OH, OH, OH!!! The ORGASM Holiday Book Party + Show

Join for a night celebrating the fine art of ORGASM! With the launch of Linda Troeller's new book with Marion Schneider, Orgasm, a new global discussion of cosmic bliss, sexual liberation, personal pleasure, shame, love, oppression, intimacy, beauty and controversy is sparked. {www.orgasmproject.info} The evening will be part holiday party, part lecture, part show, part interactive experience, part book signing... to stimulate *every part* of you. Surprises are always the best, you know! Here is a taste of what to expect: - A visual presentation, lecture and Q+A with Linda Troeller, intrepid photographer of Orgasm: Photographs and Interviews - Your host, Michelle's Yoni (sometimes known as Michelle Joni) in song and dance. {www.michellejoni.com} - Orgasmic dancing and storytelling by Jaime Summers {www.orgasmicdancing.com} - LGBT Love Catalyst + Motivational Speaker Jesani Drew talks Creation with Masturbation - HUGGING - Gamze RedBlood brings burlesque - Sex. Work. A discussion with Kate Rubens. - Sex toy giveaways!! Courtesy of Babeland <3 - Photography by Tinker Coalescing : Queer Photography - HASHTAG TO USE :: #myorgasmproject :: - Everybody, bring a chocolate bar! Choose your favorite cocoa-flavored aphrodisiac, it will be for a sharing activity. :::::::::::::: ORGASM: Photographs and Interviews (Daylight Books, November 5, 2014) involved the participation of 25 women of different ages, nationalities, sexuality including pan sexual to lesbian to many religions and social backgrounds who opened their bodies and minds to share intimate stories about their own experiences achieving orgasm independently and with their partners. This book continues the investigation into female sexuality begun by Troeller and Schneider’s landmark 1998 volume The Erotic Lives of Women, acclaimed in The New York Times Review of Books as “one of the gutsiest books of the decade.” Ten years in the making (2004-2014), their intention with Orgasm is to foster a discussion about female sexuality in the 21st century. The safe environment Troeller and Schneider created enabled the collaborators to deliver extraordinarily candid revelations about their sexual and erotic lives from the early years through the present day. Schneider asked each subject the same five questions and audiotaped her answers. Troeller photographed the women immediately after their responses to capture their spontaneous emotional and physical states. These are the questions: - What does the word orgasm mean to you? - Can you remember your first orgasm and show the feelings to the camera? - Can you remember your strongest orgasm and show the feelings to the camera? - Do you have fantasies when you create or experience an orgasm? - What is the future of orgasm in society / in the world? Copies of the book as well as photographs will be available for purchase. FREE event! Cash bar. Linda Troeller is an award-winning photographer known for her Polaroid collage series, TB-AIDS Diary, and co-authoring two books with Marion Schneider – the pioneering volume, Erotic Lives of Women (Scalo, 1998) and Orgasm: Photographs and Interviews (Daylight, 2014). A documentary on her photography, Inside the Frame: Linda Troeller, will be released in winter, 2014 by Canadian filmmaker, Jeff McKay. Her new book, Living In the Chelsea Hotel, Schiffer, will be out Spring, 2016. “There are very few people who, in our pornified society, can visually capture and eroticize the female and feminine body without objectifying it. In her photographs, Linda Troeller captures the confidence, strength, and power in women’s erotic lives.” – Mimi Schippers, Associate Professor and Director, Women’s Studies Program, Tulane University