The trip to Worlitz was particularly interesting to me as it provided some background to Puckler's designs and explored the idea of enlightenment through eroticism. Sexually-charged spaces, and expecially deviant sexuality, relates to my future thesis project and so I was glad to have an 18th century precedent to visit and walk through. 

The labyrinth in the garden was a guided tour toward enlightenment, made complete by Venus as the final 'prize'. Although there are some seriously mysogynistic vibes going on with the labyrinth, I feel like these types of acknowledgements to sex in the landscape are totally taboo and stigmatized, so still pique my interest. Can the spectrum of sex, sexuality, sensuality, sensory perception, sensation be a path toward understanding and knowledge? Is that valid or childish? If it is at least partially valid, how is that coherently spatilized? 

The use of Venus in garden statuary, and the overall sexualization of Venus, was commonplace during the 18th century and beyond, but there were other markers of sex in the park. I've attached an image of Prince Leopold's phallus flowerbed, which points directly to his love shack that he occupied with his mistress. For the time, infidelity was certainly a form of sexual deviance, and although this reference is a bit on the nose, I'm curious to see how it fits into the larger discourse of sexualized spaces.