From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Doodle your Diddle

PervArtistry challenges players to ink the kink.

by Bob Weinberg

June 21 2006

The pictorial clue: a naked ass and a wall outlet. The answer: Butt plug. The game: PervArtistry. A combination of charades and Pictionary with Tourette's syndrome, PervArtistry challenges players to illustrate or act out raunchy terms such as camel toe and pearl necklace and have their teammates guess the answer before the opposing team does. Thanks to feature stories in The Village Voice, Playboy, Playgirl and Cosmopolitan, as well as game nights in New York's West Village and midtown Atlanta, PervArtistry seems to be exciting the imaginations of an expanding number of pervy players.

"One of the people who came to our party the other day, she was, like, this conservative Goldman Sachs vice president," reports 34-year-old PervArtistry creator and Tampa native Christi Smith, who now lives in Manhattan and hosts a regular game night at the West Village nightclub Madame X. "She automatically guessed something, and she had to get up and act something out in front of everybody. And she's in her cute little skirt and she's lying on the floor, acting out this term, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God!' People just totally let loose."

PervArtistry was born in 1998, when Smith and a group of friends improvised the game at a ski lodge in Aspen, Colo. Smith, who holds an MBA from Florida State University, sensed the commercial possibilities of the game, as did investors. At her first New York City club party in 2003, 800 people showed up. A couple who met at a PervArtistry party has already gotten married; another is engaged. "I know a lot of people who have met, if not Mr. Right, Mr. Tonight," she relates.

Smith says she initially collected more than 800 terms, which she pared down to 500. As a warning for timid players, she labeled the raunchiest cards "superkinky."

"I don't know if a term like a glazed donut or a golden shower offends you," she says, "but chances are, if those terms [would] offend you, you don't know what they mean."

If players get stumped, they can always consult the glossary at Pervartistry.com. However, they must first purchase the game to access the dirty dictionary, which requires a password. Smith says she doesn't expect many people to know the most obscure obscenities. "If you know all 500 terms," she jokes, "I totally want to party with you."

PervArtistry is available for $24.95 at Something Sexy Planet stores in Fort Lauderdale (954/561-8977) and Miami Gardens (305/949-6775). You can also purchase the game at Pervartistry.com.