{"id":13198,"date":"2020-01-24T01:25:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/jan\/23\/sex-please-were-the-british-museum-tantra-exhibition-to-open"},"modified":"2020-01-24T01:25:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:25:51","slug":"sex-please-were-the-british-museum-tantra-exhibition-to-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13198","title":{"rendered":"Sex please, we\u2019re the British Museum: Tantra exhibition to open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curator assures the public that stereotype-busting show will not include Sting or Kama Sutra<\/p>\n<p>Forget \u201cno sex please, we\u2019re British\u201d. More a case of \u201cthere will be lots of sex, we\u2019re the British Museum\u201d. But the curator has assured the public the first major UK exhibition to explore Tantra won\u2019t be the \u201cpleasure for the sake of pleasure\u201d kind, nor what Sting suggested he was up to in his seven-hour lovemaking sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the exhibition, announced by the museum on Thursday, will explore Tantra, a set of beliefs and rituals that began in 6th-century India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/jan\/23\/sex-please-were-the-british-museum-tantra-exhibition-to-open\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curator assures the public that stereotype-busting show will not include Sting or Kama SutraForget \u201cno sex please, we\u2019re British\u201d. More a case of \u201cthere will be lots of sex, we\u2019re the British Museum\u201d. But the curator has assured the public the first ma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,210,211,749,71,516,62,215,89,241,371,61,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-british-museum","category-buddhism","category-colonialism","category-culture","category-hinduism","category-india","category-london","category-museums","category-nepal","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13199,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198\/revisions\/13199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}