Mission Control Presents: Speakeasy: Ecosexual Thursday, December 2nd | 7 PM – 11 PM Join hosts Annie Sprinkle, Carol Queen, and Francesca Gentille as they explore our harmony with nature and our harmony with each other. ~ Enjoy Hors D’oeuvres by En Fuego ~ Speakeasy is a social and cultural gathering that invites our community to learn, discuss, and share together.
	What is Ecosexuality and Why is it So Hot? with Ecosexologist Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. Take a stimulating, provocative, and rather kinky journey with Annie as she shifts the metaphor from Earth as mother, to Earth as lover. This pioneering new show & tell slideshow presentation explores the landscape of a new, satisfying sexual identity. See green porno, X-rated environmental activists, and ecosex art. Check out fetishes such as aquaphilia, arboreal frottage, wind play, mysophilia, cloud sex, pollen-amory and learn to find your e-spot.  By the end of this half-hour presentation you’ll want be ecosexual too! Annie Sprinkle Ph.D. is the prostitute/porn star turned artist/sexologist. She has passionately researched and explored sexuality in all of its glorious and inglorious forms for thirty six years, and has shared her findings all along the way through producing and starring in her own unique brand of sex films, photographic work, teaching workshops, and college lectures.
	Sustainable Sex Toys for an Ecorotic World with Dr. Carol Queen You care about the carbon footprint of the products you consume: what about your sex toys and your lube? Is it possible for locavores to have a “locarotic” sex life? Which products are better for the environment? What do you (and your friendly local sex-shopkeepers) have to consider if you want to love and lust as greenly as possible? Dr. Carol Queen, Good Vibrations Staff Sexologist, will cover all this and more! Carol Queen is an author, editor, sociologist and sexologist active in the sex-positive feminism movement. Queen has written on human sexuality in books such as Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture. She has written a sex tutorial, Exhibitionism for the Shy: Show Off, Dress Up and Talk Hot, as well as erotica, such as the novel The Leather Daddy and the Femme. Queen has produced adult movies, events, workshops and lectures. Queen was featured as an instructor and star in both installments of the Bend Over Boyfriend series about female-to-male anal sex, or pegging. She has also served as editor for compilations and anthologies. She is a sex-positive sex educator in the United States.
	A Gaia Themed Ritual with Francesca Gentille Gaia philosophy is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment in order to make the environment more suitable for life. Francesca will present the ritual to small groups of 8-10 people behind the closed doors of Mission Control’s Harem room. Each session will take about 20 minutes. The focus will include: -Earth as Mother, Lover, and Home -Body Blessings: Earth, Air, Fire, & Water -Macrocosm & Microcosm Francesca Gentille is an initiated shaman in 4 traditions, clinical sexologist, empowered aging specialist, and relationship counselor. She is the popular internet radio host of Sex: Tantra & Kama Sutra and co-author of the award-winning sex & relationship book “The Marriage of Sex & Spirit.” Francesca is the co-director of the Integrative Arts Institute, and the founder of The Sacred Courtesan School of Feminine Mystique and Power. She is the creator of the village model of Shamanic Soul Coaching – reclaiming the treasures of spirit lost in the dark of trauma.
	Hors D’oeuvres by En Fuego Presented by Dana Kelly Served by Nymphs & Satyrs Executive Chef Leslie Pineda, and Designer/Foodie/Producer Dana Kelly are the co-founders of En Fuego —a reoccurring food-art event. Chef Pineda has worked in some of San Francisco Bay Area’s finest restaurants, always with the idea that the best ingredients along with presentation, make for the best culinary experience. The focus is on bringing flavor and flair to the community, using fresh local organic ingredients.

Cost: Members -$20 at the door, $15 pre-sale | Allies -Free!
Members click HERE for presale tickets.

This is a private event for Mission Control members (Membership is free & instant)
21 and over with ID.  BYOB. No alcohol will be served. No PAL required, so bring your friends!

This is a social and cultural event and not a play party, though some nudity may be shown.

Please dress up in earth friendly or 20′s Speakeasy attire if you can. It’s more fun that way!

Speakeasy Japan was a huge success! Thanks to everyone that volunteered to make Mission Control’s first Speakeasy a great event. And thanks to all the folks that came out and participated in a truly unique and memorable evening.

Join us for Speakeasy-Japan, a social and cultural gathering exploring the contrast of contemporary and traditional Japanese culture,
celebrated within the magical milieu that is Mission Control.

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Tuesday, March 23rd 7 PM – 11 PM

$20 at the door, $15 pre-sale.  No PAL required, so bring your friends! Alliance Cards and Multipasses accepted. This is a social and cultural event and not a play party, though some nudity may be shown. As always, strictly BYOB.

Please dress up in Cosplay or 20′s Speakeasy attire if you can. It’s more fun that way!

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Pink Japan: Secret Lives & Underground Sex Cultures

Take a tour of the sexual underbelly of Japan in this funny expose.

