A new comic imagines a dystopian future where orgasms are audited and sex toys are contraband. We talked to creator Tina Horn about how she came up with the idea — and how' it's not that far from what happens in America now
Their inability to fall in line has consequences and that sets off the action of this first arc of the of the series — which is called Protection — where Avery has to band together with the friends that she bailed on and left behind to try to break some of their friends out of the nefarious Pleasure Center, which is the center of the over-bureaucratized American life in San Francisco. They don’t know if their friends are incarcerated or dead.
I’m so glad you asked this question. I’m a cis gender and bisexual, and I knew as soon as I got the opportunity to make a mainstream comic that I wanted it to be a queer comic. I mean, anything that I make is going to be queer, but I wanted the scenes to be queer, the political subtext to be queer and I wanted my main characters to be queer.
The world of SFSX, where everybody has to file paperwork either at the DMV or through technology every time they have sex, and where spaces of sexual joy and celebration are violently raided by the police, where high heels and vibrators are considered illicit materials…that is a world that many of us are already dealing with.
I had some really valuable guidance in learning how to apply my existing talents to the world of writing fiction and writing comics. Sex workers are storytellers, so being a dominatrix has really set me up for having the having the stomach for torture, which is really useful when you’re writing action-adventure and sci-fi. I have a very real world understanding of bondage and pain and interrogation and endurance.
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