Blue Law Sunday? Museum of Sex

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Neil Genzlinger

TAKE IT OFF Sarah Forbes, the curator of the Museum of Sex in Manhattan,
in the burlesque exhibition.

NEW YORK - Blue laws, for the uninitiated, enforced the concept that Sunday, in our Christian city and nation, was a time for churchgoing, not for “shooting, hunting, fishing, sporting, playing, horse-racing, gaming, frequenting of tippling houses, or any unlawful exercises or pastimes,” as an 1828 state statute put it. And certainly, one imagines, not a time for going to museums of sex. But that was then; this is now. And here in the now, most anything goes on Sunday. The Museum of Sex, on Fifth Avenue at 27th Street, opens at 10 a.m. that day. [link]