Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Myelt from Erin

Manky.

Listener discretion is advised.

We don't have sex in the USSR.

Those are the words that greet visitors in bold, block lettering upon arriving at the

Museum of Love and Erotic in St. Petersburg.

From the outside, the muse arrows, as it's called, appear fairly innocuous.

Muted reds and grazed, long since faded by the sun, paint the buildings facade, blending

into the equally faded asphalt of the parking lot it shares with the shell gas station across

the street.

But once inside the pallid hues of the city give way to midnight blacks and electric

pinks, decor unapologetically flaunting sex and kink over every square inch of its curated

studio space.

Past the throne of dildos and gift shop laden with leather accessories, the museum offers

exhibit after exhibit of artifacts dedicated to the exploration of sex and sexuality through

history.

Fertility statues stand proudly next to displays of vintage vibrators of alse dubious historical

accuracy.

But perhaps the most interesting piece in the entire space is sitting in a jar behind a

pane of glass.

It isn't dressed in the same jarring neon or velvet allure in keeping with the rest of the

exhibit.

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