Events

Booklaunchecard11 29 NYC Pleasure Salon, Thursday, Nov. 29th: Book Launch Party & BenefitPlease join us to celebrate the publication of Mark Michaels & Patricia Johnson’s Great Sex made Simple and Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades, edited by Lori Perkins. Books will be available for purchase, and authors will be available to sign. We’re also collecting donations to benefit the Ali Forney Center for homeless LGBT youth, which was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

Location: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome St. (Pink awning says “Xie He Health”)
Cost: FREE
Dress code: STREET
Facebook RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/412767538786770/
Fetlife RSVP: https://fetlife.com/events/127340

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.

Please friend “Patricia Selina Mark” on FaceBook or join the Pleasure Salon group on Facebook or FetLife to communicate with other attendees.

In pleasure,

Patricia Johnson, Selina Fire & Mark Michaels

SinclairSexsmith bySydLondon 300x300 Lesbian Sex Mafia presents Fucking Forever: Sex in Long Term Relationships with Sinclair Sexsmith, Fri., Nov. 16

 

New relationship energy can propel a couple into a phenomenal experiential phase of sexual energy—bursts of passion, exploration, and intensity. Long term relationships, however, face the day-to-day life navigation of bills, scheduling, job and career difficulties or changes, disappointments, changes, and grief. How do we build a long term relationship that keeps the passion alive? How do we ensure we have enough time for our partner(s), and for ourselves? How do we both separate from our partner to have our own rich inner life and come back together to build a loving bond? And what kind of kinky play can be used to keep the fire going? We’ll explore all of these concepts and more at this interactive workshop.

Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), New York, NY
Date/Time: Friday November 16, 8:00-10:00 PM
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10

ABOUT Sinclair Sexsmith
Sinclair Sexsmith (mrsexsmith.com) writes the award-winning personal online project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at sugarbutch.net. They have contributed to more than a dozen anthologies, and is the editor of Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica. They teach workshops on gender and sexuality throughout the US, including at various colleges.

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.

Photo credit: Syd London

fifty writers on fifty shades of grey DomSubFriends: 50 Writers on 50 Shades of Grey, Fri., Nov. 16DomSubFriends will host an insightful and scintillating event on E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy at Paddles S&M club. There will be a Fifty Shades of Play BDSM demonstration, followed by a panel discussion featuring contributors to Smart Pop’s latest title, Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey (available everywhere books are sold on November 20).

Join Dominant ChrisMarks and his submissive and romantic partner Lia as they explain what each of them gets from their BDSM relationship. Their demonstration will include sensation play with some pain, restraint, spanking, flogging, and will end with whipping, followed by aftercare.

The panel portion of the evening will include a diverse group of expert panelists:

  • Moderator: Lori Perkins, editor of Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey, publisher of Riverdale Avenue Books, and editor of 20 erotic anthologies
  • Sinnamon Love, former porn star and BDSM Dominant
  • D.L. King, erotic romance author and BDSM lifestyle participant
  • Pamela Madsen, author of bestselling submissive memoir Shameless, and women’s health and sexuality advocate
  • Selina Fire, host of the monthly Pleasure Salon, a kinky cocktail party, and sex writer
  • Stacey Agdern, bookseller at Posman Books in the Grand Central Terminal and romance reviewer
  • Mala Battacharjee, erotic romance writer and Romantic Times Book Reviews staff member
  • Susan Colón, romance novelist and O, The Oprah Magazine contributor
  • Megan Frampton, romance novelist and Heroes and Heartbreakers romance blog moderator
  • Debra Hyde, winner of the 2011 Best Lesbian Erotica Lambda Literary Award for her BDSM tale Story of L
  • Rachel Kenley, erotic romance author and editor
  • Katharine Sands, literary agent
  • Hope Tarr, PhD, historical and contemporary romance author

When: Friday, November 16th at Paddles
Time: 7:45 PM – 9:45 PM (doors open 7:30 PM)
Address: Paddles, 250 West 26th Street, NYC (Btw: 7th/8th Ave)

Facebook RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/507774242579804/

Fetlife RSVP: https://fetlife.com/events/135803
18+ years old to attend

About Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey

—-”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!

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.

Book Details: Title: Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey
Editor: Lori Perkins
Publisher: Smart Pop (An Imprint of BenBella Books), distributed by Perseus Distribution
Publication: November 20, 2012, $14.95 (CAN $17.50),

More information is available at the publisher page:

http://www.smartpopbooks.com/book/fifty-writers-on-fifty-shades-of-grey

About DomSubFriends Meetings & Socials

Everyone 18+ years old is welcomed to attend.
All meetings are $4 for DSF, $6 for affiliate members, and $10 for non members.

