The Introvert Who Threw the World's Wildest Sex Parties with Polly Superstar
About this episode
Samia Mounts interviews Polly Superstar about their experiences in the sex party culture and the complexities of liberation and introversion.
Pinecones, I am GLOWING. This week I sat down with a legend: Polly Superstar—founder of San Francisco's iconic Mission Control and the global Kinky Salon movement, latex fashion designer, author of the memoir Polly: Sex Culture Revolutionary , and now the magical mermaid behind the Writing with Mermaids somatic writing retreats. For 25 years, Polly threw the most whimsical, artistic, immersive sex parties on the planet... while secretly being a sensitive introvert whose bed was literally in the coat check. We talk about what it costs to build everybody else's liberation, why letting go of Kinky Salon was their real life's work, and how the story you're dying to write is hiding in your body. In this episode: How a latex fashion designer from London became the godmother of San Francisco sex party culture What actually happens at a Kinky Salon (lovingly known as "the sex party you go to and don't get laid") The haunted-house Zoom kink parties that kept everyone sane during the pandemic—featuring a demon topping you from Hell Why Polly says "everybody else's liberation was my prison" Living at Mission Control for nine years with a bed in the coat check Burnout, boners, and being SO…
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