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Rockbitch
Rockbitch was a British, mostly female, lesbian and bisexual metal band, who performed nude and incorporated sexual acts and Pagan rituals into their performances. History Rockbitch was originally formed in 1984 as Cat Genetica by bassist Amanda Smith-Skinner ("the Bitch") and guitarist Tony Skinner ("the Beast"). The band was later renamed Red Abyss, in 1989, and drew band members from the matriarchal, polyamorous, pagan, feminist community of which Smith-Skinner was a member. Musically, Red Abyss drew on jazz, funk and rock influences dominated by singer Julie Worland's Janis Joplin–influenced vocals. In time, their music took on harder punk and metal influences. Red Abyss became Rockbitch with the lineup change of Jo Heeley on drums. The lineup varied over the years to include 'Luci the Stage Slut', 'The Haema-Whore', and Kali and Erzulie—the 'Sex Magik Priestesses'. The former two were primarily a combination of sexual performance artists and gonzo-camera team, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syren (band)
Syren were an alternative rock trio formed in the United States by singer-songwriter Erin Bennett and ex-Rockbitch rhythm section Amanda Smith-Skinner (bass) and Jo Heeley (drums). The band released their debut album, ''Dehumanized'' which was followed by successful US, UK and European tours and gained much praise in the music press. A second, unreleased album ''Something Has To Separate'' was shelved due to Heeley's death in 2012 and the subsequent retirement of Smith-Skinner soon after. Bennett reformed the band with an all new line-up for a handful of one-off shows supporting space rock band Hawkwind and performed a final 'farewell' show as Syren on January 16, 2014. She continues to create music as Erin Bennett & the EB band, and was awarded a Scottish New Music award in 2012. Members Original members Erin Bennett (Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Lead Vocals, Songwriter) Amanda Smith-Skinner (Fretless Bass, Electric Upright) Jo Heeley (Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals) (2 No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexual Freedom Awards
The Sexual Freedom Awards is an annual British event that honours achievement in the sexuality and erotica industries worldwide. Founded in 1994 by campaigner Tuppy Owens, the awards were first called the "Erotic Oscars", until the name had to be changed for legal reasons. They were called the "Erotic Awards" from 2002 until 2013 when they become what is now known as the Sexual Freedom Awards. The awards ceremony is an annual event in London with a semi-finals event and the finals held at the "Sex Maniacs Ball" but now is a fully fledged award night in its own right. The Leydig Trust organise these events which raise funds for the "Outsiders Club", a charity that supports disabled people to find partners. The Erotic Awards had twenty-one award categories including "Campaigner", "Sex Worker", "Striptease Artist", "Fashion", "Academic", "Writer", and "Film". Nominations come from the public, and three finalists in each category are then selected by the "Grand Jury of Conspicuous S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MT-TV (band)
MT-TV is a British female rock band, formed of former members of Rockbitch Rockbitch was a British, mostly female, lesbian and bisexual metal band, who performed nude and incorporated sexual acts and Pagan rituals into their performances. History Rockbitch was originally formed in 1984 as Cat Genetica by bassist A .... Bassist Fuse and late drummer Jo also performed in the acoustic alternative rock band Syren, along with Erin Bennett. Personnel *Krow (Julie Worland) : vocals, songwriter *Alex: lead guitar *Brooke (Luci): guitar *Fuse (Amanda Smith-Skinner): bass *Nikki: keyboards *Jo (Joanne Heeley) (2 November 1972 – 11 January 2012) : drums *The Stereotypes: Bunny (Chloe), Erzulie, Kali: Backing vocals and stage show Discography and videography *''Live in France'' (CD mini-album) (2005) *''Shevolution'' (DVD) (2006) *''East/West'' (CD) (2008) *''North/South'' (DVD) (2008) External linksOfficial siteMusic Nation reviewToledo City Paper: "MT-TV responds to critici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and musician. One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and "electric" stage presence. In 1967, Joplin rose to fame following an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band. She appeared at the Woodstock festival and on the '' Festival Express'' train tour. Five singles by Joplin reached the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, including a cover of the Kris Kristofferson song "Me and Bobby McGee", which reached number one in March 1971. Her most popular songs include her cover versions of " Piece of My Heart", " Cry Baby", " Down on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pansexuality
Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others.Pdf. Pansexuality may be considered a in its own right or a branch of , to indicate an al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Love
Free love is a social movement that accepts all forms of love. The movement's initial goal was to separate the state from sexual and romantic matters such as marriage, birth control, and adultery. It stated that such issues were the concern of the people involved and no one else. The movement began around the 19th century, and was advanced by hippies during the Sixties. Principles Much of the free love tradition reflects a liberal philosophy that seeks freedom from state regulation and church interference in personal relationships. According to this concept, the free unions of adults (or persons at or above the age of consent) are legitimate relations which should be respected by all third parties whether they are emotional or sexual relations. In addition, some free love writing has argued that both men and women have the right to sexual pleasure without social or legal restraints. In the Victorian era, this was a radical notion. Later, a new theme developed, link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Dodson
Betty Dodson (August 24, 1929October 31, 2020) was an American sex education, sex educator. An artist by training, she exhibited erotic art in New York, before pioneering the Sex-positive feminism, pro-sex feminist movement. Dodson's workshops and manuals encourage women to masturbate, often in groups. Early career Dodson went to New York City to train as an artist in 1950, and lived on Manhattan's Madison Avenue since 1962. In 1959, Dodson married Frederick Lief, an advertising director, with the marriage ending in divorce in 1965. Dodson's quest for "sexual self-discovery" began after her divorce. Dodson held a first one-woman show of erotic art at the Wickersham Gallery in New York City in 1968. In 1987, her Ms. (magazine), ''Ms.'' magazine memoir and instructional series, ''Sex for One'', was published. Random House later published the work broadly and it was translated to 25 languages. Dodson criticized Eve Ensler's ''The Vagina Monologues'', which she believed has a negati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Sprinkle
Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954) is an American certified sexologist, performance artist, former sex worker, and advocate for sex work and health care. Citing: Sprinkle has worked as a prostitute, sex educator, feminist stripper, pornographic film actress, and sex film producer and director. In 1996, she became the first porn star to get a doctoral degree, earning a PhD in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. Identifying as ecosexual, Sprinkle is best known for her self-help style of pornography, teaching individuals about pleasure, and for her conventional pornographic film ''Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle'' (1981). Through the production of content, Sprinkle has contributed to feminist pornography and the larger social movement of feminism; she is also known for contributing to the rise of the post-porn movement and lesbian pornography. Sprinkle, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, married her long-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuppy Owens
Rosalind Mary Owens (born 12 November 1944), known as Tuppy Owens, is an English sex therapist, consultant, campaigner, writer and former adult model. Education Born in Cambridge, Owens gained a degree in zoology from Exeter University, and then worked in ecology in Africa and Trinidad. She settled in London, and worked as a scientific administrator at the Natural Environment Research Council. Then, in the late 1960s, she established a sex education book publishing company, for which she wrote and published ''The Sex Maniac's Diary'' successfully between 1972 and 1995, and which she operated as a thriving business from her Mayfair flat — for example, the 1975 ''Sex Maniac's Diary'' was launched in August 1974 with a reception at the Bristol Hotel in London which was reported on the following day in the Financial Times. Work From 1974, Owens also began lecturing on the subject of sex. In 1975, she appeared in the Dutch pornographic film ''Sensations''. From 1984, the ''Sex M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the television licence, licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV (TV network), ITV. The network's headquarters are based in London and Leeds, with creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol. It is publicly owned and advertising-funded; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
