Eroticon 2002 -

Stay tuned for next week: "The Rise and Fall of the Velvet Rope: Where are the ErotiCon organizers now?"

Here is what it was like to step behind the velvet rope twenty-two years ago. Forget the streamlined, hyper-professional look of today’s sex-positive expos. ErotiCon 2002 was all about crushed velvet, vinyl, frosted tips, and frosted lipstick. The fashion was a chaotic mash-up of The Matrix , Blade , and a late-night Cinemax movie. eroticon 2002

But that is exactly why it matters.