Apr 182012
 

* I’m back in the U.S. after a great trip to Australia – more on that later, but in the meantime, here’s what other folks wrote about my visit Down Under:

  • Click to page 10 for an article on my visit in Cherrie magazine.

* Last week I also appeared on The Ecstasy Hour with Barbara Carrellas in an episode called “A Walk On the Kinky Side” – if you missed it, you can listen to the show here.

* IWAdult.com posted a great review of my DVD Expert Guide to Pegging.

* …..and The Advocate posted an excerpt of the Ultimate Guide to Kink –  check it out while you’re waiting for your whole copy to get delivered!

 

Apr 152012
 

I’m headed to Toronto soon for the Feminist Porn Awards –  on Friday night is the 7th Annual Awards Gala, featuring clips from honorees plus live entertainment. On Saturday, I’m giving my workshop on open relationships at the University of Toronto. Scroll down for the full list of details on the weekend’s events.

Wednesday April 18th – Sexing The Transman with Buck Angel
Muzzo Family Alumni Hall (121 St. Joseph Street), 7-9pm
$15 advance or at the door (free for SDS and Cinema students)
Pioneering filmmaker Buck Angel gives an audio-visual tour of transman sexuality with his new documentary Sexing the Transman, including interviews with a variety of transmen and the people who love them. In the talk that follows Buck is your guide to re-defining gender and enjoying the fluidity of sexuality and individual expression of identity. Co-sponsored by Sexual Diversity Studies and Cinema Studies, UofT. All Genders Welcome.

Thursday April 19th – Public.Provocative.Porn: The Year’s Best in Feminist Film
The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (506 Bloor Street West), 9:30pm
$15 advance or at the door
Join us for a screening of selected Films by Filmmakers Erika Lust, Buck Angel, Nenna and N Maxwell Lander. Directors will be in attendance for a moderated discussion and Q&A facilitated by CoCo La Crème.
This event is 18+ Only.

Friday April 20th – 7th Annual Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards Gala
Berkeley Church (315 Queen St East), VIP Party at 8pm / General Admission at 9pm
$20 Early Bird (limited) / $25 Advance / $30 at the door
Join us as we present the legendary Feminist Porn Awards with a fabulous celebration of your favourite porn makers, plus a night of mind-blowing entertainment, a mountain of eye candy and the best movie clips ever seen at an awards show. Featuring hot entertainment from Ill Na Na, Olive-or-Oliver & CoCo La Creme and hosted by Elvira Kurt with Ryan G. Hinds. ASL interpretation provided.
This event is 19+ Only.

Saturday April 21st – Making Open Relationships Work with Tristan Taormino
UofT Campus,  11:30am-1:30pm
$33
Do open relationships really work? How do people create nontraditional partnerships that are loving and lasting? Tristan Taormino, relationship expert and author of Opening Up, shares some key principles that can help your open relationship(s) succeed. Tristan will offer tips on communication, negotiation, and boundary setting, as well as how to cope with change. Whether you’re a newcomer or veteran to the world beyond monogamy, come discover strategies to help you nurture and grow your open relationship(s). Co-sponsored by Sexual Diversity Studies and the Sex Ed Centre, UofT. All Genders Welcome.

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The 7th Annual Feminist Porn awards are generously sponsored by Hot Movies for Her, LELO, The Everything to do with Sex Show, Aslan Leather, NOW magazine.

Still want more? Switch: Queer Porn Play Party produced by ASLAN Leather is for anyone & everyone comfortable playing in queer & trans positive spaces! Check it out on Saturday April 21st at Oasis Aqualounge. Tickets available at ASLANLeather.com

Apr 152012
 

The Erotic Dominance Intensive for Men is a weekend workshop that focuses on dominating with confidence, competence, care, and style for Men with some experience in the Scene. Now in it’s 9th year, the next one is happening the first weekend of May.

Each Erotic Dominance Intensive, Player’s Course, is limited to 9 Dominant Men/Men who Switch. All men and male-identified folks welcome! Come on your own or bring your partner to this intimate workshop of hands-on exercises, lectures, demonstrations and real-time scenes at a private SOMA dungeon in San Francisco. Volunteer bottoms available and you go home with a comprehensive workbook.

Want to know what women need/want to trust & surrender?

