From the monthly archives:

May 2009

06/20/2009
6:00 PMto10:00 PM

lpn1 NYCs 26TH Annual Leather Pride Night Auction, 6/20

NEW YORK, NY May 4, 2009 — The 26th annual Leather Pride Night Auction will take place on Saturday, June 20th, 2009. This year the festivities will be at Splash, 50 West 17th Street. Splash’s doors will open for LPN at 6:00 PM, and the auction will run from 7 PM until 10:00 PM. Liquor, beer, wine and soft drinks will be provided at a cash bar. Light finger food will be served. A sign language interpreter will be present throughout the evening. This year, as every year, there will be a team of bootblacks to keep your boots and shoes looking sharp. All tips go toward the event’s total for the beneficiaries. We encourage everyone to come early to view the items up for auction, get your boots blacked, and be seen!

Jo Arnone, LPN’s veteran auctioneer, will preside over almost a hundred items being auctioned, including leather and latex fetish clothing, unique toys and equipment, art objects, event passes and tickets, and much more.

Leather Pride Night is sponsored by ten NYC S/m-leather- fetish organizations: Gay Male S/M Activists, Iron Guard BC, Lesbian Sex Mafia, MAsT Metro NY, MetroBears NY, New York boys of Leather (NYboL), Pariah’s MC, The Eulenspiegel Society and ONYX NY and many committed individuals.

Over the years, Leather Pride Night has donated over $300,000 for local and national charities. This year, Leather Pride Night will donate the 2008 Auction proceeds to: The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Carmen’s Place, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, By The Grace of George: The Pitbull Angel Fund and as is customary, an annual donation to Heritage of Pride, the producer of New York’s annual Pride Parade. Tickets for Leather Pride Night are $15 in advance, and $20 at the door. Paypal payment is available at the LPN website www.leatherpridenight.org. Tickets can also be obtained at any of the sponsoring organizations or the beneficiary organizations, as well as the following supporting commercial venues: The Baroness, David Samuel Menkes Custom Leatherwear, DomSubFriends, Purple Passion / DV8, The Leather Man, Passional, Nasty Pig, Le Chateau Exotique and Come Again.

Leather Pride Night is part of a season of fabulous leather and fetish- oriented events in New York City.

Kicking off the weekend of leather events, on Friday June 20th, Lesbian Sex Mafia will be hosting a talk and demonstration by LPN committee member Lady Sabrina, on Spanking Techniques from Sensual to Discipline and More. Held at the LGBT Center in Manhattan, 208 West 13th Street. For information, call 212 726-3844 or go to: http://www.lesbiansexmafia.org/.

Immediately following Leather Pride Night on Saturday, keep the Leather Pride energy going at the all-gender Eulenspiegel Society (TES) play party, “A Midsummer Night’s LPN After Party” at Paddles from
10pm to 3am. For more info: www.tes.org.

On Sunday, June 21st, GMSMA presents FOLSOM STREET EAST, an S/m-
leather-fetish block party on West 28th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) in front of the Eagle NYC Bar. Over 10,000 leathermen and women cap off Leather Pride Weekend with the largest outdoor festival of its kind on the East Coast. For more info: www.folsomstreeteast.org.

That night, following Folsom Street East, women and trans are invited to LSM’s Leather Pride Women & Trans Play Party. LSM’s annual party is their biggest with folks traveling from all over the country to join in the fun. From 6:00 PM to 12:00 AM. For tickets and location, call 212-726-3844 or write LSMNYC@hotmail. com.

This year, leather pride continues into July with TESFest 09. Held on July 4-6, 2009 in New Jersey. With special events, over 100 classes, a 24-hour dungeon space and vendors, TESFest 09 promises to be the must-attend event of the summer. It also promises outdoor play and nude swimming in the hotel pool. All info can be found at www.tesfest.org.

The Leather Pride Night Committee is dedicated to promoting freedom of sexual self-expression, and actively works to improve the image and understanding of S/m and fetish lifestyles. It meets on the first Thursday of the month (October through June) at 8:00PM at the LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street.

