A locked room holds graphic paintings of sex acts from China, Japan, Thailand and India. Some date to China's Song dynasty of the 10th to 13th centuries. The small turnout suits Liu. He worries that bigger crowds could make authorities look on his museum as a nuisance or hurt its high-minded educational goals. He talks with distaste of similar sex museums in Japan and the Netherlands that he says are too commercial.
Sex is a necessity of life, like food.
But he doesn't think Chinese attitudes toward sex have changed much. Liu sees a direct link between relaxed social attitudes and a flourishing economy. Journal Sentinel Inc. All rights reserved.