Secrets of the City

This show looks pretty lame.

Kind of like it’s the Harbor Freight of Sex?

Do they have any rides?

All sex shows should have rides.

Our pal Pat did a story on the convention for the AP. Read it here.

Our initial post on this is here.

Also, I think we have a correspondent going to this event, so come back next week for a full report.

I wish KARE would send Am Hockert.

I went this afternoon because a friend had a comp pass.

It was neither entertaining nor campy at all. In fact it was downright creepy/depressing. Not even our sexpot areporter Amy Hockert could sex it up for me if she were there broadcasting in lingerie (well ok maybe then). Maybe it will be better this weekend with more people to watch. There were more revealing outfits on the booth babes at E3 than at this show so the gawk potential was almost non-existent.

In all seriousness who doesn’t know they need to wash/clean their toys?

Yuck.

I was generally amazed at how low quality our sex toys and “sexy” lingerie are for sale in the US. Half that stuff looks like it comes apart after one use/wash. I don’t know how you girls do it and I guess I don’t need to know. I’m sure it says something but I don’t know what. Maybe that we’re cheap.

I was also surprised to find beer and wine for sale. I was not carded and it is only 18 I think to get in the door. Someone could easily get into trouble if one of those Family Council shils wanted to “go undercover.”

I can confirm what’s reported in the linked article above regarding how many local merchants were there hawking stuff. I thought this was going to be like a travelling roadshow/carnival but it isn’t.

I’m looking forward to reading what our correspondent finds, I didn’t have much time. I’m sure she will have a much more interesting perspective than mine even if anything she finds will be entirely wasted.

I’d wager it would be worth spending 40 bucks if you were married/attached and interested in finding more about your spouse/significatn other from his/her reactions if you were a pretty conservative couple sexually speaking. But there is nothing really on the face of it offensive here. I really don’t know what the big deal is.

I have a flickr set up you should be able to find pretty easily. I tried to make a photostream that tracked what “GLBT-friendly” apparently means in a Minnesota sex convention.

Some people really got upset at the camera.

A burlesque performer handed me a free ticket at a Halloween party, so I went. The convention hall looked dark, drab and cavernous compared to other conventions I’ve seen there. Giant video screens showed computer animation of a pink lady and a blue man having sex with the aid of a bouncy stool-type device. Deja Vu strippers climbed a very high pole, while Schiek’s dancers performed in a “fashion show.” A “future Playboy Playmate” was signing autographs, but she wasn’t all that. Every sex-toy shop in the state had a booth. A woman in a latex catwoman suit with enormous air-inflated breasts poured milk all over herself. A rather fetching blonde did a “Minnesota striptease,” starting in heavy winter wear. A man came onstage in a masquerade-ball mask, but I didn’t stick around. The emcee was a shmuck whose constant “Are you guys having any fun?” echoed lamely through the hall. Overall, I was disappointed in the lack of “so much more.” The sex wasn’t very good either.