The Erotic Heritage Museum

This Deep Throat movie poster is just

 one of thousands of the museum’s

original pieces of memorabilia.

If there is an ideal city in which to house a museum created to honor and preserve the history of sex, Las Vegas is it.  The Erotic Heritage Museum is a 17,000-square-foot treasure, housing thousands of pieces of memorabilia, artifacts, video exhibits and erotic art. Created in 2008 by a preacher and a pornographer, it is a sexual feast ranging from the mildly titillating to the downright wicked.


The museum’s new director of operations, Nick Karras, has a doctorate degree in Sexology from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, CA.  Karras is also an erotic artist with an

Although more than a decade

 after the fact, a poster from 1975

illustrates how political affairs often

spilled over into the world of porn.

exhibit in the museum called the Petals Project. Petals is a 48-panel collection of sepia-tone photographs of the female vulva, and the museum’s exhibit showcases 24 of the panels in its upstairs gallery.

Celebrating sexual diversity and individuality, there is a thread of pride in and protection of the first amendment that runs through the fabric of the two stories of exhibits.  Reproductions of art destroyed by Nazis is showcased, and there is an extensive exhibit dedicated to the contributions of Larry Flynt. 

In the upstairs gallery, a circular room features TVs along the walls showing such classics as Deep Throat, as well as silent porn from as far back as 1915, prompting the realization that as long as there has been film, there has been porn.



The Erotic Heritage Museum hosts workshops and lectures as well, and upcoming topics include mutual masturbation and an orientation to BDSM. The museum is located on Industrial Road, at home among the strip clubs and adult toy shops, but standing as a beacon of protection and reverence for such things as well.  

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Recreated art from the Herschfeld

Institute in Berlin, Germany, which was

burned to the ground by Nazis in 1933.

A plaster cast shows the details of

Chasey Lain’s girl parts. (The hand,

 however, appears not to be hers.)

 




One of the museum’s more whimsical pieces,

this prom dress is made entirely of condoms.

 
 


Images from a Persian book of hand-drawn figures.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 



 
 
 

 

Numerous sculptures pay homage to the most interesting male appendage.

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— T. A.