The Museum of Sex

The Museum of Sex: A Tour & Reflections on its Tunnels 

Pairs well with To Love Like Venus and Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back. Non-fiction essay and photographs exploring themes and scenes in these books.

Fresh with a public health degree but moonlighting as a receptionist in a black tunnel of a Chelsea club, a young woman declines a job offer at a new museum: The Museum of Sex.

Twenty years later she revisits the tunnel and enters the museum for a tour of where adulthood has landed them both.

This chapbook-sized zine tours the Museum of Sex in New York City for the curious during November 2022, and reflects on my personal connection to it as well as the larger themes women collectively and differently experience in pleasure and the circus of image and desire. Prose essay with photographs.

This is a handmade zine: the black cardstock cover has a die-cut design (but done by hand) to peer into a hot pink page with book title, and a second cut in the shape of a tunnel where you see a pleasurable photograph of a woman posing bare, with her back to us. Turn the page and you see the book's subtitle, another die-cut layer of a tunnel framing the woman, until you turn the page for the full photograph. The back cover of the book also plays with this tunnel die-cut design, where you peer into the hot pink page for the zine's description. Saddle-stitched by hand with black wax thread, for a sexy book bind. Cut lines are free of conformity. Nineteen pages of text, full color with photographs throughout.

This zine is not affiliated with The Museum of Sex or other external entities outside of ANDROMEDA: it is a perzine fanzine.