Yes, you have to proof her your love every day … but poor you if you do not bring flowers on February 14. No, he does not want gifts, but if you offer him chocolates he will eat your pussy to thanks you.

Even if I’m a super-modern aunt, I love the traditions, especially the parties of love. They are very beautiful days in which everyone fucks for free. Well, free… no! in Barcelona you get for 5 euros a rose.

Qi xi Festival – China

Legend has it that Niulang, a cowherd, once encountered 7 fairies bathing in a lake. The ox of the the pastor instigated the man to remove their clothes, to make the joke and such. The fairies sent Zhinü, the youngest and beautiful of them, to recover them. As the man saw her naked, he had to marry her, and it turned out that the two got along very well.

P.S.: if everyone who sees me naked had to marry me I would have more husbands than Sara Montiel.

The Goddess of Heaven discovered that a mortal married a fairy, so she opened the sky and separated the two lovers to always, thus creating the Milky Way. But every seventh night of every seventh moon, the magpies take pity on them and they create a bridge to reunite them. This legend serves as an excuse to celebrate love in China, offering flowers and cosmetics to Niulang and Zhinü.

Saint Dwynwen’s Day – Wales

The Welsh do not wait for February to honor love, they do it on January 25, the day of Saint Dwynwen. This saint was very smart, you’ll see why: she wanted to stay virgin and wait for the weeding, but her boyfriend did not, so the boyfriend forced her to have sex with him. But before that happen, she met an angel who offered her 3 wishes.

The Dwyn, first asked the angel to freeze her boyfriend, then asked to be the Patron Saint of Love and finally, she regrets and asked that her boyfriend be defrosted. We do not know what happen after this… , but the aunt became Santa, and all for not wanting to take a cap.

Dragobete – Romania

The Romanian equivalent to Valentine’s Day is celebrated on February 24 for more than 2,000 years. Dragobete is the Eros or Cupid of Romanian mythology. He is a handsome man, who protects those who meet and, he also provides health and well-being.

In the past, the young people left for forests and plains to catch spring flowers. Currently they go to fuck outdoors . And formerly also, let’s not kid ourselves.

Tu B’Av – Israel

The 15th of the month of Av (between July and August of the Gregorian calendar) is the day of the lovers for the Jews. This date marks the beginning of the harvest, and that’s why the single girls went to dance dressed in white on the vineyards

That day became the favorite to get married or to ask for marriage in Israel, so single of the world, now you know when to visit the Holy Land.

Día dos Namorados – Brasil

In Brazil in February, with the streets full of mulatas dancing samba, it is very difficult to talk about love and commitment … Brazilians celebrate love on June 12, the day of San Antonio de Padua (famous matchmaker, like Valentine’s Day).

Three months give to forgive the horns That could have been placed during the biggest bacchanal on Earth.

Valentine’s Day – West

The most international celebration of love dates from very remote times. In ancient Rome, Lupercalia was celebrated on the 15th February During this party the women were beaten with whips made of the skin of goats and dogs, wet in the same blood of these animals, since they believed that this ritual granted them fertility.

But Pope Gelasius I did not like BDSM and in the year 496 he banned the party and changed it for Valentine’s Day, made for lovers. The party became popular and the whips were changed by verses 😒, then by very romantic postcards 😡 and finally by vibrating dildos and rings 😍

Sant Jordi – Catalonia

Sant Jordi killed the dragon to save the princess, and with the blood of the dragon he wet a whip and lashed the princess … Ah, no! Sorry. And from the blood of the dragon a rosebush sprang up. Sant Jordi took one of the roses and gave it to the princess, and she took a book (no one know from where) and gave it to Sant Jordi.

In fact, the tradition of giving a book was added a posteriori, since Cervantes and Shakespeare died on April 23. Fortunately, nowadays books are given to both men and women, just like roses. For many, this is the most beautiful day to be in Catalonia, and also for me.

