The Zen Submissive
Wednesday, March 18, 8-10 pm
$25 if pre-registered, $30 for drop-ins
Valencia St.
To register, please call 415-522-5460
www.goodvibes.com
Most of the information on BDSM focuses on the skills that tops need,
but what about the tools that will help you be the best submissive you
can be? Madison Young, author, bondage model, porn star & director, will
help you find the tools you need! You'll learn how to process pain and
strong sensations, ways to take care of yourself physically and
emotionally while in service to your dominant, visualizations and
vocalizations that will help you ride the energy of the scene, tips for
connecting with your top, and more. Madison will also give you a list of
resources for future exploration and discuss the role of a zen
submissive in the BDSM community. Come find out how strong a submissive
can be from someone who knows! Please wear comfortable clothes that you
can move in. This workshop is recommended for dominants, submissives and
switches of any gender. For more information about Madison, please visit
www.madisonbound. com

Queer Sex Positive Web site is looking for an open minded web intern to assist with web updates, posting on social networking sites, internet marketing, assisting on set, and some graphic work. Should be familiar with html, web savvy, and motivated to learn. This is a great opportunity to work for a sex positive company, meet press, meet great artists, film makers, directors , and performers. It is a great opportunity to learn about and enter into San Francisco's queer porn sex and art scene. Please send letter of interest and resume to madison @ madisonbound.com.

Femina Potens cordially invites all of you who have been naughty or nice to our Erotic Holiday Party on December 18, 2008. This is an incredible one-of-a-kind super freak fabulous extravaganza! You will be absolutely titillated by our music, erotic performances, burlesque, dance party, films and prizes. Move and groove as DJ Ryan sets the tone for a hot evening. Become spellbound as Madison young and Sadie Lune performs her erotic performance art! Watch Burlesque Star Trixie Treat serve up some sassy holiday cheer! Leave the party with decadent gifts! The festivities will begin at 7pm.

You will thank your lucky stars when you signed up to be a Femina Potens VIP Member. Along with all of the other FP Membership perks, tonight you will receive 20% off all ART WORK, Zines, Books, Feminist and Queer Porn - Art is the perfect gift for your loved ones for the holidays. Knock down your shopping list at Femina Potens, with your membership discount your stockings will be stuffed o' plenty.

And you make your own holiday wish list come true when you win prizes like:
-Porn!
-Sex toys from Smitten Kitten
- Date with a porn star!!!
- An Erotic Breast Exam
- Bondage lessons
- FP Gift Certificates

Happy Holidays, See you all there!

"Erotic Holiday Party'
December 18, 2008 @7pm
Femina Potens Art Gallery
2199 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
$10 - $20 admission or FREE if you sign up to be a Member of Femina Potens.

This Saturday December 13 at 8:00pm at Femina Potens come to our Sizzling performances and get your friend in for FREE!! This saturday when you show up to Femina Potens monthly erotic spoken word and performance event with a hot date, your date gets in free. Or sign up to become a Femina Potens member and you both can get in FREE!! Femina Potens is willing to testify to the spicy hot relationship between sex and religion with this month's Sizzling performances.

We righteously present you the mouth watering erotica by Meliza Bañales, Raina Bird's memoirs around growing up in a cult and erotic performance art by Elizabeth Bast. As well as a religiously inspired shibari rope bondage suspension performance from with shibari rope artist Lochai and International bondage performer, Madison Young, who was recognized as the top SM Suspension Model by Bishop Awards (pictured below). Canadian Filmmaker Joanne Loton will be capturing all the heat on film for her upcoming documentary, 'Women Come First'. Come be a part of queer, kinky, alternative performance history.

Femina Potens proudly presents "SIZZLE," the monthly Bay Area award winning literary erotica series. SIZZLE heats up the Castro on the second Saturday of every month merging internationally acclaimed queer and erotic authors with the Bay Area's top emerging local writers, spoken word artists and performers. Our open mic features some of the hottest, most eclectic performances and invites you to step up and make your voice heard.

We are offering a holiday ticket special - TWO FOR ONE! So grab your best mate and be here this Saturday for some sizzling words, and electric performances. Special Holiday Specials on Art Work perfect holiday presents for you or your friends. See you there!

Seating is limited and this is sure to be a packed house so advanced online ticket purchase is highly recommended through Brown Paper Ticketing: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/49658


SIZZLE, hosted by Madison Young
Saturday, December 13, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
Doors/Open Mic Sign-up @ 7:30 pm
$10-15 sliding scale admission ($5/open mic performers) for an evening of hot words, dessert, wine, and discussion.

Visit www.feminapotens.org for guaranteed seating information and advance ticket sales.

