Episode Details

Pinecones, I am GLOWING. This week I sat down with a legend: Polly Superstar—founder of San Francisco's iconic Mission Control and the global Kinky Salon movement, latex fashion designer, author of the memoir Polly: Sex Culture Revolutionary, and now the magical mermaid behind the Writing with Mermaids somatic writing retreats. For 25 years, Polly threw the most whimsical, artistic, immersive sex parties on the planet... while secretly being a sensitive introvert whose bed was literally in the coat check. We talk about what it costs to build everybody else's liberation, why letting go of Kinky Salon was their real life's work, and how the story you're dying to write is hiding in your body.

In this episode:

• How a latex fashion designer from London became the godmother of San Francisco sex party culture
• What actually happens at a Kinky Salon (lovingly known as "the sex party you go to and don't get laid")
• The haunted-house Zoom kink parties that kept everyone sane during the pandemic—featuring a demon topping you from Hell
• Why Polly says "everybody else's liberation was my prison"
• Living at Mission Control for nine years with a bed in the coat check
• Burnout, boners, and being SO over both
• What it's like to be raised with ZERO sexual shame—and then discovering patriarchy is alive and well
• Why Polly explored celibacy after decades of sluttiness (and why their community got weird about it)
• Setting out to find a lover in every port... and the same man showing up in every single one (reader, they married him)
• Being a California love bomber in Copenhagen
• Gender, labels, and why Annie Sprinkle's "metamorphosexual" might be the best one ever coined
• Whimsymaxxing as a 25-year legacy (thank you for the word, Liz Plank!)
• Why the story resides in the body, not the mind—and how water unlocks it
• Hot springs, silence, and word flow at the Writing with Mermaids retreats

FOLLOW POLLY SUPERSTAR:

Website & Writing Retreats: https://www.withmermaids.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pollywordflow

Buy Polly's memoir, Polly: Sex Culture Revolutionary, directly from Polly—they'll sign it and ship it to you themself (do NOT buy it from Amazon): https://www.pollysuperstar.com

Get Polly's FREE 3-day writing course: https://pollysuperstar.impact.me/wordflowjumpstart

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Share this episode with the introvert in your life who's so busy building everyone else's freedom that they forgot their own.

xoxo,

Samia

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