- Title: ISRAEL: Israelis flock to first sex festival in Holy Land
- Date: 10th February 2008
- Summary: REPORTER INTERVIEWING PARTICIPANT IN FESTIVAL
- Embargoed: 25th February 2008 12:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Israel
- Country: Israel
- Topics: Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
- Reuters ID: LVA6QCGLVS1856VZL6WZBPLPC4HS
- Story Text: Hundreds of Israelis flock to 'Sextival', the first sex festival held in the Jewish state.
Israelis arrived en masse to explore the Holy Land's first sex and erotica festival in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.
'Sextival', which opened on Tuesday night (February 5), offers visitors a variety of sex accessories, sexual technique tutorials and live BDSM shows.
"Sextival happens here in Tel Aviv, this is the first time it happens in Israel. It's come to show the people all about sex and sexuality and all of what you can have and do, or choose to do in your private life," Nitzan Kirshenboim, producer of 'Sextival' told Reuters in Tel Aviv, considered to be Israel's thriving secular centre.
"It happens in Germany and in Las Vegas and in Amsterdam, so why not in Israel? Israel has a lot of crowd which is not religious-Jewish that wants to learn and experience," Kirshenboim added.
Visitors at the festival wandered between various stands displaying pornography, erotic art, sex guides and toys for sale. Many could not resist stopping to watch a couple clad in black vinyl performing a Sadistic-Masochistic session.
Limor Shalev, a sales person working at 'Fantasy Shop' in Tel Aviv said, "People are actually pretty open and they come here with the atmosphere of, I guess the atmosphere is coming into them and it's pretty hot here and people are, yeah, they're buying and they're very open about it."
The festival, sponsored by Playboy, is the first of its kind in the "holy land" and will only be open to the public for three days. The "Sextival"Thursday February 7. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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