Cameryn Moore is the sex-work alias for an award-winning producer, director, choreographer, and writer who has been creating and performing since 2000, first in San Francisco, then in Boston.

In addition to her live performance work, Ms. Moore is a full-time phone sex operator, dirty-talk educator, and creator of a forthcoming line of custom and off-the-rack audio smut (heh heh, she said “rack”).  You can catch her in Toronto at the Fringe Festival, July 2-10 (check out the Toronto Fringe Festival site for more info)  AND, she’ll be at Good For Her on July 7 giving a workshop on Phone Sex and Talking Dirty.  Come check it out!

Here’s our quickie interview with the lovely and talented Cameryn Moore:

How did you get into being a phone sex operator, and what made you want to build a performance around your experiences?

I started doing the work because I was laid-off and broke and my resume was a touch too eclectic for normal job-hunting. But people have been telling me for years that I should go for it, so I did. As for the play Phone Whore, I’ve been writing plays and shows for 8+ years on other subjects; this just happened to be the new raw material that my life presented me with. I also was thinking a lot about the issues of taboo and sexuality that were coming up for me as I worked with my clients, and sought a way in which I could explore those issues.

Do you find that men and women differ in their response to sexy talk?

I have never yet taken a call from a woman, so I can’t say, as far as phone sex. I don’t think men and women differ in response to sexy talk that much in person. If you’re wired for sound, you’re wired for it, whatever your gender.

If you could give one tip to someone about giving good phone sex or dirty talk, what would it be?

Listen. That’s how you learn what fantasies someone wants, and that’s how you get feedback about how you’re doing.

What can people expect from your workshop on July 7?

Well, they’ll get some anecdotes, but a lot of experiential exercises, too, where we practice description A LOT. People should definitely be prepared to participate.

Tell us a bit about Phone Whore, your play running at the Toronto Fringe Festival from July 2-July 10.

Phone Whore is a slice-of-life, one-hour visit with Larissa, a phone sex operator. The audience is in the role of a new friend, hanging out with Larissa while she is logged on at work, and they get to hear her side of four short calls that she answers over the course of the play. The first call is fairly “vanilla”, but subsequent calls are increasingly intense. In between these interruptions, Larissa discusses her profession, makes toast, praises the clients she works with, has several cups of coffee, and reveals the way that her work, life, sexuality and art have become intertwined.

Thanks Cameryn!

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Good For Her is proud of the ways we support our community.  Every year, we donate thousands of dollars worth of prizes and other financial support, offer our services as a ticket outlet, speak to community groups about sexuality and pleasure, and contribute to initiatives ranging from cancer research to top surgery, from arts to entertainment, literary to film and fundraisers of all stripes, and we keep the huge bulk of that support right here in Toronto.

June is an especially busy month for Good For Her sponsorship, and we wanted to pass on the word about some of the events we are a part of in the coming weeks!

Queerlessness Magazine Launch Party

Queerlessness is the only FREE print media created by and for the queer womyn and trans community, focused on satisfying the demand for cultural, political, arts, health and social information in Toronto, with links to the global queer community.
FREE! + prizes from Good For Her!

Good For Her Community Mural Project

Once upon a time, Good For Her had a beautiful mural. Oh, we loved it so – from the blue skies to the anal beads discreetly tucked amongst the flora and fauna. Then, one day, somebody vandalized our beloved mural, and a lovely customer suggested how much she would love to lend a hand to fix it up and make it beautiful again. We thought that was the nicest thing we’d ever heard, and we’d love it if you wanted to stretch all those artistic muscles and lend a hand too!

Join us at 175 Harbord Street (around the corner on Croft Street is where we’ll be painting) for fun, frolic and a great community gathering! There will be snacks and frosty bevvies, and if you pitch in, we’ll give you a coupon for 15% off anything in the store! Mural painting will be led by Nancy Mix, and you’ll be able to contribute to a great neighborhood art project.

Please note: No prior artistic experience is required (we’ll give lots of guidance) and kids are welcome!

