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Laura Antoniou
Laura Antoniou has been writing
erotica for over 20 years, when her
day job permits her the time. She
lives in Queens with her wife Karen,
and happily serves as boy to Kim
Attica. Friends have called her all
sorts of name. Current favorites
being "Renaissance Perv" by Fetish
Diva Midori, "Good Boy!" by Kim and
of course, "best thing that ever
happened to me" by Karen.
Laura is best known these days for
her "Marketplace" series of novels,
but back in the beginning, when
pickings for good and readable porn
was slim, Laura created the
groundbreaking "Leatherwomen"
anthologies, and edited several
others. Some of the work she
created for those anthologies are
reprinted in "The Catalyst and Other
Tales". Laura's work has been
published in the United States,
Germany, Japan and Korea, to
international acclaim. Her short
stories and non-fiction essays also
appear in other anthologies. A full
listing of her writings can be found
at
www.lantoniou.com.
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Scheduled Workshops at Lupercalia MMIX
subject to change
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“Tops Are From Gor,
Bottoms Are From Roissy”
We frequently draw our
relationship models from fictional universes, forgetting
that those universes don’t always work the same way.
What happens when concepts like “master,” “slave,” and
“service” are filtered through the Marketplace, Gor,
Roissy or other fictional universes? Laura will help
separate fantasy from reality, discuss effective
communication of roles, and explore how to borrow from
fiction honestly while we craft our relationship
styles. There’s good stuff in our fiction as well as
bad – be prepared to laugh at the unrealistic
expectations, smile at fond memories of our dearest
inspirations, and grimace at how we can turn something
we did as a lark for a few year into a colossal waste of
time. (With a nod to Bill Shatner.)
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Too Kinky for Words: Playing
way off the edge
Everyone loves to claim they play on the edge, or their
style of being kinky is somehow greater than the average
pervert. Yet even among the uber-kinky, there are those of
us who have fantasies – or play styles – which seem to be
beyond what is considered “acceptable.” Is your kink really
“OK”? How can you tell? Are there boundaries to be
fantasies? Should there be? Should we/can we own our most
unmentionable ones? How do you share fantasies with a
partner if they make you uncomfortable? This workshop is
more of a guided discussion group on the process of
identifying, naming, sharing and potentially enacting our
scariest fantasies. It’s not about being outrageous to
shock other – it’s about fear of community mores, worries
about personal responsibility, shameful eroticism and secret
joys. This is a “closed door” workshop – once it begins, we
will close the door on the outside world, both vanilla and
kinky, and let loose. Participants must come prepared to
write down a fantasy or playstyle (anonymously, if they
wish) and turn it in to the presenter.
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Creative Disobedience:
The Art of Being a Wiseass
Mention SAMS or brats in the scene and you’ll
get either glee at the prospect of an antagonistic scene or
groans and kvetching from the more formal among us. But
there is a serious challenge to being just disobedient or
defiant or teasing enough to entertain, divert and involve a
top in playful reactions ranging from a laugh to some light
hearted “punishment.” Learn the basics of what it takes to
walk that very fine line between being annoying or amusing,
whiney or whimsical.
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