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December 2, 2015
Heather in Seattle
This episode is coming to you direct from Seattle where I just emceed the cabaret for the very first Kinky Salon Seattle! I talk to Heather, who was the instigator of the event, about the differences between Kinky Salons in London, Portland and Seattle, and her journey all the way from Barcelona.
November 20, 2015
Christina is studying us!
This episode things get super intellectual as I interview Christina Bazzaroni, the PhD (ABD) who is studying Kinky Salon. We started out being her lab rats but then she went native! She’s part of the team that set up Kinky Salon in New York and she’s been all over the world interviewing the community leaders in all the different cities for her dissertation. She’s real smart. The photo is of us in Berlin. She’s deeeep in her research dressed as a pirate to blend in. It’s purely professional. Ahem.
November 6, 2015
Ouchy the Clown
Following the last episode’s introduction to the Porn Clown Posse, this time I’ve got Ouchy the Clown in an intimate tête-à-tête about his personal life. He’s an iconic character in San Francisco subculture, a loving father and husband, and a total perv. Apologies for the bad jokes and to the coulrophobic.
October 23, 2015
The Berlins
Jessica and Brian Berlin have been regulars at Kinky Salon San Francisco forever. They’ve tried monogamy and polyamory and now they’ve got the perfect balance. Listen in on how they became a Kinky Salon power couple! Warning: it involves clowns.
October 9, 2015
Eric Barry from Full Disclosure
Eric is a podcaster who lives in Chicago. He has an awesome podcast called Full Disclosure which you should totally check out. We talk about Chicago sex culture and how different it is from the Bay Area and in the end I think I convinced him to start a Kinky Salon out there. We’ll see!
September 24, 2015
Lucid is Nona Fender of Bawdy Church
Lucid has two personalities (at least.) She created her alternate persona Nona Fender so that she could express her East Coast rawness to her West Coast community. She came to Mission Control before Kinky Salon existed, has seen it blossom over the last 15 years, and has some great stories about her early days of exploring open sexuality.
You can experience the rockstar Nona first hand with her vaudeville “rewilding” revival at Bawdy Church on Oct 16
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August 19, 2015
Will, my neighbor
Will’s just your friendly average all American neighborhood perv. Come listen to his take on open relationships, being slutty, and looking for an LTCR.
July 16, 2015
Club Kiss Is Back With a BANG!
Club Kiss is my “Lifestyle” event. It’s a sexually progressive play party, with more of a heteronormative vibe than Kinky Salon. It’s consent based, bi friendly (including guys) and a bit too kinky for tradional swingers. The party went on a bit of a hiatus after we lost the Mission Control space. With my book, Kinky Salon and the world tour I didn’t have time to keep it up.
That all changed a few months ago when I started working with Ben Fuller from Bronze. He’s a big fan of the community, and brought much needed life and energy into the mix, helping to start it up again. We’ve been throwing some kick ass parties together for the last few months and we’ve decided to make it official. We’ve made a commitment to throw monthly events once the new space opens, and in the meantime we’ve got asummer party planned at SPACE and a massive Halloween spectacle on October 24th at Danzhaus.
Club Kiss is back with a BANG. I’m the Creative Director, and I now have an awesome Production Manager at the helm. We’re a great team and I’m looking forward to all the crazy parties we’re going to throw together.
YEE HA!
Sex Culture Revolutionary T-Shirts ONLY SIX MORE DAYS!
I’m selling T-shirts via a TILT campaign to support all the work that’s happening around here, and they’re only available for six more days! Please support the Sex Culture Revolution by getting yourself one of these AWESOME T-shirts. Buy one for a friend
The campaign is for a limited time, so if you don’t buy one now you might miss your chance, and the T-shirts only get made if there’s a minimum order of 50.
Mystic Midway Indie Go Go
Help support the work of the creative genius who was my partner for a decade! He’s taking his work to Burning Man and is raising money to make it happen. Kinky Salon has been so intertwined with the Mystic Midway it’s like a double helix. If you love Kinky Salon you’ll love this project!
Kinky Salon Confessions Podcast
This week’s podcast features Daniel, a local guy born in San Francisco and raised in Oakland. We talk about Bay Area life and what it’s like to be a Mexican Catholic who grows up to realize they want more from relationships than the cultural script handed to them.
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If you have some great stories to share about your experiences at Kinky Salon and the surrounding culture please let me know! I’m looking for heartfelt realness rather than titillating tales
Daniel
This week’s podcast features Daniel, a local guy born in San Francisco and raised in Oakland. We talk about Bay Area life and what it’s like to be a Mexican Catholic who grows up to realize they want more than the cultural script that was handed to them.
July 2, 2015
Allison Moon
Allison Moon is an amazing author of fabulous queer sex positive books. She’s also a sex educator who teaches people about how to navigate sexy spaces. She’s a veteran of Kinky Salon, and has all sorts of insights about queer vs hetero sex spaces. For those of you interested in more, you can follow Allison on Twitter and find her books on Amazon.
