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The Dick Show

Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. from May 4 until May 26

As a people, we hate our bodes. And why wouldn’t we? Thanks to advertising, religion, and pop culture, we’re taught to see our physical selves as e...
Masturbate-a-Thon

10:00 a.m. May 27

You might equate an event called the Masturbate-a-Thon with “only in San Francisco.” But you’d be wrong. San Francisco was the site of the first on...
Erotic Reading Circle

Fourth Wed. of every month

Come join readers and share your erotic writing! Bring something to read or just be part of the appreciative circle of listeners. This is a great p...
The Erotic Reading Circle

7:30 p.m. fourth Wed. of every month

Finding your voice as a writer is hard. Finding your voice as an erotic writer is all but impossible. In one direction is “awkward and clinical.” I...

2011 | Best Palace of Self-Pleasure

San Francisco's Center for Sex and Culture may be most famous for its annual Masturbate-a-Thon, but it also has an inspiring range of year-round workshops and events, including informational classes about BDSM, writing circles that provide nonjudgmental feedback to erotic writers, and the "Naked Girls Reading" series, which recently featured a Dr. Seuss night. Another characteristic event: Bobby Gordon's one-man play Debbie Does My Dad, which included an appearance by the playwright's... More »
2005 | Best Place to Watch Pornos (and Be Considered Intellectual)

Sex educator Dr. Carol Queen (author of Real Live Nude Girl and Exhibitionism for the Shy), with the Center for Sex & Culture, has created a safe public space where people can research issues pertaining to sexuality and participate in lively sex-positive events. The center's event calendar ranges from art auctions and nights deconstructing bad adult movies to theater performances and the upcoming "Masturbate-a-Thon" charity fund-raiser on May 28. The Web site contains a convenient... More »

Godless Perverts Go Public This Week: Secularism is Sexy

By Keith Bowers | Wed, April 25, 2012

If not "Oh, God!" what does an atheist say in the throes of sexual passion? Although that sounds like the start of a derisive joke, it illustrates how some people who don't believe in a higher power f... More »
Secularism is Sexy

By : Keith Bowers | Wed, April 25, 2012

If not “Oh, God!” what does an atheist say in the throes of sexual passion? Although that sounds like the start of a derisive joke, it illustrates how some people who don’t believe in a higher power feel about how they’re treated in a city that pr... More »
Sex Work and Society

By Keith Bowers | Wed, January 25, 2012

San Francisco has an unusually high number of sex workers per capita. They’re not only prostitutes (some of whom seek decriminalization of their trade), but also people who work in sectors that are quite legal: strip clubs, adult films, commercial... More »
Dirty Fun -- Fox News Says So

By Keith Bowers | Wed, January 18, 2012

Simon Sheppard's reading series has been attacked on Fox News, and it's no wonder. First of all, he writes gay porn, and the very name of the long-running smut reading series he hosts with Carol Queen — Perverts Put Out — is enough to send the lik... More »
Michael Rosen Captures the Human Behind the Fetish in "Contact Sheet Sexual Portraits"

By Chris Hall | Wed, November 2, 2011

You have to go to only a few exhibits of fetish photography or flip through a few collections to figure out that most of it is basically Playboy for art snobs. And if that weren't bad enough, the maj... More »
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