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Sex Museums Sex Museums The Politics and Performance of Display Jennifer Tyburczy The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London Jennifer tyburczy is assistant professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2016 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2016. Printed in the United States of America 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 31510- 2 (cloth) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 31524- 9 (paper) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 31538- 6 (e- book) DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226315386.001.0001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tyburczy, Jennifer, author. Sex museums : the politics and performance of display / Jennifer Tyburczy. pages : illustrations ; cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-226-31510-2 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-226-31524-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-226-31538-6 (ebook) 1. Sex in art— Mu se ums—Western countries. 2. Erotic art—Museums—Western countries. 3. Sex in art—Museums—Mexico—Mexico City. 4. Erotic art —Muse ums— Mexico—Mexico City. 5. Sex in art—Exhibitions. 6. Erotic art—Exhi bitions. I. Title. N8217.E6T93 2016 306.7074—dc23 2015017765 ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). For the Leather archives & MuseuM Contents Illustrations ix Preface: A Fire in My Belly xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction: All Museums Are Sex Museums 1 1 Hard- Core Collecting and Erotic Exhibitionism 39 2 Nudes and Nazis; or, Surveying Sex through Violence in Museums 65 3 WARNING: Dissident Sex in the Museums 101 4 Touring the Sex Museum 125 5 Exhibiting the Sexual Modern 151 6 Queer Curatorship 175 Coda: When Sex Museums Fail 200 Notes 209 Bibliography 255 Index 275 Illustrations P.1 Protesters holding masks in support of David Wojnarowicz xii i.1 “The Sims Position” 17 i.2 Plastinated pregnant woman at the Body Worlds exhibition 18 1.1 L’origine du monde, by Gustave Courbet 38 1.2 L’origine du monde, by André Masson 43 2.1 Body cast and skeleton of Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman, the “Hottentot Venus” 69 2.2 The vandalized Toilet of Venus (Rokeby Venus), by Diego Velázquez 75 2.3 Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra), by Henri Matisse 82 2.4 View of one section of the Degenerate Art exhibition 88 2.5 Axed Roberts and Luca from Andres Serrano’s A History of Sex 96 3.1 Warning sign for Hide/Seek 99 3.2 Warning sign for Lost and Found 100 3.3 Warning sign for Because We Are 100 3.4 Our Lady, by Alma López 108 3.5 La Virgen de Guadalupe con la cara de Marilyn Monroe, by Rolando de la Rosa 110 3.6 Sex toy display 120 4.1 “Please do not touch, lick, stroke or mount the exhibits” 135
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