Due Diligence at the Museum of Sex

Bompas & Parr—the British duo who specialize in turning bodily appetite into architecture—have built my ideal room at the Museum of Sex in New York. The piece is called Funland: Pleasures & Perils of the Erotic Fairground, and it is, in practical terms, a room of enormous inflatable breasts that visitors are invited to bounce around in. Jump in. Roll around. Live your life.

The conceptual scaffolding—erotic transgression, the fairground as liminal pleasure space—does its job, giving critics a sentence to stand on. But the thing is a bouncy castle made of giant tits, and that is genuinely, unironically great. Bompas & Parr have made careers out of constructions like this: gin fog you inhale, architectural jellies you eat, sensory environments that turn appetite into a place you can walk through. This is their most generous commission. The Museum of Sex should feel proud. So should everyone involved.