Day of love and Friendship – Colombia

It is celebrated on the third Saturday of September. It basically consists in organizing an “invisible friend” and secretly giving gifts to him until anonymity is broken, if desired. It’s not a couple’s love party, but friendship is celebrated, which is also a very nice kind of love that you have to take care of. I have many friends, do you want to meet them?

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Upon entering the gallery, a television animated to interact with the exhibition: How much would you pay to fuck ? how much would you prostitute yourself? At the end of the two days, the average said that Attendees would pay € 122 for one hour of sex and they would charge € 2448. Judge for yourself.

31 illustrations, 18 photographs, 5 performances, 5 collages, 5 objects, 4 paintings, 2 GIFs, a pair of earrings, a video, a sound installation, a conference and an infographics make up the seed that originated the infinity of debates that were heard among the attendees. 35 artists giving their views on prostitution and more than 700 people listening to them.

At Apricots, we decided to organize The Invited Voyeur because we felt the need to inform about the paid sex sector, often perceived as obscure and controversial, but at the same time, intriguing.

It seems that for society, workers and companies in the sector are not yet entitled to speak freely about their activity. That is why we wanted the artists to make the public think about prostitution, because art stirs minds and removes prejudices.

And we got it! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

And special thanks to: Damian Pissarra, VJ O’Video, Ramon Guimaraes, Eduardo Robles, whores, fucking and madam of the Poetic Prostitute, Laura Celada, LumiDolls, Andrés Molina, Albert Corr, Amanda Alba, BTOY, Conrad Roset, Fabrizio Contarino, Fernanda Binvignat, Ilia Mayer, Imanol Buisan, Isabel Gatuslao, Jo Koss, Juanjo Fernandez, Ludovic Tiago, Luis Quiles, Manuel Cassanelli, Mara Haro, Montserrat Marfany, Naro Pinosa, Nicolás López, Nicolás Rico, Pablo Taladro, La Kruda Kollekto, Patricio Cassinoni, Piter, Pole Filma, Rapha Hu, Rina Panyella, Pau Corbinos, Saturna de Quadras, Sebastian Jara, Tentesion, Arteria BCN, Núria, Eladi, Patricia , Javier, Pau, Gina, Sergi, Zarina, Konstantin, David, Anna, Carles and Eric.

I leave you with a video-summary of the event and the photos made by Rina Panyella and Pau Corbinos, invited guests. Also, I recommend you to enter the web of your studio, The Red Light Factory, this girl and this guy have a lot of talent.

That said, I’m going to make a little masturbation, because I’m tired of thinking so much about it.

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It is an artistic event where more than 30 artists will make us think about prostitution through their works. The project has been signed by authors such as Conrad Roset, Luis Quiles, Jo Koss, Ilia Mayer, Ramon Guimaraes, Tentesion or Patricio Cassinoni. You will ask what I have had to do to get them signed up … Nothing, bad guys! The subject is so interesting that they have signed up alone. It was enough to tell them to capture in a work the meaning they attribute to prostitution or the sensations that it provokes, without filters or censorship.

El voyeur invitado will last 2 days. Subscribe: May 26 and 27, 2017 at Arteria BCN . It will feature an exhibition, performances, lectures and much more. Oh! And it will be free!

I can only say that if you do not want to forget, you should sign up to our Facebook event . But if you’re still not convinced and you’re going to put an “I’m interested”, check out the schedule first:

La entrada 35 artistic views of prostitution. se publicó primero en Apricots Blog.

We continue in this and, little by little, it is taking shape. The artists who have jumped on the car and want to collaborate are becoming more interesting and we are so excited that we no longer put on panties because we do not stop getting wet.

Today we return with the second part, accompanied with new artists: on the first hand we have Luis Quiles, internationally acclaimed illustrator of Sabadell whose work you will have seen on several occasions and, possibly, you will have thought “Damn, how’s your uncle?” On the other, we present two collaborators who have not yet had the same impact as Luis, but surely with The Invited Voyeur will have the success they deserve. We are talking about Albert Corr, a resident in London who, as a good social media strategist, is dedicated to … I do not know exactly what, but he knows how to make animated gifs that are very cool; and Pedro Comesaña, a Galician artist who if you visited our stand during the Erotic Salon of Barcelona Apricots, you will have seen in action painting a picture of 2x2m.

