An Edinburgh pub has started a new weekly entertainment night.
Instead of tanked-up businessmen and hen nights murdering cheesy hits, pornaoke participants are being asked to provide the soundtrack for silent porn films – supplying grunts, screams and groans.
Anyone feeling they can outdo Meg Ryan’s performance in When Harry Met Sally may be up for a prize in the best solo performance category. Those not wishing to alarm their partner(s) can enter the group sex category.
The promoters of the club said the night was more akin to a 70s quizshow than a cinema screening hardcore skin flicks, though admittedly one with fewer clothes.
“Pornaoke is set up like a comedy night,” said Mark Taylor of Capture Entertainment. “We have the wah-wah guitarist providing the soundtrack, the comperes are comedians, there is a hostess and a host who collect people’s entries and help explain the night.”
Now, that said, it sounds like it would be a hoot, especially with enough drinks in one. Though it would take many, many, many to be enough.
Needless to say, of course, certain folks are Not Amused.
Catherine Harper of the campaign group Scottish Women Against Pornography, said: “I am so tired of hearing that clubs like this are just a bit of fun. It is sexist and tawdry beyond belief.
“What you are talking about is yet another place where men and women are subjected to the influences that make them devalue each other’s sexuality.”
Almost enough to make me want to go there, just in spite.
(Posted by CronDave, story via the Flea)