Preface: "A fire in my belly" -- Introduction: sex and display -- Hard-core collecting and erotic exhibitionism -- Nudes and Nazis; or, surveying sex through violence in museums -- Warning: dissident sex in museums -- Touring the sex museum -- Exhibiting the sexual modern -- Queer curatorship -- Coda: when sex museums fail
Summary
All museums are sex museums. In 'Sex Museums', Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality, particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed - and asks what role museums have played in using display as a technique for disciplining sexuality
