Musée de l'Erotisme/Abbey of St-Germain-des-Prés

yak oil lamp
from Tibet burning -

burning flame
in the vagina of
the tigress,

japanese wooden
sandals, phalli protruding
from the soles, thai utensils
for cracking betel nuts between
simulated male and female genitalia,

ceramic pornography from china
aztec fertility idols, erotic nepalese
carvings, fleshpots of pigalle, paris sex
museums as commonplace as wax museums
and churches,

20th century porn movies
in black and white doing the
same thing Paris Hilton does
in color,

brothel gallery, right
turn on the red light, french
bordellos, it's time to light the
yak oil lamp to see, although
anticlerical themes, that the guests
are more likely to be from a church
group than the fraternal order of perverts -
Musée de l'Erotisme - 72 boulevard de Clichy
in the 18th arrondissement -

oldest paris church
Abbey of St-Germain-des-Prés -
6th arrondissement of Paris, France
built to house the relic of the True Cross
brought from spain in 542 dedicated to the
Holy Cross and Saint Vincent, abbots with
temporal jurisdiction, the church frequently
plundered and set on fire -

Musée de l'Erotisme,
Abbey of St-Germain-des-Prés,
erotic museum and church, sexporium
and scriptorium, centers of intellectual life.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist