+ From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:52:33 +0530
Sex museum plan sparks Rio row
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Thursday July 20, 2006
The Guardian
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Hoping to sever her city's ties with sex tourism, Rio's evangelical governor, Rosinha Matheus, recently banned the sale of postcards featuring naked women. While she has yet to officially comment on the scheme, blueprints for the museum are unlikely to please her.
Boasting strip joints, sex "capsules" and a swingers' club - all packed into a futuristic, phallus-like white labyrinth - the planned museum resembles an oversized set from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
"Brazil has this huge link with sex yet it has no museum to celebrate this," said Vetyemy, 25, whose supporters range from Rio's mayor to Nigel Coates, the British architect behind the Millennium Dome's Body Zone.
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http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1824812,00.html
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