Hello lovely people,

As you may or may not know, I not only perform in some of your favorite adult films and bondage sites but I'm also an artist and activist who runs a progressive art gallery in San Francisco, Femina Potens Art Gallery (www.feminapotens.org)

Femina Potens has provided hundreds or art exhbits, spoken word events, mulit-media programs, film screenings and educational work shops over the past 8 years that reflect the experiences of women,transgendered, kink, and sex worker communities. We need all of your support in order to continue to provide such resources to the community and create visibility for cutting edge artists.

With our new sustainer program you can donate as little as $10 a month, a tax deductible donation, and at the same time become part of a movement of artists pushing boundaries around identity, sex, feminism, public health, and queering how together as a community we engage with art.

Help support visibility and connection of the queer community through the arts. Nurture your community by sustaining the only non-profit art gallery in the Castro and the country's only queer public arts program.

Femina Potens is an all ages community funded gallery and is a reflection of all of us. We encourage you to become a member. Connecting Communities by Queering Concepts of Art and Sex.

Go to http://www.feminapotens.org to become a sustainer today. Sustainers also recieve such benefits as free tickets to Femina Potens events, VIP art events, and discounts on art purchases.

Thank you so much for your support.

xo
Madison Young

I'm sick and bed ridden, sore throat and dizzy with fever but I can't escape the thoughts floating around my head. Thoughts of the porn revolution. Thoughts of our growing forces and increasing visibility.

I've directed scenes for 3 different queer porns this month. And time and time again I'm wowed by the amazing dedication of my fellow performers and crew. Hiking up hills in San Francisco weather to get naked and have hot sex under a tree in a park. Spending long days on set studying lines, researching characters,connecting with performers and crew not only on set but in queer activism, in artistic collaborations, in fundraising, in building a community around sex positive activists,artists,queers who are coming together in porn. This world, this community is so completly different from that which I have come to know in LA where it truly feels like everyone is only there for a pay check and where I feel isolated from any kind of real community. The performances generated from community members incorporates depth and genuine connection and orgasms rather than just a hollow image of sex.

In my latest film "Art House" sexual revolutionaries such as Sadie Lune, Trouble Royale of NoFauxxx.com and Twincest (www.twincest.net) all were in attendance and collaborating on a major level. Twincest offered up a hot sex scene that referenced 70s feminist performance artists Yoko Ono's "cut" piece and Carolee Schneemann's "Meat Joy". The performance art couple had sex over a bed of lunch meats while wearing long blonde wigs which they piece by piece cut locks of hair from as they jointly suckled on hot dogs and came in each other's mouths while being sploshed with tomato soup, a sexual act we have now coined as being the "warhol".

In another scene Shawn of Twincest distracts me by performing sexual acts as I'm being asked personal and prying questions by a Warhol like character who appears off camera played by the remarkable Sadie Lune. This scene references the Warhol film "Beauty 2" which you can check out on You Tube if you are unfamiliar. Photos from the scene are now available at www.NoFauxxx.com. And Art House will be available in early September.

The fabulous Violet Blue has declared that going to Femina Potens should be the second thing on your Extra Sexy Pride adventure right after going to Good Vibes.  Violet is amazing and I'm really quite flattered at all the kind words she had to say about FP. So check out the review below and get sexy at Femina Potens.
xo
madison

The lovely and amazing Violet blue has declared in an article for SF Gate that visiting Femina Potens is the second sexiest thing you can be doing this pride weekend right after buying dildos at Good Vibes.
xo
madison

2. Be a tourist and see some art.
You have to leave the bedroom eventually, but I encourage you to not do anything in the street that might frighten the horses. OK, so we're a little short on horses and kinda big on the ponies, but you know what I mean. Or not. Regardless, we have some of the most fantastic erotic and sex culture commentary art shows going this weekend, and you especially don't want to miss a trip to Femina Potens. Run by brainy sexy beauty Madison Young, Femina Potens is more than a statement about sex culture and feminist sexuality: Right now it's the most happening art space in the city. Every weekend bustles with packed openings or performances showcasing sex-positive artists and writers of all genders and orientations, and if it's a tempest in an art world teacup, it's a revolution in art and sex. Most of the astonishingly world-class art and performances are from locals, and you'll hear short stories about first porn experiences one weekend, see Carol Queen perform another weekend, and have your eyes and mind cherry-popped by an art show the next. This weekend is the closing party for Untold Stories, a truly terrific show in a variety of media featuring the art of transwomen — catch it Saturday on your way to the Castro.

 

Violet Blue: Open Source Sex, SFGate, June 26, 2008

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/26/violetblue.DTL 

Hello Lovely persons,
    Marrow - who produces some of my favorite rope (at bindme.nl) did a wonderful interview with me on his site.  You should totally check it out.   http://www.bindme.nl/efeaturemadison.php.  

Also I've started a new blog(http://kinkyfeminism.blogspot.com/) that you should check out.  Let me know what you think.
xxoo
Madison

So my myspace page that I've had for the last year was deleted earlier this week.  So starting all over.  Sorry for the inconvience.  Time to make some lemonade.
xo
Madison