Femina Potens

THE 'ART OF RESTRAINT' AT FEMINA POTENS

The ‘Art of Restraint’ unites the nation’s most talented bondage performers in one room - creating an interactive evening of delicious erotic decadence.  In our small intimate setting you are not only witnessing the bondage art that they are creating, but you are a part of it. You are standing side by side with celebrity bondage artists, models, and porn stars.

Step inside and experience rope cinching tight into eager flesh as bodies struggle and dance in the air in an erotic ballet of dominance and submission. Be a part of this celebration that notes the greats of kinky bondage culture, “Making a Mark; Our History; Our Story”. Witness our brave and unyielding artists as they evoke a beautiful tale of art and bondage. Take pleasure in this as beautiful bound submissives offer you champagne, sweet strawberries and dark chocolates, listening to the music from one of San Francisco’s hottest DJs. Doors will be locked at 8pm sharp, placing you in the center of a hot avant-garde bondage scene.  Welcome to the third edition of Art of Restraint.

This August’s Art of Restraint will feature rope artists Midori, Lochai, James Mogul, and Fivestar. Award winning suspension model and Indie Porn Pioneer of the year, Madison Young, as seen on MTV, HBO, Independent Film Channel and Curve Magazine.  French porn actress, performance artist and bondage enthusiast, Judy Minx will be traveling all the way from Paris to get your blood boiling. Performance painter, porn star and bondage model, Satine Phoenix will be indulging us in her live erotic performance painting. Minnie and Mo will be our dedicated service submissives, constantly pleasing us with sweet treats, sparkling beverages and boot blacking. We are delighted to be joined by a special Celebrity Guest, who will delight us with her sexy and humorous songs!  Live drawings by Suzanne Forbes, the ultimate kinky voyeur. Our performers will utilize rope, metal, flesh, and other articles of choice that play with the archiving of our lineage.

Lights out at 11pm sharp…unless you are fortunate enough to be a Femina Potens Member.  Members of Femina Potens will be invited to stay for the sexy after hours with the artists and models.  Come be a part of what the SF Gate called “The Most Happening Art Space in San Francisco” and the SF Guardian calls “The Best XXX XX in the Castro”.


‘Art of Restraint’ Erotic Rope Bondage Art Salon
Femina Potens Art Gallery
2199 Market St @ Sanchez
August 22, 2009 @ 8:00 - 11:00 pm
Doors open at 7:30pm
Doors locked at 8:00pm sharp -  no ins and outs
$75 per ticket
$50 for Members - Sign up to become a member today! For more information please visit www.feminapotens.org


This event will sell out.  Advanced online ticket purchase is highly recommended through Brown Paper Ticketing: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/65716


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Madison Young, your kinky girl next door, is making waves in feminism one orgasm at a time with her award winning queer production company Madison Young Productions (www.madisonbound.com) and her award winning nationally recognized art gallery and performance space Femina Potens (www.feminapotens.org).  Femina Potens is a sex positive art gallery and performance space dedicated to women and transgendered artists.  Madison the world with her sex positive performances, workshops, panels, art work and readings from her upcoming memoir “The Tail of a Bondage Model”.  Madison ‘s writings have been published in On Our Backs and Girlfriends Magazine and can also be found in the anthology “Baby Remember My Name”.   Madison has been featured on MTV’s LOGO channel program Out and About, the documentary Lesbian Sex and Sexuality Porn Today: Pushing the Limits, and was featured in Brian Alexander’s recent book release “America Unzipped”.

James Mogul created the bondage photography web site NawaShibari.com and is the director of Kink.com’s MenInPain.com and theTrainingOfO.com sites. He is an amazing rigger and top, a captivating instructor and a serious photographer. James launched his kinky career in Seattle, where he played, taught and developed content for NawaShibari.com. James conceived of and produced the groundbreaking Artbound I and II events in 2000.

