{"id":2176,"date":"2004-01-25T17:58:43","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T09:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/26\/you-have-to-wonder-about-the-gift-shop\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:24:40","slug":"you-have-to-wonder-about-the-gift-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/25\/you-have-to-wonder-about-the-gift-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"You have to wonder about the gift shop&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11918,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2004\\\/TRAVEL\\\/DESTINATIONS\\\/01\\\/22\\\/erotic.museum.ap\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050309140906\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com:80\\\/2004\\\/TRAVEL\\\/DESTINATIONS\\\/01\\\/22\\\/erotic.museum.ap\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:28:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:502}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:28:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:502},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Something for a list of places to go should I ever visit Los Angeles: the brand spanking (ahem) new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TRAVEL\/DESTINATIONS\/01\/22\/erotic.museum.ap\/index.html\" title=\"Sex museum a tribute to the tame, tawdry\">sex museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  One look at Hollywood&#8217;s newest tourist attraction and it&#8217;s easy to mistake it for any number of adult shops along the popular Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>  The nude pictures, sex toys and stag films aren&#8217;t meant to arouse but to edify. This is, after all, the Erotic Museum, which pays tribute to all things sexual, from the tame to the tawdry.<\/p>\n<p>  It chronicles sex through the ages with nude abstracts by Pablo Picasso, erotic jade figurines from ancient China, vintage sex toys and sultry computer-animated dancers.<\/p>\n<p>  For nearly \\$13 for the price of admission, visitors can touch rubber toys or peruse patent applications for various oddball erotic inventions such as a diagram of a newfangled &#8220;female security device.&#8221; No one under 18 is admitted.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via Prairie)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Dirty Epic&#8221; by Underworld from the album <em>Dubnobasswithmyheadman<\/em> (1994, 9:55).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something for a list of places to go should I ever visit Los Angeles: the brand spanking (ahem) new sex museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}