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A sex museum is a museum that displays erotic art, historical sexual aids, and documents on the history of erotica. They were popular in Europe at the end of the 1960s and during the 1970s, the era of the sexual revolution. Since the 1990s, these museums have tended to be designated erotic museums or erotic art museums rather than sex museums.

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Asia

"Beppu Hihokan", a sex museum next to the Shiraike-Jigoku in the Kannawa Spa in Beppu, Oita, Japan. Tie Lun Wen Quan Mi Bao Guan PB060105.jpg
"Beppu Hihōkan", a sex museum next to the Shiraike-Jigoku in the Kannawa Spa in Beppu, Ōita, Japan.

Australia

Europe

The Erotic Art Museum in Hamburg's Reeperbahn. Hamburg Erotic Art Museum.jpg
The Erotic Art Museum in Hamburg's Reeperbahn.

North America

The entrance to the Leather Archives & Museum in Chicago, United States. Leather Archives & Museum entrance.jpg
The entrance to the Leather Archives & Museum in Chicago, United States.

South America

Virtual museums

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Erotic art</span> Visual art created to incite sexual arousal and activity

Erotic art is a broad field of the visual arts that includes any artistic work intended to evoke arousal. It usually depicts human nudity or sexual activity, and has included works in various visual mediums, including drawings, engravings, films, paintings, photographs, and sculptures. Some of the earliest known works of art include erotic themes, which have recurred with varying prominence in different societies throughout history. However, it has also been widely considered taboo, with either social norms or laws restricting its creation, distribution, and possession. This is particularly the case when it is deemed pornographic, immoral, or obscene.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Erotic literature</span> Literary genre

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tentacle erotica</span> Sensual art genre involving tentacles or pseudopods

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<i>I Modi</i> Book with engravings of sexual scenes that was created in around 1524

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rachel Kramer Bussel</span> American writer

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