There is no photography or cellular telephone usage allowed at the event. Media photography inquiries can be directed to Darrell at Darrellblackandblue@yahoo.com

LPN is run by volunteers! If you want to volunteer, send email to LPNnyc@aol.com

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Crash Pad Series Volume 4
Director: Shine Louise Houston
Studi0: Pink and White / Blowfish Video
Cast: Brooklyn Flaco, Carson, Jiz Lee, Dallas, Sadie Lune, Tricksie Treat, Stella, Ex, Muscle Beach

crashpad4 Crash Pad Series Volume 4

Thank you to Blowfish.com for sending me the latest in Pink and White Production’s “Crash Pad Series Volume 4“.  If you’ve read my other reviews of Pink and White films and the Crash Pad series (Champion, Unlocked, Crash Pad Series, Volume 1 and Superfreak), you will know that I love/lust these films.  Each film is different and offers something unique and diverse, which to me is what independent porn is all about.  Sure, if you have a great formula (and Pink & White does) serve it up again and again, but it is always cool to try something a bit different too and throw that into the mix.

What’s different about Volume 4?  Well, there’s a lot more Top/bottom D/s play in this film, more so that the others, which is super fucking hot.  I love girls/bois/femmes/dykes getting it on hardcore and real, but I especially love it when a bit of domination is thrown in for good measure.  It creates a whole new dynamic in the sex, which for me makes it sizzle.  And, look forward to some new faces in this film as well!

Here’s the Scene-by-Scene Play

Scene 1- Brooklyn Flaco and Carson

Okay.  I loved Carson in Lesbian Life – Real Sex San Francisco by Madison Young, and she is really hot here too.  Both Carson and Brooklyn are boyishly femme, although Carson much more femme.  Brooklyn has amazing tattoos including a wicked back piece.  Both are slender built, although Carson much more curvy.  I loved Brooklyn’s cute superhero undies too.  The sex, well was a bit, subdued.  I like a lot of enthusiasm in a sex scene that is auditory, ie: moans, fuck-me-harder, screaming, what-have-you, as long as it is real.  This scene was pretty quiet, so I couldn’t get into it as much as I would have liked.  The sex is pretty ordinary as well, just hands and fisting, no oral or toys, so I would have liked to see a bit more diverse play between them.  Not a bad scene, just didn’t sizzle.

Scene 2- Jiz Lee and Dallas

Jiz Lee is always amazing and such a pro.  I love Dallas too, and she was really hot with Syd Blakovich in Champion.  Both are boyish, slender, gender-bending dykes.  I guess Dallas was having a hard time being topped in this scene and was feeling the pressure to orgasm, so switched it around and topped Jiz.  This is totally cool, because for me the dynamics seem to fit better with Jiz who is more naturally submissive.  The two wrestle around a lot, but Dallas takes the lead and fists Jiz to a squirting orgasm which is one of Jiz’s amazing talents.  Pretty hot scene overall.

Scene 3- Sadie Lune and Tricksie Treat

Sadie and Tricksie are new to the Crash Pad.  Sadie plays the Top and Tricksie the bottom.  The scene starts a bit awkward as they “role play” with Tricksie playing the bottom who doesn’t want to be punished.  Lots of talk going on in the scene, but it takes a while to heat up.  About mid-way, they forget the “play” and the sex becomes more real, so it does get pretty good by the end.  Tricksie rides Sadie’s cock, straddling her hips and gives herself a huge orgasm with the help of a Hitachi.  The orgasm is pretty powerful and very real.  I like the end where Sadie brings Tricksie back down to earth by kind-of grounding her, then a great after-care cuddle session.  Not bad for a first time porn scene together.

Scene 4- Cash and Stella

Cash is very butch and Stella is rather femme.  They seem to be real lovers (in the after scene interview I get this impression).  They both switch it up giving and taking it in turns.  It was really cool seeing Cash get fisted, being the butch and all, and having a wicked on-screen orgasm.  I am so used to butch’s playing top all the time so this was an interesting perspective and seemed very vulnerable.  Stella is pretty cute, but sure talks a lot during sex.  She uses positive affirmations quite a bit, which is cool, but a bit distracting as well.  She has a pretty good orgasm at the end, compliments of Cash.

