96 Items Tagged

Sex

Floral games and nudity were a big part of a spring festival in Ancient Rome.

Sex Work Throughout History: Our Favorite Reads

Before ‘Anora,’ there was Ancient Rome.

Roxanne Hoorn February 28, 2025

Peacock spiders love to show off their colorful butts.

Animal Courtships: Our Favorite Reads

Fish with bumping bass, disco-dancing spiders, and other extreme ways animals attract a mate.

Roxanne Hoorn February 14, 2025

Brussels, Belgium

Museum of Erotics and Mythology

A hidden museum focusing on the sexual aspects of anthropology.

'Santa'

A bold and controversial statue of a Christmas icon, blending adult undertones with playful humor, stands year-round in a traffic circle.

These unassuming lichens growing on rocks in Antarctica may have a sexy secret.

The Secret Sex Lives of Lichens

Researchers found these dusty clumps of green and brown may be hiding how they get it on.

Roxanne Hoorn November 26, 2024

Floral games and nudity were a big part of a spring festival in Ancient Rome.

Welcome to the Ancient Roman Festival for Sex Work

Floralia was a celebration of spring, flowers, and so-called prostitution.

Sara Mellas April 29, 2024

Helsingborg, Sweden

'A Study in Unhuman Sexual Expectations'

These whimsical rabbit figures are not as innocent as they might look.

Australian giant cuttlefish males (top) and females (bottom) show different coloration in mating displays.

The Weird and Wonderful World of Sex Under the Sea

From penis dueling to pee potions to switching sexes, there’s no one right way of getting it on in the ocean.

Roxanne Hoorn February 21, 2024

Could Fish Sex Be Keeping Floridians Up at Night?

The mating calls of black drum fish might be the source of Tampa's mysterious thumping bass.

Roxanne Hoorn February 2, 2024

A sculpture of the Dover Demon, a cryptid supposedly seen in Massachusetts in the 1970s, on display at the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

Take a Podcast Tour of Some of the World's Most Unusual Museums

Visiting some of our favorite very specific collections from the last two years.

April White April 5, 2023

This 11-foot-tall statue outside Trujillo on Peru’s north coast is based on the ceramic drinking vessels of pre-Hispanic Moche culture, also known as "sex pots."

roadside attractions

How Erotic Peruvian Artifacts Inspired a Controversial Roadside Attraction

The risqué new landmark is the site of joyful selfies—and arson.

Liliana Michelena May 26, 2022

medical museums

Podcast: Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team March 18, 2022

New Zealand's tuatara are the last members of <em>Rhynchocephalia</em>, an order of lizard-like reptiles

New Zealand's Slow-Moving 'Living Fossils' Have the Fastest Sperm Among Reptiles

Discovering the trait may help scientists protect the tuatara, which has been around since the dinosaurs.

Tess McClure September 13, 2021

medical museums

Podcast: Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team September 13, 2021

An early pair of vibrating panties

Provincetown, Massachusetts

Toys of Eros

This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.

Apollophanes Cave, a burial site in Israel's Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park.

The Strange Afterlife of a Mysterious Tomb Inscription

"I lay with another but I love you, the one most dear to me."

Gitit Ginat August 26, 2020

Antwerp, Belgium

Semini Sculpture

This heavily worn bas-relief was once an honored fertility symbol.

Ponte delle Tette

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.