As always, we have asked the collaborating artists to accompany their work with some words of introduction and at the same time we asked them, why they accepted to collaborate with a whore company? Finally, they had to complete a sentence, which has no function apart from making me have a good time and a hard time to them. This is what they have told us:

What he says about his work: The drawing is called “The oldest office in the world”. My idea about this drawing is that prostitution does not stop being an economic transaction in exchange for a service like in any other job. But the morality that we drag is still leaving it in a limbo alegal, or illegal.

Phrase to complete: Many people are generous unwittingly and at the same time criticizes me without knowing that’s motivates me to keep working harder and harder.

Question: Why did you decide to accept the collaboration with a brand of whores?

Because all artists are whores to a lesser or greater degree, and no topic has been more linked to art than prostitution.

It says of his work: Tinder, Grindr, Brenda, Bumble … In your house or in mine? What are you doing? Photos? Do you pass me location? Where are you? Netflix and chill? The great world of the smartphone, where we are all hyperconnected and with the possibility of having sexual relations that we can reach with a simple click. Even Maria Magdalena would blush! Why do not we return to the essence of the sex ?

Phrase to complete: Since I started doing yoga, my coverage has increased and all the world tells me smartphone piece.

Question: Why did you decide to accept the collaboration with a brand of slut?

I believe that prostitution is a very worthy profession and it continues to impact me that it is still in a situation of ‘allegality’ in our country. For that reason, I found it very interesting to collaborate with a brand like Apricots. I fully support his philosophy and fight to get an improvement in the working conditions of prostitution.

He says of his work: His proposal for The Invited Voyeur is the painting that took place in the Salón. It has not been easy to paint it with that fuss, since our stand hosted the performances of many artists in the porn sector and was a non-stop of curious people better to say horny people, who where determined to record everything to ensure good shots for the straw before going to sleep. Despite this, the final result has been worth it.

Phrase to be completed: Every morning when I wake up, I get a toast looking to the sea .

Question: Why did you decide to accept the collaboration with a brand of whores?

Because I think the function that Apricots does is very important and even necessary. First for them, because they deserve the same rights and obligations as any other worker, so that the mafias stay away from extorting them, kidnapping them, killing them …
I also believe that it is time for society to change its point of view and especially his way of treating them. Nobody respect whores but is one of the businesses that make money in the world, they only offer sex that for me is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Anyone who can not get it normally, still very lucky because a professional can give it to them, so I think they also do social work.

And this is the part where I should tell you that if you want to know about El Voyeur Invitado or other initiatives that we will carry out, you have to sign up to our newsletter. But, if you were born with the gift of clairvoyance, consult your crystal ball and that’s it.

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Fucking in the car is very good, especially if you still live with your parents and they do not like the idea of ​​having the daughter throwing herself in the living room. They are very traditional, I know.

So I was in the car with this guy in a remote place, so far away that before I went I had to get vaccinated. We had brought Indian food to eat watching the stars, sitting on the top of the car as in the worst American movies. We ate, drank and laughed a lot, until we started to real game. The eagerness was so strong that we ended up on the floor, rolling around like pigs in shit. And, indeed, we were scrubbing in a gigantic cow shit that, because of the darkness, we had not seen.

This is a true story and it is the story of the worst sex that I had and that I will never get out of my head. I know I’m not the only one to have unforgettable sexual experiences … because one thing is what we tell our friends, and another is the truth. So we invite you to participate in our contest Those Wonderful Powders and tell us what, for whatever reason, you can not forget. Whether it’s weird, comical, dramatic, curious, endearing, bizarre or horrible, it does not matter, our sex experts will answer everyone saying what they would have done to make it wonderful.

