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Sex Museum to Open in NYC Thu Oct 3, 9:39 PM ET By ERIN McCLAM, Associated Press Writer The director of the newest museum in this culture-packed city is surveying the prizes of his permanent collection — leather straps, condom boxes, video porn playing on large screens. He stops and points at a 1940s Wonder Woman comic book cover. 'Just look at her,' Daniel Gluck says. 'The cinched waist, the high heels, the rope. ... She's always tying people up.' Wonder Woman is among the tamer attractions at the Museum of Sex, which opens this weekend in Manhattan and aims to catalog American sexuality, from 19th-century brothels to turn-of-the-millennium sex parties. In a city that has affectionately shortened the names of its culture hubs — MoMA, the Met — the new museum has already been dubbed MoSex. And it has stirred opposition from those who say it is merely a celebration of smut. The state rejected an early attempt by Gluck to create a tax-sheltered foundation to support the museum. And William Donohue, head of the 350,000-member Catholic League, attacked the museum weeks before its opening, suggesting it should include a death chamber to mark the 'wretched diseases' caused by promiscuity. 'They can talk all they want about the scholarly veneer on this,' said Louis Giovino, a Catholic League spokesman. 'So it's historical. That makes it quaint? It's porn.' To museum officials, though, the collection tells a fascinating story of evolving sexual subcultures and their unending war with each generation's vice patrols. They contend the museum is a venture of history, even art. Patrons, who must be 18, can walk through a sexual timeline of sorts covering nearly 200 years. There is a touch-screen guide to the sex parlors that sprouted downtown in the early 1800s. Eugen Sandow, a musclebound curiosity of the 1890s who charged women money to feel his biceps, flexes on a black-and-white video. In the 20th-century galleries, pornography
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