Sex in the Cities. Volume 1. Amsterdam

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Hans-Jürgen Döpp. Sex in the Cities. Volume 1. Amsterdam

The Temple of Venus: The Sex Museum, Amsterdam

A Ribald Reading

The Erotic as a Literary Phenomenon

1665/1666: Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies

Ulysses: The Song of the Sirens

1861: Wilhelmine Schroeder-Devrient, Memoirs of a Singer

Marquis de Sade: Imagination Triumphs over Reason

1971: Anonymous, Phallus in France

Freud: Art as an Intermediate Realm

1891: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Francke: Reining in the Imagination

1877: Anonymous, Documents of a Mouse from Two Houses

Rousseau: Paradise Where Words Are Unnecessary

1792: André Robert de Nerciat, Les Joies de Lolotte

Pornographic Photography: The Voyeuristic Principle

Photography: Sex from a Distance

Around 1925: Tantris, The Pentagon

Reflections on “The Man in the Corridor” by Marguerite Duras

Bibliography

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Perhaps it was a good omen when two ancient objects of an erotic nature turned up in the soil during excavation for the building of the museum. One of them was a cracked tile on which a card-playing man was depicted sporting an evident erection – maybe betraying the excitement of a winner. The other was a small statuette of the Greek god Hermes with a giant tumescence, probably imported from the Mediterranean centuries ago by a Dutch merchant. In their time, such figurines were not only fertility icons but also good luck charms.

At the opening of the Museum, Monique van Marle may well have been the youngest museum director in Europe – young enough still to depend on the support and advice of her father. The museum’s contents were not particularly numerous. All that could be taken for granted in the enterprise was public interest in the erotic, whether for historical, artistic or other reasons.

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Balinese fertility demon.

Felicien Rops, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1878.

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