DomSubFriends parties are held the 4th Friday of each month.
DomSubFriends meetings are held the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month at Paddles; the World’s longest running BDSM club.
Address: #250 West 26th Street, NYC (Bet: 7th/8th Ave)-entrance through the parking lot.

Paddles management is gracious to offer all male attendees of DSF meetings a 50% discount (only $20) to stay afterwards when the club opens to their guests at 10 PM. Females can stay after the meeting at only $5, providing they are members of DomSubFriends (or affiliate group); otherwise it’s $10 to stay.

For savings to DSF meetings, affiliate meetings, fetish vendors and S&M clubs, take a look at our website. Discover the many benefits of becoming a DSF member via the net or in person at one of our meetings.

On a separate Note:
If any BDSM or Alternative Lifestyle group would like to post their events on our website calendar, get a password by dropping us a note.

DSF Website http://DomSubFriends.com
DSF on Fetlife: http://fetlife.com/groups/2505
DSF E-mail: DomSubFriends@aol.com
DSF tele: 646-319-2780

Dixie and Midori Bawdy House Bawdy Luxe, presented by Dixie de La Tour and Midori

Storytellers include:
- ‘SuperNova of Kink’ & Sex Educator Midori
- Marketplace & Leather Women series Author Laura Antoniou
- AVN Hall of Fame porn star & radio host Sinnamon Love
- Pervy Artist & Instigator Nayland Blake
- UrbanErotika host & producer Mo Beasley
- Dirty Uke (& rape whistle) by Jessica Delfino

*Plus Sex Toy Giveaways from Vixen Creations & Aneros!*
Bawdy Storytelling – the express train that always goes downtown – is approaching its sixth notorious year in San Francisco and Oakland, and we wanna get out and see how the rest of the country does ‘it.’ So we’re launching in new cities everyday… Next stop: New York!

Join the celebrated Dame of the Dirty Dish, Miss Dixie De La Tour (host & curatrix of Bawdy Storytelling) as she teams up for the first time with that infamous ‘SuperNova of Kink,’ Midori! We’re calling this racy evening of storytelling & socializing ‘Bawdy Luxe,’ and for one night only we invite you to rub elbows (& who knows what else?) with NYC’s Perverati in a private Gotham loft with us. Drink, nosh & enjoy pornstars, kinkstars & surprise rockstar guests as they share true stories from their very twisted and sexy, sexy lives. What better way to build sex-positive community than to meet and be inspired by the city’s carnal cohorts?

Bawdy Luxe will take place at a chi-chi Manhattan loft (near Chelsea), and since social connection and community building is at the core of what we do, we’ll allow plenty of time to meet and mingle. But note: we won’t sell tickets at the door,* so get your tickets NOW. And keep an eye out for updates to our storyteller roster – we’re adding new big shots every day.

Tickets (sold only in advance) are $20 at
http://bawdyluxe.eventbrite.com/

Remember: Doors at 7, Stories at 8

* This event’s address will be e-mailed after ticket purchase.
** Consider this an opening event for Midori’s always sold out FortéFemme Intensive workshop (October 26-28th). http://www.fhp-inc.com/fortefemme

“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly

The Nation’s Original Sex+Storytelling series featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits in 10 minutes or less

Performer Bios:

- Frequent sightings of Midori from around the globe make us wonder if she ever sleeps or if she’s cloned her self. A sexuality educator, sex-positive activist, and artist, she’s made an improbable career out of being the traveling sexpert. Don’t miss the groundbreaking book “Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage” which first cracked open the mysteries to Westerners, the hot essays in “Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink” and twisted dark science fiction in “Master Han’s Daughter”. Learn the basics in “Midori’s Expert Guide to Sensual Bondage” DVD. Don’t miss her other classes in your area! (www.FHP-inc.com). You’ll find her adventures, twitters, calendar and more at www.PlanetMidori.com

- Laura Antoniou is the author of the well known, now 20-year-old Marketplace series of erotic BDSM novels, and many short stories, essays and rants cleverly disguised as speeches. In 2011, Laura won the John Preston Short Fiction Award from the National Leather Association, for her short story, “That’s Harsh,” which appears in the e-book edition of The Slave. In addition, she is the co-author (with her wife, Karen) of a ritually correct Leather Passover Seder, Avadim Chayanu (Once We Were Slaves). Laura had edited about a dozen erotic anthologies and appeared in many more. The Marketplace has been acquired by Audible to be produced for the first time as an audio book, and in 2013, her first mystery, The Killer Wore Leather and the 6th Marketplace book, The Inheritor, and the first collection of Marketplace fan fiction, No Safewords, are all slated for release. Her website is lantoniou.com; there you can follow her travels, book her for appearances and read an occasional tirade.

