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Audiosmut is taking you out for a night on the town. We take you on a stroll down the Main to one of our favourite places. Gazing up at the empty window where the silhouette of a naked woman used to dance on the corner of st. Cat’s and St. Laurent, it’s fair to say the lower Main has seen better days. Looking around, you’d probably never guess that this was once a throbbing artery of Montreal nightlife—what was once known as the red light district.
The bright lights beckoning from Cafe Cleopatra’s are the last sign of life on the west side of the street.
We’re going to take a seat at the foot of the stage, and bring you into the worlds of the performers and people who breathe life into this seedy, smutty, sensational establishment while it’s still around for us to enjoy.
In February Audio Smut will present several documentaries about different communities fighting to save the main. Before we delve into the subcultures why don’t you brush up on the “Cleaning of the Lower Main”, ok?
~Stella’s Emilie Laliberte talks about the situation from the sex worker’s perspective.
~Audio Smut’s Pleasures: A radio play (extended version)
~Sound bites from Contre-Courant
~Interview with Eric Paradis from Club Sin
If all your new year new sex life resolutions have fallen through never fear! Rely on yourself for sexual satisfaction and use this episode of Audio Smut dedicated to Solo Sex to inspire you.
Includes:
Interview with Mary Roach author of Bonk!
Learn all about sex toys with Joy Toyz
Delicious Short Instructional Audio
We hear an interview with a couple of sexy artivists from Holland who encourage you to go to their website download their smut and listen to it in the privacy of your headphones…includes one of their favourite stories entitled COCK.
We have a couple of lurid shorts courtesy of Jess.
AAaaaaand some full lenth feature radioerotica.
SLUG – by Megan Milks…slimy smut
DRESS LEATHER – The story of a leather daddy and his boy
From the erotica anthology Switch Hitters: stories of gay male eroticism written by lesbians and vice versa.
Cum on out for the festivities and then scamper off to experience real release in a bathroom booming with smutty shorts produced by Audio Smut!
We dedicate the show to the magic of bathrooms in boozey public spaces: girl talk while waiting in bathroom lines, late night realizations of truth in scuzzy mirrors and sex in the stalls.
The event:
“One million years ago, on January 17th, someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water, and lo, ART was born!”
Join us for a Party * Art-Cake Contest * Art-of-Kissing Booth * Music * Film * Dance * Installations * Shadow Puppetry * Mystery Midnight Performance * and more by local artists.
Where? L’Envers, 185 VanHorne
When? Saturday, January 16th, doors open at 20h
How much? $7-$12 suggested donation
B.Y.O.B
In this month’s edition of Audio Smut we shed light on the not-so-sexy moments of sex. Real-life sex is fraught with awkward unexpected disaster moments that we rarely talk about or troubleshoot. So move over sexperts as Audio Smut provides an entertaining troubleshooting manual for some of the sexual glitches that arise between the sheets.
Listen to the show:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Unpromted Evacuation
Proxy Networks and Personal Gateways
Involuntary Release
You’ve Got Mail
Absense of Dexterity
Sex Maintenance Issues
Disadvantageous Proportions
Transforming Sex
Collateral Damage
Error Messages
Reflex Activation
Slipped Disk
Unintended Transmission
Inopportune Arrival
We also enjoyed some fun musical interludes, and the porning news.
This episode of Audiosmut discusses what’s up on lower st. Laurent these days. Last time we checked, Cafe Cleopatra and some other thriving businesses were being expropriated for a 12 story office building under a contract awarded to the Angus Development Corporation by the city of Montreal (Gerald Tremblay).
Listen to show:
First we talk to Emilie Laliberte from Stella (an organization for and by sex workers whose goal is to provide information and support to people in the trade so that they can work in safety and with dignity) to get a grasp on how the development of the lower main has been impacting the sex worker community. Needless to say, there has not been much understanding or acceptance coming from the city with regards to women working the streets. The Tremblay administration is particularly closed to including sex workers in the discussion of solutions for st. laurent. Instead, petty policies are being enacted (expensive tickets, and quadrilatere’s restricting sex workers from entering the quartier) to remove them from the area.
We also hear throughout this show, a special edition of Pleasures. Loosely based on what is happening to Cafe Cleo, we return to Pleasureburg and see how our characters react to this unsexy situation.
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Next, we hear some audio clips of the Contre Courant event, put on to rally support for Save the Main. The dead doll dancers, who perform regularly on the thrust stage at Cabaret Cleo, put together a satire of the Public consultations that occured discussing the merits of the Angus Development contract, and whether or not Cafe Cleo and the other establishments on this part of the main are indeed historical sites that ought to be preserved.
Lastly is the porning news, where we speak with Eric Paradis, who gives us an update on the situation. Despite recent discoveries that the head of the Angus Development Corporation has been involved in fraud, the project is likely to go through. Especially since Gerald Tremblay has been re-elected. Eric brings up the injustices of the situation:
1) The proposed project–payed for with tax dollars—benefits a very small group of people
2) Pouring money into fancy architechture and clean cut edifice does not cultivate cultural richness. Money is being put into facade rather than into real creative projects.
3) The people whose businesses are being expropriated, the people who have worked long and hard and contributed to the community in many ways, have every right to be there and stay there.
Support the inclusion of everyone in the decisions made about developing the Quartier des Spectacles.
This weekend I was amazed to learn, when I’m put on the spot I couldn’t come up with *any* slinging slang for one of my favourite activities. How can I be a bona fide radio gal if I can’t talk about solo sex in anything but the most feminist clinical language? What a disappointment. How are we supposed to experience pleasure when we can’t even name it?
Audiosmut gets home from the holidays and saunters around the sexy seedy streets of beloved Montreal!
We hear about Cabot square, a sexy part of town whose life has been drained away.
We are taken on a walking tour of Queer Montreal by Perverscite (alternative pride celebrations) and end up on St Laurent.
The owner of Cinema L’Amour talks about one of last standing porn theatre in Montreal and we talk to Save the Main about gentrification’s threat to the sexy spirit of St.Laurent
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