San Antonio Fetish Ball: Exotic Easter 12
If you’ve grown weary of celebrating Easter in a traditional fashion, look no further than Temple of Flesh’s “San Antonio Fetish Ball: Exotic Easter 12.” Following a theme of “Fetish through Time (1768-2107),” the ball takes creative cues from the likes of French aristocrat, libertine, and erotic writer Donatien Alphonse François Marquis de Sade (the father of sadism and the author of The 120 Days of Sodom, which he penned between a prison and an asylum circa 1785), Austrian writer Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (the father of masochism and the author of Venus in Furs and the collection Legacy of Cain), pioneering fetish photographer, bondage filmmaker, and Bettie Page collaborator Irving Klaw (the “Pin-Up-King” of the ’40s and ’50s), illustrator, photographer, and publisher John Alexander Scott Coutts (better known as John Willie, founder of the cult fetish magazine Bizarre) while fantasizing about what the future of fetishism might hold. Hosted by adult film star-turned-director Dana DeArmond (aka “the porn star of the people,” “the internet’s girlfriend,” the “porn unicorn”), the “sensuous evening of fetish, music, and fun” benefits the San Antonio AIDS Foundation and features appearances by Gen Padova (a multi-orgasmic, all natural girl” with more than 300 films to her credit), performer, educator, and activist Lillith Grey (a “total academic” who owns the BDSM event and performance company Gloryhole Productions), burlesque performer and sideshow contortionist Lexa Lusty (a “little packet of sadism” with a clothespin fetish who’s small enough to pop out of a carry-on suitcase), mentalist and mime Mr. Saturday and Sixpence (the space-time bending con-men behind Texas’ first steampunk convention, AetherFest), and the “inexcusably sexy, lawless, and unforgettable” Austin-based collective Riot City Hell Katz and the leading ladies of EBM Dollz (known for committing acts so unspeakable “only the Devil himself could forgive them”). As if this isn’t enough to fill your Exotic Easter basket, the Korova will be re-envisioned as an adult playground complete with free liquid latex body-painting, kinky vendors, erotic visuals, “human chandeliers,” a fully equipped dungeon, and DJs Minxx, Spinlock, Mr. Scandal, Heff-Ra, and DaNillaG spinning electro, trance, industrial, and ambient music all night long. $15 in advance from Adam and Eve (6957 San Pedro, (210) 348-6902); $20 at the door; 8pm-2am; The Korova, 107 E Martin, safetishball.com.