Vancouver natives hit the Spot with musical sex-ucation

The Wet Spots are sexy, hot, kinky, controversial, and most of the time they can be found in bed.

Keep your head in the sexual gutter because The Wet Spots, a husband and wife duo who sex-ucate their audience through comedy and music, are coming to Fanshawe.

The Wet SpotsTheir show isn't your average tension-filled, sexual Q and A like you get with Sue Johanson. John Woods and Cass King of the Wet Spots are witty, entertaining and surprisingly classy for two people singing about cunnilingus, sex toys and spanking.

“Our show is really funny,” said Woods, who has spent most of his adult life on stage in bands on the West Coast. “You can totally enjoy a Wet Spots show if you are straight and never experienced anything kinky. To pretend [sex] doesn't exist is lying to ourselves.”

The couple met in Vancouver at an event called Thundering Word Heard, a performing arts show that pairs musicians with poets to create spontaneous acts, and instantly acknowledged their sexual chemistry.

“I said, ‘Hey baby, why not come over and collaborate?' which is a musicians way of picking up,” Woods said. “We wound up shagging for two years.”

Creating a live show all about sex was a natural progression for the couple, especially for King, who worked at an adult novelty store and wrote a weekly sex column called Organ Grinders for an alternative newspaper.

The Wet Spots began performing their act as a cabaret for small crowds of sex radicals and eastside Vancouverites. Their show caught the attention of a professional comedy club owner, who introduced the show to suburban masses.

“I thought they were going to run us out of town with pitch forks,” Woods said about presenting the act to the general public. But despite their original expectations, the Wet Spots were a hit with the closet-kinky suburbanites on the West Coast.

Last year the pair won the “Pick of the Fringe” award at the Vancouver Fringe Festival and have recently relocated to Toronto to expand their exposure. Their song “Do You Take (in the Ass)?” has even been featured in the Showtime television program The L Word.

Their show is a combination of cabaret-style music infused with sexual undertones, sexual positions and sexual advice, but presented in a way that makes the audience feel comfortable and inclusive.

“A lot of the times when comedians talk about sex they are playing into old fashioned stereotypes. They play on discomfort,” Woods said about other performers who feed off nervous laughter. “If I ever hear another comedian say that women smell fishy, I think I'm going to throw up.”

Their song “Threeway Rendezvous” has even been an inspiration to some curious, college-aged audience members. Woods said after one particular comedy club show two men and a women asked for the Wet Spots web address because they were going to have a threesome and wanted to email Woods and King photo evidence of their escapades. “That was the best fan-mail we ever received,” reminisced Woods.

Woods recommends that college students come to show not only be entertained, but because it helps open the lines of communication between those who are ready to spice up their sex lives. With songs entitled “Smack my Bottom”, “The Kinky Neighbor Song” and “Wherever You're Going (I'd Like to Come)” it's not hard to believe that most students will be interested in the Wet Spots sexual education sing-alongs.

The Wet Spots will be performing at the Out Back Shack on Wednesday, October 26 for the XXX Comedy Night. The show starts at 9pm and is free for all sexually charged pupils.