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The Wellcome Collection - The institute of Sexology

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The sexology exhibition is the first uk exhibition to bring together the pioneers of sexology. Spanning 150 years of sex research.  It is on until September at the Wellcome Collection with talks through out the year and is something i've wanted to sink my teeth into for a while. We arrived and immediately sat down for 2 cakes and a cup of tea. Jammy and i had an appetite for chocolate and learning. Upon entry, (no pun intended), i realised the exhibition had wasted no time getting right into it, when approaching our 3rd window, we came to discover what i thought were torture items were infact old fashioned sex toys. I'm going to go out here on a limb guys and say, i didn't know they even had sex toys back then. They were big, wooden and not something you would probably want to put up yourself. They weren't even in an inviting colour, like marshmallow pink. The second cool thing I loved were little fruit clams with sex figurines inside them. Yes, you read that righ...

Smlates at the Science Museum.

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My friend Jake had told me about this evening which i hadn't heard about before (Hardly a surprise, i'm not that hip) and i was super excited about it. It was 2 of my favourite things. Sex and science. He did however, fail to mention the enormous "back on yourself" queue to get in, which he swore blindly wasn't there last time. It seems the whole of London was in a kinky mood, ready to learn. When we had all made it in and grouped up to plan what to do, we noticed everyone had wrist bands on that said "likes boys" or "likes girls" etc. At first I thought it was speed dating and as I came with my significant other, I declined. After reading the leaflet, I came to learn it was just a social experiment on sexual orientation. Our first port of call was the bar to get some science novelty cocktails. My boyfriend James bought me a "For your eyes" which was cloudy apple juice, elderflower and gin, strong combo. Then we made our way to the...