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Cinekink NYC, the kinky film festival, Feb. 26- March 3

by Viviane on 02/25/2025

in culture, Events, movies, nyc

10LogoSmall 300x175 Cinekink NYC, the kinky film festival, Feb. 26 March 3

CineKink NYC, the kinky film festival, returns for its tenth anniversary appearance February 26th through March 3rd, bringing with it a specially-curated program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality.

Note: I’ve helped judge the shorts competition for several years, and  am judging again this year.

TUESDAY

The kink-filled festivities begin Tuesday, February 26th, at 8 PM, with a KICK-OFF GALA & FUNDRAISER to be held at Taj (48 W. 21st Street, NYC), a pansexual celebration that, in addition to music and sexy performances, offers several cinematic gems up on the screen.

The festival then moves to Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, NYC), Wednesday, February 27 through Saturday, March 2, with several different film and video programs scheduled for each day.

An awards celebration and an AfterGlow play party complete the festivities on Sunday, March 3.

WEDNESDAY

Among the headliners, first up on Wednesday, February 27 at 7:00 PM, the festival’s CineKink Season Opener screening of REMEDY, based on writer/director Cheyenne Picardo’s personal experiences, follows a young woman into the dungeons of New York City and the world of professional domination and submission.

Then, at 9:30 PM, MOMMY IS COMING is a raunchy, romantic sex comedy set in the edgy and gender-bending underground of Berlin.

THURSDAY

On Thursday, February 28 at 6:30 PM, a special sneak preview of BETTIE PAGE REVEALS ALL provides an intimate look at the rise, fall, and rise again of one of the world’s most recognized and controversial sex symbols.

Then, at 9:30 PM, a collection of short works, STRANGE LIVE ACTS, explores the relationship between pain and pleasure, performance and transcendence.

FRIDAY

On Friday, March 1 at 6:30 PM, SEXING THE TRANSMAN explores the sexuality of transmen and the changes they experience as a result of their gender transitions from female to male.

At 8:30 PM, in HOOKING UP, a hot mix of hot shorts looks at the magic of getting together and (maybe) getting it on.

And at 10:30 PM, DAREDOLLS AND RUBBERSLUTS is a shiny collection of shiny works, all sharing a certain textile fixation.

SATURDAY

Kicking off Saturday, March 2 at 1:00 PM, feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino takes the stage in THE FEMINIST PORN SHOW, introducing the concept of feminist porn and playing a selection of short clips she has curated from filmmakers around the world.

At 2:30 PM the discussion continues, as THE FEMINIST PORN PANEL explores what feminist porn is, how it relates to the mainstream adult industry, and some personal experiences creating, performing, or studying it.

At 4:30 PM, a special industry showcase, BRING IT!, features a dazzling array of talent from today’s adult cinema, each representing a wide range of genres and visual styles, all stepping up with a hot sampling of their recent creative endeavors.

At 7:15 PM, RELEASE is a taut and sexy collection of shorts that play with the dynamics found between build-up…and relief.

And at 9:30 PM, the festival’s Closing Night Tribute showcases a meticulously restored version of Radley Metzger’s THE OPENING OF MISTY BEETHOVEN, widely considered to be the greatest adult film of all time and the apex of porno chic.

SUNDAY

CineKink NYC concludes the evening of Sunday, March 3 at 6:00 PM, with an AWARDS CELEBRATION, including presentation of the annual festival awards.,

And at 9:00 PM, the CineKink AFTERGLOW PARTY, is one last chance to mingle with like-minded festival-goers and enjoy a few additional screenings, this time in a relaxed play party setting.

The locations for both events will be announced at a later date.

For more information, visit http://cinekink.com.

DIRECT LINK TO EVENT:

http://cinekink.com/programs-and-events/nyc/cinekin…

TICKETS AND PASSES

Tickets and passes may be purchased via http://cinekinknyc2013.eventbrite.com

ADMISSION

Ticket prices for all screenings/panels are $10/$9 advance; $7 for seniors and students (use code “senior” or “student” for advance purchase discount). All prices are inclusive of online ticketing fees.

