Photo of Awkward Sex and the City’s touring lineup by Meredith Traux. Show creator Natalie Wall (third from the left) explains why she brings sex’s awkward moments to the stage.

Photo of Awkward Sex and the City’s touring lineup by Meredith Traux. Show creator Natalie Wall (third from the left) explains why she brings sex’s awkward moments to the stage.

It’s 7 p.m. on a Monday night and New York City-based comic Natalie Wall and I are discussing the utter weirdness of queefing. “I’ve never queefed until this year and it surprises me every time,” she says.

It’s those less sultry moments about our sexual encounters that Wall and the other performers from Awkward Sex … And the City bring to life during their stage show.

Awkward Sex … And the City incorporates a lot of the great elements that make comedic storytelling such a powerful medium. It includes the vulnerability found at The Moth or Speakeasy and the cringe factor rampant in series like Don’t Tell My Mother, This Isn’t Happening, and RISK! However, this show is all sex, all the time and so, instead of a performer revealing that moment where they threw up in fourth grade in front of their crush, they’re reliving the explosive diarrhea they had after their close encounters.

That said, this show is overwhelmingly sex-positive. Wall wants people having sex and she realized during her time at James Madison University that the other women around her seemed uncomfortable talking about the act.

“I noticed very quickly that girls were very closed off [talking] about sex and talking about masturbation in a way that showed that we liked it and that we had fun doing it,” she says. “Not that it seemed like a chore, but it seemed like these girls didn’t feel like they were allowed to love it as much as men did or they were embarrassed that they masturbated so I started talking about it a lot. And then people would feel way more comfortable and they would start talking about ‘this is the porn I watch’ and ‘these are the vibrators I use.'”

In fact, Awkward Sex … and the City was initially a blog that Wall started after college while she was living at home in Stafford, Va. and stuck in a soul-sucking retail job.

“It definitely is where I honed my voice and realized that people really do want this outlet,” she says.

It’s also what led her to try stand-up and storytelling two years ago. After a year of realizing that the improv comedy offered to her by her job wasn’t the right outlet for her, she put together Awkward Sex … and the City. The show runs once a month in New York with a revolving cast that has included veterans of Upright Citizens Brigade and Just For Laughs as well as Comedy Central regular Nikki Glaser.

Unsurprisingly, Wall likes to keep the ensemble lady-heavy to further remove the notion that women can’t enjoy sex. “I think women understand, because they are women, they understand the whole stigma that’s behind us being able to talk about sex in a certain way and in a certain light,” she says.

So don’t expect the sexier moments of sex at the Black Cat this Saturday night. Expect vibrator giveaways. Expect sex-positive hilarity. And expect to feel comfortable revealing your own awkard tales and feeling good about it.

“Sex is really awkward,” says Wall. “It’s dirty. You’re always sweating. If you’re giving head and you’re wearing mascara, there’s no way that your mascara’s not going to run … and that’s when sex becomes amazing—when you get awkward and disgusting and fluid-y. But you never see that on TV and you never hear people talking about it that way.”

Awkward Sex…And the City is coming to the Black Cat tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance/$15 at the door and this is a 21+ show.