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Pink Culture: Midori at MoSex
Sep 8th, 2007 by Viviane
Thursday night, I went to hear Midori talk about sex culture in Japan. The perverati were out in force: Kate Bornstein & Barbara Carrellas, Michelle Serchuk, Betty Dodson, Laura Antonious, Morpheus (you need to be on his NYC Alt Events list), MayMay, Eileen and Lolita Wolf. Midori talked first about being a dual outsider , about Orientalism (that romantic notion of “the Orient”), and a view of Japanese kink that gaijin never get access to.She is petite, but spoke with tremendous verve and authority about love hotels, sex clubs, cosplay coffee shops, sex shops the size of U.S. supermarkets.It was a fascinating talk, but MoSex is a really uncomfortable venue. We were in the first floor gallery and the building had turned off the AC. Then there was the continuous rattling of some motor in the background, which was really distracting. Why would you turn off the AC? What does it say about the conservation practices of the museum? I guess there aren’t any.
I think they might have turned off the air conditioner to make the room quieter. I think they would have been better off getting a microphone and a single amplifier, however.