David Steinberg: Irish in San Francisco

I met Liz in 2009, at a monthly sexuality salon hosted by San Francisco’s Center for Sex and Culture. The sex salons, originally the brain-child of San Francisco’s sex-oriented weekly newspaper, Spectator, was adopted and continued by the Center for Sex and Culture when Spectator went out of business in 2005.

Each month for several years, a group of 10-30 people got together to share news and opinions about a wide variety of sex subjects in a freewheeling format that zigzagged chaotically fr...