“The show takes a wide view of sex … but it’s not about po.nography” … ancient brothel art from Pompeii.
Nowadays, over one million people in the United States and 80.000 people in the UK involved in intimate services. While this means that one out of every 100 women provide intimate services for money, sex work - an approximately 57 billion-dollar industry involving everyone from young companions to experienced guides, professional high-class escorts to strippers, streetwalkers to phone sex operators - is much further reaching. They are working in different spheres from independent escorts to escorts agencies, street prostitution to p.rn stars. Recently, one more exiting, thrilling intimate area was added to this list - sex art show.
Such a show usually includes people from all spheres of the intimate industry: strippers, escorts, film stars, phone sex operators, internet models or even young attractive brunette and blonde companions. Smart and hot, disturbing and hilarious, the performances offer a wide range of perspectives on sex work, from celebration of escort’s rights to dark, terrible sides of this industry. The main idea of such an art show is to tend people to focus on the words “sex” and “escorting”, to show all aspects of this industry.
First of all, this practise is very famous and popular in the United States. There were a lot of sex art shows. The most thrilling and huge is Sex Workers’ Art Show. The goal of this show is to promote the rights, safety, and dignity of sex workers through presenting them as multifaceted humans. “The Sex Workers’ Art Show is not simply a display of those in the sex industry… but an active force in articulating, shaping, and contesting the meaning of the identity “sex worker” in the public sphere” - Theatre Journal.
Actually this practice is also common in European countries as well as in US. For example, in Germany there was a famous film about cruising public spaces called “taxi zum Klo” (taxi to the bathroom). In which the “protagonist” regularly haunts public wash rooms in the search for anonymous sexual lessons.
In Britain everybody knows that those things are illegal and, of course, it is illegal to have sex in a public place, although it is rare for the police to take action if nobody can see or hear you. But, we are speaking about sex art shows, it can’t be unmissed. In this respect police patrol inside and outside the place where the show takes place, but there is no police in the auditorium during the performance though.
