April 2010

Thursday, April 29

Friday, April 30
TES TNG: ‘‘Whip Practice Session’’
TES Through the Looking Glass: A Night in Wonderland party
Paradise Lost Party

Saturday, May 1
NYC TNG Munch
Rope Share Intermediate Skill Level to Advance w/ Erin Houndini
Pony Romp in Central Park

Sunday, May 2
MAsT Metro NY: “Non live-in M/s Relationships”

Monday, May 3
CV: “TBA”

Tuesday, May 4
TES: ‘Primal Play: Biting and Scratching’’ w/ Mistress Trish

Wednesday, May 5
Pleasure Salon
TES Bondage SIG: ‘‘Self Bondage’’ with Klawdya Rothschild

Kelly Divine and Luscious Lopez on everythingbutt.com

Men, Women, Trans people, Welcome!

So you’ve taken the Novice Rope Share class (or other learning facility) and are ready to move on from the basic ties to the Next Step. This workshop will delve into the next level of Shibari harnesses, bondage positions, and arm ties, as well as a more in depth discussion of the psychology of the bottom in those ties. Again, the class is tailored to your interests. Class size is kept to a small circle for friendly experimentation bondage and personal attention.

Participants must be over 18yr.

Location: Greenwich St. (btwn Rector and Carlisle; three blocks south of the WTC site) Specific building number will be emailed upon registration.
Cost: $25- per person

Instructor: Erin Houdini

Assistant instructor: V

The Rope Share is a bondage workshop that is structured to fit your skill levels and interests. There is one highly skilled rope instructor and one teaching assistant. The attendance will be limited to 12 students.

This is a lab-environment setting and we will practice on one another. Please be open to both tie and be tied for the sake of education. Please wear comfortable clothing as there is no nudity during the class.

Bring Rope: 4 lengths of 25ft. rope; 2 lengths of 50ft.; and safety scissors. Cotton, nylon, hemp, and jute are all fine.

To sign up, please email ropeshare@gmail.com, subject line: Rope Share Intermediate , and include the following information in your email:

1. Your name (Scene name or legal) and
2. What you are interested in learning

Sign up now as places are expected to fill quickly! Intermediate to advanced rope players are all welcome!!
If you have not taken the Novice Rope Share class, but have learned the basics of rope elsewhere, you are welcome to join. Instructor may ask you to demonstrate your proficiency at tying basic pole-to-pole (limb to limb) ties.

Instructor’s Bio

A rope mistress and escape artist, a bottom at heart with a flair for pink rope, the 26-year old Erin Houdini has brought her love of tying and passion for teaching from her own monthly Rope Thing events in NYC to kink groups all around the Northeast. Erin’s attentiveness and enthusiasm, interactive teaching technique, and Western bondage aesthetic bring both style and substance to classes on suspension, self-bondage, transgender issues, and more. Find her at Fetlife.com/erinhoudini!

Bookmarks

by Viviane on 04/26/2024

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  • Whee! Education at TESFest | Lolita Wolf – Tracks: Self skills, Ouch, Potpourri, Edge, Rope, Sex & Love, D/s & M/S
  • Sexy Books: Granta 110, The Sex Issue features Roberto Bolaño, Jennifer Egan, Mark Doty, Dave Eggers – The Spring 2010 sex issue of Granta hit stands this week, and with the changing of the seasons the editors' minds are in the same place as yours: Stepping naked out of all those April showers, looking for flowers.
  • Why Sex Education Matters: Interview with the Founder of Scarleteen – Part II in a Series | The Mother of All Parenting Blogs – Talking about sex is not the same thing as promoting sex.
  • To all of the kick ass, beautiful fierce femmes out there…| Ivan Coyote | YouTube –
  • Sex Ads Seen Adding Revenue to Craigslist – NYTimes.com – The company that provided the revenue projection, the Advanced Interactive Media Group, has been preparing such analyses since 2003. Followers of Craigslist consider A.I.M.’s work to be the most comprehensive estimates of the fiercely private company’s finances. The estimate was calculated based on the number of sex ads counted on Craigslist over the month of February and the fees for posting such ads — $10 initially and $5 for repeat postings.


Who should have a say in a college student’s sex education?”

Where: Brown University’s Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106
Address: 95 Cushing Street, Providence, RI Google Maps
Cost: FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Dress code: Casual or business-casual only. No fetish wear, please.

Join Brown Prof. Jim Green and his panel of sexperts including sex educator Megan Andelloux, CuddleParty founder Reid Mihalko, sexual freedom community organizer maymay, and Sexual health Education and Empowerment Council (SHEEC) Chairperson Aida Manduley as they discuss the role of students, educators, institutions, and censorship in how sex education gets brought and taught to today’s college campuses.

More details….

This panel is sponsored by the Sexual Health Education and Empowerment Council, which is doing fantastic work at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. It’s the organization that not only sponsored KinkForAll Providence, but also produced Sex Week 2010, which featured sessions lead by the “Sex Education Warrior Queen” Megan Andelloux and other accredited sexuality educators like Shanna Katz, and just this week brought Sinclair Sexsmith to talk about “Fucking With Gender 2.0”, which all aim to empower other students to learn about and stand up for their sexual freedoms and rights. I think SHEEC along with Brown University should be lauded for so openly supporting its students rights to organize peacefully and create events like these.

Unfortunately, SHEEC’s events and its hardworking Chairperson, Aida Manduley, have been repeatedly criticized by certain alums, notably Margaret Brooks, who, along with Professor of Women’s Studies Donna M. Hughes, published numerous “bulletins” insinuating that participants at SHEEC’s events are criminals. Therefore, SHEEC put together this somewhat academic-styled panel to discuss things. Moreover, and perfectly aligned with the principles of inspiring conversation that KinkForAll so strongly supports, I learned that Aida has even personally invited Margaret Brooks, Donna M. Hughes, and Hughes’s associate, Melanie Shapiro, to attend in the hopes of fostering a dialogue!

Hyperlouise

by Viviane on 04/25/2024

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