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Sex-Positive Information • Community • Straight/Gay/Kink • New Mexico and the Southwest
By Daniel Irish
A couple years ago, I was walking (OK, stumbling) down Freemont Street in Las Vegas, Nev., sucking on a yard-long daiquiri I’d been handed at a bayou-themed slots casino when I spotted one of those half-price ticket booths that dot the city. Goggling posters and brochures for the usual magic-, ventriloquism- and topless-dancer-based reviews, my eyes floated boozily over a stage show called Fashionistas. “Funny,” I thought, “that’s the name of a porn film.” Closer inspection led me to the name of the show’s writer/director/producer: John Stagliano. Yup, the infamous porn magnate better known as “The Buttman.” Turns out the music-loving pornographer always dreamed of creating an elaborate stage musical—and what better source material than his hardcore 2003 fetish epic The Fashionistas? The show shut down in 2008 after several successful years just off the Strip. It was handsomely mounted, quite sexy (no actual nudity, though) and deeply weird. (Watching a clutch of Japanese tourists nod off to a chorus of dancers in assless rubber chaps shaking it to a Lords of Acid tune will surely stimulate a smile of sentimental reflection on my deathbed.) (more…)