her to go to that, as well. That was our first public BDSM play party. It was also the first place where she met her boyfriend, O-man, who she's been with for almost six years now. Even though we are no longer together, that place and its existence are part of why I am now a sex educator and activist. I wish I could go back and tell that person on the 27th that was you: Keep going. It will be worth it. Your work will touch a lot of other people in very, very good ways. But I can't, so I'll tell you now: thank you. The Museum of Sex was one of the most influential places in my life.

My wife and I were on our honeymoon in NYC and it was near the top of our list of places to go. We loved every bit of it, from the outside in – and its nerdy geeksex appeal was a lot of the charm for me, the guy who used to piss off his buddies for reading the articles in the skin mags we passed around, not just wanking to the pictures.

As it happened, the day we went there Carol Queen was doing an evening lecture on “the History of Vibrators”. I convinced my wife to attend, and when the crowd was invited to the after-party, convinced her to go to that, as well. That was our first public BDSM play party. It was also the first place where she met her boyfriend, O-man, who she’s been with for almost six years now.

Even though we are no longer together, that place and its existence are part of why I am now a sex educator and activist. I wish I could go back and tell that person on the 27th that was you: Keep going. It will be worth it. Your work will touch a lot of other people in very, very good ways.

But I can’t, so I’ll tell you now: thank you.

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