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We stopped by the Museum of Sex, which opened last year to much fanfare. I thought the new exhibit, Sex Among the Lotus: 2500 Years of Chinese Erotic Obsession, was great. Seeing the pages from ancient pillow books depicting group sex, voyeurism, and sumptuously decorated boudoirs, made me want to get flat on my back right that minute. Eastern religion celebrates sex as natural and divine; it's a refreshing reminder that the Judeo-Christian emphasis on repression and sexual guilt is not universal. For a peek into one of the most famous ancient pillow books, check out this mini Kama Sutra.On a less joyous note, the exhibit segues into a large display of foot-binding, a painful reminder of how much women suffer for beauty. Whether we?re having our feet reshaped to fit into doll-size slippers, we?re starving ourselves to feel more desirable, or we?re having our vagina?s tightened to please our partners, it seems we?re always so far away from just accepting ourselves as we are.