Sexpo

Topless men and women are strutting around in loincloths, the women “wearing” bodypaint on their torsos. A ‘70s rock song is playing over the speakers and there must be few times in history where so many vibrators have congregated in the same room.

This isn’t the beginning of an orgy in some cheesy porno flick. It’s Sexpo, the exhibitionist industry’s annual exhibition, which kicked off in Sydney yesterday. It’s the place to be if you need advice about “how to make your vulva happy”. Or if you want to witness the artist “Pricasso” painting portraits with a fairly untraditional piece of equipment. And if you’re in short supply of handmade, chocolate-scented, penis-shaped soap, well, you’re in luck my friend.

A sideshow spruiker was shouting “roll up, roll up and come whack some cocks” yesterday and it barely elicited a sideways glance. You wouldn’t hear that at the Easter Show. Whatever, it’s standard fare here. What isn’t expected, though, is for a sexhibition to be spruiking an evangelical Christian cause.

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