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To: TimF who wrote (94590)	2/21/2002 6:49:17 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Europe's first 'Sex Machines Museum' opens A Sex Machines Museum has opened in the Czech Republic. Exhibits include S&M bondage racks, electric nipple clips and Victorian anti-masturbation devices. Prague's city leaders say they would prefer postcard stands for tourist attractions. While Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid and Amsterdam all have "museums of the erotic", Samuele Nubile who runs the museum says it is unique in concentrating on sex machinery. "There are sex museums in cities all over Europe," he told the Prague Post. "We wanted to specialise in sex machines, to show people that this also exists." It has exhibts such as The Throne, a replica of a reclining rocker that once toured brothels in 19th-century France, and was used for "group games". The museum has made some concessions to critics by removing a window display featuring leather-clad mannequins tied up in a complex system of posts and pulleys, operated by a figure in a latex nun's outfit. Other displays show mannequins dressed in latex and leather, one wearing a spiked hooded "gimp mask" and another with a face mask with a funnel and tube running into its mouth. City officials are not keen on their new tourist attraction. Martin Kupka, city hall spokesman, said: "Foreigners might think we just leaped out of the bush."