Sex in the Museum, Sarah Forbes
Sex in the Museum, Sarah Forbes
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Sex in the Museum
My Unlikely Career at New York's Most Provocative Museum

Author: Sarah Forbes

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Unabridged: 6 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/05/2016

Synopsis

Sarah Forbes was in graduate school when she stumbled upon a museum dedicated to . . . sex. The anthropology student hesitated when her boyfriend suggested that she apply for a job, but apply she did, and it wasn't long before a part-time position at New York's Museum of Sex led to a gig as the museum's curator. That was over twelve years ago. Now Sarah—a married mother of two—proudly sports her title as Curator of Sex.

In Sex in the Museum, Sarah invites listeners to travel from suburban garages where men and women build sex machines, to factories that make sex toys, to labyrinthine archives of erotica collectors. Escorting us in to the hidden world of sex, illuminating the never-talked-about communities and eccentricities of our sexual subcultures, and telling her own personal story of a decade at the Museum of Sex, Sarah asks us to grapple with the same questions she did: When it comes to sex, what is good, bad, deviant, normal? Do such terms even apply? If everyone has sexual secrets, is it possible to really know another person and be known by them? And importantly, in our hyper-sexualized world, is it still possible to fall in love?

About Sarah Forbes

Curator of the Museum of Sex for over a decade, Sarah Forbes currently serves as the museum's curatorial consultant. She holds a master's degree in anthropology from the New School and has been featured in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Reuters, and Time Out, as well as on the Today Show, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan, Bravo's Ironic Iconic America, and HBO's Katie Morgan Show, among many others. Sarah lives in New York City with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on September 17, 2019

Not my typical fare. But it was somewhat interesting. The book was written by the curator of the Museum of Sex / NYC. Mostly a discussion of how MoSex came about, where the "artifacts" were collected, etc. What you learn is that porn is a very, very old pastime. Artifacts and info from Cleopatra's s......more

Goodreads review by Marsmannix on October 06, 2016

I must be grouchy. the material worth reading in this book, about the museum, is scanty and is embedded within the breathless self-centered narrative of the author. Why include the sub-plot about her hunt for a husband in NYC? a big MEH......more

Goodreads review by Lori on May 31, 2024

The one good thing about this book, it was short. Had it been any longer it would have remained unfinished. It was simple enough to read but it was boring. I don't think I would want to visit this museum and it sounded like the author was on a great big ego trip from start to finish. At least the ac......more

Goodreads review by Irene Well Worth A Read on March 22, 2016

This was a fascinating and enlightening memoir. Well written and highly informative even if you think you know all there is to know I guarantee you will be surprised by at least a few of the facts found in these pages. I grew up in an age where talk shows were more than just celebrity gossip and tes......more

Goodreads review by Dagmar on March 09, 2016

Sex in the Museum is easy to read, thought provoking and funny, but also warm and touching. I never even thought about what a curator does and this book certainly explained that. I can only imagine how many difficult situations Sarah must have lived through when she was introduced to a new person an......more

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