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November 7, 2013
An explicit sex exhibit aimed at children that raised eyebrows in Parliament when it was displayed at Ottawa’s Science and Technology Museum, is slated to open at the Kitchener museum in January, 2014.
“The Science of Sexuality is a timely addition to our community and aligns well with our local Sexual Health Youth Strategy,” said Dr. Liana Nolan, Commissioner of Health for the Region of Waterloo Public Health in an intro to the controversial exhibit on the Kitchener museum’s website. “It brings science and research into a fun, interactive and practical way to teach our youth and parents about sexual health, relationships and respect.”
The exhibit, originally titled “Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition,” was created by Louise Bertrand at the Montreal Science Centre in 2010 and had a short stint in Regina before moving to Ottawa last year.
While the Montreal Museum opened the exhibit without restrictions to its intended audience – children 12 and older – in Ottawa, the museum required that youth under 16 be accompanied by an adult.
A video presentation of masturbation was removed from the Ottawa exhibit, but was reinstated in subsequent shows.
When the exhibit opened in Vancouver in August, the named was changed to “The Science of Sexuality.”
Although the sex exhibition at Vancouver’s Science World museum didn’t meet with the same opprobrium as it did in Ottawa, the ads for the show were banned from the city’s transit system after they were deemed too racy.
One of the banned ads shows a man straddling a woman in a hospital bed, her legs in casts. “Orgasms can kill pain,” the text read.
Another shows a box of tissue surrounded by used crumpled tissues. “Ejaculation Fights Colds,” the text read.
Critics of the exhibit have said that, despite its claims of being “scientific” and objective, it is disturbingly explicit and promotes an amoral vision of sexuality.
“This exhibit includes what can only be described as soft pornography, expressly designed for youth in the context of a museum,” wrote Dave Quist, executive director for the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (IMFC) in an open letter to James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage when the graphic exhibition was in Ottawa.
“Based on a tour by our staff, the exhibition espouses a specific point of view including the approval and promotion of anal sex, multiple sexual partners and sex without emotional/marital commitment.”
“Minister Moore, I would respectfully ask that this exhibition be cancelled,” stated Quist.
The federal government did in fact say that the sex exhibit at Ottawa’s Museum of Science and Technology, which falls under the jurisdiction of the federal government’s Ministry of Canadian Heritage and receives about $30 million per year in funding from taxpayers, “cannot be defended.”