Admission to the Kick-Off Gala & Fundraiser is a suggested donation of $15/$10 advance.

Admission to the Afterglow Party is $30/individual, $40/couple, $50/triad, advance purchase only.

The Awards Celebration on Sunday evening is free of charge.

A limited number of CineKink All-Access Passes, covering admission to all screening programs/panels, plus all parties, are available in advance for $85; $75 for members of any sexuality-focused organization; $60 for students/seniors; $45 for CineKinksters & Friends w/Benefits (CineKink supporters).

VOLUNTEER

Want to help out during Cinekink? Go here: http://cinekink.com/supporters/volunteers/

ABOUT CINEKINK NYC

Billing itself as “the really alternative film festival,” CineKink NYC returns for its tenth anniversary appearance February 26-March 3, 2013, to be followed by a national showcase tour. Presented by CineKink, an organization dedicated to the recognition and encouragement of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television, works featured at CineKink range from documentary to drama, comedy to experimental, mildly spicy to quite explicit –and everything in between.

More info: http://www.cinekink.com

SPONSORS

Sponsors for CineKink NYC/2013 include Crystal Delights, KinkyMedical.net, and TakeDown Piracy, along with ainsley-t, DistribPix, Feminist Porn Awards, FetishMovies, Leather Archives & Museum, Les Jeux du Marquis, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Pleasure Salon, Reload, and The Eulenspiegel Society.

CINEKINK ON THE WEB

FACEBOOK – http://www.facebook.com/cinekink
+ round-up of all screenings, be sure to add/invite your friends/fans:
https://www.facebook.com/CineKink/events

TWITTER – http://twitter.com/cinekink

FETLIFE – http://fetlife.com/ (registration required)
You can find links to each screening on the left hand side of Lisa’s profile, under “Events Organizing” https://fetlife.com/users/16238

Leather Ever After: Kinky Fairy Tales – NYC Book Release Party

by Viviane on 02/08/2025

in Events

Leather Ever After: Kinky Fairy Tales NYC Book Release Party

Once upon a time, in a dungeon far, far away the kinkiest writers in the land were summoned to pervert beloved fairy tales with tales of dominance, submission, bondage and surrender. In these stories twisted princesses take control of submissive princes, witches play with power and fairy tales come to life in our homes and dungeons

Join NYC contributors and editor Sassafras Lowrey to celebrate the release of Leather Ever After published by Ravenous Romance.

When: Wednesday, February 13th 7pm
Where: Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St. NYC (Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/1QKeC)
Cost: Free
Facebook RSVP
Fetlife RSVP

Sponsored by: Lesbian Sex Mafia

Readings by:

  • Laura Antoniou
  • Lee Harrington
  • Hosha
  • D.L. King
  • Sassafras Lowrey
  • Karen Taylor
  • Mollena Williams

Leather Ever After book site:
http://leathereverafter.wordpress.com/

Sassafras Lowrey is an internationally award-winning storyteller, author and educator who has been active in leather community for over a decade. Sassafras is the editor of the two time American Library Association honored, and Lambda Literary Finalist Kicked Out anthology. Hir debut leather focused novel Roving Pack (www.RovingPack.com), was released in autumn 2012. Sassafras lives in Brooklyn with hir Daddy two dogs of vastly different size and two kitties that keep everyone in line. To learn more about Sassafras and hir work visit www.SassafrasLowrey.com.

Lee Harrington is an internationally known spiritual and erotic educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist and award-winning author and editor on human sexuality and sacred experience. He is a nice guy with a disarmingly down to earth approach to the fact that we are each beautifully complex ecosystems, and we deserve to examine the human experience from that lens. He’s been traveling the globe (from Seattle to Sydney, Berlin to Boston), teaching and talking about sexuality, psychology, faith, desire and more, and has no intention to stop any time soon. He has been an academic and an adult film performer, a world class sexual adventurer, an outspoken philosopher, is a kink/bondage expert, and has been blogging about sex and spirituality since 1998. Read more about Lee at PassionAndSoul.com.

