The Perverts Picnic: Saturday July 9th 2011

The Erotic Book Club and Kinky Salon London present....

THE PERVERTS PICNIC

Saturday 9th July 2011
1pm - sunset
Haggerston Park, London

What to bring:
Rug, food, booze, fabulous attire, music, suncream, hulla hoops, bubbles, kites, frisbees AND a very open mind.

What to expect:
Who knows? This is the first one! Come along, see some old friends, meet some new ones and make of it what you will!

What if it rains?:
Then god obviously hates us. Kidding. We'll msg you the day before if the forecast looks sucky.

Location:
Situated at the back of Hackney City Farm and about 5 minutes from London Fields, this is a delightful East London summery spot. Entrance via Whiston Rd. Google map: http://tinyurl.com/haggerstonpark
Nearby transport options:
Overland: Hoxton Station (5 minutes walk)
Buses - Whiston Rd: 394 (stops right outside the park)
Buses - Kingsland Rd: 67, 149, 242, 243 (Stop: St Leonard's Hospital, 2 minutes walk)
Buses - Hackney Rd: 26, 48, 55 (Stop: Queensbridge Rd, 2 minutes walk)

This is a sex-positive, queer-friendly, trans-friendly event. Hell, it's probably even a child-friendly event if you want them to turn out like us!

If anyone would like to make a suggestion, organise some kind of performance or promote their pervy organisation on the day, please contact fannyminka@gmail.com in advance.

If you are not already a member we suggest you check out The Erotic Book Club (facebook.com/eroticbookclub) and Kinky Salon London (www.kinkysalonlondon.co.uk)

To see the event page on Facebook, go here

Picture of the Week

Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci by Ellen von Unwerth

The Perverts Guide To Cinema: Cannes 2011

**Disclaimer: this blog has no link to the amazing 2006 documentary but we do adore Slavoj Žižek. Who doesn't?**

This year, Cannes premiered a few saucy titles. Here's the ones you should seek out:

L'APOLLONIDE - SOUVENIRS DE LA MAISON CLOSE (HOUSE OF TOLERANCE)
Dir/scr: Bertrand Bonello. France. 2011. 125mins

The dawn of the 20th century: L'Apollonide, a house of tolerance, is living its last days.
In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the girls share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains...

Basically a whole bunch of French tit-tillation, from the the director of The Pornographer (2001), On War (2008), Tiresia (2003), and the 2005 homage to Cindy Sherman.

Set for release in the following territories so far:
France - Haut et Court (21 September 2011)
Australia - Rialto Entertainment
Brazil - Petrini
Former Yugoslavia states - MegaCom Film
Germany - NFP marketing & distribution
Greece - Strada Films
Portugal - Atalanta Filmes
US - Sundance Selects




LA PIEL QUE HABITO (THE SKIN I LIVE IN)
Dir: Pedro Almodovar. Spain. 2011. 116mins

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.

In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig...

An erotic thriller by Almodovar starring Antonio "I was in gay porn before I was famous" Banderas. What's not to love?

Set for release in the following territories so far:
UK - ? (26 August 2011)
Spain - Warner Bros. (2 September 2011)
Russia - ? (15 September 2011)
Germany - ? (20 October 2011)
US - Sony Pictures Classics (18 November 2011)
Canada - Sony Pictures Classics (18 November 2011)
France - Pathé (18 November 2011)
Italy - ? (18 November 2011)
Benelux - A-Film




SLEEPING BEAUTY
Dir/scr: Julia Leigh. Australia. 2011. 101mins

Lucy, a young university student, takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty to fund her studies.

She goes to sleep. She wakes up. And it's as if those hours never existed...

Psycho-sexual drama starring Emily Browning - for those of you who bothered to see SUCKER PUNCH (we did - it sucked) will recognise her impish face - and Rachel Blake from the amazing LANTANA. The young girl accepts work that involves being drugged and allowing old men to do as they wish while she is knocked out. Should be interesting.

Set for release in the following territories so far:

Australia/ N.Z. - Transmission (23 June 2011)

Russia /CIS - Carmen Films (25 August 2011)

US - Sundance Selects

France - Arp

Benelux - WIld Bunch

Greece - Seven Films

Switzerland - Xenix

Baltics - Incognito

Canada - eOne

Israel - Lev Cinemas

UK - Revolver

SKOONHEID (BEAUTY)
Dir/scr: Oliver Hermanus. South Africa/France. 2011. 104mins

Francois lives a skillfully controlled, well managed life, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Father of two daughters and a devoted husband, he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean and ordered existence.

23-year-old Christian is the son of a long lost friend. By all accounts he is the personification of a handsome young man in the prime of his life. Francois is so disarmed by the young man that it instantly ignites within him an all consuming infatuation and misplaced lust.

Despite his careful concealed disgust for himself, Francois pours out the lost emotions he has despised all his life in what becomes a desperate attempt at taking from the world that which he has always secretly wanted: Happiness.

Winner of this years Queer Palm award, you get the feeling this story of repressed desire and secret longing doesn't have a happy ending....

