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NYC Porn Festival Gets Off: How Was Watching Porn in a Room Full of Strangers

Secret Project Robot is not a gigantic warehouse that you might imagine to find in other parts of Bushwick, but rather a modest, bar-equipped and almost cozy venue

NYC Porn Festival Gets Off: How Was Watching Porn in a Room Full of Strangers

NYC Porn Festival Gets Off: How Was Watching Porn in a Room Full of Strangers

Secret Project Robot is not a gigantic warehouse that you might imagine to find in other parts of Bushwick, but rather a modest, bar-equipped and almost cozy venue

NYC Porn Festival Gets Off: How Was Watching Porn in a Room Full of Strangers
Photo by Katarina Hybenova for Bushwick Daily
Photo by Katarina Hybenova for Bushwick Daily

Secret Project Robot is not a gigantic warehouse that you might imagine to find in other parts of Bushwick, but rather a modest, bar-equipped and almost cozy venue. So it was a little weird watching a guy put his finger in Tila Tequila’s butt on the big screen in a room packed with strangers.

Journalists watching people watching porn

It didn’t help that standing in the back of the makeshift theatre was one of the largest assemblies of professional journalists I have ever seen in Bushwick. Miley Cyrus would have to do a striptease while sitting on Zosia Mamet’s face inside Roberta’s as it burned to the ground to rack up this level of coverage. And they all just stood there, watching us watching porn, seemingly trying to figure a way to portray this as some sort of epochal shift in sub-culture while scribbling in their little notebooks. It was kind of weird.

Fortunately, this odd voyeurism did not upset the atmosphere of casual…

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