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EPISODE 5: GENDER SPECTRUM & IDENTITYCenter for Sex and Culture 1349 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103https://www.facebook.com/events/374379445947810/ »> 7:30-8:30 DJ, MINGLING & WINE
»> 8:30 FILM SCREENING ♥ (15min)
»> 8:45-9:45 PANEL DISCUSSION with the experts!

EPISODE 5: GENDER SPECTRUM & IDENTITYBlast off into a journey through the gender spectrum in all its beautiful and at times flamboyant complexity.
Here [SSEX BBOX] examines:
***The difference between sex, gender roles, gender identity and sexual orientation.
***What it means to be a woman, a man, neither, or both.
PANEL DISCUSSION TO FOLLOW, INCLUDING:
DR. CAROL QUEEN, Ph.D, Writer, Speaker, Educator, Activist, & Founder of the Center for Sex & Culture http://www.carolqueen.com/
THERESE NOËL ALLEN, MA, MFT, Psychotherapist, Expressive Arts Therapist and Consultant http://thereseallenmft.com/KELLY DEZART SMITH, Writer, Dj and Sex Positive Activist
DANA MORRIGAN, Queer Performer, Humorist, & Writer
JACKSON BOWMAN, Sexual Health Educator and Community Organizer

Meet the director and [SSEX BBOX] crew after the film!
[SSEX BBOX] is a social justice web series and documentary that aspires to create sexual awareness worldwide. We believe that sex should be discussed, explored, felt and consciously experienced more “outside of the box”. [SSEX BBOX] expands consciousness by examining and challenging two dimensional, archaic and obsolete understandings of sexuality and gender. WE ARE COMMITTED TO CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY, EDUCATION, & DIALOGUE and DISMANTLING IGNORANCE, ISOLATION, & SHAME.

EPISODE 5: GENDER SPECTRUM & IDENTITY
Center for Sex and Culture 1349 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

https://www.facebook.com/events/374379445947810/

»> 7:30-8:30 DJ, MINGLING & WINE

»> 8:30 FILM SCREENING ♥ (15min)

»> 8:45-9:45 PANEL DISCUSSION with the experts!

EPISODE 5: GENDER SPECTRUM & IDENTITY
Blast off into a journey through the gender spectrum in all its beautiful and at times flamboyant complexity.

Here [SSEX BBOX] examines:

***The difference between sex, gender roles, gender identity and sexual orientation.

***What it means to be a woman, a man, neither, or both.

PANEL DISCUSSION TO FOLLOW, INCLUDING:

DR. CAROL QUEEN, Ph.D, Writer, Speaker, Educator, Activist, & Founder of the Center for Sex & Culture http://www.carolqueen.com/

THERESE NOËL ALLEN, MA, MFT, Psychotherapist, Expressive Arts Therapist and Consultant http://thereseallenmft.com/

KELLY DEZART SMITH, Writer, Dj and Sex Positive Activist

DANA MORRIGAN, Queer Performer, Humorist, & Writer

JACKSON BOWMAN, Sexual Health Educator and Community Organizer

Meet the director and [SSEX BBOX] crew after the film!

[SSEX BBOX] is a social justice web series and documentary that aspires to create sexual awareness worldwide. We believe that sex should be discussed, explored, felt and consciously experienced more “outside of the box”. [SSEX BBOX] expands consciousness by examining and challenging two dimensional, archaic and obsolete understandings of sexuality and gender. WE ARE COMMITTED TO CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY, EDUCATION, & DIALOGUE and DISMANTLING IGNORANCE, ISOLATION, & SHAME.

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The Dick Show: What’s the Big Deal about Penises?

What better place to explore the mystique of penises than The Center for Sex & Culture? And what better way than with a visual art show and a performance that benefits the CSC?

An art exhibit and an evening of performance addressing questions like… Why is it essential that a man have a penis? Do you have to have a penis to be important, successful?

How do you have sex if a penis is not involved? Why do cisgendered gay men feel betrayed by trans gay men? Is everything we have learned about penises wrong? Are penises ugly? Are penises beautiful? Are penises fun? Is a penis in the pants worth two in the drawer?

Free participating artists include: Michael Rosen,Mariah Carle, Mark Garrett, Katie Gilmartin Justin Time, Mitcho Dwoo, Jesse Williams, Jack Davis.

For more information: jackd_gv@yahoo.com 415-515-0047

Opening: Friday, May 4, 2012 6:00-9:00 pm.

Exhibit Dates: May 4-26, 2012

Viewings by appointment and at other CSC Events.

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Don’t forget! The Center for Sex and Culture is proud to announce the first annual Library Spring Smut Sale— Saturday April 28th 10 am - 5 pm. !

