Each month, Bedpost Confessions assembles a fabulous and diverse group of sexy writers, readers, and actors with performances about sex, sensuality, and the steamy side of life. This month the Austin based event will be sparking conversations in San Francisco, in a co-presentation by Femina Potens.

The SF edition will be hosted by Julie Gillis and feature readings by activist and feminist porn producer Madison Young, sex blogger Sadie Smythe, radical sex hacker Maggie Mayhem, 2010 International Ms Leather Mollena Williams, author and activist Thea Hillman, and Lambda Literary winner Simon Sheppard.

Thursday, September 22nd
The Make-Out Room
3225 22nd Street
San Francisco, CA
7:30-10:00
$15 at the door

Listen to a recording from the August event with literary humor involving buttocks, cunnilingus, and one man’s subconscious – by Irwin Tang.

Sound artist and DJ, Robin The Fog, has put together this DJ set composed of some “sexciting” rare record finds. Visit his blog for the entertaining back stories behind some of the tracks. An adult action story that is used in this mix has an album cover that boasts, “actually hear them enjoying the forbidden and frolicking in orgiastic spasms of sensuous delights” and “the first to stick you in the ear with what you’ve always wanted to hear.” Great slogans! I think I may have to adopt them for the next synopsis I write for Sonic Erotica.

I just wanted to recommend the Love and Radio podcast. You never quite know what you are going to get with each episode, but you’ll enjoy the surprise. With recent episodes featuring balloon fetishism and an eccentric/threatening strip bar manager, there’s plenty of lighthearted sexual deviancy to be found. But just when you are feeling all risque, a love story will be thrown in that tugs on your heartstrings, catching you off guard.

The only public radio podcast with an ‘explicit’ tag, Nick van der Kolk’s L+R features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime.

Go subscribe for some sex and love and other stuff in between.
Listen to the episode “Dirty Balloons”.

Have you ever wanted your mp3s arranged by your mood or activity? We stumbled across this interesting way of listening to music and creating playlists according to mood.

How many times do we get up on a sleepy sunday morning with the desire to play great and lively songs on the spot, without wasting a lot of time looking for the right CD or mp3 file among all the others and losing our temper…? how many times would we love to tidy up our room and dust at the pace of music without smoking so many cigarettes while waiting for the right song to be on?

Stereomood is a free emotional internet radio that suggests to me the music that best suits my mood and my daily activities. It’s much more than an online radio, it’s a tool to create playlists for every occasion, a tool to share my emotions through the music.

Start searching for music by a mood related tag at Stereomood.

29 Days of August is a novella of appetites, a Dangerous Liaisons for the digital era.

Designed as an accompaniment to the languid, over-heated days of summer, ’29 Days of August’ follows the adventures of two lovers as they travel in a vintage Porsche 914 through Europe and steal a painting that captured the imagination of 19th century luminaries from Oscar Wilde to Sarah Bernhardt. This couple lives by two simple rules. First, hide nothing—share with radical transparency each moment, each caress. Second, never utter a word about the past—no names, no history, no baggage.

Interestingly, this erotica fiction is written with social media platforms in mind. Made up of 140 character spurts tailored for the forum of twitter it is delivered in daily installments from August 1st to the 29th of 2011.

29 Days of August is embedded within the fabric of social networks but exists at a slower, vacation-oriented velocity, asking to be relished leisurely through the course of a month.

A sample:

The coil comes up red hot and you inhale. We share the cigarette on the hood. My tongue grows heavy and limp.

I brush a fleck of tobacco off your lips with my thumb, then brush your lips again before taking your mouth in mine.

We kiss like this for an eternity, our mouths partially anesthetized, cigarette staleness overwhelmed by desire.

Like it on Facebook
Or follow it on Twitter, Tumblr or WordPress.

via: Em & Lo

Velvet Tongue is a Literary Soiree dedicated to erotic writing and performance.

Velvet Tongue celebrates the hot, the sweet, the viscous, the carnal, the sexy, the racy, the provocative, the lustful, the voluptuous, the libidinous, the playful, the flirtatious, the teasing, the suggestive, the explicit, the cheeky, the bold, the brash, the brassy, the flashy, the risque, the pervy, the licentious, the queer, the depraved and the downright kinky.

Summer Edition on Sunday 7 August.

Bar Kick, 127 Shoreditch High Street,
London. E1 6JE (Old St/Liverpool St tubes)
6:30pm-10pm, £3

Guest readers include:

PAUL BURSTON
HOLESTAR
CHRIS YOUNG
LUCY LEAGRAVE

+ a special appearance by SARAH BERRY

This weekend there is an opportunity for some guided listening in the fair city of Melbourne, Australia. Go on an aural tour of Melbourne this Saturday July 30 and Sunday July 31st on a Soundwalk, as part of Melbourne Open House.

A soundwalk is any excursion where the main purpose is listening to the environment. Wherever we go we will give our ears priority.

To sign up for these tours you will need to check in from 9.30am on Saturday or Sunday at the MOH Info hub, The Atrium at Federation Square. The tours begin at Federation Square, exploring the Land Titles Office, 131 Queen St and Origin Rooftop garden and runs for 45-60minutes.

What is the acoustic ecology of your city? Can you listen or walk with awareness in a group or as an individual for an hour? All will be revealed with this limited opportunity to take part in a ‘Soundwalk of Your City and its Buildings’

Listen closely – and rediscover another dimension to your city

For experienced and budding wordsmiths of filth, here is an opportunity to come together and discuss the creation and peddling of quality smut!

The Erotic Authors Association’s Inaugural Conference
September 9-10, 2011
The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Join authors, artists, publishers and fans for an amazing weekend of readings, panels, classes and industry networking. The conference will be capped by a reception at the Flamingo’s Terrace Balcony. This is the first convention designed for readers, authors and those who enjoy the erotic side of life.

The first, really? Well it’s about time! If you are lucky enough to be able to get your ass to Vegas, then get along to the conference to show your support for erotica.

With panels on grammar, erotic visualisation, queer erotica, setting, taboos, paranormal and kink, it should be a well-rounded industry event.

Registration:
$165 until August 1. After August 1 $185.

In keeping with World Listening Day, we bring you a video of sound artist Stephen Vitiello speaking at Pop Tech about intimate listening. Though not quite as intimate as the listening you can do here at Sonic; Vitiello speaks about the special attention he pays to the soundscapes he enters and how he reinterprets these sounds into art.

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