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• THE PANAMAPLEASURE GUIDE AUGUST
• Issue 02 | 2026-27Published annually by Panama Pleasure Guide THE PANAMA
• NOTE FROM THE EDITORWelcome to the Panama Pleasure Guide — and if you're returning, welcome back. This issue feels different, because it is. When I launched this Guide, my focus was curating Panama City's most sensual experiences — the venues, the products, the hidden pleasures most visitors never find. That hasn't changed. But something has deepened.
• FOUNDER'S STORYWhy Am I Like This? By Deborah Porter
• Page 5C an I be honest about something? I wasn’t always on a pleasure journey. For years, I treated pleasure like a decadent dessert—something I snuck to eat when no one was watching. Mostly because I wasn’t sure what this new desire was. But slowly, I started paying attention to what was actually happening to me when I let myself enjoy things that felt good and brought me delight. Turns out my body knew things my mom never taught me, things I was just discovering about myself. How, as a married woman, did I not know about these pleasure principles?
• Page 6Over these few years, I’ve been diligently building community using pleasure as the thread running underneath everything I wove together. I produced an Erotic Poetry Night for a room full of strangers who left feeling like they found their tribe, then six months later, gathered them for an erotic game night that proved pleasure and play are the same social instinct wearing different outfits. These events started small but have been silently blossoming. For the Christmas holidays, I hosted the Naughty List Brunch, a private salon where real women had real pleasure conversations over mimosas and tinsel. My mission to bring more eroticism and sensual pleasure to Panama is why I was invited to sit on a panel at AEFEST in Bogotá, talking pleasure trends and strategy to a room of hundreds of like-minded people who came from across Latin America hungry for exactly this conversation. It’s why I crafted the first and only Panama Pleasure Guide, so the women I meet at these events have access to something they can use as a resource, not just a faded memory. It’s why, for three years running, I’ve produced and co-curated the Panama Erotic Art Exhibition, watching local and international artists turn sensual desire into something you can hang on a wall. It’s also why this year I used my obsession for delicious food and sensual pleasures as the motivating factor to launch Whet Sensual Supper Club dinners—where a succulent meal is only half the menu. Somewhere in the margins of all of that, I’m still writing my collection of erotic short stories that have remained my foundational truth—fed by women who've whispered their dirty little secrets over dinner and fueled by my own ongoing erotic education in what it means to want something out loud. All of it ignited by a sexy man from a dating site.
• The Table Panama Whispers AboutPanama City's only Sensual Supper Club Dinner for women Ten women. One table. Each Whet Sensual Supper Club Dinner served with its own distinct theme and original menu—raw, intimate, sensual and curated only for women who are exhausted from hiding their appetite. There has never been a seat at the table for women like this in Panama City. Until now. Until Whet.
• Page 8Events That Make You Come Again and Again... While it's true Panama only has wet & dry seasons, we're sharing a whole season of sensual experiences so intentional — you'll want to come out and play with us after dark.
• Page 9Tickets On Sale
• Pleasure SpotlightHow Lust Is Keeping the Art of Burlesque Alive By Deborah Porter
• A Childhood Spent Watching the CurtainLong before there was a festival, there was a little girl in Panama who couldn't stop scouring through books and magazines that showcased glamourous models and sensual dancers, who used beauty, attire and movement to seduce, entice, and more importantly tell stories. That early fascination with movement, glamour, and the theater of it all fueled Lust’s creativity. This became the catalyst behind her first small stage shows and burlesque performances beginning in 2013—shows such as Tasseled Tease Burlesque, Atomic Cabaret, and Las Vegas-based Lujuria. But the idea of a larger production never left her mind. Nevertheless, Panama is home, so this where she decided to plant something that didn't exist yet.
• A Widow's BodyFEATURED STORY A Pleasure Point That No One Talks About
• Page 13There is something grounding about touching yourself without negotiation. No performance. No comparison. Just breath, heat, and the slow build under your own control. No one tells widows this either: sometimes you need to make yourself cum just to remember you are not broken.
• CULTURAL SPOTLIGHTHow Charlotte Van Horn Is Inspiring Black America to Taste Freedom By Deborah Porter
• Cultural Pleasure PointsPrivate Pleasure. By Invitation. "Intimate concierge services for grown women who still burn."
• Cultural Pleasure PointThe Weight of My Wanting By Tonya Pinkins
• Page 17I was traveling the highlands of Papua New Guinea. In the villages, people are living sustainably, eating healthily while longing for the ultra-processed lifestyle they've seen in movies. Not everyone has that longing, but some do. And I was the first Black American tourist they had ever seen. I was the sole tourist at that time. I looked just like them. They felt like family. The people are fit from working hard to sustain themselves and their community. They were genuinely full of life and joy and purpose. While the men might be muscular, the women are not. By Western standards, no one was much to look at. To me, they were all stunningly beautiful.
• Page 18Just then, the woman who was the leader of the community arrived, and I invited her to join us, too. It was the best cover I could conjure in case my instincts were way off base. My room was in a large circular building made of wood with a spiked thatched roof. The windows had no screens or glass. The building was divided into many rooms. The walls did not reach the roof. Gaguyo's room was on the opposite side of the circular building from mine. This was not his home. He was only staying there to protect me from my fear of bats and other creatures that roam in the night.
• Cultural Pleasure PointsPanama's Pleasure Art & Sensual Entertainment Sensual Intelligence in motion
• VIEW OPENING NIGHT VIDEO HEREContact: [email protected]
• Panama Erotic Art AllianceIMAGINE! 200 People Show Up for an Erotic Art Exhibition in Prim & Proper Panama City
• Cultural Pleasure PointsVisit one of Deborah's favorite top sexiest Panama cocktail bars that will seduce you right out of your inhibitions Corrupto Speak Easy Bar & Club
• Cultural Pleasure PointsNow Serving Food Porn Experience any of Deborah's top picks of restaurants whose dishes are foreplay on a plate. Because when seduction is served—you put it in your mouth!
• Page 24Turn Left at Desire — You've Arrived at Your Pleasure Shopping Point My preferred choice when purchasing exquisite lingerie in Panama is both, Hechizo Seductores Lencería
• Shopping for PleasureIn the off chance Panama doesn't satisfy your pleasure needs... it's okay to swipe right with our favorite online collaborators!
• PANAMAPLEASURE GUIDE WOMEN'S HEALTH PRACTITIONERS
• THE PANAMAA GENTLE DISCLAIMER FROM CULTURAL PLEASURE POINTS A Little Pillow Talk
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