IF you’re expecting a Sex Toys “R” Us outlet at the new Museum of Sex, forget it.
The gift shop isn’t even selling batteries. Much like more mainstream museums, they’ll be offering T-shirts (no, not leather- these are 100 percent cotton), baseball caps, posters and exhibit catalogs.
But don’t despair: This 600-square-foot gift shop – off the lobby and by the bathrooms – will have a more risqué inventory than the rest of the pack.
The store is stocking up on nudie floatie pens (which come in male and female versions), a small stocking-stuffer version of the Kama Sutra, and a collection of videos and books from porn star veteran Annie Sprinkle, such as her erotic postcard book “XXXOOO: Love and Kisses from Annie Sprinkle,” in which she promises you’ll “find all you need to become a Pleasure Activist.”
“We’ll only be [minimally] dependent on kitsch,” insists Wendy Jo Martling, the museum’s director of retail and visitor services.
“We’ll also have a healthy amount of historical books,” she adds, like the “historically relcvant” titles “The Encyclopedia of New York” and “Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.”
Eventually, she says, visitors will also be able to buy nudie toothbrushes, as well as refrigerator magnets of nude Victorian women and museum snow globes.