Make your own porn workshop — With Madison Young!

DIY Porn with Madison Young

$20

Tap into your own personal sexual fantasies and then learn how to manifest those fantasies for the camera! We’ll cover the basics of documenting, writing a script, casting, financing your porn, and getting your movies to the intended audience (even if that audience is just you and your partner).

Some things covered in the DIY Porn Workshop:

•    creating a Mission Statement and Vision for your erotic film making
•   how sex positive and queer porn is changing the adult industry
•    putting together a shot list
•    creating your own website, clips stores, and VODs
•    distributing your own dvds
•    getting your work screened at erotic film festivals around the world
•    casting concerns, legal paperwork and other titillating logistics!
•    and, of course, so much more!

Madison Young Says:

“I love Chicago and I’m thrilled to be presenting at Early to Bed with my DIY Porn workshop.  Porn is an incredible medium in which we can document our sexual culture, advocate for safer sex practices and communication, as well as ignite a spark in relationships. Get ready to change the world and build community with a camera in one hand and a bottle of lube in the other.”

About Madison

Madison Young is a sex positive Tasmanian devil. This sexpert grew up in the suburban landscape of Southern Ohio before moving to San Francisco, California in 2000. Since then this mid-western gal has dedicated her days to facilitating safe space to dialogue on the topic of fringe identities and cultures as well as documenting healthy expression of sexuality. Young’s breadth of work in the realm of sexuality spans from documenting our sexual culture in her feminist erotic films to serving as the Artistic Director of the forward thinking non-profit arts organization, Femina Potens Art Gallery. Young,values sexual education in her work and has taught workshops, lectures, and acted as a panelist on the topics of sexuality, feminism and pornography, and kink around the world including at Yale University, Hampshire College, University of Minnesota, and UC Berkeley. Her writings have been published in books such as “The Ultimate Guide to Kinky Sex”, “Baby Remember My Name”, “Rope, Bondage, and Power” , and “In Soumises”. Young’s soon to be released memoir “Daddy” will be available in fall 2013 through Barnacle Books Publishing.