WAY TO WRECK A PERFECTLY GOOD IDEA
"Titillation is not the goal."
(Thanks to Elizabeth Gibson)
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October 10, 2005
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I want to see the "interactive exhibits!"
Posted by: neatfreak | October 10, 2005 at 03:45 PM
But, I WANT a sleazy sex museum!
Posted by: Suzy Q | October 10, 2005 at 03:45 PM
Makes you wonder about what kind of rides they'll be offering...
Posted by: KCSteve | October 10, 2005 at 03:50 PM
"I went to the London Academy of Sex and Relationships Them Park and all I got was this lousy T-cell count."
Posted by: Martinishark | October 10, 2005 at 03:51 PM
"Titillation is not the goal," he said. "It's meant to be educational. It's meant to be informative." We want education, information and titillation. Oooh, sounds like a good campaign slogan for 2008, Dave. I can hear the crowds chanting now!
Posted by: SlickRick | October 10, 2005 at 03:58 PM
Note to Alex Rayner:
Apparently no-one hipped you to the fact that ANYTHING pertaining to sex is, by its very nature, TITILLATING. No amount of effort by bespectacled, spotty, high-pants, Vicks-smelling museum types can make it boring. Even the word "titillating" is titillating if you are a male of the species between the ages of 8 and death.
Posted by: mudstuffin | October 10, 2005 at 04:06 PM
Alex Rayner, a spokesman for the project, said it was "committed to avoiding the sleazy image that the sex industry usually conjures."
Which is why he's setting up just down the road from Raymond's Revue Bar.
And 'bravo' to Martinishark; funny.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | October 10, 2005 at 04:12 PM
"Mommy, mommy let’s go on the Fallopian tube water slide!"
“No, mommy, I wanna go on the Spirochete of Terror ride.”
"First, we have to get Daddy unplugged from the ‘interactive exhibits’ ,kids."
(as posted on C'bol's blog)
also, there are now so many sex museums that there's a "typical" one?
Posted by: insomniac | October 10, 2005 at 04:13 PM
I can't WAIT to see the gift shop.
Posted by: Kilmeny | October 10, 2005 at 04:46 PM
The British can always take the most exciting things and life and make them dull...
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | October 10, 2005 at 05:16 PM
Located...just around the corner from Soho, London's red-light district...
What, is Lola the the guest-book lady?
Posted by: Aunt Nancy | October 10, 2005 at 05:19 PM
I made the blog! I'm so excited!
I want to ride the rides. ;)
Elizabeth
Posted by: Elizabeth | October 10, 2005 at 08:41 PM
I was relieved to learn that this would not be a "sleazy sex museum" ... I was worried that they'd have really old, out-of-date stuff, as many museums do ...
Like ... my picture ...
Posted by: U.O | October 10, 2005 at 09:08 PM
That statue is Eros??? I'm sorry...it looks like a wild turkey trying to sprint away from the ice skate stuck on its foot. How titillating!
Posted by: Betsy | October 10, 2005 at 11:09 PM
... um ... Betsey ...
that's one of those deals where "you had to have been there" ... to appreciate the symbolic representation ... or not ... whatever ...
Posted by: U.O | October 10, 2005 at 11:12 PM
Is a "sleazy sex museum" (which by the way wbagnfarb) a sleazy museum on the subject of sex or a museum on the subject of sleazy sex? Either one would do, really...
Posted by: Bill | October 11, 2005 at 11:22 AM