Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi (I wrote this on Saturday night, but couldn’t post it due to a lack of internet access) I’m writing this blog post from Rye, New York, home to Lunacon – a science fiction/fantasy convention that I’ve attended almost every year since I was an infant. With Professor Benavides’ talk on Vampires […]
Museum of Sex, Norton, Weeks I was struck by the condom exhibit at the Museum of Sex for two reasons. One, despite Talmudic law that prohibits the “waste” of semen, the two most largely used types of condoms – animal skin and latex – were invented by Jews (one American, one German.) This is as […]
The museum managed to create a traceable history of our modern attitudes towards sex. I especially liked how all of the exhibits (and items in the gift shop) were presented in an open and informative manner.
