- BDSM’s Dirty Secret – The Real Risk of Kinky Sex by Midori | Sexis – I can’t shake the feeling that I’m not watching two people sharing an experience, but rather two strangers having separate thrills over one activity. The top feels satisfaction in displaying competence in a set of measurable standards (The ropes go on. The person goes up. They come down and they’re still in one piece), while the bottom gets to have a self-contained experience delivered by a competent technician. The human factor of the other person seems irrelevant in either case.
- James Franco is Directing a Documentary About Porn Site Kink.com Because He’s James Franco – indieWIRE -
- ‘Sex On Six Legs’: When Insects Go Wild : NPR – Everything you wanted to know about bug sex (but didn’t bother to ask) is explained in a new book by insect expert Marlene Zuk. Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love and Language from the Insect World, describes a world of small — but surprisingly sophisticated — insect behavior.
- The Art of Rope Bottoming: Delano by Midori – Getting tied up isn’t for wimps. To bottom gloriously takes mad skills.
- The Creepy Naked Guy In The Dungeon | Maggie Mayhem Speaks -Today’s lesson: You are not a hypocrite for confronting Creepy Naked Guy
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Wyatt Cenac describes the exquisite (read: masochistic) dance between reporters and the White House as he’s handcuffed in the Nixon boiler room. Via Selina Fire.
To be published by Cleis Press in fall 2011
Editor Sinclair Sexsmith is looking for hot, sexy, well-written stories about kinky sex between queer women, from bondage scenarios to power play to role play to sadism and masochism to sensation play for a new anthology of lesbian BDSM erotica. Looking for characters with a range of age, race, sexual experience, gender identity and gender expression: butch, femme, genderqueer, gender-non-conforming, dapper, and others will all be considered. Cis women, trans women, and genderqueer characters who identify with the lesbian community are welcome. Stories should have strong literary voice, characters, tension, and rising action. All characters must be over 18. Prose only will be considered, no comics, graphic stories, or poetry. For examples of what I am looking for, see Tristan Taormino’s collection Best Lesbian Bondage Erotica.
Deadline: January 1, 2011
How to submit: Send your story in a Times New Roman 12 point black font Word document (.doc) with pages numbered of 1,500 to 5,000 words to lesbianbdsmerotica@gmail.com. Double space the document and indent the first line of each paragraph. US grammar required. If you are using a pseudonym, provide your real name and be clear under which you would like to be published. Include your mailing address and a 50 words or less bio in the third person. Publisher has final approval over the manuscript.
About the editor: Sinclair Sexsmith runs the award-winning personal online writing project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at www.sugarbutch.net. With work published in various anthologies, including the Best Lesbian Erotica series, Sometimes She Lets Me: Butch/Femme Erotica, and Visible: A Femmethology volume 2, Mr. Sexsmith also writes columns for online publications and facilitates workshops on sex, gender, and relationships. Find her full portfolio and schedule at www.mrsexsmith.com.
Tired of searching for the ultimate guide to your D/s or SM relationship?
Do you want to make your BDSM relationship the best it can be for you and your partners?
Join Marketplace author Laura Antoniou and internationally acclaimed educator Midori for a special weekend intensive designed for real people who enjoy power dynamics and D/s, who want to consciously create quality relationships that suit their personal hungers and needs in the context of the real world.
Learn about the many styles of relationships we enjoy and discover the hidden and vital aspects of your own special way. You will be guided through a special curriculum designed to clearly identify your value system, behavior preferences and relationship goals.
Participants will develop insights to help them get what they want in current and future relationships. This unique curriculum will provide the tools for each individual or relationship unit to create their own customized manual of effective protocol, rules, etiquettes and codes of conducts. The instructors work closely with each student through out each step.
This weekend will include lectures, group discussions and exercises, with time for reflection and time for pure fun.
While experience or current D/s relationship is not necessary, students must be prepared for hard but fulfilling work. Sincerity, willingness to communicate and full participation is required.
Open to anyone with an orientation or a strong interest for a relationship which includes some variation and expression of power exchange or dominance and submission. Any experience level welcome. The weekend is excellent for those in current relationship or domestic units of 2 or more people. It is also highly effective for those who are not currently in relationship but wish have clear visions, goals and structure in place for future relationships.
