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Midori invites you to a special series of classes in NYC, Oct 24 – Nov 1

by Viviane on 10/19/2024

in Events, Midori

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!

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Jon Stewart and Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show)

by Viviane on 03/29/2025

in bdsm

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
A Room of One’s Own
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook

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.

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LSM presents: A Servant’s Toolkit – Guide to being prepared with Laine

by Viviane on 10/08/2024

in Events

laine LSM presents: A Servants Toolkit Guide to being prepared with Laine

Presented by Lesbian Sex Mafia
Where:  LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave)
Cost:  $5/LSM members, $10/Non members

Just as with the Boy Scouts, one of the many mottoes a servant should have is “be prepared”. In this class, we discuss the principles of preparedness, working off of the Dominant’s expectations, tools in research and preparedness and example methods of preparedness for day to day, cars, special events and travel. Handouts of sample checklists and planning methods will be provided, but the focus is on building a mindset and skills to allow one to prepare for situations that may come up in service.

About Laine
Laine has been involved in the D/s and M/s community since 1996 when she began exploring submission and surrender. Since then, she has had the privilege of serving as a submissive, servant and service slave in contracts ranging from short term to multi-year. Currently in a year of personal reflection and growth, Laine has left San Francisco and travels extensively. She keeps her home base in New York City, close to her Leather Family: Sovereign House, where she functions as Family Majordomo. Laine’s love of service is an expression of her spirit, heart and soul. While expressing this, she has had the chance to train in and focus on the roles of domestic servant, chauffeur, cook, companion, ladies maid, butler and majordomo. Laine also has a great love of etiquette, service hierarchies, formal protocols, cigars, wine, and food. Power fluid, and gender fluid, Laine also enjoys being a Daddy to special little girls, and is enjoying her dominant side as well as the occasional, shockingly vanilla romantic date. Self-mastery, presence, spiritual leather and living with integrity are her aspirations and touchstones.

About LSM
Lesbian Sex Mafia (LSM) is a support and information group for all women 18 years of age or older, including transexual and intersexed women who live their daily lives as women and all female-born transgender people who feel they have a connection with and respect for the women’s community. And, who are interested in fantasy and role playing, bondage, discipline, S/M, fetishes, costumes, alternate gender identities and uninhibited sexual expression in a safe, sane, consensual and confidential way.

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Passionate Bonds: Creating EmPowered D/s Relationships w Laura Antoniou and Midori

by Viviane on 06/25/2024

in bdsm, Events

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

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The Mistress Manual

by Domina Doll on 04/03/2024

in bdsm, book, books, dominance, femdom

mistressmanual The Mistress Manual

“The Mistress Manual: A Good Girl’s Guide to Female Dominance” is an instruction handbook by Mistress Lorelei, published by Greenery Press. Its focus is on heterosexual female dominance, but much of the information can be adapted to other gender play scenarios. Written by Lorelei, an experienced lifestyle Dominatrix and feminist, it provides information to women “at all levels of the art”.

In Part One: Becoming a Mistress, Lorelei talks about how expressing one’s female dominance is liberating within the constraints of patriarchal culture, by transforming the power exchange and defying the prescribed gender roles. She also encourages women (and men) to embrace their “shadow selves”, the sides that are denied them in everyday life, but ones they can experience through fantasy. According to the author, the submissive is able to experience an emotional catharsis, by letting go and enjoying a sense of freedom.

Part Two: The Mistress in Action discusses practical ways to assert one’s dominance, the art of discipline and the skills one needs to become a successful Domme. Some of the tools the author examines includes using suspense (mystery and anticipation) and variation to create a compelling scene fantasy, creating a set, using costumes and props, choreographing a scene, punishment as a form of pleasure and release, as well as rewards and aftercare. She also provides plenty of information on various techniques including spanking and flagellation, bondage, humiliation and forms of control.

In Part Three: The Five Archetypal Fantasies, Lorelei introduces the main role playing models: Nursemaid, Governess, Queen, Amazon and Goddess and what part these play in fulfilling fantasies. The following chapters then go on to explain these roles in depth with examples and suggestions. The book also includes an afterword with “Ten Rules for a Successful Mistress” which is a visual summary of the lessons learned within.

The Mistress Manual has a wealth of information, much more than can be covered in a short review. It is well written, with an emphasis on the psychological as well as the physical aspects of D/s. It is an excellent read that has plenty to offer for both novices and seasoned pros.

The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl’s Guide to Female Dominance

is available on Amazon.com The Mistress Manual

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