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Also see Romanian coming of age drama LOVERBOY, and the opening sequence of French film L’EXERCISE DE L’ETAT (THE MINISTER) with an opening dream sequence in which a naked woman disappears into the mouth of a massive crocodile

And for a bit of trivia, remember the amazing blue opera singing Diva Plavalaguna in the brilliance that was THE FIFTH ELEMENT?
Well, Maïwenn Le Besco who played her just directed and starred in POLISSE, which won the Jury Prize :)

Meow Meow is back!

The divine Ms Meow Meow is back at the Apollo Theatre this June 23rd - 25th! Make sure you do not miss this!

We saw her show last year and fell under her spell - read our 2010 review here.

You can book tickets here.

London Sex Worker Film Festival

We were very excited to see this upcoming film festival of sex worker films. Highlights include a documentary about the Hackney Council fight against the strip clubs and sex shops in the area, plus a guide on how to deal with relationships for people who date sex workers.

Could be very interesting indeed.



The First Ever London Sex Worker Film Festival

Featuring discussion, documentaries and films from across the UK and internationally.

Programme Sex worker Film festival 2011
Sunday 12th of June at RIO Cinema, Hackney

From 1.15 til 5.30 pm

Tickets are £9 /£7 concessions,
all funds raised to cover expenses of Sex worker Open University 2011 !

Check out the full programme here

Hugh Heffner documentary screening - this Saturday!

The new documentary by Oscar-winning director Brigitte Berman, Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, will be shown this weekend as part of the London International Documentary Festival at the Soho Hotel, including a discussion afterwards with the director.

A revealing look at the outspoken, flamboyant founder of the Playboy empire. With humour and insight, the film captures Hefner’s fierce battles with the government, the religious right and militant feminists. Rare footage and compelling interviews with a remarkable who’s who of 20th Century American pop culture, present a brilliant and entertaining snapshot of the life of an extraordinary man and the controversies that surrounded him.

Tickets are £18.50 or you can attend the festivals closing night party at the Groucho Club too for £35. Tickets are available on the LIDF website.

Saturday 28 May 2011
7:30 pm
Soho Hotel
4 Richmond Mews
London
W1D 3DH

Bordello 50% off sale - this long weekend!

Our favourite East London lingerie boutique, Bordello, is having a mid season sale this weekend, with up to 50% brands in store including:

Ell & Cee
Ayten Gasson
Fred & Ginger
Miss Mandalay
Made by Niki
and
BeBaroque

Fanny's favourite piece from these collections is the Starry Night Body Suit from Ell & Cee:



55 Great Eastern Street
London EC2A 3HP
020 7503 3334
bordello-london.com‎

Make sure you don't miss out!

Rihanna We Fucking Love you

WE LOVE:Playboy's Tron Tribute Porn

Wow, whilst we're eagerly awaiting the cyber sleek wonder that the new Tron Movie promises to be, we've been very excited to see the latest in Tron fan fetishism. Check out playboy's new "Game On" Tron themed shoot.

Starring Irina Voronina and Sasckya Porto it's a thing of electro shiny fetish wonder, meeeow! Let's hope the film lives up to the fan fiction already being made...

Picture of the week

After a long hiatus, Robin and Fanny are back just in time for the winter. And so it seems is Skin Two magazine! With no printed editions since 2008, we are excited to see it return. And what a cover!!!

Our Erotic Book Club in Time Out

Oooooh! Our Erotic Book Club is featured in a little write up in this week's Time Out Magazine!

As they so eloquently put it:

"Think that book clubs are all about Healthcliffe, Darcy and Mr Rochester? Here's a naughtly little soirée to prove you otherwise. At this alternative book club, there's a new saucy fiction each month (this month it's 'Emmanuelle', so get flicking quickly) to get your teeth into alongside a young, hip east London audience (and not a crusty old lech in sight!). What's more, it's free and you're encouraged to bring a bottle too."

Check out the review here and come along to our next book club, held on the last Thursday of the month at the fantastic Bokship at Donlon Books

Picture Of The Week

Meeow! He makes the loveliest shoes on the planet, and my god these are no exception. Simply screaming with fetishistic detailing.

Taken from our new favorite tumblr Fuck Yeah Louboutin

WE LOVE:Painted Peep Show Plates

When we first saw these delicious plates from Painted Peepshow our breath was quite taken away. A truly decadent dining set if ever there was one. The limited edition designs on fine bone china are just filthy enough to turn any eye at even the most open minded of dinner parties, but cheeky enough that even your mum would chuckle when being served her chocolate cake on them!

Some of the designs are a little more disguised amongst damask style patterns, leaping out at you when you finally 'get' what's going on on your plate, others are bold brash and in your face from the start.

Currently available at the recently opened Sh! in Portobello, these lovelies are doubtlessly going to sell like hotcakes, so grab them while you can.

Mmmmmm x x x

Selfridges Shoe Galleries

Ever since Selfridges announced they were re-opening their Shoe Galleries, we had been chomping at the bit waiting to get a peek. The numbers alone were impressive: "With 55000 shoes in stock at any one time and 4000 shoes on display from over 150 brands", This was indeed a cathedral to consumption.