Presented by Midori

Join Midori, author of The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage, in this quirky and insightful talk and a double-expatriate’s presentation of Japan’s hidden sexual culture. Midori is a Kyoto born, Tokyo-raised, trouble-making, freak-seeking missile of a Japanese-American author and sex educator based in San Francisco.

From cuisine, music, fashion, technology to anime, Japan’s cultural influences on the West is immense. In many ways Japanese erotic cultures also influence today’s Western tastes. Yet the daily realities of Japan’s gender relations, sexual habits, sexual consumer culture remain hidden to us, creating an aura of mystique. Join us and peak behind the sliding walls…

Acclaimed writer and lecturer on a wide range of sexual topics, and an activist, Midori has a degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and vast indispensable experience as a pioneering San Francisco sex educator. She is known for her humanistic, humorous and warm classes that help revv-up sex lives and encourage self discovery and personal growth. Originally from Japan, now based in San Francisco, she travels all over the globe teaching passionate love skill. A regular advice columnist for CarnalNation, Men’s Health, and other publication, Midori has appeared on HBO and BBC, and has been featured in Vogue, Playboy, Der Spiegel, Cosmo and more. Multifaceted, she is a performance and installation artist who has been invited to present to art institutions such as Tanzquartier, Vienna and Das Arts in Amsterdam. She’s the author of bestselling books “The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage” and “Wild Side Sex”

For more on Midori, visit   Www.PlanetMidori.com

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Chanoyu Tea Ceremony

Hosted by Heather Tea Dragon

Ms. Tea Dragon is looking forward to serving you a bowl of tea at Mission Control. There will be three seatings during the course of the evening. However, space is limited, so please secure your admittance ticket for the tearoom early!

Born in the year of the Dragon, this little “Tea Dragon” has been trained in the tradition of Urasenke Chanoyu. She began her studies of chanoyu at the University of Hawai’i in a beautifully rustic tea house set amidst a traditional Japanese garden located on the Mānoa campus. The scenery and atmosphere of the location inspired her to pursue the Way of Tea all the way to Kyoto, Japan; where she studied at the technical tea college for one year.  Soon she was living in the Bay Area continuing her studies in San Francisco and volunteering at the Sakura Matsuri, local educational programs for college students, art galleries, and museums. She continues to host gatherings both public and private and always makes sure to bring her tea whisk with her to the playa.

Chanoyu literally means “hot water for tea.” This procedure of making and drinking powdered green tea is a form, definite and regular. It cannot be defined as to content. That is for each person, each occasion to decide. While chanoyu may be a solitary activity, more often it is done within a small group of people.

In the words of Sen Genshitsu, fifteenth generation Head Tea Master of the Urasenke Tradition of Chanoyu, “Strange to say, this tranquility [of sitting alone] will deepen even further when another person enters the microcosm of the tearoom and joins the host….That we can find a lasting tranquility within our own selves in the company of others is the paradox.”

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Love Hotel Cafe

envisioned by our very own Chris Kiss

For one night only, we bring to you the Mission Control Love Hotel Tea Service. Japan’s erotic impulses are translated into cultural and contextual “mash-ups” that fetishize the innocent, the foreign and the virtual.

Chris will combine two of these: a Maid and Butler Cafe and a Love Hotel. The result – a Love Hotel Cafe where you can enjoy tea and scones served by attentive and sweet Maids and servile and accommodating Butlers.  Become Master or Madame of the house for the time it takes you to quaff your tea (sip slowly!).

A uniquely Japanese institution, the phenomenon of the Love Hotel is captivating both aesthetically and in terms of its function in the layered and complex sex culture of Japan. Sharing roots with the geisha teahouses of the Edo period, love hotels provide an insight into the psycho-social and political history of sex in Japan, and speak to prevailing views and expressions of kink, sexual orientation and social convention. Often combining traditional furnishings and aesthetic elements such as shoji screens, tansus, and Ukiyo-e woodblock prints with contemporary elements such as manga, karaoke, video game consoles, device bondage, school-girl pornography, and various visual tropes adopted from western culture, these spaces represent one of the many fascinating aspects of the nuanced world of sexuality and fetish in Japan.

Mission Control and the love hotel serve distinctly different roles in their respective sexual sub-cultures – Mission Control has been designed to foster community and openness while the love hotel is designed to serve the privacy needs of its clients – however, they share many characteristics. Both use the artistry of environmental design to stimulate imagination, and both provide a unique place for freedom of expression.

PLUS:

Japanese Snacks

Music

And More!

In true Mission Control style, there are many ways to co-create & participate… dress up, volunteer, bring japanese goodness, ask questions, and start conversation.  This is our time to relax together.

Enjoy the social and cultural nexus that brings all your favorite friendly people together.

COSTUME PLAY!

Please feel free to dress up in your favorite Japanese Cosplay or Speakeasy 20′s wear.

It’s more fun that way!

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