About the exhibition

The Museum’s compelling collection tells tales of sexual heroes, moments, and places.

These curious objects are like historical novels, woven from fragmented records, straddling the boundary between folklore, art, and history.

Charting our sexual history is not always easy, as clues are locked away in old documents or institutions, their truth deemed too subversive.

Our objects intend to scratch away at the surface and peel back layers to bring history’s blind spots into the light.

In more tolerant times, it is easy to forget that the struggle for sexual freedom came at such a cost to countless individuals and communities.

Trace the subjugation and resurgence of female sexual sovereignty through the Fallen Sisterhood’s sacred relics and the Haunted Feminine’s hysterical defiance.

Delight in accounts of Flagellomania told through the makers’ lovingly crafted tributes to their mistresses of the whip.

Gasp at London’s Molly houses with their faux ‘birthing’ rooms.

Giggle and goggle at the lovingly curated selection of golden era ‘straight and fladge’ porn in Under the Counter Culture Corner (Adults Only in the corner, please and thank you).

And finally, gaze in wonder at the Wall of Sexual Heroes - a celebration of people, places and objects chosen by academics, artists, and our precious Makers as the unsung heroes of sexual emancipation, activism and lived truth.

The Museum of Sex Objects is also hosting a series of talks and screenings on the subjects of witches, leathermen, Japanese rope bondage, fetish culture, ecosexuality, sex worker rites, black gay culture’s unsung influence and 1950s’ Soho’s DIY porn mag industry.

Join us! Visit Eventbrite for more info and to book your place in history.