The club is housed in the basement of the Secession museum, the home of Austria's once taboo- breaking Jugendstil art movement. Elsewhere there are works by such august names as Gustav Klimt; below ground, though, visitors may be surprised to find a space equipped with bondage equipment, leather sofas, pornographic paintings, curtained niches, mirrors, and even a gynaecologist's examination chair. Men and women clad in a variety of leather and latex costumes, high heels and corsets were the paying guests at the club on its opening night. The club opens its doors nightly at 9pm to paying guests aged over Video footage of the activities inside showed a middle-aged woman in a leather vest being elaborately tied up by a burly man with a piece of coarse rope. Her deadpan expression suggested she wasn't particularly enjoying the experience.
It's a topic that's often touched upon, joked about and skirted around. Increasingly, however, it is on display. ABC News has compiled a list of 12 of the world's kinkiest museums that are worth the tease. Venustempel Sexmuseum Amsterdam. Amsterdam 's Venustempel, or Temple of Venus, is the world's first and oldest sex museum. The house of eroticism first opened its doors in and now hosts about , visitors each year. With three floors of erotic portraits, photographs, paintings and recordings, the Venustempel embodies the highly sexualized nature of this European city.
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A handful of leather straps, sex toys and other bondage equipment were scattered throughout the mostly empty studios of Kink. But in February, Kink actors will do their final shoot at the historic castle-like building that has become a world-famous destination for tourists and porn connoisseurs. The Kink. Although Kink.
The museum covers all manner of niche sexuality from straight fetishism to LGBT interests of all stripe. There are displays of bondage equipment, leather apparel, and the sort of underground artifacts one might expect from a leather museum. There are antique sexual devices as well as a dungeon in the basement complete with spanking apparatus. Possibly more remarkable, if only for its sheer academic mundanity, is the expansive library of writing, art, and video materials related to the movement.