9/21 (Wednesday): Women with herpes or HPV, join other women for a regular bimonthly support group! 8 pm at CSC, 398 11th. Let us know if you would like to communicate with the organizers with any questions.


9/24 (Saturday day): The Love Parade – At noon Saturday Carol & Robert will be running a table at Civic Center; any volunteers who help will allow the Center to receive a $15.00 a head per hour donation for their support. Please show up and visit the Love parade with us. Contact Robert@CarolQueen.com if you can help out with this or at any time over Folsom weekend, 9/23-25. See the various events we're hosting (or renting space to) below. (For more info on SF’s Love Parade see http://LoveParadeSF.org -- or communicate with Sister Kitty Catalyst, Food & Beverage Volunteer Coordinator: 415/all-milk or Pusspuss@gotblow.org)

9/24 (Saturday evening): The Return of PERVERTS PUT OUT!
When: Saturday, September 24, 7 pm.
Where: The Center for Sex and Culture, 398 11th St. (at Harrison).
How Much: $10-20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Perverts Put Out! is a venerable spoken word smut salon, returning from a year's vacation to titillate audiences once again. This time around, our stellar relaunch line-up features Carol Queen, Daphne Gottlieb, Diana Cage, Bill Brent, horehound stillpoint, and Marlo Gayle. There's no better way to celebrate the eve of the Folsom Street Fair! Proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture. Previous shows have often sold out. RSVP to bb@blackbooks.com
to save a seat.

9/24 (Saturday night): Afterwards, Deep-Ocean presents REDEMPTION (a night of piety and perversion). 10 pm -- 2 am at CSC, 398 11th.
Cost: women and transgendered people $15; single men and M-F couples $40.
"If the smell of incense and the threat of damnation put you in the mood, your guilty little soul will be in heaven. Stern priests will be there to hear your most depraved secrets and nasty nuns will have you pleading for forgiveness. Naughty boys and undefiled virgins of all genders and orientations welcome. Submit to your carnal appetites and be forgiven... or at least punished."

For information or to RSVP email events@deep-ocean.com.

Services will go from 10 pm until 2am (join us for communion at midnight); we will provide tempting food and drinks all night. All safer sex supplies provided by Deep Ocean.
"When's the last time you confessed your sins?"

9/24 (also Sat. night): SCREWUP's BIG FOLSOM PARTY - 8pm-2am. Second floor (yes, this is a completely different party!) "screwup has been hosting DIY (Do-It-Yourself) BDSM skill-shares for over two and a half years and now we're throwing a party. The Big screwup Folsom Party is a BDSM play party for transgender folks, queers, genderqueers, and our friends and allies of all genders. All ages, all races, all kinds of folks welcome. If you think a diverse play space where all sorts of genders, bodies, sex-styles and play styles are welcomed and celebrated sounds hot, then this is the party for you! There will be a non-sexual age-play space, a watersports area, socializing and dancing, bdsm equipment, matresses and soft spaces, and some fun "sets". There is a suggested donation of $5-15, but no one should feel uncomfortable coming in free if ya need cause we'd rather have you and your sexy fun energy than worry bout money. The restrooms are gender neutral for the night. If you have disability or accessibility needs, we would like to speak with you (we are really working on making this party as accessible to everyone) – please contact rsvp@screwup.info or call 415-820-3991. if yer thinking of coming we'd really like you to RSVP so we can know how much food and other stuff to get.
rsvp@screwup.info or call 415-820-3991 and leave message; volunteers@screwup.info to volunteer.

9/25: Sunday is the Folsom Street Fair! We are setting up just west of 8th street.

9/25: Sunday night it’s Badonk-A-Donk
at the Center for Sex and Culture, 398 11th
Fakir Musafar, Cleo Dubois, Midori, Carol Queen
Our special guests will show a short video and treat us to intimate performances during the evening. Dr. Carol Queen and Dr. Bitch, Sir will be your hosts. DJ Pusspuss will spin. Refreshments and A PLACE TO FINALLY SIT DOWN will be provided. Requests for donations will happen at the door and we will torture you with – Local History, Nasty Things on Stage, Dirty Kinky Words, and Strange and Amusing Devices, along with Smut and Mild Perversions.

9/28: Join Carol as she reads from her piece in the brand-new Best American Sex Writing, edited by Violet Blue! At Modern Times, between 19th and 20th on Valencia, at 7 pm.

And finally!

9/30: CSC and Good Vibrations join forces to commemorate Banned Books Week with a book launch for a book too new to have been banned: the latest DisInformation Guide, "Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong"! Editor Russ Kick won't be with us, but host Carol Queen, Jack Boulware, Greta Christina, Violet Blue, Annalee Newitz, Lori Selke, David Steinberg, and others will be on hand to read and sign books and celebrate the First Amendment... without which none of our favorite sex writing would have much of a chance! No charge, but we will happily take donations and we might even solicit them.

This weekend we'll have a booth at the Open Heart, Open Mind sexuality conference which also features such luminaries as Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Annie Sprinkle, Candida Royalle, Marty Klein, Scarlot Harlot, and many more! Also, Carol Queen will open the conference as part of the speakers' panel, and will present a talk called Pleasure Physiology and Sex Toys both Saturday and Sunday at 11 am. The conference is at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Read all about it: www.openheartopenmind.net

Whether or not you come to the conference, join Carol Queen and Carol Leigh/Scarlot Harlot on Saturday night as they host an Open Heart open Mind Open House at the Center for Sex & Culture. Free, but we'll ask for donations! Join us and special guests for entertainment and convivial, sex-positive chat. 7 to 11 pm September 10 at 398 11th.

Welcome to our new regular CSC guests:

A group for women living with HPV and/or Herpes. "Our aim is to build an active, accessible, non-judgemental community which will raise stigmas and promote personal and societal healing. A major goal of the project is to put out an anonymous zine featuring stories, western health, and alternative medicine resources, and essays on the things such as the sex-negative views on these STI's." Every first and third Wednesday at 8 p.m. (September's remaining group is 9/21.)