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“Our community loves to have
sex in public.”
—Michael Vegas
The address on the call sheet is on a major artery, but here in the shadow of the
Convention Center it’s down to a capillary: narrow, with one lane in each direction,
and crowded because of the Laker game that just ended this late afternoon. In a
warehouse repurposed as a studio, Michael Vegas and Siouxsie Q are shooting the
second of their Bottom Floor orgy series.
The spartan second-floor loft—white walls and ceiling, unpainted wood pillars,
polished cement floor—is a hubbub of activity. Performers in various states of glam
prep—hair in curlers, sweatpants—line up to fill out paperwork and pose for ID
pictures. Techs put together rigging, pipes clanging on the cement floor as they are
laid out for assembly. Penny Barber, in curlers, surveys me with a don’t-I-know-you?
look. Siouxsie Q welcomes me, asks if I’m okay with being on camera (“Sure”) and
sends me to the paperwork table. A lot of BDSM gear laid out on a table next to a
cage the size of a phone booth. A PA retrieves a pack of cigarettes with a lighter
rubber-banded to it. A DJ sets up in the corner. Lasers test, flashing designs on the
wall. A side room with a craft table with water and high-energy snacks is filled with
performers dressing and undressing. I wanted a bottle of water, I think I’ll wait until
it’s less crowded.
Codi Vore steps out in a fishnet top and garter belt, with fishnet stockings. Codey
Steele shambles around in an Adult Time t-shirt, Kink hoodie and Vixen sweatpants.
He told me years ago that as a male performer, he didn’t have to do a lot of prep for
a scene. Still true. Two performers scream at each other in recognition.
“We built this space for our community,” Vegas tells me. “Our community loves to
have sex in public. I have seen so many of my friends devalue their rate so they have
a chance to do live sex performance, because it’s inherently part of our nature—
but it was always at the expense of comfort. People who are putting on these other
large-scale sex parties are not paying performers what they’re valued. They are not
taking care of them, and it’s fake. When there’s somebody who can pay their way
in, you have to put up a wall as a performer and block them. This party is all adult-
film performers and a very close, adjacent community, so the level of comfort lets
people drop their guard and be in a real space where they’re really performing for
themselves. You’ll see. It’s magic. It’s different. It’s a lot of fun.”
“I’m excited,” Connie Perignon says. “I think this is the most people I’ve ever had
on set. The energy here is really high. I’m excited to be here. I’m looking forward to
how everything plays out.”
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