Discover new ways to raise that delicious energy that adds such depth to our lives and our relationships. Topics Include:

  • The power of conscious touch, breath, and energy awareness
  • Male presence, integrity and archetypes
  • Fine art of negotiation and making it sexy
  • Cleo’s secrets of Topping
  • Developing your scene and making it work for both of you
  • Body and Spirit connection in BDSM
Location: DragonHouse, San Francisco SOMA
Dates: May 5-6 all day  and evening of May 4.
Teachers: Cleo Dubois, Selina Raven, Eve Minax
Apr 112012
 

 

 

 

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Apr 112012
 

My colleague Amy Jo Goddard has just launched an amazing new program at www.sexualityprofessionals.com. If you are hungry for more dialogue and connection among sexuality professionals, and you want to grow your career and help create critical conversations about the sexuality field, SPECTRA is for you. It’s a newly launched, non-academic mentorship program for feminist Sex Positive Educators, Counselors, Coaches, Therapists, Researchers, Activists and Advocates and it’s going to be a fantastic opportunity for sexuality professionals of all stripes. 

Here’s a little glimpse of what SPECTRA membership will bring you:

  • A training call once a month, with an expert in business or some aspect of sexuality work
  • A monthly interactive call that will be either group coaching, a Q&A call, or discussion-based
  • Access to the call recordings on the web if you miss them live.
  • Membership to the private forum on the SPECTRA website
  • and much, much more…

Visit www.sexualityprofessionals.com for more information; they’d love have you!

Apr 112012
 
Live Sex Show, best known for it’s groundbreaking live performance with porn legends Nina Hartley and Jiz Lee, is now for sale as a digital download at CourtneyTrouble.Com. Released by Courtney’s very own TROUBLEfilmsproduction company, Live Sex Show has received  a Feminist Porn Award nomination as well as the “Bring It” Best Porn Award from the Cinekink Film Festival since it’s release in October 2011.

Along with Jiz Lee and Nina Hartley; April Flores, Tina Horn, and Courtney Trouble also star in this film, which was shot in front of a live, horny audience at the San Francisco Masturbate-a-thon in 2010 at the Center for Sex and Culture. Indeed, this film was made as a benefit to the Center, led by sex positive icons Carol Queen and Robert Lawrence.

This film was the first release on Courtney Trouble’s independent film and website production company, and is also Trouble’s first inclusion of heterosexual sex scenes in her films, and certainly not the last. April Flores and Jolene Parton both star with their real-life male lovers, showing that Trouble’s queer porn career will gracefully transition into a full scale all-inclusive production house that blends the underground critically acclaimed and academically rejoiced Queer Porn Movement with a growing heterosexual fan base that prefers to see couples, high-chemistry couplings, and authentic desires portrayed on screen.

Live Sex Show has been kept from VOD and online porn streaming distributors until now, with it’s first release at CourtneyTrouble.Com’s online store, featured for only $25.00 for a full DVD quality download to own, unrestricted file that’s compatible with iTunes or Quicktime, and most mobile smartphones and tablets.

Live Sex Show will also be released at Adult DVD Empire for VOD within the month, Trouble says – an exciting connection that means more fans and more funds for this growing and ground-breaking company.

The film has been available only on DVD format until this time, with retailers like Smitten Kitten and Eden Fantasys at the top of sales. Wholesale inquiried for the DVD should be sent to orders@courtneytrouble.com or check out the TROUBLEfilms website for more information!

Apr 042012
 
  • Rebecca Rosenblat invited me onto her show “Sex @ 11 with Rebecca” last month to talk about open relationships. For those folks who missed it, you can watch my segment here. Thanks @TalkWithRebecca!
  • Las Vegas Weekly published an article on How to Do Everything, and if you click through to page 15, they have recommendations on how to be a sexual ninja, which includes a mention of my work and the new pegging video.
  • ….and finally, congratulations to Laura Antoniou whose story “The Man with the Phoenix Tattoo” (which appears in Take Me There) was nominated this week by National Leather Association–International (NLA-I) as a finalist for the John Preston Fiction Award.  The winners will be announced at the National Leather Association’s Annual General Meeting, which will be held during Tribal Fire (4-6 May 2012) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. For more information about Tribal Fire or the National Leather Association, see: http://www.tribalfireokc.com/ and http://www.nla-i.com.
Mar 282012
 

The Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow tours the US annually with a dazzling cabaret of performance art works and acts of resistance by queer folks of femme-inine spectrum genders. The show itself consists of five performers, featuring a raucous, thought-provoking line-up of multi-media, literary and performing arts, music, puppetry, participatory art — and even dance parties! All the details are here: heelsonwheelsroadshow.com

Our fearless artists rampage across the femme-inine spectrum-from hi-femme to femmedrogyny, dandy darling to ladybeast — in a wild revue of visceral, poetic, performance, emotional escape plans in wild workout gear, dark whimsical puppetry, innovative intersectionality, and rocknroll you can sink your heels into!

