Purim, Jewish Persian New Year and the Power of Weapons of Mass Seduction

Believe it or not, I used to be a Sunday school teacher.  In a way, I still teach Sunday school, except now I do it on Saturday nights and half my “class” is naked.

Next Saturday, March 19^th, I will gather a group of amateur and professional actors, poets and porn stars to perform before our live studio audience—a rendition of a timeless tale of Weapons of Mass Seduction in erotic celebration of the rites of spring, the Judaic Mardi Gras or Persian New Year, the Festival of Esther, also known as Purim.  This will be our fourth Commedia Erotica production of the Purim Story, now a Speakeasy tradition…like Eros Day with schmaltz.  Warning: This is not your Bubbe’s Purim.

Don’t know Purim from purée? Don’t dismay.  Do settle in for an Old Testament Bible lesson in the art of sexual seduction for a worthy cause.  Yes indeed, Brothers and Sisters, it’s all right there in your Holy Bible, smack dab between Nehemiah and Job.  The Megillat Esther is filled with sex, seduction, masquerade, exhibitionism, erotic teasing, sexual harassment, kinky sex, debauchery, feasting, dominance and submission, wild parties, political intrigue and drinking; did I mention drinking?  This is a holiday in which you are supposed to get so ... that you don’t know the good guys from the bad.  Actually, thanks to Wikileaks, we don’t need to get ... to have a tough time telling the good guys from the bad. But sacred wine and other “spirits” are an integral component of the Rites of Spring…

So, when you join us for our upcoming Purim Bacchanal, whether in the flesh or online, drink up and enjoy my erotic, exotic interpretation (midrash) of The Story of Esther, the teenage beauty contest winner who saves her people from genocide with nothing but her own Weapons of Mass Seduction.  In a time when power was almost always gained through brute ... and merciless ...– a time much like our own–this was, and still is, a kind of human miracle.

Like Cleopatra after her, Queen Esther made sexual seduction into a sophisticated art – teasing her victim, stimulating his fantasies, making him want her, fear he might lose her, hope he might please her. This is one of the ultimate expressions of power through sexuality, and a vital aspect of the Bonobo Way of peace through pleasure.

Tehran-born Jewish Porn Star Persia Pele will be Queen Esther & Bon Jon Syn will be King Ahaseurus this Purim 3/19/11. Photo: Mike C

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