Over the last year the CSC Library has grown and developed — books have busted out of the boxes that had, for too long, been holding them captive, filling our beautiful new shelving— more books and rare materials than we could ever have space for— we must sell!

What better way to spend your tax refund than on some deliciously erotic printed materials? We will be selling, rare and not so rare erotic fiction, non-fiction, poetry, magazines and periodicals. We also have much non-erotic, but still obscure items that must go. All proceeds will directly benefit the Center for Sex and Culture and the continued growth of our community library.

At the Center for Sex and Culture membership has its privileges— as a member you are invited to preview the sale items on April 27th at 8PM and you are admitted into the sale first on the 28th. For more information about the library or the Spring Smut Sale contact Library Vixen at library@sexandculture.org.

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Erotic Reading Circle

Erotic Reading Circle

Tonight Wed, April 25, 7:30pm – 9:30pm

$5 suggested donation

Come share new or old work with us! We listen non-judgmentally and share our responses with any writer/reader who feels s/he/ze can benefit from peers’ feedback. And it’s great practice if you’ve been thinking about doing any public readings. We welcome writers of any experience level and every orientation. A Best of the Bay award-winning event! 4th Wednesdays. Facilitated by Jen Cross (of Writing Ourselves Whole) and Carol Queen

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Sex Sells: How To Write & Sell Erotica

Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 07:30pm

$15-30 sliding scale

The market for erotic fiction and nonfiction is booming! There actually is a secret to writing great erotica - and you’ll discover just what that is in this fun, hands-on workshop with well-known erotica writer and teacher M. Christian.

For the beginning writer, erotica can be the ideal place to begin writing, getting published, and — best of all — earning money. And for the experienced writer, erotica can be an excellent way to beef up your resume and hone your writing skills. M. Christian will review the varieties of personal and literary expression possible in this exciting and expanding field. He’ll also teach you techniques for creating love and sex scenes that sizzle.

Plus: current pay rates, how to write for a wide variety of erotic genres, where and how to submit your erotic writing, and more.

M. Christian is - among many things - an acknowledged master of erotica with more than 400 stories in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, and many, many other anthologies, magazines, and Web sites.

He is the editor of 25 anthologies including the Best S/M Erotica series, Pirate Booty, My Love For All That Is Bizarre: Sherlock Holmes Erotica, The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, The Mammoth Book of Future Cops and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowksi) and Confessions, Garden of Perverse, and Amazons (with Sage Vivant) as well as many others.

He is the author of the collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor Machine, Licks & Promises, Filthy, Love Without Gun Control, Rude Mechanicals, Coming Together Presents M.Christian, Pornotopia, How To Write And Sell Erotica; and the novels Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Me2, Brushes, Fingers Breadth, and Painted Doll.

Additionally, he’s taught kinky classes for the Northwest Leather Celebration, the Center For Sex and Culture, The National Sexuality Symposium, QSM, The Citadel, The Looking Glass, The Society of Janus, The Floating World, and Winter Solstice.

His website is www.mchristian.com

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An Evening with Hanne Blank- Saturday, April 21, 8PM

Since 2000, Hanne Blank has spent her time working, writing, and helping people think and thrive at the intersection of bodies, sex, and culture. Join her for a rare, one-night-only Bay Area evening of whip-smart, dead sexy spoken word spanning the smutty, the intellectual, the historical, and the hysterical, a lap dance for your mind-body split.

From Big Big Love and Unruly Appetites to Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality and beyond, Blank will read from her published work as well as offering up never-before-performed gems from the vaults and limited-edition collections. Come on out and enjoy an evening of straight-from-the-hip smarts and smartassery with a writer the New York Times calls “intriguing, thought-provoking” and Gay City News calls “a national treasure… one of our most creative and informed thinkers about sex.”

$10-25 sliding scale, NOTAFLOF

At the Center for Sex and Culture

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The CSC is proud to be in the beginning stages of the Grace Street Mural Project. Funding efforts underway soon!

We have a line up of amazing artists including…

Eclair Acuda Bandersnatch

We are looking forward to this upcoming beautification project and will be gladly welcoming donations specifically for this project soon!

For more information contact library@sexandculture.org

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March 22nd - Midori’s Pink Japan a Secret Travelogue of Contemporary Japanese Sex Culture

Image by Steve Diet Goedde

What exotic erotic adventures happen behind the closed doors of Japan? What sensual entertainment do today’s Japanese citizens partake in? Come to Midori’s fascinating presentation at the Center for Sex & Culture on March 22nd to find out! Advance tickets are available now; please see the link below.