Day of Delight - a Celebration of Love, Courtship and Desire

This celebration presents some of Toronto’s most amourous artists! Bring someone you love to beautiful Dufferin Grove Park for an afternoon of music, dance, tehatre, a giant bicycle puppet parade, a fibre arts installation, stilt walking and much more!

Get Fogged Up! A Queer Women and Trans Bathhouse

DJ’s spinning all night:
Kalmplex
HollyRock
Cosmic Cat

Tickets: $20 (sliding scale available) advance tix available at:
Good For Her 175 Harbord St.

This event is licensed 19+, ID required
ASL interpretation available 11pm-1:30am
Partially wheelchair accessible, please contact us for details

The Antidote is in the Venom

Featuring Ivan E. Coyote, Sasha Van BonBon, Tomboyfriend and some of the Newsgirls boxers. Following the show, DJ Holly Rock will be spinning until the early morning.

This is an accessible, licensed event (19+), and food is available at the venue.

Tickets available at Good For Her and the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Gym. Get your tickets early, they are expected to sell out.

COLOUR ME DRAGG: Silence This!

Colour Me Dragg is back!!! and once again we’re bringing you a jam-packed, one-of-a-kind drag and burlesque celebration of queer solidarity in diversity.  Featuring performances by indigenous, aboriginal and people of colour in what’s going to be our biggest event to date!

Hosted by Dainty Box and Kim Katrin Crosby.
Featuring performances by: ILL NA NA, Olivya Chin, Luka, Chromatically Correct, Sheesha YaDil, Sue Shi, Mackenzie, Chase Lo, Sammy Samosa, Take Me Spears & the Masarap Girls , plus more!

Also featuring a reading from his first book “God Loves Hair” by Vivek Shraya (vivekshraya.com)
…AND a special CMD group act performance!
…AND AND all the way from COLOUMBUS, OHIO…”For Dem Ladies”!
We will also have the honour of projecting a special installation created through the Hispanic Development Council: Huellas Importadas  (Imported Footprints) 6 Photo-Video Short Documentaries by Latin American Queer/Lesbian/Trans identified women, their visibility and invisibility in Toronto
Fabiola Jimenez
Veronica Bravo
Mariana Palhares
Sorel Aviles
Monica Latorre
Alba Garcia

Buy your Advance Tickets now! Available at Buddies Box Office.

Libido - The Dyke March Fundraiser
Thursday, July 1, 2010, 9pm
The Gladstone Ballroom (1214 Queen Street West)

Libido, the Official Dyke March Fundraiser, returns to the Gladstone Ballroom for a sexy pre-march soirée featuring: DJ Memphis Sugar, Cozmic Cat, Lucas Silveira (of The Cliks) and Dinah Shore Weekend’s DJ Saratonin. Hosted by the lovely and talented Deb Pearce. Raffle and prizes!

$15 advance at Good For Her, Toronto Women’s Bookstore and West Side Stories. $20 at door.

Carrie Gray from Aslan Leather has created one heck of a send off to the Feminist Porn Awards weekend - be sure to check out Switch - A Queer Porno Play Party!

I know you are all curious and maybe a bit shy, so I asked Carrie those all important questions about what to expect at Switch so you wouldn’t have to.  Allow me to share with you:

What can people who have never gone to a play party expect from Switch?

Carrie Gray Says: They can expect to be welcomed into a a room of hot sexy queers who are there to play, watch, flirt and socialize. Porn is the theme - we watch it, some of us make it and some of us make a living in the industry so this is a celebration of queer porn. They will see hot stage performances and sexy scenes throughout the evening and if they want to play but do not have a partner they can choose an activity like Bondage, Flogging Spanking, play piercing and have some fun with one of the experienced volunteers at a first timer play station. Sex will be permitted with safe sex supplies available.  Food and non alcoholic beverages will be provided, this is a BYOB party.

What are you looking forward to most about this party?

Carrie Gray says:  Playing in a in a porn inspired play space with a bunch of hot sexed up queers and creating a warm and friendly social environment where kinky queers will want to gather , socialize and play!

