A Brazilian entrepreneur is planning the world’s first erotic theme park, complete with sex playgrounds and penis-shaped bumper cars, despite opposition from local politicians and religious groups.
ErotikaLand will be located near the city of Piracicaba, about two hours’ drive from Sao Paulo, and is intended to be playful rather than pornographic, say its organisers.
Attractions will include an erotic sculpture park, a sexy maze, a ferris wheel allowing occupants to enjoy the view in full privacy, a themed ghost train and a snack bar serving aphrodisiacs.
The £16 million project is the idea of Mauro Morata, boss of Soft Love, a sex product company, who promises it will be tasteful, create hundreds of jobs and boost the local economy. “The park will create 250 jobs and bring up to 3,000 visitors to the region per day,” he said.
“The one golden rule is that there will be no sex in the park. This won’t be a place for nuns, but we are not trying to recreate Sodom and Gomorrah,” he added. Quite how that will be enforced is unclear. Organisers say security staff will remind guests of the rules but acknowledge that a certain amount of restraint may be required.
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Some politicians are not convinced and are determined to stop the venture.
“We cannot become known as the capital of sex,” said Matheus Erler, a member of the Christian Socialist party on Piracicaba city council. He warned that the park would attract “debauched individuals”.
The controversy has forced Soft Love to delay the opening to 2018 but work on the site has started.
“We have acquired an ample site with some of the infrastructure we need in place,” said Castelo Branco, a spokeswoman for the project.
“We are not revealing the exact location yet because we think heads will be cooler once this year’s local elections are out of the way.”