And what do you earn? The most voted experience by the users will be a double entry for the Erotic Salon of Barcelona Apricots and 4 drinks. We will also award two more double entries to the two most original or painful experiences.

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This is the definition of the R.A.E, which as always remains very aseptic and rancid. Then we though that some artists could give a better and more complete interpretation of prostitution. So we are contacting some very interesting names from different artistic areas and the gin tonic made us say that the idea was cool and they wanted to collaborate with us.

El voyeur invitado, this is how we have called this new collaborative project of Apricots.

And where will this collaboration take? To a collective art exhibition that will have as its central theme the pruning of hydrangeas in May. No, it’s not true, I have no idea when you have to prune the hydrangeas. Considering that we are your mark of embarrassment, what could an expo organized by us be about?

Photography, illustration and collage are the disciplines that open ” El Voyeur Invitado” of today. Each artist has complemented his piece with some descriptive words and, for our part, we have asked them to complete a sentence and answer this simple question:

Why did you decide to accept the collaboration with a brand of whores?

Mara Blackflower, a young photographer from Barcelona, ​​has been dedicated to photography for as long as she can remember. On this occasion, she has developed a photographic piece that features Natalia Ferrari, an independent prostitute with extensive media coverage. To accompany your photo you have chosen the words of Casilda Rodrigáñez:

“The most subversive thing that can be done in this world is to authorize oneself to feel and produce desires, and to be consistent with all feelings: so simple and so subversive”.

Sentence to complete:

If people ate more chocolate , they would have less time to say nonsense.

Question:

Why did you decide to accept the collaboration with a brand of whores?

Because I see the need for the visibility of sex work as another option to work in order to achieve its destigmatization; and I believe that, in this sense, Apricots is doing a good job within its policy and company ethics.

Fernanda Binvignat is a Chilean designer based in Barcelona. When she is illustrating, she is interested in different things: showing something visually interesting and capturing the attention of people with strong colors, defined figures and interesting shapes. It is not by chance that his proposal is that of a hydrangea that blooms … no, this is about prostitution! Let them be the words of Fernanda to guide us in reading her work:

“The number of opinions regarding prostitution are important, yes, so important, but if there is one thing they have in common, it is that they are generally ideas that are biased and seen from very far away. Although you believe in criminalization, in legalization, if it is sexist, in itself it is a job, practically all the people who talk about it are judging it from outside. It is these prejudices that tend to bind these people within the stereotypes that we give them as a society alien to their situation. These are the ropes that trap them in a position of marginalized people, or that have to be protected, or even saved, perhaps without that being the position in which they see themselves. “

Sentence to complete:

Every time I finish an illustration, I need a massage.

Question:

Why did you decide to accept the collaboration with a brand of whores?

Because I like to participate in projects where there is enough freedom of graphic expression. I was also interested in being able to investigate and show a vision regarding a social, political and feminist issue as important that prostitution is.

Imanol Buisan is an artist from Terrassa, “specifically from the periphery of a neighborhood that the people of Terrassa do not even know ” he says. Your contribution to the Voyeur Invitado is a collage of two pieces accompanied by these words:

“I want to speak from the body, always show the person who executes, the professional at the center, who is the one on whom things happen. In a basic principle may seem hole, and holes thought for the pleasure, others use this to fulfill fantasies, dreams or simply to pay service for stop an instant sexual need. There is not a totally explicit argument, but I want to show the taxation and in parallel the emotion that the user hides “.

Sentence to complete:

I have the best erections when I cut out re-used encyclopedias.

Question:

Why did you decide to accept the collaboration with a brand of trash?

I decided to collaborate with a brand of whores (:D) because it seems natural to me, I guess, I see it as a social reality, a job, despite much rawness it depends on what situations, on others totally consistent with the person who uses it and offers it. And I think it’s consistent to offer a natural vision of it.

Are you an illustrator, photographer, video maker or, more simply, a creator? Would you like to be part of El Voyeur Invitado? We would love it, you just have to write us at marketing@apricots.es

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