Midori's Kinky Salon

I attended a fantastic book reading for Wild Side Sex: the Book of Kink that turned into a full-on Kinky Salon last Saturday night at A Different Light Bookstore in West Hollywood. Lots of kink-world celebrities showed up. Midori, who has a great talent for taking the temperature of a room and drawing upon possibilities, asked everyone to turn their chairs in a circle and make it an interactive experience, with Midori at the helm as facilitator and sharer of dirty stories.

We had a great posse of photographers there—the great Steve Diet Goedde, Victor, and Michele Serchuk. Midori, being a photographer herself, loved steering the discussion towards issues of the day: fetish image in photography, being pigeon-holed as a fetish photographer, etc. Some beautiful models attended as well—Seven and Baby Doll spiced up the evening!

Leslie and Karen, the founders of Double G magazine lit up the night, and Aly from the radio show AVN Online brought us back to the erotic pleasure of creme brulee. Yummy.

The crowd took the party to a delicious night spot called Tango and porn star Nina Hartley and director Ernest Greene kept the crowd tantalized into the night.

One of my absolute favorite pleasures in life is when naughty sexy fun mixes with brash intellectualism. This was one of those nights, and I thank all who lent their talents toward such a salon.