The Love Castle: NSFW Photos from a Korean Sex Museum

If you ever find yourself in the popular tourist town of Gyeongju, be sure to check out the Sex Museum. It’s chock full of historical exhibits, phalluses of every size, and sculptures that run the gamut from outrageous kitsch to the downright bizarre.

Greeted at the entrance by a cartoon penis named Cocksey and staring at a sign that featured Wonder Woman with a chicken’s head, I found myself thinking “This is gonna be a weird ride”. And I was right.

Stepping inside, we were treated to displays of pottery from different cultures featuring people having sex or men sporting outrageously large erections. Stone and wooden dildos sat in cases with descriptions, much like you’d find in any museum. The next room was full of colorful cartoon-like dioramas with scenes of men in raincoats exposing themselves to shocked women, schoolkids using a mirror on their shoes to look up the teacher’s dress and men picking up prostitutes in a bar.

Moving back outside, things got more interesting: giant fiberglass phalluses stood proudly in the baking sun and plastic sculptures of naked women or couples having sex were sprinkled throughout the grounds.

Paintings of people, animals and even insects having sex lined the fence, covered in Korean script that I’d given anything to have been able to read. Every stick, post or knob in sight had been carved to feature the head of a penis.

A second building featured several reproductions of old Japanese prints of people doing the deed, porcelain sculptures of couple having sex and my favorite, a viewing room with a widescreen TV showing various animals having sex. All of the chairs were taken up by young Korean couples watching the scenes intently.

A small door with a plexiglass window housed a mannequin and sported a lever that just begged to be pulled. Doing so caused the mannequin’s penis to pop up and spray a huge torrent of water at the window, illiciting surprised squeals from more than a few of the customers. Klassy.

Eventually we were funneled into the gift shop where we could buy all sorts of lube, sex toys and gag gifts. After walking down a path that showcased the Sounds of Sex”, recordings of people from different countries making love, we ended up at the snack bar which proved to be the oddest experience of all.

Young couples sat at small tables sucking on popsicles, watching recycled Skinimax sex scenes on two large TVs while a sober voice described what was going on in the scene. The chairs were rough-hewn affairs with a giant erect phallus serving as the backrest and weren’t very comfortable. Maybe it’s just me, but I just can’t seem to relax with a huge penis between my shoulder blades. I’m weird like that.