Naked City TV was a weekly video show prodcued by Audacia Ray, which ran from April to August 2008. The show complemented the now-defunct Village Voice Media sexuality blog Naked City. The show featured interviews with Xaviera Hollander, Carol Queen and Robert Lawrence, Eric Kroll, plus many other erotic artists, performers, sexuality experts, and activists. In addition to interviews conducted in New York, Dacia shot episodes in Amsterdam, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Chicago.
For Naked City TV, I paid a visit to my old stomping ground the Museum of Sex (I had my first sex related job there, as a researcher and assistant curator, from 2001-2003) to check out their new exhibit Sex Lives of Animals and get some insider info from curator Sarah Jacobs. --Audacia Ray
In mid July, sex workers and their allies met up at the Desiree Alliance conference in Chicago to discuss issues affecting people who work in the sex industry. I presented on sex workers and the media and put the media stuff into practice by making a video for Naked City TV about sex workers rights activists.In this episode of the show, I interview sex worker rights activists from three generations about their experiences in the movement, what's changed, and what the movements' issues are for ...
Regina Lynn, author of Sexier Sex: Lessons from the Brave New Sexual Frontier, offers up three tips for getting it on online. A Naked City TV extra - this one's a quickie!
The Wet Spots, as you might have heard if you've been reading Naked City over the past two weeks, are a fabulous musical comedy duo from Canada. They had their first public show in New York City this past weekend, and I got a chance to get into their dressing room to interview them before the show. In this episode of Naked City TV, learn about how Cass King and John Woods met, their inspiration for the Wet Spots, and how they brainstorm some of their songs. And hey, it wouldn't be a video of t...
In this fifteenth episode of Naked City TV, producer Audacia Ray steps in front of the camera to talk about producing Naked City, with lots of previously unseen clips from various episodes. Includes footage from The Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco The Porno Jim Show in the Midtown Manhattan 1763 (BDSM play space) and Sex 2.0 in Atlanta Sullivan Walsh's bondage bed design in Williamsburg Michele Capozzi in the Manhattan boat basin Eric Kroll and Molly L'Amour at the Anna Kustera Gal...
For almost four years, $pread Magazine has provided a platform for sex workers to express themselves in a glossy, quarterly magazine. The self-expression has extended beyond the boundaries of the magazine's pages too - parties, activism, art shows, all that good stuff. The most recent event the magazine has concocted, in collaboration with Sex Workers Outreach Project NY (SWOP NY) and Sex Workers Action New yorK (SWANK), is Grind the Vote - a voter registration drive that encourages sex worker...
On Saturday, June 21st academics, performers, and thinking perverts gathered in Amsterdam at Paradiso to discuss sexuality and porn, as well as to dance, mingle, and watch terrific performances at the culminating event in the Pinched festival.Naked City TV got the inside scoop from Marije Janssen, the festival's organizer. This episode also features a taste of what some of the more boobtastic performances were like, including Annie Sprinkle's famous Bosom Ballet and the messy antics of The Dra...
I first became acquainted with the Drag King Fem Show at the Berlin Porn Film Festival in October 2007, when they were performing as a duo. Wendy Delorme (the blonde) & Louise Deville (the reanimated corpse in this video) did some performances then that left quite an impression. Though they appear at first glance to be your standard issue burlesque girls, they aren't afraid of a little on stage piss, food, and cock sucking. This video shows a performance they did as their finale at the Pinched...
Xaviera Hollander just hosted a big 65th birthday bash for herself at her Bed & Breakfast in Amsterdam, and in this episode of Naked City TV she reflects on how Amsterdam's red light district is changing, plus her perceptions of the sex industry and the ways that the Happy Hooker brand has unexpectedly grown.
From nursing homes to granny porn, from her father's Viagra prescription to her mother's racy letters: award-winning solo performer Christen Clifford takes you on a journey through senior sexuality. (What I Know About) My Parents' Sex Life a.k.a. Fuck Me Like It's 1945 is Christen's second solo theater piece about family life and sexuality. It's something of a follow up piece to her BabyLove, which is enjoying an extended run at The Green Room (45 Bleecker Street) through July 27th.Naked City ...
