Amsterdam is home to two sex-themed museums: Venustempel and Red Light Secrets (pictured). The latter is housed in a former brothel and gives visitors an inside look at the the lives of the local prostitutes.
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El Museu de L'Erotica (Barcelona) —
Barcelona's El Museu de L'Erotica has an 800-strong collection of historic sexual relics, as well as erotic art produced by the great masters, such as this Salvador Dali glazed porcelain plate.
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World Erotic Art Museum (Miami) —
Miami's World Erotic Art Museum hosts some of the most respectable erotica around, including works by Rembrandt van Rijn and Pablo Picasso.
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Sex Machines Museum (Prague) —
Prague's Sex Machines Museum has a range of sex-themed gadgets on display, including chastity belts and antique toys.
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MusEros (St. Petersburg, Russia) —
MusEros is Russia's oldest erotic museum. It houses a great collection of historical paraphernalia, with particular focus on the sex lives of former Russian rulers.
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Museum of Sex (New York City) —
New York's Museum of Sex (MoSex) has a permanent collection of 15,000 erotic artifacts, as well as several exhibits that use sex to inform and entertain. This cartoon appeared in a series of pornographic comic books -- referred to as Tijuana bibles -- produced in the 1940s-50s.
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Icelandic Phallological Museum (Reykjavik) —
The Icelandic Phallological Museum has 283 mammalian phalluses on display, including a 5.5-foot long whale penis.
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Tochka G (Moscow) —
Moscow's Tochka G sex museum has a range of provocative art on display, as well as Soviet relics, including communist-era condoms and VD pamphlets.
