Bawdy Storytelling is a live event where professional storytellers and ordinary folks tell true stories about their sex lives. Some describe it as the Moth for perverts. Performing at Bawdy Storytelling is like giving birth. Though I haven’t given birth myself, my mom tells it like this:
The chemicals in your brain make you forget how painful it was. But you’re left with such a beautiful baby that you decide to have another one. Then you remember.
I performed at Bawdy in 2013 and learned how excruciating it was to tell intimate details of my real-deal love life in public. Even though I have performed my show, “Coming Out Kinky – A Grown Up Comedy” in nine cities, Bawdy feels somehow more vulnerable and more exposed.
When Dixie invited me to come back and perform last month, I was intoxicated by the flattery: Wow! I must have done well enough the first time that she’s asking me back. Wow!
And so I said, “Yes, Dixie. Yes!” And then later…ohmygod not again.
Round Two was just as excruciating and just as raw, and I survived. Now I have the opportunity to post it on YouTube and share it globally. I’ve got that same familiar feeling. ohmygod.
My purpose when I put together a story like this is to bring something useful to light. To make the world just a little bit more tolerant. Just a little bit more compassionate – even if I make a bit of a fool of myself in the process.
So here we go world. Enjoy. And ohmygod.
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