Class size will be strictly limited to allow for a unique quality experience emphasizing individualized attention.
Through the unique curriculum and its innovative tools, each individual or relationship unit will create their own customized manual of effective protocol, rules, etiquettes and codes of conduct.
Sponsored by North Bound Leather. More information and registration link here.
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A note about the weekend from Laura Antoniou, author of the Marketplace series:
For almost 20 years, I have put my passion into teaching workshops aimed at the D/S community. I travel around the leather/SM/DS conventions and conferences and spend, at the most, 90 minutes to share what I know about complicated issues! What we do isn’t simple or easy and it sure can’t be compressed into 90 minutes.
With Passionate Bonds, participants get to bring their full attention and focus into an intimate setting where everything is about THEM. From the minute you settle in until the final session, it’s your identity, your relationship, your style, your taste, your values – your PASSION – that Midori and I want to find, identify and support.
From there, we can help you build the best way to live YOUR life. Not someone else’s way, not a fantasy, not some idealized, impossible to achieve image – but your honest, realistic and yes, romantic style of dominance & submission. From the little details about what to call each other to the big picture items like time management and planning for the future. In three days, you find out what is really important to you and how to best bring it into your life, with your current partner(s) or the next one.
You can spend your money on a new pair of leather pants or your time at a weekend watching dungeon play or fetish fashion. Or, you can make an investment in your relationships and values. If you are passionate about why you do this and want to know how to make your fantasy into reality, then this weekend is yours.
Laura
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A note from Midori about the weekend:
Laura and I are are thrilled about the upcoming weekend we’re co-facilitating. After years of into-the-wee-hours talks on the joys and pitfalls of real world D/s relationships, disparity in practical information, causes of D/s burnout, the need to address how to deal with real life challenges, our own D/s thrills and spills, we created and launched this last year.
We’ve created an experience where you can crystallize your vision and goals, create protocol that serves your style and relationship objective and discuss changes in that relationship. It’s not an easy process but we believe it’ll save you much heartache later. It’s made for both those already in and those who want to be in D/s relationships. We don’t teach the “one true way” – instead we strive to guide you to finding your authentic and fulfilling way.
This will be our pleasure!
Midori
I am excited to announce an upcoming weekend workshop with the well-known, S&M educators, Cleo Dubois and Eve Minax! They have been conducting “Erotic Dominance Weekend Intensives” in San Francisco for the past 8 years with enormous success. At the close of this Summer 2010, they are offering their weekend workshop for Dominant Women and Women who Switch in New York City for the first time!
I invite you to spend an intimate, hands-on weekend immersed in the magic of erotic energy exchange with these experienced and experiential BDSM educators. This workshop delves beyond the mere actions of kink play and guides you to explore the inner connections of the art of S&M that you have within yourself and with your play partner. Fully embrace your Dominant Archetypes, subtle psychological turn ons and power, increase your skills, your confidence, and communication and understanding of your play. Read testimonials from past participants HERE.
The weekend starts Friday eve with a Meet & Greet of the other students and your instructors. Saturday and Sunday are structured with learning skills, putting them into hands on practice, with processing and sharing with each segment. These are full days, running fro, 11am-7pm with lunch breaks. (Food will be provided, vegetarian options available). You will be given a comprehensive work book for you to keep as reference.
The weekend concludes with a ritual and private play party.
Single participants and couples are both welcome. If you plan to take the class as a single, we will provide you with a demo-bottom for you to practice your hands-on play skills. The demo-bottom will be selected depending on your gender preference.
Single fee: $700
Couples fee: $1000
The workshop and play party are held at Glint Studio, Yin’s fully equipped S&M Dojo, located in the financial district of Manhattan,(easily accessible by all subway lines). Exact location will be provided upon confirmation and deposit.
Please email the application you will find on to CleoDubois@sm-arts.com and to Yin at MistressYin@gmail.com.
Please feel free to email either Cleo or Yin for more information.
For more details about Cleo and Minax ‘s Intensives go to http://www.sm-arts.com/intensives/women.html
Connect with heat, sex, and spirit!
Happy Spring,
Mistress Yin
