Exploration of  the relationship between architecture and sexuality, focusing on how built environments have historically shaped, liberated, or constrained erotic expression. Through a historical and critical lens, the study examines how certain architectural projects have transcended traditional domestic models to accommodate alternative sexual imaginaries—from utopian libertine visions to mid-century modern bachelor pads.

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In Mexico City, as in much of the country, sexuality has long been shrouded in discretion. Rooted in conservative social norms, the topic remains taboo for many—but the city’s evolving sexual landscape tells a different story. Amid this shift, the love hotel—here referred to as the kinky motel—has emerged as a spatial form where erotic freedom meets architectural expression.

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Kinky motels are part of a broader network of sexual heterotopias—spaces that resist the normative structures of intimacy and domesticity. They provide room for subversion, fantasy, and experimentation, accommodating honeymooners, bachelor parties, LGBTQ+ communities, and sexual tourism. In these rooms, social roles are suspended, and the architecture itself becomes an accomplice to performance.

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These spaces are designed to be anything but routine. Constant reinvention—through modular furniture, immersive lighting, mirrored surfaces, and thematic décor—encourages what has been called “the pleasure of illusion.” The experience is curated through ambiance and atmosphere, drawing from mythologies, fetishes, and symbolic codes that activate the senses and spark imagination.​