Sexual Nature Exhibition

On Wednesday I went to London to visit the recently opened Sexual Nature Exhibition at the Natural History Museum. Because you had to pay to get in, it wasn't as busy as other exhibitions I've been to at the museum, so it was easy to properly look around at things.


When I walked in, it was a bit of a weird experience. The room was dark, there was porn like music playing in the background and just videos of animals mating with each other. I felt a bit perverted being in there, but then again I suppose my entire project is a bit perverted.
Having already researched into animal mating behaviour, I didn't actually learn a lot of new things, it was more a confirmation that my research was all correct. In fact I think a lot of the images and videos were taken from the David Attenborough series I had already watched.
They were also showing videos from Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno series, which are of her dressed up as different animals and demonstrating how they mate with one another. Having already watched most of these before, I got a bit bored. But other members of the public seemed to be having a right giggle at these videos, which is fair enough I guess.

What I enjoyed most about this exhibition were the little facts dotted around the room.

They also had taxidermied animals in the mating position, which I found quite interesting. It just made me think of the process that went into stuffing these animals in this position, must have been quite funny.

I took a photo of this as I had trouble finding the correct information about these lizards. And I wasn't sure if the lesbian like tendencies were right, but apparantly they are! Could have done quite a funny scenario about this one if I had known sooner:

At the end of the exhibition they had a section just about human relationships, which was quite entertaining. The even had a wall where people could stick up post its of really bad chat up lines.

Here is a display of the books they had on sale at the end, they even had a karma sutra pop up book! It looks like there is a space for my book idea to go though, as none seem to really joke about the act of animal sex.

So to sum up, I found my visit to this exhibition quite enjoyable. But the fact that I was looking around it on my own made me feel a bit perverted, but in a way it also made me feel quite normal. When I tell people about my project people often ask 'why are you doing it about that?!' and this exhibition has just helped me to think 'why not?'

I'd recommend it to friends if they were thinking of going, it is very informative and quite entertaining :)