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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

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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

Lesbian Sex Mafia presents Stone Sexuality and Kink with Corey Alexander

by Viviane on 01/12/2025

in sex

alley 300x225 Lesbian Sex Mafia presents Stone Sexuality and Kink with Corey AlexanderStone is often only seen as an absence, a loss, a problem. This interactive workshop offers an alternative perspective on stone, celebrating the hotness of stone sex and play, discussing the impact of anti-stone prejudice, and ways we all can honor the desires and boundaries of our partners and ourselves.

Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), New York, NY
Date/Time: Friday January 18, 2013, 8:00-10:00 PM. Our annual workshop at which all genders are welcome.
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10
Fetlife RSVP: https://fetlife.com/events/147217

About Corey Alexander

Corey Alexander is a TG Stone Butch writer and activist, who has been organizing kink education and presenting classes on kink, sex, and relationships in the NYC area since 2003. His queer kink erotica is published widely under the nom de plume Xan West, and centers trans and genderqueer characters. He is plotting a book on pain and is about to move to the SF Bay Area.

About Lesbian Sex Mafia

Lesbian Sex Mafia (http://www.lesbiansexmafia.org) (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.

DomSubFriends: 50 Writers on 50 Shades of Grey, Fri., Nov. 16

by Viviane on 11/12/2024

in Events, Events, Fetish & Kink, sex

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

ZeFrank: Sex Questions

by Viviane on 10/16/2024

in sex

I found this thanks to Mollena: “-SHOULD be required viewing starting from Jr High. And we “adults” need this, too.”

Bookmarks for 5-15-2012

by Viviane on 05/14/2024

in del.icio.us, sex

  • ‘A Queer and Pleasant Danger’ by Kate Bornstein | Lambda Literary – In A Queer and Pleasant Danger Bornstein offers a raw exploration of her gender journey, including candid explorations of her lifelong eating disorders and their relationship to her conception of self and gender. Bornstein gives us the opportunity to see behind the scenes and into the early gender outlaw days of one of the most brilliant gender theorists and performance artists of our time. We watch as she grapples with coming out as a lesbian, learning how to work cute as an embodiment of gender, and find power in the body she transforms. Bornstein brings us into her early activist days, including a trip to the trial of Brandon Tina’s murders, visiting the house where Tina died, as well as to the stage of her first queer performance work.
  • When Children See Internet Pornography – NYTimes.com – There is no set script, and no predictable moment for the conversation. It can happen at as early an age as 6 or 7, when a child may not yet understand the basic mechanics of sex. It is typically set off by a child’s accidental wanderings online or the deliberate searches of a curious teenager on a smartphone, laptop, tablet or one of the other devices that have made it nearly impossible to grow up without encountering sexually explicit material. Even a quick Twitter or Facebook search reveals that older students report seeing pornography on others’ laptops or phones in class, usually with an “OMG” attached.
  • Sexuality and Other Female (Film) Troubles – NYTimes.com – “I wanted to make a Merchant-Ivory movie with vibrators,” Ms. Wexler, 42, said sitting in an office in Midtown Manhattan, her long brown hair bouncing every time she let out a booming laugh. “And in doing that, strangely, we’ve shone a light. Can you believe we’re still arguing about these same topics 100 years later — women’s rights over their own body? If a woman is behind the camera, these issues can be explored more than they have in the past.”
  • Sex Ed for Grown Folks — Indiegogo – Support The Garden, a DC based sexual education resource . The money raised here will help create space for people of all ages and walks of life to find the resources they need to ask the questions they might not know how to ask. Space for queer, trans, straight, gay, bi, poly, pomosexual, unsure, in between, on the edge, and in the closet people to come and figure it all out. Take a class. Buy that toy you’ve been eyeing online but needed to feel first. Seek the resources and find the therapists, coaches and body workers who won’t judge you for who are or how you live. Come to The Garden, ask the questions, get educated and find your pleasure.
  • Facebook and poly privacy « Polyamory Weekly – Is it OK to list my relationship status as “open” on Facebook if my girlfriend isn’t out publicly?
  • Library ban on best-seller sparks Florida censorship debate – USATODAY.com – Instead, the Brevard library chose recently to close the book on British author E.L. James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Cathy Schweinsberg, library services director, decided after reading the novel to pull from circulation the system’s 19 copies of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the first installment in a trilogy.
  • For Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Abuse Cases, a Prosecutor Uses Different Rules – NYTimes.com – Mr. Hynes has won election six times as district attorney thanks in part to support from ultra-Orthodox rabbis, who lead growing communities in neighborhoods like Borough Park and Crown Heights. But in recent years, as allegations of child sexual abuse have shaken the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, victims’ rights groups have expressed concern that he is not vigorously pursuing these cases because of his deep ties to the rabbis.

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