Well, if that doesn’t sound like the sweet, syrupy cherry on top of a smut filled weekend, I don’t know what does.  Click here to register.

Thanks Carrie!

My Kinky Valentine: A Fundraiser for the Feminist Porn Awards

Bread and Circus (299 Augusta Street in Kensington Market)
Thursday Feb 11
Doors 7:30/Show 8:30
$10 at the door, 19+ only

We’ve officially hit the countdown to the Fifth Annual Feminist Porn Awards and we’re celebr

ating with our last fundraiser!  Come check out some deliciously filthy flicks and help raise funds to ma

ke this the best Feminist Porn Awards EVVVAR.

My Kinky Valentine will showcase scenes from fantastically fetishy films including: Penny Flame’s Expert Guide to Rough Sex, Crash Pad Series Volume 4: Ropeburn, Handcuffs, Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papi and Wil and Speakeasy.

We’ve also got a couple of performers including the very handsome JP Robichaud, raffles with great prizes from Feminist Porn Award sponsors including Aslan Leather, HotMoviesForHer.com, Happy Valley Silicone and more!

This is also a perfect chance to pick up an I (heart) Feminist Porn t-shirt or button tote bag (for real!) AND this is a very special night as attendees can be the first to get their tickets for the Fifth Annual Feminist Porn Awards (April 8th and 9th)!  Oh HAPPY DAY!

Good For Her is Vegas bound!  Yours truly is heading to Sin City to attend the Adult Entertainment Expo, tirelessly yapping about how awesome the Feminist Porn Awards are and checking out the latest and greatest in dirty DVDs and sexy toys. I’m also excited to visit so many excellent people, so if you are going too, let me know!  I’ll give you an I (heart/butt plug) Feminist Porn Button!

Also, we are all really excited about some great people who have been nominated at the AVN Awards, which are frequently called “The Oscars of Porn”  (The Feminist Porn Awards, according to Tristan Taormino, are like “The Independent Spirit Awards of Porn” or, as I like to call them the “Way Awesomer Than Anything Else Ever Awards” but I’m biased).  Here’s just a few of our faves who got nods from the big guns:

Jiz Lee - Web Starlet of the Year

Dylan Ryan - Best Solo Scene For Crash Pad Series 3

Champion (and amazing director Shine Louise Houston) - Best Video Feature  (which, you may remember, already won Movie of the Year at the 2009 Feminist Porn Awards!)

Madison Young - Best BDSM Release for Bride of Sin

Carlos Batts - Best Director (Non-Feature) for Voluptuous Biker Babes

Midori’s Expert Guide to Sensual Bondage, Penny Flame’s Expert Guide to Rough Sex, Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide to Threesomes and Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide to Anal Sex for Men - All in the Educational Category!

Courtney Trouble - Best Music (both Roulette and Speakeasy were nominated!)

Nica Noelle and Sweet Sinner for Best New Line (check out Naughty Neighbors, The Stepmother and The Stepmother 2 for a taste of this!)  This lady also got a nod for Director of the Year!

Tristan Taormino (again!) for Best Specialty Release for Rough Sex

Buck Angel for Transsexual Performer of the Year

I look forward to watching all these brainiac sex pots walk the red carpet from the safety of my hotel room on Pay Per View.

And, yes, I’m serious about the buttons.

xoxo

It’s just about time!  Don’t forget! Our big sale with Toronto Women’s Bookstore is on TOMORROW - Friday December 11 from 6 to 10 pm! It’s going to be so much fun - readings, giveaways and treats at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore and hourly sales and specials (including free gifts!) champagne and chocolate and some fun demos and more at Good For Her! At both stores there are some big savings, too!

Save 5% on purchases between $25 and $49.99

Save 10% on purchases between $50 and $99.99

Save 15% on purchases over $100!

Start your holiday shopping and/or holiday stress relief right!

If you can’t make it to the store, don’t despair - Good For Her is offering FREE SHIPPING on orders over $50. Check out our shipping page for more info!

Hope to see you there!  I mean here!