Head a couple of hours out of Shanghai to the smaller Chinese city of Tongli, pull 20 RMB out of your wallet and start your sightseeing: at the China Sex Museum. Not quite the combination you might expect in straight-up-and-down China (and the museum's website is based out of Germany – that'll trick 'em), but it sounds like a worthy afternoon outing.

The main sections in the museum include "Sex in Primitive Society", Marriage and Women (groaningly primitive, we hear), Sex in Daily Life and Unusual Sexual Behavior. Apparently things get pretty explicit so you may not want to take your four-year-old.

There's also a garden out the front which, well, includes some fairly garish statues (and a few sweeter-looking ones too), and a tea pavilion if you need a drink to calm you down. Curiously they also offer meeting and small conference facilities so who knows, you really could end up at the China Sex Museum on a "business trip".

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A few years ago, the China Sex Museum was forced out of Shanghai due to prohibitive rents. A sad occurrence, except it was all for the better. With its new home in Tongli, the museum seems to have prospered, and out in the 'burbs, it even has room for a sex garden. According to the museum's website, it now maintains branches in six additional locations. Yay!

Founder Liu Dalin is a professor of sociology at the University of Shanghai. While his museum is basically one of a kind in China, it's not quite up to international standards: straight sex rules here, and online visitor reviews indicate that the gay stuff is relegated to a small section with other 'abnormalities', though this may be improving.

Express buses depart Shanghai Stadium and take about 1.5 to 2 hours to reach Tongli from Shanghai. A feasible day trip to snag that picture for your blog.

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