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Academics ruin sex. they analyze it, explain it, deconstruct it, and by the time they're done, you wish they had stuck to talking about Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. So when the Museum of Sex opened in Manhattan, I shouldn't have been surprised that it was heavy on the museum and light on the sex. Maybe if it were called the Museum of Erotic History, I wouldn't have been as disappointed. But when I heard about the Museum of Sex, my mind shot right past museum and straight to the sex part. I think...
...will be impressed by the snazzy multimedia presentations, such as an interactive computer map of early 20th century cathouses, with nice little Zagat-style reviews (the "nice but pushy" madam's "notion of submission is to keep you waiting for an hour"). And visitors will find the stories of Manhattan sex scandals good reading in a tabloidy, microfiche kind of way, but the exhibit can get awfully soporific, considering that it's about sex in New York City. There's a cover from a sixth edition of Margaret Sanger's Family Limitation and a display of Wonder Woman comic books...
Academics ruin sex. They analyze it, explain it, deconstruct it, and by the time they're done, you wish they had stuck to talking about Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. So when the Museum of Sex opened in Manhattan, I shouldn't have been surprised that it was heavy on the museum and light on the sex. Maybe if it were called the Museum of Erotic History, I wouldn't have been as disappointed. But when I heard about the Museum of Sex, my mind shot right past museum and straight to the sex part. I think...
...will be impressed by the snazzy multimedia presentations, such as an interactive computer map of early 20th century cathouses, with nice little Zagat-style reviews (the "nice but pushy" madam's "notion of submission is to keep you waiting for an hour"). And visitors will find the stories of Manhattan sex scandals good reading in a tabloidy, microfiche kind of way, but the exhibit can get awfully soporific, considering that it's about sex in New York City. There's a cover from a sixth edition of Margaret Sanger's Family Limitation and a display of Wonder Woman comic books...
...afternoon tea, but when a reporter mentions that her guest will be Mr. Hilary Knight, she is promptly booked. At tea, a waiter brings complimentary glasses of champagne. Knight, a natty, exceedingly polite gentleman in a black silk shirt, still adheres to a rigorous work schedule in his Manhattan home studio. He recalls being summoned to Rome in 1963 to work with Thompson on Bawth: "Unlike the other books, which took a year each, this went on for four years." When Bawth was given its rebirth, no one was more excited than Knight. "Inasmuch as it took, really, 40 years...