Scene 5- Ex and Muscle Beach

Saving the best for last!  This is the scene on the cover of Volume 4 and is really fucking amazing.  It is so different than anything I’ve seen so far: so fun and natural.  Ex is a nasty femme Daddy bitch Top.  However, as nasty as she gets, she is totally playful, fun and laughing the whole way.  Her enthusiasm and pleasure is contagious.  Muscle Beach—okay, super drool factor here.  A boi with a Daddy fetish and love for nasty pain mixed pleasure.  MB is late and needs to be punished.  She thinks of a couple lame excuses before coming clean and telling the truth.  Although they are long-time lovers, their play comes across as spontaneous and unscripted.  Ex is very savvy as a Top and experienced, with a hell of a confident vibrato.  MB is submissive, but also a bit bratty, so definitely deserving of her whacks.  Features excellent rope-play, spanking, pounding, nipple torture, humiliation, outstanding scene dynamics and is so fun and playful, it will leave you laughing.  It will also surprise you as well.  This is their first scene together in a porn film and I really hope they do more.  Fantastic scene!

Okay.  So that’s the scoop on the new “Crash Pad Series Volume 4“.  New faces (and hot bodies) with a mix of some D/s.  Lots of fun and something for everyone.  Check it out and all the Crash Pad Series Films at Blowfish.com!

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treasureofthesea Treasure of the Sea

My favorite Kama Sutra product is not actually a sexuality product at all.  It is Treasure of the Sea, a bath and body product, which certainly can be used together by couples in the bathtub, or will make you feel pretty sexy afterwards.

Kama Sutra’s Treasure of the Sea is a luxurious scented bath salt enriched with a blend of organic ingredients derived from dulse, kelp, sea salts and mineral oils. The bath salts come in a nice plastic tin for storage with ancient Indian-styled images of mermaids swimming through the sea. The tin contains 24.6 oz (500g) of ocean blue bath salts and a seashell scoop.

My partner and I love to share a bath together. It is a sensual time for both of us to relax and wash away the stress of the day.  Until I purchased Treasure of the Sea we used Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) in our bath to soothe our tired muscles, which we always loved.  But, Treasure of the Sea is so much better than just sea salts alone.

sexybath1 Treasure of the Sea

You only need ½-1 scoop for a full size 6 foot bathtub which will turn your tub water into the color of a tropical sea, with foamy suds floating on top as a sensual, fresh aroma fills the bathroom. We use the salts about 3 times a week and a tub lasts us about two months, so pretty good value.  Magnesium sulphate, one of the ingredients of Treasure of the Sea, is used in flotation therapy which makes the body more buoyant, so you feel the weight of your limbs and body floating away.  It soothes the muscles leaving you wonderfully relaxed and your skin silky soft and sensual.  It is a must have Kama Sutra product and one of the only products I buy on a regular basis and hate to run out of.  Taking a bath without it, just isn’t the same.

Treasure of the Sea-like many of the Kama Sutra products-is designed to enhance sensual awareness and encourage intimacy. Together with other Kama Sutra products like the Oil of Love, Honey Dust or the Weekender Kit, Treasure of the Sea is a great start to a night of intimacy, pampering and sensual sex. Both my partner and I love this product and use it for a tropical get-away as near as our tub.  Which reminds me-bath night tonight!

Visit PinkCherry.com to check out all their sensual love products including my favorite Treasure of the Sea.  Shopping in Canada?  No problem.  Check out Pinkcherry.ca!

pinkcherrylogo2 Treasure of the Sea

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Sarah Seltzer:

The last time a doctor was murdered in cold blood for providing abortion care to women, we were not in the digital age. While the pro-choice community in the 90s reacted to Dr. Bernard Slepian’s murder with the same outrage and hurt as it has this week to Dr. George Tiller’s, the Internet has provided us with tools that have enabled us to more effectively shape the discourse.

Yes, many TV shows and mainstream pundits (ahem! Chris Matthews and Will Saletan, popular offenders) have trotted out the expected all-male panels and high-minded philosophical musings in the wake of an unspeakable tragedy. But a strong counter movement calling the incident “terrorism” and pointing out the the far-right “pro-life” movement’s rampant hypocrisy has emerged online. We owe this to an engaged, savvy and active blogosphere and twittersphere of feminists that have been able to launch accurate, appropriate language into circulation and gather evidence that this assassination was part of a larger pattern of purposeful hate and intimidation.