The 2012 tour is the third annual, and features experienced performers Damien Luxe, Geppetta, Heather Acs, Najva Sol, and Shomi Noise, with wrangler/visual artist/violinist Lizxnn Disaster, and runs April 6-14, 2012. In each city we visit there will be a show, a feminist art installation, and in many places, a community event or discussion. Our calendar is here.

Heels on Wheels is working class-led and multi-racial, and includes cisgendered and trans folks, QPOC, mixed race folks, sex workers, immigrants: all fiercely political feminist queer artists whose work weaves punk herstories, survival strategies, and wild costuming into escape artistry. These are stories that do not have enough outlets on a regular basis and that’s one reason this tour is important!

You can get pre-sale tickets, merch, and see the unicorn who told us to tour here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/962427077/heels-on-wheels-roadshow-2012-gas-and-tour-fund

Our schedule is:

Friday April 6: Hampshire College, MA, all ages show + dance party
Saturday April 7: Providence, RI @ Youth Pride Inc., 3-5pm
Saturday April 7: Providence, RI @ B16, email secretdoorprojects@gmail.com for location, 9pm all-ages show + dance party; $3-$8
Sunday April 8: Boston, MA @ [venue TBA]
Monday April 9: Upstate NY Guerilla installation @ Dia:Beacon
Monday April 9: Jersey City, NJ [TBC]
Tuesday April 10: Baltimore, MD [venue TBA]
Wednesday April 11: University of Maryland, MD, all ages show
Thursday April 12: Washington, DC Guerilla installation @ Smithsonian
Thursday April 12: Washington, DC @ DC Center, 1318 U Street NW Washington, DC, 20009; doors 7:30/show 8p; all-ages; $5-$12]
Friday April 13: Philadelphia, PA @ Vox Populi, 319 North 11th, Philadelphia; doors 8:30/show 9p; all-ages; $5-$12]
Saturday April 14: Brooklyn, NYC @ Spectrum; doors 8:30/show 9p; all-ages; $5-$12]

Find out more details about the artists, the show and to keep updated:

Website: www.heelsonwheelsroadshow.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/heelsonwheelsroadshow
Twitter: @howroadshow // #heelsonwheels

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Mar 282012
 

“I got tired of reading and hearing that porn degrades women, because I’ve never felt degraded in this field,” Flores, a full-figured redhead, told Lynsey G in her video interview. “I always say that I felt much more degraded as a receptionist than I did, ever, in porn.”

             Read the full article here.

 

Mar 282012
 

Have you ever opened up to anyone about your private relationship with pornography? Despite the common knowledge that the use of porn, particularly online, is nearly ubiquitous—according to 2010 statistics compiled by OnlineMBA.com, 25% of search engine requests are for porn and over 28,000 people are looking at online porn at any given second—few of us think or talk about it honestly. In the internet age, although porn is easier than ever to access, it is also easier to consume surreptitiously before “x-ing out” and deleting the web history. If the statistics are even close to correct, most of us are consenting cogs in the wheels of the porn industry’s massive turnout, yet we often show a very different face to the public than the one we put on when we are alone with adult entertainment. The gap between our intimate moments and our public reactions to porn is rarely bridged with conversation or dialogue. Consent aims to close the gap between what we think about porn and what we say—to collapse the space between the “them” of the porn industry and the “us” of the consumer.

Consent is a new exhibition curated by Lynsey G at apexart gallery in New York City.  Closing the gap between the porn industry and its consumers, Consent features interviews with porn actors, directors, activists, and consumers, including:

Lux Alptraum
Brittany Andrews
Nyomi Banxxx
April Flores
Lynsey G
Cindy Gallop
Sinnamon Love
Mr. Marcus
Daniel Reilly
Kelly Shibari
Oriana Small
Natasha Starr
Danny Wylde
Madison Young

The Graduate XXX  Screening: Wed, Apr 4: 6:30pm

Lynsey G  (aka Miss Lagsalot, in some circles) is a copywriter, reviewer, interviewer, columnist, and blogger writing for and about porn since 2007.

Exhibition on view Tuesday-Saturday, 11-6, March 21 – May 12, 2012.

 

apexart
291 church street, new york, ny 10013
t. 212 431 5270
www.apexart.org ( http://apexart.org/ ) apexart’s  exhibitions and
public programs are supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts, Barbro Pro Suecia Foundation, Bloomberg
Philanthropies, Degenstein Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd.,
William Talbott Hillman Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides
Foundation, and with public funds from the National Endowment for the
Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New
York State Council on the Arts.

All apexart events (http://apexart.org/events.php)  are free and
open to the public.