Brazil is building a sex theme park called ErotikaLand, and it's totally crazy

The United Arab Emirates has Ferrari World, China lays claim to the Dwarf Empire, and in Argentina you can visit the The Republic of Children. Not to be outdone, Brazil is now planning its own wild and wacky amusement park — and the theme is sex.

The adults-only theme park, ErotikaLand, is planned for the city of Piracicaba, which sits about two hours outside of São Paulo, The New York Times reports. While ErotikaLand won't open until 2018, some have already protested that it is sending the wrong message.

"We cannot be known as the capital of sex," Piracicaba City Council member Matheus Erler said.

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Admission will cost $100 and allow access to a "7D" cinema, where the seats vibrate, as well as to a "train of pleasure" with gogo boys and girls, a nudist pool, a "sex playground," bumper cars shaped like genitalia, and a snack bar selling aphrodisiacs. Sex inside the park will not be allowed, however.

"If attendees want to take things to another level, they can go to a nearby motel — which we will operate," the businessman heading the project, Mauro Morata, said.

The park has other perks for the community too, Morata points out. It will bring in 250 new jobs, for starters. It will also teach attendees about healthy, safe sex — employees will promote condom use, and a museum will teach visitors about the history of sexuality.

"This won't be a place for nuns, but it's not like we're trying to recreate Sodom and Gomorrah," Morata said.