Link

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9 NYC Weekly Leather Dates: June 4 10

Ten on hogtied.com

Thursday, June 4

Friday, June 5
DSF: “From The Bible Belt: Kinbaku-bi 21st Century” w/ Pastor Ken & Dr. Mattathias
NYC Munch

Saturday, June 6
Kinbaku-Bi 21st Century Exhibit
ClubFEM NYC Party

Sunday, June 7
MAsT Metro NY: “Creating your own Emergency Repair Kit for your Dynamic”

Monday, June 8

Tuesday, June 9
TES: “Invisible Service” w/ Lexi

Wednesday, June 10
TES Novice SIG: “The Art of Negotiation” with Goddess Coko
GMSMA: Annual Meeting + S/Mmer Vacation: Travel Toys www.gmsma.org

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15 Find Lolita – June 2009 and beyond

Dak Ramsey, Nash Lawler and Brock Armstrong on BoundGods.com

June 20 – NYC
Leather Pride Night: coordinating volunteers

June 24-29 – Northern MD
Leather Retreat: teaching Single Tails – The Epitome of SM and CBT In A Nutshell and coordinating Taste of Extreme

July 2-5 – Piscataway, NJ
TES Fest: coordinating the Celebrity Auction and teaching Rope Suspension for Bigger Bodies, The Erotic Impact of Spanking and Water Bondage 2

July 17-19 – Denver, CO
Thunder In The Mountains: teaching Decorative Bloodsports, The Dynamics of Co-Topping and Metal Bondage.

August 21-24 – Edison, NJ
Floating World: teaching King Tut’s Kink: Mummification, Stuff Yer Hole, and Power Flogging

October 23-25 – Chicago, IL
Kinky Kollege: teaching Kidz Rule and CBT in a Nutshell

October 30-November 1 – Washington, DC
Black Rose: teaching Co-Topping(w/Boymeat), CBT, and Decorative Bloodsports

February 26-28 – Dallas, TX
South Plains Leatherfest: teaching TBA

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Pascale

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06/03/2009
6:00 AMto10:00 AM

pleasure salon Tonight: Pleasure Salon NYC: Super Heroes/Villains Party

When:      Wednesday, June3, 6:00PM-10:00 PM
Location:  Happy Ending, 302 Broome St. NYC (pink awning says “Xie He Health”)
Cost:  FREE

We’re there the first Wednesday of every month.

In June we will be unleashing our inner Super Heroes and Villains. Be prepared to share your name and describe your super power.
Count Spanksalot
Erotina – Queen of the sex dream world
Penotron – able to fill your every orifice with overwhelming delight
Vibromeister – pulsing palms

You get the idea, come and enjoy a creative evening of fun-filled alter ego expression.

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, LGBT, sex-activist, sex educator, nudist, sex-magic, polyamory, Pagan, radical faerie, tantra, dark odyssey, 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.

We have been thrilled by the turnout at previous events. 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.

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In those heady, pre-internet days, when fetishes were buried deep, mainstream comic-books artists already provided a service of sorts to those who liked their sex lives spiced up with high heels and corsets. Wonder Woman not only had the requisite sexy shoes and bountiful bust, she also had a penchant for tying up her, usually male, adversaries in her magical lasso, rendering them powerless and unable to lie. She was created by the psychiatrist William Moulton Marston, who further defied convention by living happily in a polygamous and poly-amorous relationship with two women. How many young boys growing up in the 1940s and 1950s must have longed to have Wonder Woman fly into their bedrooms in her invisible plane, wrap her sexy rope around them and force them to admit what it was they really, really, wanted?

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lips date sponsor 400 Sex 2.0 2009 post roundup

Sex 2.0 May 9, 2009

A big “thank you!” to all the attendees who took the time record a session and upload media or do a writeup. If I’ve left out a post, please leave a comment and I’ll update the post. There were many people who couldn’t attend, so there were reqeusts that media be posted. Next time, we’ll be more proactive in organizing volunteers to record and transcribe sessions.

Twitter Search: #sex20 OR #sex2.0 OR “sex 2.0″ OR sex20con
Google Blog search: Sex 2.0
Sex 2.0 Flickr pool (add your pics!)
Opening Remarks (Vimeo)
Melissa Gira’s Keynote (Vimeo)
Twitter Live Feed

Amber Rhea
Sex 2.0: Building Bridges & Alliances between researchers, sex workers & clients

Sex 2.0: Sex Work in the Time of Obama
Audio recording of Revisiting Naked on the Internet panel
Sex 2.0, v2 – success!
Sex 2.0 2009 Flickr photo set

Audacia Ray
Research on Alternative Sexualities (Sex 2.0 Session)
Internet Advocacy for Sexual Freedom (Sex 2.0)

Calico
“Building Bridges” at Sex 2.0
(video)
Gender and Technology(video)
“Revenge Porn” with Maria Diaz at Sex 2.0 (video part 1, video part 2)
“Sex Work in the Time of Obama” at Sex 2.0 (video)

Cunning Minx
How to Get Some ” (Powerpoint on Slideshare)
Sex 2.0: Building Bridges
Polyamory Weekly #204: Polyamory at Sex 2.0

Debauched Domestic Diva
Happy Mother’s Day!

