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For years, fetish fans and lovers of erotic art found the most exciting cultural events in a handful of cities worldwide -- London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. No more! Increasingly, fetish fun and erotic excitement has been heating up in cities like Phoenix, DC, Miami, Seattle and -- pertinent to the current discussion -- Motor City itself, Detroit. For Detroit specifically, this soggy and snowy January looks to be heading into a smokin' hot Spring, starting in February with the growing legend of the Dirty Show and continuing into March with one of the fastest-growing fetish phenomena this reporter has seen in recent years: The X-Ball.
First, let us consider the playful, pervy and unaccountably unique art event that is Detroit's legendary Dirty Show. Describing it, as the organizers do, as "one of the wildest International Erotic Art Exhibits" is one hell of an understatement. It's the largest erotic arts show in North America. In 2007 it exhibited work by over 200 artists showing more than 400 works to lovers of erotic art. But what's more, the Dirty Show is described by the Detroit Metro times as "Detroit's largest and most successful art event." No small praise! Running Friday, February 8 through Saturday, February 16, the Dirty Show goes down in Bert's Warehouse Theater at 2739 Russel Street in the Eastern Market area of Detroit. Take note of the exhibition schedule and the age restrictions, as follows: February 8, Friday Evening "OPENING NIGHT" / 6:00pm - 2:00am | 21 & Over February 9, Saturday Evening / 6:00pm - 2:00am | 21 & Over February 10, Sunday "DAYTIME" Only / 1:00pm - 6:00pm | 18 & Over February 14, Thursday "Valentine's Day" / 4:00pm - 12:00 midnight | 18 & Over February 16, Saturday Evening "CLOSING NIGHT" / 6:00pm - 2:00am | 18 & Over
Special guests exhibiting their artwork include a few whose importance in international art circles simply cannot be overstated. First there's legendary Japanese painter Hajime Sorayama, whose images of female cyborgs are perhaps the best-known erotic interpretation of the melding of human and machine that the science fiction/art world has ever produced. Then there's a little Swiss dude named H.R. Giger, perhaps best known to the Great Unwashed as the man who designed the Oscar-winning monster in Alien -- but Giger's magnificent surrealist art has been melding sexual themes with both erotic and disturbing imagery for decades. Convinced yet that this is worth a hitchhiking spree or hot-coal-crawling odyssey from Eastern North West Bumfuck or wherever the hell you're situated? No? Then let's talk Bunny Yeager, who brought this hot model named Bettie Page to the world in the 1950s; porn legend Annie Sprinkle & her collaborator Elizabeth Stphens, and Eros Zine favorite Buck Angel, the world's reigning FTM superstar.
You can get advance tickets now from dirtyshow.org. Both of the special events are expected to sell out, so be sure to get your tickets soon. Fast-forward from the Dirty Show to Detroit's next kickass world-class fetish event, the swiftly-growing legend that is the second X-Ball Detroit. Rendition #1 was by our own account quite a corker; this one should be even better. It's hosted by Eros Zine writer and multistate fetish superstar Vena; of the event, the organizers write: "If it seems like Detroit has recently become a hotbed of erotic and fetish activity, it may be more than just your imagination. In the past year alone, there have been no fewer than seven events billing themselves as major fetish or erotic parties. Over half of them have been through the Exotica Detroit group which produces their twice yearly Exotica Detroit, a three day erotic and fetish expo with masquerade ball and fashion shows, complete with international fetish models. Twice a year, this same group also produces XBall, a one night only fetish ball." This fetish fandango goes down Saturday, March 1, returning to the Labyrinth Nightclub and Studio 54 lounge at the Leland Hotel in downtown Detroit.
Vena will be flying in from Los Angeles to host the X-Ball. The gig also features fetish performances by Miss PUssy Katt Burlesque and Detroit's performance troup Chaos Productions. Upstairs in the Studio 54 VIP Lounge will find "the exotic duo of the VIP hosts Tim TV and Lady Bella. X-Ball's sexy gogo girls and guys will be in the main room to add to the eye candy. Keeping the dancefloor packed with Industrial and Techno are DJ's Darks Choir and Audio Flesh, while DJ Alexi spins downtempo ambient in the VIP lounge upstairs. Guests are encouraged to use the public play area complete with an assortment of bondage furniture. There is no enforced dress code, but fashionable fetish or erotic wear is strongly suggested. And there's no excuse not to have fetish wear or toys to play with because X-Ball 2 sponsors Ivy's Custom Corsetry and BDT Pipe and Tobacco... and Sex Toys will have booths set up next to the main stage. Doors open at 9pm and event organizers have promised to keep the party going until at least 3am.
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