Porn Valley (Adjacent) Dispatch: San Francisco’s Erotic Exotic Ball

Used as we were to the antiseptic sameness and track lighting of porn conventions in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, we weren't expecting much last year when we first attended the Erotic Exotic Expo and Ball at San Francisco's cavernous Cow Palace. But the event was great fun, especially with seemingly every adult resident of the thumb of San Francisco showing up in sexy drag (we later found that municipal code requires every school age child to have at least three leather outfits).

See what's in the works for this year's event the last weekend of October after the gap.

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Founded by trippy provocateur Perry Mann in 1979 as a fundraising event for his friend Louis Abulafia, the first Exotic Erotic Ball was attended by a few dozen people and didn't drop much cash in Abulafia's Presidential coffers (he was the Nudist candidate). Over the years the event has grown to the point that it requires a rodeo venue to hold the revelers.

This year Snoop Dogg heads the list of entertainers. Also in attendance will be the Spyderz, fronted by Evan Seinfeld whose wife, Tera Patrick, leads the porn star contingent. Sunny Lane, the Other Violet Blue, and numerous other Porn Valley talent will be on hand to deliver a brand new attraction to this year's festivities: porn star hickies.

One of my favorite acts from last year, The Surreal Devil Girls, will be back, and the night will ring with the song stylings of Mini-Kiss.

Mostly, though, the Exotic Erotic Ball and the trade show that precedes it (as well as the party that follows it), is as no-pressure a sexy time as one can get when there's 10,000 other people in the room.

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Previously: Exotic Erotic Ball Report 2006, Events Archive