Hosha lives in Westchester County, NY with her wonderful wife, their amazing son, and their ornery rescue dog. As a family they enjoy stories of magic and all things fairy tale.

D.L King’s (http://dlkingerotica.blogspot.com/) short stories have appeared in titles such as Best Women’s Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Hurts So Good, One Night Only, Please, Ma’am and many others. She is the editor of Seductress, The Harder She Comes, Spankalicious, Carnal Machines, Spank!, The Sweetest Kiss, and Where the Girls Are

Karen Taylor is the author of several of the short stories embedded in BDSM novelist Laura Antoniou’s fourth Marketplace book, “The Academy.” Other recent work includes stories in “Bondage By The Bay,” “Pirate Booty” and “The Love That Never Dies: Affairs with the Undead,” all from Sizzler Editions.

Mollena Williams: This “Delicate, Trembling Flower of Submission” © is a NYC born and raised writer, actress, BDSM Educator, Storyteller and an Award-Winning Executive Pervert. She is proud to have served as International Ms Leather 2010 and Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009. She is honored and humbled to have been selected to receive the 2012 Jack McGeorge Award for Excellence in Education by Black Rose, and is thrilled to have won the the National Leather Association’s 2012 Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award. Along with Lee Harrington, she co-authored “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities” She is the author of the “Toybag Guide: Taboo Play, and her essays appear in 2 anthologies curated by Rachel Kramer Bussel, as well as Lee Harrington. Not one but two essays commissioned by Tristan Taormino appear in the groundbreaking anthology “The Ultimate Guide to Kinky Sex.” Mollena is delighted to be a featured educator with The Kink Academy and columnist for SexIs Magazine. She is a regular featured storyteller with Bawdy Storytelling, has taken the stage for Porchlight Storytelling and has been featured on the “RISK!” podcast, as well as NPRs “Snap Judgement”. Her short, experimental BDSM film “IMPACT.” debuted at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in September 2012 and was also screened for Nuit Blanche 2012 in Vancouver, BC.

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Pleasure Salon NYC – January, Thurs., 1/31

by Viviane on 01/29/2025

in Events, sex

PleasureSalon Pleasure Salon NYC January, Thurs., 1/31

CineKink All-Access Pass, and a couple of AfterGlow passes giveaway – you could the be a lucky winner!

We hope to see you Jan. 31st 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.

Date: Thursday, January 31, 2013
Time: 6-10 PM
Where: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome St. 302 Broome Street (Forsyth and Eldridge) (Map)
Cost: FREE

Join our newsletter list to be notified of upcoming events (1-2 emails/month): http://bit.ly/psalonemail

Fetlife RSVP

Facebook RSVP

Please follow the Pleasure Salon page on Facebook  or FetLife   to communicate with other attendees.

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

In pleasure,

Patricia Johnson, Selina Fire & Mark Michaels
www.pleasuresalon.com

Between the Covers reading series: Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey, Fri, Dec. 7th

by Viviane on 12/06/2024

in Events, nyc

fifty writers on fifty shades of grey Between the Covers reading series: Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey, Fri, Dec. 7thOn December 7th, the erotic reading series Between the Covers will host contributors and examine E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy at the Happy Ending Lounge.

