Jeju Loveland is an amusement park located on Jeju Island in South Korea. Its special feature: it is exclusively reserved for adults.
Indeed, this playground for grown-ups is a huge exhibition devoted to eroticism.
You can admire no fewer than 140 sculptures there. The styles are very varied, but each of these sculptures depicts an erotic scene. Twenty graduates from Hongik University in Seoul created them between 2002 and the park’s opening in 2004.
The park revisits many erotic clichés, with statues showing couples making love in various positions.
History of Jeju Loveland
In the past, and until the early 1990s, Jeju Island was the favourite tourist spot for newlywed Koreans to spend their honeymoon. Hotels in the area offered newlyweds, who were inexperienced and often daunted, entertainments with an erotic connotation. These activities helped them relax and sometimes gave them good ideas for later.
This “erotic island” past probably contributed to making the Jeju-do province the dream location to host a sex-themed park.
The statues of Jeju Loveland
Varied erotic scenes
The statues at Jeju Loveland follow one another but no two are alike, staging sexual antics in diametrically opposed situations.
Some protagonists embrace tenderly, while others try to slip away to escape their partner’s insatiable appetites.
The situations range from the most prudish to the most daring: shy lovers tenderly kissing each other while exchanging flowers and chocolates, to a fleeting, anonymous penetration through a glory hole.
Solo pleasures are also celebrated here, with fairly amusing games about proportions. A gigantic woman is masturbating, while another, more modest in size, rides a fantastical giant penis.
Animal sexuality
Animal sexuality is also present there. Turtles, dogs and even stylised little pigs indulge to their heart’s content and mate in every nook and cranny of the park.
Animated statues
Some statues are animated. They are operated manually, by a lever, which sets the characters in motion and thereby triggers intercourse.
Sexes everywhere
Phallic symbols or those evoking the female sex are legion there. Over here, an enormous penis rises skyward in the middle of a small square, over there, a hollow rock looks all too much like a vulva to be merely a coincidence.
Sometimes these symbols become more discreet and try to blend into the scenery (almost) unseen and unnoticed: carrots, mushrooms, rockets, mussels… no detail is innocent.
Even the signs get in on the act. Those indicating directions are in the shape of a penis, the glans pointed towards the road to take.
Those indicating an interesting spot depict, using pictograms, sexual positions. Below, I imagine the sign in the second photo indicates the car park. The first one, well, um… Good question…
Legs, bums and fingers
You can also find naked legs and bums, fingers inserted into orifices, and acrobatic threesomes.
Eroticism even in the toilets
You can take photos of yourself as perverted superheroes for the occasion… Or have your hands urinated on by lubricious, intriguing, slightly unsettling sinks.
Eroticism follows the visitors even into the toilets.
A museum of sex
Jeju Loveland also has an exhibition hall, in which you can contemplate works by contemporary Korean artists. The content of this hall is refreshed every month.
Sources of the illustrations, worth visiting to see a whole host of other photos: Flickr galleries by LonelyBob, by ntenny, by Michael Sotnikov, by Mr Laser, by whyyan, and by Jessica Eldredge, licence Creative Commons.
