AUGUST '05 EVENTS

Wednesday, 8/3, 7 pm: Sex Ed Student Salon

Are you a student in one of the Bay Area's sex education programs, or doing a minor, an independent study, or a special focus on sexuality? Or are you thinking about joining one of these programs or shifting the focus of your education toward sexuality studies? Please join us for our first-ever salon evening, where sex ed students can meet, discuss issues unique to their academic careers, compare the focus of their programs, and get to know each other. You're the next generation of sex academicians and professionals, so start networking now! If this is a useful meeting we'll do it on a regular basis. No charge, but if you can, bring drinks or nibbles to share, and donations to CSC will be gratefully accepted. Please spread the word! 398 11th Street at Harrison. (What, you're not a student but you like the idea of a sex salon? What topic/s interest you? Email us and let us know; you might influence our future programming with your great ideas.)

Thursday and Friday, 8/4 and 8/5, 8 pm: Carol Queen performs her solo spoken word evening, Peep Show.

Half the proceeds will go to CSC; $10--20 sliding scale, $5 off for students, CSC members, and Lusty Lady staff past and present! Doors open at 7. Go backstage at the pre-union Lusty Lady Theatre! Carol, an early-‘90s alumna of the Lusty, takes her audience backstage for an intimate introduction to the secrets of the peep show. Meet her colleagues, with their over-the-top femme personae; the customers, from whom Carol learned her mother was wrong when she said that “men only want one thing”; and the theatre itself, where every windowed booth serves as a sort of erotic confessional. Queen (a.k.a. Minx Manx) was definitely one Live Nude Girl who loved her job, partly because she – a sexology grad student at the time – learned from it how amazingly diverse sex really is. The show lasts about two hours and is all extemporaneously told. Expect a funny, surprising, moving visit behind the locked doors of the Private Pleasures Booth.

CSC is located at 398 11th Street at Harrison in San Francisco. Doors
open on show nights at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8. Tickets are $10--20 sliding scale, with $5 off for students, CSC members, and Lusty Lady staff past and present. Tickets can be reserved by calling (415) 255-1155 or emailing mail@sexandculture.org. Cash and checks will be accepted at the door. Prepaid tickets are available via Paypal at CSC’s website, www.sexandculture.org. (Please add $2 for handling when using the Paypal option, and email CSC with your contact information and how many tickets you wish to purchase.)

Carol Queen has performed "Peep Show" all over the US and Canada, but only once before in its entirety in San Francisco. In 2003 she took an excerpt of the longer piece through the southwest with the Sex Workers’ Art Show Tour, and she has performed the show in Toronto, Boston, Seattle, Minneapolis, and elsewhere. On August 4 and 5 she'll be backed by the video stylings of the creative Vann Hall, who accompanied her in May when she performed the Bay Area premiere of "Peep Show" at the Roxie as part of the Sex Workers' Art and Video Festival.

Tuesday, 8/9, 6:45--9:30: Carol Queen presents How to Please Your Lover (a Learning Annex class)

http://www.learningannex.com/default.taf - San Francisco Classes: Course 317GSF Section A, held at a downtown location. $49.99, $5 off when you enroll online.

To be a good lover, a person needs to be savvy about bodies: anatomy, erogenous zones, and the way arousal changes our responses. Come attend this workshop with Dr. Carol Queen, who has been worked at Good Vibrations since 1990, and has spoken to countless customers about having a better sex life. Carol will teach you the tricks of erotic love, including: * How to develop sensitivity to your partner's individual sexuality * The ability to communicate comfortably * Hot bedroom tricks * Sexy methods for heating things up! Plus: Q&A! Dr. Carol Queen is an award-winning author of erotica and essays, widely anthologized and published online and in magazines and periodicals. She speaks widely about romance, sexual functioning and enhancement, the adult industry, and sex and culture.
(The above link should enable you to sign up, if you so desire, or visit http://www.learningannex.com/default.taf?sctn=A&_function=detail&cnum=317GSF&cat=)

Saturday, 8/13, 1--4 pm: PHOTOGRAPHY FOR PERVERTS - A Workshop With Master Photographer Charles Gatewood

At the Center for Sex & Culture, 398 11th -- $ 50
Join renowned photographer Charles Gatewood, "family photographer of
America's sexual underground," for this fun 3-hour workshop based on his Greenery Press book, PHOTOGRAPHY FOR PERVERTS. Learn the dos and don'ts of adult photography, plus how to meet and work with exotic models, getting published and exhibited, model releases and 2257 record keeping, tech tips, and lots more. Students are encouraged to bring their cameras and examples of their work for critique. A nude model will be present to pose for all who attend.

To reserve a spot write mail@sexandculture.org, or call (415) 255-1155.
For more information, call Mr. Gatewood at 415-267-7651.

