New York City Museum of Sex

In New York City there is a museum of sex which houses over 15,000 pieces of sexual art, to include a sexually explicit piece from Picasso. A dominatrix tool was added to this collection a few years ago, a brushed steel bondage machine, donated by Marie Coughlin, also known as Domina M. (New York Times, 4 May 2010) It was not the issue of her donating this piece that caused an uproar with some people, it was the fact she received a tax deduction for her donation. It turn out some people do not believe sex machines are considered art. If a hunk of medal designed by an artist is donated to an art museum is it not art? Who is to decide what art actually is? The definition of art, according to www.dictionary.com is "the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance". There are many people who would consider an instrument of sex a piece of expression or at the very least "more than ordinary". Art is one subject which holds no boarders and its beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Sex in art is extremely common and should be viewed as amazing, not something to be hidden away because a certain group of people do not want to see it in public or in museums.

the quality, production, significance". A sexual instrument can be appealing to many people and can surely be considered more than ordinary. I do not know many average people who have a sex machine in their