{"id":275521,"date":"2026-06-23T18:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275521\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:17:14","slug":"caroline-calloway-headlines-erotic-late-night-event-in-brooklyn-bathhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275521\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Calloway headlines erotic, late-night event in Brooklyn bathhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m so wet,\u201d groaned writer Noelle Purdue at an erotic literary reading, as she climbed onto the stage directly out of an enormous hot-tub, dressed in jeans. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs anyone turned on right now?,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Some in the audience (who were arranged in the swimming pool-sized hot tub) at the Sauna Salon event said they were. <\/p>\n<p>Pleasure-Seeking writer Camille Sojit Pejcha hosted the reading. Matthew Weinberger<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Calloway read an orginal Latin translation. Matthew Weinberger<\/p>\n<p>Purdue was giving a graphic exposition of the emergent \u201cwet denim\u201d fetish and how it confounds the judicial principle that it\u2019s impossible to define pornography \u201cbut you know it when you see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was followed on stage by downtown\u2019s favorite\/least favorite enfant terrible Caroline\u00a0Calloway, who read her own translation of Ancient Roman poet Sulpicia, which revealed that Augustine it girls sounded a lot like Lena Dunham. (It turns out\u00a0Calloway\u00a0is fluent in Latin. \u201cTell your friends \u2014 Caroline\u00a0Calloway, is smarter than you think!\u201d she told the crowd.) <\/p>\n<p>Much of the crowd sat in a hot-tub at the new Atlantic Avenue location of Bathhouse. Matthew Weinberger<\/p>\n<p>Noelle Perdue illustrated a point about the \u201cwet jean fetish.\u201d Matthew Weinberger<\/p>\n<p>The event was hosted at the new Bathhouse on Atlantic Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn by Camille Sojit Pejcha, the sex and desire writer behind hit Substack newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pleasure-seeking.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pleasure-Seeking<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Also on the bill were Tony Tulathimutte, Eliza McLamb, Magdalene Taylor and Grace Byron. Sojit Pejcha finished out the event with a story about her struggle with the civic and ethical implication of having loud sex.<\/p>\n<p>The underground venue made for an atmospheric scene. Matthew Weinberger<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Pejcha\u2019s second time hosting a reading in a bathhouse. \u201cA lot of literary readings are sterile and stuffy; if we\u2019re going to talk about desire, I think we should do it in an environment that fits the theme,\u201d she told Page Six. \u201cI like the bathhouse concept because it forces people to get out of their comfort zone, talk to strangers, and have an embodied physical experience \u2014 plus, almost no one is on their phone.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that everyone\u2019s stripping down to their skivvies also feels like a strange equalizer: the readers are being vulnerable, but so are you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m so wet,\u201d groaned writer Noelle Purdue at an erotic literary reading, as she climbed onto the stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,8088,63,8368,8089],"class_list":["post-275521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-society","tag-nyc","tag-parties","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}