Bawdy Storytelling Takes on 'Slut vs. Whore'

Keith Bowers

Stephen Elliott is among those who've brought their dark secrets into the spotlight at Bawdy Storytelling.

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"We've all done some fucked-up shit," says Dixie De la Tour, like going home with the wrong person, getting in over our heads in a BDSM scenario, or sitting through that timeless feature that always lasts too long, Nightmare Date II: The Boundary-Free Zone. But just the same, we've all been blown away by our own indoor fireworks - using muscles we didn't know we had, getting marks whose source we can't identify, and waking up so stunned that we're unable to do anything but whisper "God almighty" to the hottie (or hotties) next to us. Good or bad, these experiences can make for great stories, says De La Tour, hostess of Bawdy Storytelling, the next installment of which happens tomorrow night.

The theme for this episode is "Slut vs. Whore." No, it's not a death match between two people who sleep around a lot. Rather, the speakers explore the idea of sex as a career vs. sex as a hobby -- to use Dixie's words, "personal promiscuity vs. professional prostitution." Sexologist Carol Queen talks about turning her first trick. Chicken John speaks of "teenage prostitution for pizza," says Dixie. All in the lineup ask what does it mean to be a slut vs. being a whore? And who's doing all this name-calling anyway? And do the recipients like it? We bet at least some of them -- OK, all of them -- do.

Bawdy Storytelling starts at 8 p.m. at the Blue Macaw. Admission is $10.

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