From cuisine, music, fashion, and technology to anime, Japan’s cultural influence on the West is immense. In many ways the Japanese erotic cultures also influence today’s Western tastes. Yet the daily realities of Japan’s sexual habits, sexual consumer culture, gender relations, and sensual subcultures world remain hidden to us, creating an aura of mystique. In this funny and insightful presentation, join Midori for a double-expatriate’s personal tour of Japan’s hidden sexual culture today. Come early to browse through her collection of naughty magazines, rare books, unusual flyers and other goodies from Japan. Midori is a Kyoto-born, Tokyo-raised, Japanese-American author and sexuality educator based in San Francisco. She is well versed with the contradiction that is 21st Century Japan and possesses a keen insight into culture and sexuality.

“Midori’s Pink Japan presentation was a perfect fit for the Center for Sex & Culture: full of detailed information about sexuality in contemporary Japan that we wouldn’t get anywhere else, through the unique lens of Midori’s own interests, expertise, and bi-cultural history. It’s an engaging and informational show,” says Carol Queen, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Sex & Culture.

Midori is a San Francisco based educator and author. She travels far and wide speaking on 21st century sexuality to a wide range of audiences, from colleges and the general public to media and subculture groups. In 2001, she wrote the first English language book on Shibari, “The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage.” Other books to this date include “Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink” and “Master Han’s Daughter.” In 2002 she founded Rope Bondage Dojo©, leading many Dojos each year with the Dojo Cadre. Later she formed ForteFemme, a unique women’s dominance weekend training and empowerment intensive. She’s also driven to create controversial art and installations.

Info: www.fhp-inc.com & www.PlanetMidori.com

Twitter & Facebook: PlanetMidori

About the Center for Sex & Culture:
The Center for Sex & Culture is a three-time winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay award (Best Emerging Sex Non-profit, 2005, Best Erotic Resurrection for its Erotic Reading Circle, 2007, and Best Contest for Wankers, 2009) and was included in SF Weekly’s 2005 Best Of San Francisco listing as “Best Place to Watch Pornos (and Be Considered Intellectual)” and as its 2011 winner as “Best Palace of Self-Pleasure.” CSC hosts educational and cultural events having to do with sexuality for adults of every orientation and gender that span the continuum from didactic to experiential. It maintains a sexuality library, archive and gallery, and supports sex-related research projects. CSC is a 501(c)(3) educational organization; for more detail, to sign up for twice-monthly e-mailed event updates and/or its press list, please email carol@sexandculture.org. To peruse the events calendar or learn more about the Center for Sex & Culture, see www.se xandculture.org. CSC is on Facebook and tweets at @ CentrSexCulture.

Event in brief:

Midori’s Pink Japan

Thursday March 22, 7:30pm

At the Center for Sex & Culture, 1349 Mission btw. 9th and 10th Streets, SF

$10-30 sliding scale

advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/234324

More March arts and culture at the Center for Sex & Culture — kindly let us know if you would care for more information about these events:

A Very Special Evening with Toronto-based transgender activist, actor and writer S. Bear Bergman

March 8, doors at 7:30, show at 8pm

Carol Queen in Peep Show — a spoken word look-back at the Lusty Lady Theatre (Members FREE!)

Friday, March 23, doors at 7:30, show at 8pm

Erotic surrealist Penny Slinger teaches photoshop collage techniques

Saturday, 3/ 24, 2-6pm

Erotic Reading Circle
Wednesday, 3/28, 7:30-9:30

IN BURNING - IN BASHING BACK - IN BLOOMING - A SPOKEN WORD AND PERFORMANCE ART-MUSICAL BY Stockholm, Sweden-based artist ALEXANDER ALVINA CHAMBERLAND

Thursday, March 29, 7:30 doors, show 8pm

March in the Gallery: Kinky homoerotic b/w drawings (various artists) from the Larry Townsend collection

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Opening Reception: The Subtle Horror of the Everyday - New work by Finley Coyl

Friday, January 06, 2012, 06:00pm - 09:00pm

CSC, 1349 Mission Street (at Grace Street between 9th and 10th streets) in San Francisco

Viewings by appointment January 6 - 27, 2012 and at other CSC Events.

Finley Coyl’s new work will be installed in the CSC gallery for January as a mural-sized unravelling of the grotesque, the fantasized, the ridiculous, the pretty, the struggle, and the obscene. These large-scale drawings in marker, pencil and paint on canvas with found objects and digital prints indirectly reference Picasso’s Guernica from a perspective of queer potential amidst a crumbling economic landscape.

Coyl’s fantastic experiments in large-scale figurative work will transform the entire CSC space. While this is a traditional wall-based piece, it would not be a stretch to speak of this work in terms of an installation as much as a drawing or painting.

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Best pic of Carol Queen ever! Reading her book makes you smart *and* sexy!

