East Van Gone Wild

Let's not get carried away here: two nuggets of sexy pop culture do not a trend make. Which is to say that just because our cultural radar's picked up a couple of hot ones from East Vancouver, we don't expect you to go blabbing to all your friends that Fleshbot said East Van is to indie porn as Seattle was to grunge ...

Made in Secret: The Story of the East Van Porn Collective, is a behind-the-scenes look into an underground, DIY, anarcho-feminist porn collective. No worries that the collective didn't exist prior to the idea of documenting it (thus necessitating the need to create a collective, and a porn scene, to document); reviewers have been praising the hell out of the movie as it tours around the country, and it's picked up a bunch of film fest awards along the way.

On the soundtrack of said meta-anti-documentary are East Van's own Wet Spots, a husband and wife duo who do cabaret-meets-sex-ed for adults. Their new musical, "Sing Your Way to Better Sex" (including the ditty, "Do You Take It (in the Ass?)" which was picked up for Showtime's "The L Word") has been touring all over North America. But really, we here at Fleshbot are just partial to their name.A. Tolesco

· Made in Secret: The Story of the East Van Porn Collective (eastvanporncollective.org)
· The Wet Spots (wetspotsmusic.com)

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Previously: Montreal Dream, Year Two, Canada Gone Wild, Happy Canada Day!, Calgary Flashers