Domina Doll
Sex 2.0 2009

Elizabeth Wood
Mothers Day, Sex 2.0, and some not-so-random connections | Sex In The Public Square

Essin’ Em
Sequoia tree, very pretty

Feministing
@Sex 2.0: At the intersection of social media, feminism and sexuality

Figleaf
The Art of the Takedown: Lessons for Knee-Squeezing Twits
Rough Notes from Cunningminx’s “Internet Famous / Conference Shy” Session at Sex 2.0
Sex 2.0 and Galvanic Response
Rough Notes from Maria Diaz’s “Revenge Porn” Session at Sex 2.0
Revenge-Porn “Revenge” Strategy

Furry Girl
Sex 2.0 roundup: militant awesome-ism

Harley Jean Tobin
Sex 2.0 and “I Am a Sex Worker” PSA

Jack
Sex 2.0 ver 2, DC

Lisa Kansas
Sex 2.0! Part One: Let’s Talk About Objectification

Sex 2.0! Part Two: Constructive Dialoguing

Sex 2.0! Part Three: Ethical Research
Sex 2.0! Part Four: You Can Run But You Can’t Hide, Feminists!

Lolita Wolf
Sex 2.0 – Part 1
Sex 2.0 – Part 2

Maria M. Diaz
Revenge Porn Notes for Sex 2.0

MayMay
Gender and Technology at IgniteSydney

KinkForAll and the Evolution of Sexuality Communities

Mollena Williams
Sex 2.0 in the thick of it

Renegade Evolution
A preliminary Sex 2.0 2009 post
And now, the Sex 2.0 angst…

Sequoia Redd
good night, internet, v-log from sex 2.0

Sarah Sloane
A big weekend

Scarlet Lotus St.Syr
The (Un)conference: Getting to D.C. & Sex 2.0
Sex 2.0 Update

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For those who would like to think today’s murder in church of Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider, is an isolated incident, here’s the horrifying news: You are wrong. The pattern is clear and frightening.

In March 1993, three months into the administration of our first pro-choice president, Bill Clinton, abortion provider Dr. David Gunn was murdered in Pensacola, Florida. That was the beginning of what would become a five-fold increase in violence against abortion providers throughout the Clinton years.

Today’s assassination of Dr. George Tiller comes 5 months into the term of our second pro-choice president. For anyone who would like to believe that this is a statistical anomaly, a coincidence that doesn’t portend anything, again, you are wrong.

Link (via Susan Mernit)

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06/24/2009to06/29/2009

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Dark Odyssey:  Leather Retreat
Northern Maryland
June 24-29, 2009

Psst- Readers of my blog get a $25.00 discount.

Don’t miss your chance to come play at Dark Odyssey: Leather Retreat, June 24-29, 2009. Each year we bring together up to 350 kinksters of all genders, sexual orientations, and perversions for a full immersion experience in human sexuality, spirituality and BDSM at a private, all-adult retreat facility in Northern Maryland.

Spend an extended weekend lounging by the pool, playing in the Dungeons or getting down in Sex-O-Rama. Try a “treatment” at the Pamporium, be kidnapped by our “fantasy realization committee” or participate in one of our daily special events like Lucky’s Champagne Club, Caligula’s Slave Auction, or the Extrematorium. Watch a session of Kink.com’s “Hogtied” being shot on location and possibly even be part of a Kink.com “Casting Couch” shoot!

This year’s hands-on workshop presenters include Fifth Angel, Lolita Wolf, Lee Harrington, Lochai, Janice Stine, International Ms. Bootblack Min’s Pony, Nayland Blake, Sarah Sloane, Jim & Jerith, Klawdya Rothchild, Marcus and many more teaching a wide variety of classes including: Bootblacking 101, Spiritualty & BDSM, Fear Play, Cigar Play, Bondage Basics & Beyond, Suspension with Rope, Press Here for More Options: G-Spot Play for Fun and Ejaculation and more…

Visit http://www.darkodyssey.com for full details and online registration.

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