Featuring contributors to Smart Pop’s latest title, Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey , this diverse group includes:

-    Reading Series Host: Lori Perkins, editor of Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey, publisher of Riverdale Avenue Books, and editor of 20 erotic anthologies
-    Laura Antoniou, author of the long-celebrated BDSM series, The Marketplace
-    Susan Colón, romance novelist and O, The Oprah Magazine contributor
-    Sherri Donovan, matrimonial lawyer
-    Melisa Febos, memoirist and author of Whip Smart
-    Megan Frampton, romance novelist and Heroes and Heartbreakers romance blog moderator
-    Louise Fury, literary agent
-    Catherine Hiller, author and PhD
-    Debra Hyde, winner of the 2011 Best Lesbian Erotica Lambda Literary Award for her BDSM tale Story of L
-    D.L. King, erotic romance author and BDSM lifestyle participant
-    Hope Tarr, PhD, historical and contemporary romance author

When: Friday, Dec., 7th, 8:00 PM
Where: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street (bet. Forsyth and Eldridge. Pink awning says “Xie He Health Club”)
Admission: FREE

About Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey

In Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey, 50 writers—from romance and erotica authors, to real-world BDSM practitioners, to adult entertainment industry professionals—continue the conversation with sections on Fifty Shades as erotic fiction, sexual empowerment, fanfiction, and pop culture.

“Fascinating examination of E.L. James’s Fifty Shades trilogy . . . Love Fifty Shades or hate it, this engaging and eclectic read has a little bit of something for everyone.”
—Publishers Weekly starred review

E. L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy has fascinated and seduced millions of readers. In bedrooms, in book clubs, and in the media, people can’t stop talking about it!

About Between the Covers and Smart Pop

Between the Covers reading series spotlights authors and their works with readings, door prizes, and endless enthusiasm for all things erotically edgy. Hosted by publisher and editor Lori Perkins, the series happens the first Friday of the month at Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street, New York, New York.

Doors open at 7:00 pm. for socializing.

Reading begins promptly at 8:00! Between the Covers is a 21-and-older event.

Website: http://betweenthecovers.journurl.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/BtwnCoverReads
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Between-The-Covers-Reading-Series/447454878640642

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Lesbian Sex Mafia presents Beyond Bowed Heads: Rituals for Dominance and submission with Lee Harrington

by Viviane on 11/28/2024

in Events, Events, Fetish & Kink

LeeHarrington inMelbourne byLeeHarrington 225x300 Lesbian Sex Mafia presents Beyond Bowed Heads: Rituals for Dominance and submission with Lee Harrington

 

Rituals are a key part of any D/s relationship, whether we acknowledge them or not. From casual kisses as the door to formal slave poses, ritual objects such as collars to slave contracts, the BDSM world is rife with concepts of ritual- but what is a ritual? What are the levels of ritualistic interaction we have between one another? Let’s look at rituals for day to day life (including how to get out of work or parent space), sacred time, intense connection, erotic play, solidifying relationships, changes within our relationships, and the taboo subject of the devastating loss of a relationship or its natural end. From terminology to developing your own code of ethical interaction, this class covers a bevy of styles and types of interpersonal reactions.

Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), New York, NY
Date/Time: Friday December 21, 2012, 8:00-10:00 PM
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10
Fetlife RSVP: https://fetlife.com/events/137594

About Lee Harrington

Lee Harrington is an internationally known spiritual and erotic educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist and award-winning author and editor on human sexuality and sacred experience. He is a nice guy with a disarmingly down to earth approach to the fact that we are each beautifully complex ecosystems, and we deserve to examine the human experience from that lens. He’s been traveling the globe (from Seattle to Sydney, Berlin to Boston), teaching and talking about sexuality, psychology, faith, desire and more, and has no intention to stop any time soon. He has been an academic and an adult film performer, a world class sexual adventurer, an outspoken philosopher, is a kink/bondage expert, and has been blogging about sex and spirituality since 1998.

His books include “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Negotiating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities” (with Mollena Williams), “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond,” “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé,” the “Toybag Guide to Age Play,” and “Shed Skins: Journeying in Self-Portraits.” He has also worked as an anthology editor on such projects as “Rope, Bondage, and Power” and “Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink,” while contributing actively to other anthologies, magazines, blogs and collaborations internationally. Check out the trouble Lee has been getting into, as well as his regular podcast, tour schedule, free essays, videos and more over at www.PassionAndSoul.com.

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.

For ASL interpretation request please email LSMNYC@hotmail.com.

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

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