QUIRKY WORLD ... Kama Sutra exhibition promises revealing sex story

ENGLAND: An ‘Orgone Accumulator’, a vibrator, saucy postcards, erotic pottery and illustrations from the Kama Sutra are on display in a new, year-long exhibition tackling the study of sex.

The Institute Of Sexology — a show at the Wellcome Collection — features more than 200 objects, including sex toys, paintings, medical artefacts, films, carvings, prints and photographs.

And one object which visitors will be able to try for themselves is the “Orgone Accumulator”, a reflectively lined box which Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich created in 1939 to generate “vital libidinous energy” in those who sat inside it.