The Fetish Masquerade Ball was a blast. The people watching alone was worth the cost of admission. All things considered I was dressed pretty conservatively. A few brave souls weren’t wearing more than thongs and electrical tape.
Live music acts were interspersed with stage acrobatics, fire dancers, piercing demonstrations (this one really gave me the creeps) and go-go dancers. The Impotent Sea Snakes were the finale, which was a cross between a kinky circus and a rowdy rock act. However wild they were on stage watching from the balcony, it was even wilder that there was a couple behind us fucking and another gal in the aisle across from us with her boyfriend under her skirt. (It was a pouffy netting one like mine)
On the way out we got flyers announcing that none other than Annie Sprinkle would be doing a multi-media fest at Berbati’s in a couple of weeks. There’s something pretty cool about a prostitute/porn star turned performance artist/sexologist with a PhD so I’m going to try to get tickets to that.