Sex in the Museum

Sarah Forbes was in graduate school when she stumbled upon a museum dedicated to . . . sex.

The anthropology student hesitated when her boyfriend suggested she apply for a job, but apply she did, and it wasnt long before a part-time position at New Yorks MUSEUM OF SEX lead to a gig as the museum's curator. That was over twelve years ago. Now Saraha married mother of twoproudly sports her title as Curator of Sex.

In SEX IN THE MUSEUM, Sarah invites readers to travel from suburban garages where men and women build sex machines, to factories that make sex toys, to labyrinthine archives of erotica collectors. Escorting us in to the hidden world of sex, illuminating the never-talked-about communities and eccentricities of our sexual subcultures, and telling her own personal story of a decade at The Museum of Sex, Sarah asks readers to grapple with the same questions she did when it comes to sex, what is good, bad, deviant, normal? Do such terms even apply?

If everyone has sexual secrets, is it possible to really know another person and be known by them? And importantly, in our hyper-sexualized world, is it still possible to fall in love?

FORBES has been the curator of the Museum of Sex for the past twelve years. She also holds a masters degree in Anthropology from the New School and has been featured in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Reuters, Time Out, and on the Today Show, Discovery, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan, Bravo's Ironic Iconic America, and HBO's Katie Morgan Showamong many others. Sarah was recently a guest speaker and consultant for the hit Showtime series, "Masters of Sex." She lives in NYC with her family.