A scale-model replica of King Edward VII’s sex chair will be on view during special free event at Museum of Sex
Museum of Sex
233 Fifth Ave. at 27th St.
Tuesday, July 26, free, 7:00
212-689-6337
www.museumofsex.com
“Love was immediately associated with travel,” Elisabeth Eaves writes in Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents (Seal, May 2011, $16.95), remembering a long-distance college romance. Her memoir follows her from New Guinea to Cairo and beyond. In The Sinner’s Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe (Broadway, May 2011, $15), Tony Perrottet limits his sexually inspired travels to a single continent: “The British Museum was only the first stop in a personal Grand Tour I’d planned across Europe, in search of forbidden historical fruit,” he explains. “Today, the entire continent is still littered with secret boudoirs, perverse relics, and ancient dungeons, many of which, I was convinced, could be found.” Eaves’s and Perrottet’s dual journeys will bring them together July 26 for “Sex and Travel Night” at the Museum of Sex, where they will read from their books and discuss the intersection between lust and travel in the institution’s OralFix bar, where the audience can partake in such aphrodisiac cocktails as the Aphrodite (good for potency and lust), the Golden Blossom (endurance and longevity), and the Lucky Devil (excitement and joy), as well as a specially devised elixir created for the event. Among the items on view will be a playful scale-model replica of King Edward VII’s sex chair.