Reblogged from Howdy Gay Times

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Details from the Dirty Comics Opening.

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The Center for Sex and Culture proudly presents Dirty Comics!

Erotic comics are as old as comics themselves. While comics were
thought of as the medium of adolescents for much of the twentieth
century, erotic work has always permeated the form. Jon Macy has
curated a show featuring the work of over thirty contemporary artists.
Some are known for their erotic work and others are known for more
mainstream work and their erotic work is rarely seen. Both art and
artists span a wide array of genders, orientations, races and ages. A
broad spectrum of tastes and styles are sure to provide something for
any viewer.

Jon Macy is a local erotic comic artist known for his work in gay porn
magazines, as well as his series Fearful Hunter and his recent Lambda
Literary Award winning graphic novel Teleny and Camille.

Show opens Friday October 7 from 6 to 9pm.

Thursday October 13 from 7pm, A Discussion of Yaoi:
Yaoi is a distinct form of erotic comic work featuring sex between men
as titillation for a female audience.
Join us for a fascinating discussion led by Agnes Czaja

Tuesday October 18 from 7 to 10pm, Kinky Wonder Woman:
Boston Blake gives us a lasso laced lecture on the kinky origins and
innuendos of Americas most famous female super hero.
A deep view in to one of many crossover points between mainstream and
erotic comics.

The Center for Sex and Culture
1349 Mission Street (between 9th and 10th Streets)
Gallery hours to be posted soon

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The list of creators can be posted all at once or in bits as teasers.

Donna Barr
Tony Breed
Katie Bryant
Megan Yamanaka
Nickie C
Jennifer Camper
Rob Clarke
John Coulthart
Agnes Czaja
Dame Darcy
Dave “ddog” Davenport
KD Diamond
Dylan “NDR” Edwards
Edie Fake
Diego Gomez
Roberta Gregory
Michelle Gruben
Justin Hall
Pam Harrison
Dorian Katz
Nathan Kibler
Molly Kiely
Robert Kirby
Steve Macisaac
Jon Macy
Michael Manning
Mioki
Ted Naifeh
Mari Naomi
Fred Noland
Eric Orner
Sina Evil
Christine Smith
Rosemary Van Deuren
Werepuppy
Rick Worley
Sean-Z

The show is one of those “only in San Francisco” events that push the
boundaries of what we think comics could, or should, do with sex. Many
of the works are explicit while others delve into how we define, or
can’t define, sexuality.

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I am so proud of what has been accomplished in the last week to get this very important library together and nearing future use here at the Center for Sex and Culture.

I cannot sufficiently begin to thank all the hard working interns and volunteers, none this could have happened without you. Your role is a service to our community.

On that note, please join this community as we celebrate Folsom St. Fair 2011, byGIVING TILL IT HURTS!!!

Come out to Folsom, get spanked, save the world.

Each year, Society of Janus holds a Charty Spanking and Flogging booth at Folsom Street Fair, the proceeds benefitting a local organization. This year, our designated beneficiary is Center for Sex & Culture.
If you are a CSC supporter, we ask that you stop by the Janus booth on 9th between Folsom and Harrison and have some fun by getting spanked. Donations start at just $5 and there will be some really hot tops.

PS – Besides Janus’s generous sponsorship, we’ll be sharing a booth with Fantasy Makers again this year – more butt-warming and other naughtiness there too! And don’t miss our other Folsom Day goings-on:

SC Open House

Come by CSC (just two blocks from the Folsom Street Fair!) for our open house. 1349 MIssion St. bn 9th & 10th. Featuring archive show and sale of vintage dungeon equipment!

The CSC Archive Show

Goodies from the Archive of the Center for Sex and Culture will be on display in a rare public showing of selections from the collection. The show features posters, photographs, letters, original documents and manuscripts, and other ephemera from a variety of historically, politically and sexologically significant sources. ’70s porn posters, original manuscripts of groundbreaking erotica, bondage toys of famous perverts and famous pervert places, a vibrating Nimbus 2000 Broomstick and more! Come see the beloved detritus of the movements that made San Francisco the Mecca of sexual liberation and libertinism that we know it as today.

NOT ONLY THAT! Here’s what our fiscal sponsee Mark I Chester is up to:

For Folsom I am doing a group exhibition of sexual and erotic photography. The opening is Fri Sept. 23rd and the show will have open hours Sat and Sun of Folsom. Mark also will be doing a digital pix special on Sat and Sun. The show will be open by appointment thru October. Mark now needs your support more than ever. Hope to see you soon!

The Center for Sex and Culture

1349 Mission St. between 9th and 10th, on corner of Grace St./Alley.

See at Folsom Street!

photo by lv