Collecting Sex
• Amorous Scholarship
From a review of Sex Collectors. The Secret World of Consumers, Connoisseurs, Curators, Creators, Dealers, Bibliographers, and Accumulators of “Erotica” by Geoff Nicholson:
… Nicholson’s collectors just, well, collect. They purchase, they store. Sometimes they catalog. Once in a while, they go crazy and actually display something. But since they’re not themselves having sex here or inventing anything sexual or even talking about sex or art or media in especially insightful ways, they don’t cohere into anything but a collection of their own - a point Nicholson himself concedes, ruefully, in the book’s final chapters.