POSTPONED - Check back for more details!
Good Vibrations comes to CSC to celebrate Anal Sex Month! Details are still being finalized for this event but it will include anal sex experts and video... if we're lucky, Nina Hartley will be available to join us! Mark your calendar!

Thursday, 8/18, 6:30--8:30 pm: DragStrip & Center for Sex & Culture present: Two! Two! Two Workshops In One!

ARTY FISHAL'S FABULOUS DRAG KING WORKSHOP and MISS INDIGO BLUE'S FEMME-TASTIC WORKSHOP including TASSLE TWIRLING

Drag tips from the pros! How to be a bigger/better King or Queen!
Note:our workshops are open to any & all genders.

KINGs: Are you ready to give that crazy drag king thing a go but don't know where to start? Do you lip-sync in the mirror and dream of strutting your studly stuff on stage? Participants will learn the ins and outs of kinging from facial hair to packing to finding your inner man. Bring your stud duds we'll supply the rest. Guaranteed to bring out the handsome devil deep inside you! Drag King Arty Fishal, aka Faux Queen Super Fishal, aka Leslie Einhorn is a writer, performer, and teacher who won the SF Drag King title in '98. He has been featured on television shows including Evening Magazine, Maury Povich, and Dick Clark's The Other Half. Ms. Einhorn is the director of CASA, a children's theater program. She teaches "Inner Man" workshops through the all women Shakespeare company, Women's Will. As a high femme, Leslie really works hard to transform herself to the opposite sex. So whether you're a butch who just needs expert instruction on facial hair, or a femme who needs to learn how to pack and then take life by your balls -- whether you're new to gender bending or already bent -- this workshop is for you!

QUEENs: FEMMETASTIC WORKSHOP + TASSLE TWIRLING

Ever wondered how their lips sparkle so brightly? How they dance in high heels? How they balance all that hair on their heads? Learn the tricks of the Hi-Femme trade from Internationally renowned Burlesque Star Miss Indigo Blue, "The Twirly Girl". The Sapphic Sensation from Seattle will share the nuts & bolts of glitz, glamour, and girldom for *all* interested people! Bring your favorite lipstick, high-heels, and sexy garment, and we'll walk you through Exaggerated Femininity 101! Boas and pasties available for loan and purchase. Tassel Twirling... super fun! Open to anyone with a chest. We mean anyone! Shake left! Shake right! Can you go clockwise? Counterclockwise? In opposite directions? Learn the ancient alluring Burlesque skill of nipple tassel twirling! A Revolutionary class for all budding Helicopter Girls.

Miss Indigo Blue is a three-time award-winner at the annual Miss Exotic World competition. She has performed in Amsterdam, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and Seattle where she also teaches Tassel Twirling, Erotic Dance, and Teasing techniques. Miss Indigo is also the President and Chief Twirling Officer of TwirlyGirl.net, creating exquisite pasties for discriminating nipples, and the founder and Headmistress of the Academy of Burlesque in Seattle.

WHERE: Center for Sex & Culture, 398 11th Street (right across the street from DNA Lounge)
TICKETS: $35. which includes the price of the SF Drag King Contest, held later that night at the DNA. (The DNA is 21+ only; if you aren't 21 and wish to come to the workshop, let us know!

INFO: www.sfdragkingcontest.com, www.centerforsexandculture.org, www.missindigoblue.com

Saturday August 20 at The Rawhide, located at 280 7th St. in San Francisco (please note date change since our last mailing): BOOGIE NIGHTS!

Spectator Magazine and numerous other adult oriented businesses are pooling their talents and resources to benefit the Sex Positive community by holding a benefit for local charitable organizations The Center For Sex and Culture, The St. James Infirmary, The SF Sex Info Hotline and The Lusty Lady.

Due to numerous cuts in budgets and a general attitude of apathy towards these ventures, funding has been drastically cut and important programs are being forced to consider cutting hours and services in order to make up for the deficit. The following companies have come together to hold a one night extravaganza benefit to help fill the funding gap through sponsorship and donations:
The Spectator Magazine, Dark Garden Corsetry, Bondage A Go-Go, Foot Worship, The Lusty Ladies, Cybernet Entertainment, Cyber-Dyke Network, Felicity’s Fetishe, Mom’s Tattoo, Romantasy, The Greenery Press, Homegrown Video, Madame S, Mr. S, and many others… “Boogie Nights” features classic Disco beats, real live vintage Porn, real live vintage Porn Stars, raffles, prizes for best costume, for best dancers, a spanking booth, silent auction and more all to bring the Sex Positive community together. Doors at 8:51 pm. We are asking local businesses for donations of gift certificates, retail items or services to be offered in the raffles and/or silent auction. All donations will be tax entirely deductible. If you would like to be involved or donate to this project please contact:
Heath Weaver-Hall
(510) 450-1010
heath@spectator.net
For more info: http://spectator.net/boogienights.php