Alas, to be honest dear readers, we were hoping for a little more. The place is lovely, rich coloured seats, dark lighting and literally piles and piles of shiny spiky stilettos jumping out at you. I guess it's just the way things are now, but there really wasn't much new, about the "New Shoe Galleries". Once you've seen the seasonal collection of heels from Office in their high street store, nice as they may be, there really isn't much to yelp about seeing them again in a pretty new setting. That seemed to pretty much be the problem, there were hundreds of shoes, from lots of well known brands, but all of which we'd seen before. For such a monument to foot fetishists, there really wasn't much that grabbed your attention. The leap from high street shoes, up to extortionate designer artworks was left with a chasm of lacking choice for anything in the middle. It was either spend £75 on the latest heels from your regular high street brand or £1700 on something garish from Gucci.

Of course there is always the exception that proves the rule. Monsieur Louboutin's boutique at the back of the galleries, was as always exceptional. Filled to the brim with the aphrodisiac heels and lustful gasps from the shoppers. The young man in the bow tie helping ladies put their shoes on, was living every foot fetishists dream doing his day job. Christian if you ever need someone to help out around the shop, Robin is always available.

One final thing to note, were these rather obscure and fantastic creations from Chau Har Lee seemingly exclusive to Selfridges on a made to order basis they quite took our breath away. Alas they also come with a price tag that we can't quite muster just yet. If the galleries had had a few more exciting finds like these dotted around and a few less generic brands (Chanel and River Island we're looking at you) cluttering up the fantasy it would have been quite perfect.

Gutterslut Ball 09/10/10

Putting on the trashiest, most exciting, most adventurous, best and worst dressed parties in London, the Gutter Slut crew did it again with their recent Gutter Ball. As they put it themselves "THE three Fs are what East London's Gutterslut live by - filth, fun and fashion. A tranny loving, punky-chic gathering of the brash, the bold and the beautiful"

More stiletto wearing, fucked wig, fantastic tranny madness than you can shake a stick at, the Rhythm Factory was brought alive to the sound of hundreds of sweaty, screeching, cheering East London drag ravers. Per QX as usual ripped up the main floor with electro goodness, whilst the back room was jumping with more proper disco. Jonny Woo held court on the stage, calling the assembled trannys up for a show and calling on the crowd to cheer them along.

All in all, this was once again a fantastic night out, an incredibly celebratory, participatory night. Ego's were left at the door and everyone lived out their fantasy as THE dancing queen.

Keep your eyes peeled for the next one.

more pictures by Lorenzo Rosi

Video Of The Week

This week's Picture of the week is a video, sent to us by our lovely friend Nick, it's the hottest thing we've ever seen with no nudity, no contact and not even any language.
meooow!

Picture of the week

After being distraught to find that there wasn't yet a fuckyeah cameltoe tumblr website. (according to wikipedia cameltoe is one word not two) Robin took it on himself to create the legend that will soon become www.fuckyeahcameltoe.tumblr.com let the followers come running.

We Recommend Dans Le Noir

Dans Le Noir is perhaps not the most obviously erotic place that we've blogged about here, but it's certainly the most bizarre, and has assuredly earnt it's place amongst our saucy pages. With restaurants in both Paris and London this eating place with a difference seems to have caught people's imagination.

The concept of Dans Le Noir is quite simple, a restaurant in total darkness, complete and utter black, with food served by blind waiters. As you are led to your seat, arm resting on the shoulder of the person in front of you, not only are your senses heightened, your nerves set on edge, but you immediately become aware of how much we all rely on our sight. The tables are suddenly turned, and Adil our blind waiter gliding effortlessly around the space, is suddenly the one without a disability.

The food is set up as 4 surprise menu's with a veggie, fish, meat or total surprise. Your waiter takes your hand and places a dish in it and you have to guess what you've been served. Cutlery becomes a nuisance, and you find yourself feeling around your plate to enable yourself to eat. The food isn't cheap, with a standard £39 two course meal, plus drinks, however you're paying for the experience here, not just the food.

As you sit at your table, quite close to other couples, you find yourself eavesdropping in and out of the accompanying conversations. A sense of camaraderie builds amongst the diners as you all revel in your inability to eat as normal.

The sense of eroticism in the place is quite high, sitting so close to other diners it's almost impossible to resist sneaking a kiss or a feel of each other at the table as they eat unaware. As you settle down and become more confident in your blindness you begin to take greater risks, hoping that the lovely couple you were just chatting with in the dark don't hear as you fumble and kiss each other inches from them.

Lead back once more into the light once you finish your meal and the surreal experience comes to an end. Your waiter who walks you back to the entrance suddenly becomes the one who can't move around as freely, and you realise the gift of sight that you have.

Picture Of The Week

Wow, Lady Gaga does it again with a Drag King photoshoot for Vogue Japan. The lady just keeps pushing our buttons, top marks.

Picture of the week

Fanny has just covered our sofa in luxurious leopard print faux fur. This image from the smoking hot ...shiny, sexy, grubby tumblr, we thought was a perfect illustration of the depravities we hope such a saucy sofa will host.