Erotik Museum

Relax, it’s just sex… Right on a suitably seedy corner, Berlin’s Erotik Museum is a shrine to human sexuality, a three-storey tower of titillation, a monument to physical pleasure. Or is it? OK, we’ll leave that up to you to judge… The brainchild of Beate Uhse, Germany’s late sex-toy queen, the museum is stacked with over 3000 items of erotica from around the world. There’s plenty of artsy stuff like Japanese Shunga art (with exaggerated genitalia), Chinese sex-ed ‘wedding tiles’ and hardcore watercolours by George Grosz. The fetish dioramas are downright tacky, but the early erotic films and historic chastity belts are quite amusing. Naturally, Frau Uhse gets a shrine to herself and there’s even a smallish display on gay movement pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld. By the way, you have to be over 18 to enter the museum and also the sex shop on the ground floor.