Jiangsu: Walking into Chinese Sex Culture Museum

Tongli, one of the six famous towns in southern China, is located beside the Taihu Lake and east of ancient Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. It was constructed 1000 thousand years ago in Song Dynasty. With water surrounding around, Tongli enjoys a reputation for its beautiful scenery. In 1995, Tongli was listed as one of the first Historical and Cultural Town of China’s eastern Jiangsu Province.

The Museum of Ancient Chinese Sex Culture was moved from Shanghai to Tongli in April in 2004. The opening ceremony was held in April 19 and then it was renamed as Chinese Sex Culture Museum. The museum is situated in the east of the famous scenic spot Retreat Garden in Tongli. The place is the former site of Lize Women School which was built in 1902. To construct the museum, the local government invest more than ￥3,000,000 to the project. One part of the architecture is in European style in the late Qing and early the Republic of China, and the other part is a typical ancient southern gardens style.

The museum is divided into four parts: the sex culture in primeval society; marriage and women; the sex in daily life; abnormal sexual behavior. There are totally 1700 sex tools in the four exhibition areas aging from 9000 years ago to the Republic of China.