- Sinnamon Love is an adult film star, fetish model, professional dominatrix, writer, radio personality & single mom of 3 teenagers living in Brooklyn, NY. Since 1993, Love has appeared in over 250 hardcore movies, numerous men’s magazines and countless appearances on Playboy TV & Radio. In 2010, Sinnamon took on a year long tour with The Punany Poets of HBO’s “Real Sex” fame, a sex positive erotic poetry & sex education theater show. She is a frequent guest on Shade 45 on Sirius/ XM radio. Love is currently a staff writer & relationship columnist for TheWellVersed.com. In 2010 she was inducted into the Urban X Awards’ Hall of Fame followed by induction into the AVN Awards’ Hall of Fame in 2011. She is an outspoken Autism/ Asperger’s parent advocate and has recently taken on improving sex education in Inner City schools. Love can be heard on DTFRadio.com every Thursday night from midnight-2am on her radio show, Sex, Love and Hip Hop. Her show is a relationship advice show featuring good music, well known and underground hip hop artists, sex educators, adult stars and every day people, discussing real topics for the urban demographic.

- Mo Beasley is Founder, Producing Director, and Host of UrbanErotika produced by The LoveStorm Entertainment Group, LLC. Beasley’s wealth of professional experience and expertise from the world of theater, both on stage and behind-the-scene, helped him mold the brand into the successful “spoken-word theatre in concert” mainstay that it is today. He also frequently performs and conducts workshops at colleges, universities, conferences, and small-group seminars.

- Jessica Delfino is a critically acclaimed and award winning musician who has performed her quirky comedy songs all over the world in festivals, theaters, and on TV and the radio. Winner of a “Village Voice Choice” Award and the “ECNY Best Comedic Musician” award, Jessica has performed on Good Morning America, the Russell Brand radio show, the historic Loose Ends Programme on BBC4, at the infamous Reading and Leeds Festival among others, on Fox’s Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld, The Opie and Anthony Show and more. Jessica has also written songs for Morgan Spurlock’s “What Would Jesus Buy?” feature film and regularly performs at NYC’s most premiere music and comedy venues such as Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, UCB and more. Two of her songs have “gone viral” on YouTube. Most recently, Jessica created the NY Funny Songs Festival.

Winner of the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award

“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly

More info at www.BawdyStorytelling.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bawdystorytelling
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Bawdy
Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/user/BawdyStoryTelling
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/bawdystories

2012 07 31 midoriheadshot 002ed 199x300 Midori invites you to a special series of classes in NYC, Oct 24   Nov 1

Midori has organized a series of special, intimate classes and events in her New York salon space. She invites all of you to enjoy a place where playing, learning, exploring and enjoying are the priority!

October 24: Kinesthetic Rope: Dynamic Movements to Revolutionize Your Play
Learn the foundation and secret of truly hot rope bondage play through this ingenious and unusual class.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/207902859341517/
Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/events/132460
Purchase tickets at http://planetmidori.ticketleap.com/nyc-kine/

October 25: Bawdy Luxe, presented by Dixie de la Tour and Midori
The Nation’s Original Sex+Storytelling series featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits in 10 minutes or less
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/150993415044349/?ref=ts&fref=ts
Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/events/131419
Purchase tickets at http://bawdyluxe.eventbrite.com/

October 29: Real Life Protocol & Etiquette: The 4 Environments with Laura Antoniou & Midori
Learn practical parameters of creating effective protocol for your M/s and D/s relationships that seamlessly mesh into real life and all levels of different formalities.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/273257806111059/
Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/events/132552/v2
Purchase tickets at http://planetmidori.ticketleap.com/nyc-protocol/

October 30: Afternoon Oasis of Pleasure: Play, Learn, Explore & Enjoy
Escape to Midori’s gorgeous private weekday afternoon oasis of delight in the heart of New York & indulge your sensual desires!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/349429838484530/
Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/events/132590
Purchase tickets at http://planetmidori.ticketleap.com/nyc-oasis/

October 30: Rope Bondage: Hands-on Body Harness
Learn to create gorgeous, effective and arousing rope body harnesses! Body harnesses are fantastic for all types of bodies and many different sorts of scenes.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/534006973279969/
Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/events/132591
Purchase tickets at http://planetmidori.ticketleap.com/nyc-harness/

Why not enjoy both the Oasis and the class? Buy tickets for both at a discount!

November 1: Art of Feminine Dominance
Using a special technique she developed, Midori will help you to find your inner power femme archetype, allowing you to pursue erotic fulfillment of sensual power play.
at Purple Passion boutique. 211 West 20th st between 7th and 8th Avenues
Partner attendance encouraged
Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/events/117030
Purchase tickets at http://store.purplepassion.com/servlet/Detail?no=12…

These are limited attendance events and spaces will fill up quickly!