233 5th Avenue @ 27th Street

Proving once again that you can find everything in New York, the Museum of Sex embraces its titillating subject with all the seriousness of a research institution. Its mission is to explore the “cultural significance of human sexuality” in the tradition of great sex researchers like Kinsey, Masters & Johnson, and Freud. Surely there can be no better city for this than Gotham, the home of burlesque, video slot machines, and buddy booths. Some observers might suggest that there can be no better museum of sex than the streets of New York itself, but the mission of scholasticism is always a noble one, and the topic of sex, as always, remains relevant.