Category: Culture

What an incredible show. It’s a very adult theater experience that trumps any San Francisco tourist endeavor: it’s the new neu alt BB Babylon. I loved it! And it’s late, so you just get pics and video from the Thirllpeddlers‘ Pearls Over Shanghai, with the legendary Cockettes. Yay! And: the hothot halftime intermission performance with…

Photo of Midori in Bettie Page’s gloves by dear friend, Steve Diet Goedde. This week’s SF Chronicle column is Considering Torture, and the Rise of Harsh Bondage – Violet Blue: Erotic art prankster Midori’s show “Taken” puts Amnesty International in the dungeon. Snip: Conservatives and feminists love to freak out about BDSM practices and imagery.…

Image by the amazing Stuntkid. In this week’s column, I explore the (not so) brave new world of New York spa delivered “sperm facials.” It’s called The Skinny on Spermine: Not Exactly Snake Oil – Violet Blue: Straight guys getting sperm facials “for science.” It’s a wrong, wrong, wrong comedy of terrors. Here’s a snip:…