‘Air sex’ takes the U.S. stage
Why a Japanese import mixing air guitar and public sex is making a splash across America
Air sex has come to America, and may be coming to a theater near you.
(Corbis/Howard Pyle)
Maybe it’s the economy, or spring fever, but “there’s a whole lot of humping going on these days,” said James Montgomery in MTV online. “Air sex,” a competitive air-guitar-like spectacle, has real judges and real rules—no nudity, no real orgasm. And, once just an Austin pastime, it's going national, with “a 16-city tour designed to seek out the greatest Air Sexer in the world.”
Austin may have brought Air Sex to our shores, said Sean O’Neal in Decider Chicago (includes video), but it really started, “as so many perverted things do, with the Japanese.” Austinite Tim League saw a viral YouTube video of some men “making sweet love to invisible partners” in Japan, and "Air Guitar’s dirty, smutty cousin” was born. To do well in the contest, dress up, come up with and commit to a narrative, and choose good music.
At least at the Washington, D.C., show, the audience was “professional and straight-laced,” said Lindsay O’Neal in Double X (includes video), not necessarily what you’d expect for a “theatrical sexual performance.” But hey, as someone “extremely reserved when it comes to sex,” I was there, too, “with a front row ticket to some serious PDS (public displays of sex), and loving it.” That doesn’t mean, however, that “I’ll be pleasuring a vaporous lover on a stage any time soon.”
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Posted by Aaron, Monday, June 15, 2009, 1:16 pm Heck, I don't want to see MY sexface why the f would I want to see someone else's, without the benefit of at least seeing some chick who's naked?
Posted by Bamboo Boy, Thursday, June 18, 2009, 12:51 pm I'm airpunching the idiot who thought this up in his airface
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