Laughing, Midori will often refer to a body of her work as “Art Prank.” Her nimble mind moulds moments of banality into performance and objects of derision into forms of desire. This playful attitude of questioning and love of things beautifully grotesque stems from Midori’s rich and paradoxical up bringing. She was born and raised in Japan, educated in the public school system with its traditions and arts while her all-female, feminist intellectual household provided the foundations for radical, independent thinking.  Currently she is a full time educator and writer on sexuality and intimacy with emphasis on alternative sexuality. Her books include “Wild Side Sex”, “Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage” & “Master Han’s Daughter” a collection of her science fiction short stories. Additionally she is a regular contributor of columns and magazine articles for publications around the world. Inspired by various traditional and contemporary Japanese themes and cultural expression Midori’s art is often at odds with Western views and expectations. For example, she plucks out the Japanese uses of rope in folk craft & sexual subculture, and transport them into mediums of performance and installations.

Although he’s been part of the public kink scene for thirteen years, Lochai has been exploring kink and fetish since he was a six year old riding the school bus when he tied up his first “girlfriend”. Since those humble beginnings, Lochai has built up an impressive resume not only as an award winning photographer, but also as a renowned bondage rigger, educator, and stalwart of the greater BDSM CommUNITY. It’s no surprise that in August of 2008, he was picked by kink.com, one of the most respected companies in the adult entertainment industry, to spearhead their flagship site, hogtied.com. Lochai’s iconic photo, “Beach Bound,” had the distinction of being judged “The World’s Most Erotic Photograph” by Erotic Signature. “Beach Bound” also has the distinction to be in the permanent collection of The Leather Archives in Chicago as well as in the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami. His work has been published in such publications as British Journal of Photography, World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today Vol. I & II, Secret, Skin Two, Bizarre, Prometheus, Cherry, A Magazine, Fetish Anthology, and Extreme Anthology as well as his own fine art photography books. He brings the same flair and energy to his rope work, whether he’s performing or teaching erotic rope, photography and bdsm lifestyle classes at any number of national kink events. As an educator and organizer, Lochai is fiercely dedicated to his CommUNITY. He helps monitor and organize online communication platforms such as the AlternativePresenters.com, which he created, and freely shares his skills and knowledge to rope enthusiasts and photographers of all experience levels and from all walks of life. You can view his photography at http://www.kirinawa.com


Illustrator, Porn Star, International Fetish Model. Satine Phoenix uses her creative juices to entertain all of your senses. Her artistic talents span many mediums from animating, to comics to sculpture and Live Painting Performances. As seen on Playboy TV, Showtime & on Secret Lives of Women.

Judy Minx is a 20-year-old porn actress, sex-performer, sex-educator, English-to-French translator, writer and queer/feminist/sex-positive activist. A bdsm baby, an anal queen, a pain slut, a fetish doll,  a porn warrior,  a sex goddess, femme, and so excited to be that and plus much more!!!
Suzanne Rachel Forbes was born and raised in Manhattan, and educated as an artist, starting with private lessons, from the age of 8. She began classes at the Art Student’s league at ten and continued her studies there as a teenager after dropping out of Stuyvesant High School on the advice of her guidance counselor. After getting her GED she attended Parsons School of Design for two years and then finished her BFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in the Fine Art Program.  Straight out of art school she went to work as a courtroom artist for CBS Television, CNN and several newspapers, as a book illustrator and portraitist, and then as the regular artist on DC Comics’ Star Trek, The Original Series for a year and a half.  After a creative burnout and art hiatus of ten years she returned to drawing and painting in 2005.  Her current work focuses on traditional portraiture with an alternative flavor, as well as allegories and narrative portraits. Her paintings, comic art and courtroom illustrations are in collections across the United States.  She lives in Berkeley with a large manatee-like cat.


Boi mo is a giggly little bottom who blushes easily and melts over fierce femmes and hot daddies. He loves to feed you strawberries and lick your boots, and is even more thrilled if he gets to serve you while he’s bound in rough rope.