When it comes to sex culture, Berlin is the place to be. With the very comprehensive Erotic Museum, with its collection of 5,000 sexual artifacts from around the globe, there’s pretty much something for every everyone. You’ll see sex toys, lubes and other paraphenalia sold in restroom dispensers at movie theaters, restaurants, shopping malls, etc.
Sometimes you go to a party (and there are many during the Berlin Film Festival) and you just don’t expect to see glass bowls of lube peppered throughout the club like centerpieces at a banquet table. Or my personal fave, a French distributor’s after party with completely naked dancers wearing space helmets. Now that’s a nifty image.
Even walking down the street, racing to screenings, you come to signs like this:
