August 2013

Pleasure Salon NYC, Thurs., Aug 29th

by Viviane on 08/26/2025

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NYC Pleasure Salon

We hope to see you August 29th at the Happy Ending Lounge. We’re there the last Thursday of every month. This event is free. 21+, please.

The Pleasure Salon has been created to build community, allowing sex-positive activists to cross-pollinate. Our gatherings bring together members of the BDSM, swinger, alternative gender, LGBTQ, sex-activist, sex educator, nudist, sex-magic, polyamory, Pagan, radical faerie, tantra, sex-blogger, porn, pervert and sex-worker communities, and others whose passion is sex. (Let us know if we missed any one of you!) Through building networks in the sex-positive community, the Pleasure Salon hopes to help create a sex-positive world. It is a place for the open exchange of ideas and sensual expression.

Join us in building New York’s pleasure positive community, and bring your like-minded friends to this social gathering. The Pleasure Salon embraces respect, acceptance, and non-judgmental support in this public space.

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What to expect at Pleasure Salon: http://pleasuresalon.wordpress.com/what-to-expect/

In pleasure,
Patricia Johnson, Selina Fire & Mark Michaels
http://www.pleasuresalon.com

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Lesbian Sex Mafia Presents Responsible Bottoming for Casual Play with Theatrical Toy. Fri, Aug. 16

by Viviane on 08/16/2025

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Successful casual play requires a level of personal responsibility, mutual respect, and self reliance that is different from playing in a committed relationship. In this class we’ll discuss ways to commit fully to play while maintaining your sense of self. This will include: honest negotiation, knowing your own boundaries for each new partner, building your support network, providing your own aftercare, and how to ask for (and get) a second date. Audience participation welcome. Have something you want to talk about but not sure you want to bring it up yourself in front of a room full of people? Contact Theatricaltoy on Fetlife with your questions or comments and she’ll try to work them in.

Where:  LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave)
When:   Friday, August 16, 2013; 8:00-10:00 PM
Cost:  $5/LSM members; $10/Non members
Fetlife RSVP: https://fetlife.com/events/188778

About Theatrical Toy

TheatricalToy often introduces herself as opportunistic. More detailed definitions would include but not be limited to: queer organizer, dedicated bootblack, service oriented submissive, a heavy masochist, a teacher, a sadistic giggling bouncy top, a spontaneous singer of songs, and overall, just a complex girl. She is the originator and co-organizer of the DC/Baltimore Area Queer Munch and cohosts HotHouse, the hotest Queer Party in the Mid-Atlantic. She has presented for Black Rose, SouthEast LeatherFest, Dark Odyssey, Camp Crucible, F.I.S.T., the Playhouse, BESS, and Brimstone. When not teaching she can be found bootblacking, getting her *$$ kicked, or taking meat tenderizers to well informed consenting friends.

About Lesbian Sex Mafia
Lesbian Sex Mafia (LSM) is a social and educational organization for women and transfolk who have a positive personal interest in BDSM with other women. Our tenets are safety, consensuality, confidentiality and the right of women to explore their  sexuality as they choose.

Membership in Lesbian Sex Mafia is open to all women 18 years of age or older including gay, straight, bi, and transsexual and intersexed women who live their daily lives as women, and all female-born transgendered persons who have a connection with and respect for the women’s community. For membership information and benefits please visit http://www.lesbiansexmafia.org.

LSM reserves the right to deny admission to non-members it has reason to believe will not abide by the LSM principles of safety, consensuality and confidentiality.

No member is turned away from an LSM event based upon ability to pay. Please contact us in advance to request a scholarship.

Kink related films at NewFest

by Viviane on 08/15/2025

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NewFest is dedicated to bringing together filmmakers and audiences in the building of a community that passionately supports giving greater visibility and voice to a wide range of expressions and representations of the LGBT experience. Their 25th anniversary festival starts next month, and I’ve got a

Two kink related films, either created or produced by James Franco, caught my eye.

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In order to avoid an X rating, 40 minutes of gay S&M footage was rumored to be cut and destroyed from the 1980 film, “Cruising.” Inspired by the mythology of this controversial film, filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborate to imagine their own lost footage.

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Kink takes us into the painful but oh-so-pleasurable world of five San Francisco–based BDSM workers as they choke, spank, and scream their way through just another day at the kink.com studios. Produced by James Franco and directed by Christina Voros, Kink not only humanizes the bondage and sadomasochism industry, it also uncovers a professional world in ways the uninitiated would never expect. Click here to read an interview with director Christina Voros and James Franco about making this film.

NewFest 2013 schedule info is here:
http://newfest.org/wordpress/

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