Upscale writers and artists with carefully trimmed beards looking into each others' eyes and talking with exaggerated gestures about very serious subjects. Men's faces that were at once excited and cool, expectant and a little guilty, unsure whether this was a sex show or not, and whether it was ok to want it to be. People from the German Embassy, slumming a little, perhaps, pretending that they were there for the Germanics, not the nudity. Not a spare seat in the place. The air saturated with cigarette smoke and the humid expectation of unpredictable delights.
Sex sells, they say.
Personally, I want to encourage more sexart of all forms, even if I don't agree with the take of every piece. Whatever The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber lacked in vision, it made up for in festivity and imaginative production. Change of the Guard at Future Sex For those who keep track of such things, Lisa Palac has resigned as editor of Future Sex magazine, turning the helm of this yet-embryonic new sex pub over to Lily Burana, aka Lily Braindrop. After two years at Future Sex, Lisa has decided that it's time to move on to other sex media, namely CD's and books. Cyborgasm, the innovative erotic CD Palac produced with audio engineer Ron Gompertz, has been discovered by the moguls of Time-Warner Audio Books, and is about to hit book, record, and video stores around the country with a first TWAB pressing of 35,000 copies.