The scene

When it comes to the bedroom, everyone has his or her own technique. The same held true when the World Air Sex Championships stopped at the Logan Square Auditorium on a 16-city search for the country’s best pantomime fornicator. As judge Joel Keith, the reigning Air Sex champ, told contestants in a pre-show pep talk, not only should they be entertaining but convincing, as well. “If you’re holding your ‘penis,’” he said, “I want to be able to know how many veins are bulging.” Like seasoned sextertainers, contestants chose stage names. Long John Silver got props for the moniker but lost points for failing to mine the pirate theme (“You know, you take your parrot off your shoulder and you eat it out,” said Keith, matter-of-factly); Pair of Jugs, the lone female, got down to the Full House theme song; Dr. Leonard McCoy, dressed in a green jumpsuit, gave cunnilingus to the robotic rhythm of a Devo track. Corkscrew-haired Crunchy McVibe (pictured) went down as the night’s victor—and the only one to let his ghost partner do some humping.

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