[ March 14, 2010; 7:00 PM; ] Location: Bluestockings Bookstore
Street: 172 Allen St., NYC
Body Heat is a fierce, sassy, irreverent Femme artist collective setting performance art communities ablaze and smashing Femme stereotypes. They’ll challenge your assumptions, entertain the hell out of you, and leave you panting and begging for more!
Armed with an arsenal of erotic song, dance, camp, poetry, smut, and prose [...]
Posted in Events on Mar 8th, 2010
[ March 18, 2010; 8:00 PM; ]
Where: Happy Ending Lounge
Address: 302 Broome Street (Between Forsyth & Eldridge.), NYC
Directions: (B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey or F/V to 2nd Avenue, ) Look for the hot pink awning that says “XIE HE Health Club.”
Cost: Free
Get kinky with memoir writers, BDSM educators, erotica authors, a porn star, and more at [...]
[ March 19, 2010; 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. ]
Location: LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street (bet 7th and 8th Ave.)
Cost: $5/LSM members, $10/Non members
If you have ever had a scene that lured you with the promise of edgy intensity, but wondered if you could handle the situation before, during or afterward, this discussion is for you! We will explore the reasons some [...]
[ March 6, 2010; 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. ] Men, Women, Trans, Welcome!
In this workshop we will go over the fundamentals of rope. We will teach basic ties, rope aesthetics, and rope safety.
Participants must be over 18yr.
Location: Greenwich St. (btwn Rector and Carlisle; three blocks south of the WTC site) Specific building number will be emailed upon registration.
Cost: $25- per person
Instructor: Lolita Wolf
Assistant instructor: [...]
[ April 10, 2010 12:00 PM to April 11, 2010 8:00 PM. ]
Where: Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, Manhattan
Cost: Single $350, Pair $600
Are you SERIOUS about improving your rope bondage skills? Do you want to erotically please and sexually pleasure your partner using rope? Do you want to learn how to be a better bottom or receiver of rope pleasures? Ready [...]
Posted in Events, housekeeping, sex, women on Feb 17th, 2010
[ March 23, 2010 to June 4, 2010. ]
A totally unique way to grow your sexuality.
Facilitated by Amy Jo Goddard, M.A. in NYC
Are you ready to own your sexuality, to reclaim it, heal it and celebrate it? Women need a safe space in which to heal, explore, examine and learn about their sexuality. In this sex-positive space, women will be able to do [...]
Posted in Events on Feb 16th, 2010
[ February 25, 2010; 9:00 PM to 10:30 PM. ]
A Fat-Positive Bondage Benefit
with the one and only Sarah Jenny
Queer-centric, allies welcome.
Please bring your own length of rope on which to practice! Ideally 25 feet but 10 feet is also okay. Otherwise, you can watch/take notes or find a partner to share with! Jute, hemp, or nylon are all [...]
[ February 20, 2010; 1:00 PM; ]
Location: Ripley Grier Studios – 520 8th Ave (bet. 36th/37th Street) Google Maps
Cost: Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
Seats are limited. Reserve your spot by emailing: pascale AT loveloveparties DOT com
Women are a deep pool of pleasure and the Sex Educators of Love U Parties are here to teach you how to swim! [...]
Posted in Events, cinekink, housekeeping, sex on Feb 8th, 2010
[ February 16, 2010 to February 21, 2010. ]
Founded in 2003, CineKink is an organization that recognizes and encourages the positive depiction of sexuality and kink in film and television, most visibly through its annual film festival, CineKink NYC.
Featuring a specially-selected program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality, with offerings drawn from [...]
Posted in Events, kinkforall on Feb 3rd, 2010
[ February 6, 2010; 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM. ]
Location: Brown University, Wilson Hall
Street: Intersection of Brown Street and George Street
City/Town: Providence, RI
Google Maps: http://bit.ly/a4a7gB
KinkForAll is an ad-hoc educational unconference about the convergence of sexuality with the rest of life for anyone and everyone. It is 100% free and open to the public. Anyone with the desire to learn or with [...]
Posted in Events on Jan 29th, 2010
[ February 3, 2010; 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. ]
Location: Happy Ending, 302 Broome St. NYC (Pink awning says “Xie He Health”
Cost: Free
With guest host CineKink.
We will have pre-cut hearts for you to create your own Valentine. Fill it out, give it to Cupid (played by the vivacious Ivy) and she will deliver it to the person (or people) you desire.
The Pleasure Salon has been [...]
[ February 19, 2010; 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. ]
Where: LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street (bet 7th and 8th Ave.)
Cost: $5/LSM members, $10/Non members
Perhaps gender roles are just a construct. But that doesn’t mean they’re not hot! Lots of queers come to our own unique expressions of gender, and it can be a powerful way to explore many sides of ourselves with each [...]
Posted in Events on Dec 16th, 2009
[ May 28, 2010 to May 31, 2010. ]
SHIBARICON
Learn Experience Share
May 28-31, 2010
Chicago, IL USA
(Register early & save $$! Only 2115 days left to register at the early reg price of $155.00)
It’s that time of year again. Registration for Shibaricon 2010 is open and many from over 23 US States & 3 countries have already registered for this can’t-miss event. Will you be [...]
Posted in Dark Odyssey, Events on Nov 29th, 2009
[ February 26, 2010 to February 28, 2010. ]
We are proud to announce Dark Odyssey: Winter Fire, February 26-28, 2010 for
people interested in sex, spirituality, and BDSM. This will be our sixth hotel event and will feature:
-An amazing line up of nationally-known presenters, including sex educators, BDSM masters, top-notch Tantra teachers, relationship experts, and award-winning authors, activists, and community leaders
-Over 60 unique, dynamic [...]
Posted in Events on Nov 28th, 2009
[ December 2, 2009; 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. ]
Location: Happy Ending, 302 Broome St. NYC
(Google Maps: http://bit.ly/happyending)
Admission: FREE
Bring a not–so-modest gift to exchange.
As you know, Dark Odyssey is the inspiration for the Pleasure Salon gatherings. This year we will be giving away TWO complimentary tickets to Dark Odyssey’s Winter Fire, February 26-28, 2010 in DC (hotel and banquet not included.) They only request [...]
[ November 18, 2009; 8:00 PM; ] Where: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 W. 13th (between 7th & 8th).
Phone: 212.620.7310
As Gay Men and Lesbian Women in coupled relationships, we are experts at redefining traditional gender roles and responsibilities around the house and home. Provided we’re not affluent enough to afford a maid or pay for dinner at [...]
[ November 14, 2009; 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM. ] Where: THE LGBT CENTER, 208 West 13th Street (6th/7th)
Cost: Suggestion donation – $10
Since GMSMA’s Leatherfest is on hiatus this year, the New York Boys of Leather (NYboL), Lesbian Sex Mafia (LSM), & The Eulenspiegel Society (TES) have come together for a special event.
Please join us for:
LEATHER STIMULUS PACKAGE 2009 an autumn celebration of all [...]
[ November 12, 2009; 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. ]
Where: The LGBT Center at 203 West 13th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues
Cost: FREE FOR MEMBERS of LSM, TES and NYbol, only $5 for non members (special price in honor of Leather Stimulus Package)
Beyond simply an excuse to get off, a BDSM scene is an intimate performance where the directors and actors are also [...]
[ November 10, 2009 12:00 PM to November 16, 2009 8:00 PM. ]
Time: 12:00-8:00 PM
Location: Washington Square Park
This month, if you see seven shipping containers in Washington Square Park, that’s the Journey project, sponsored by the Helen Bamber Foundation:
The aim of Journey is to bring the reality of the sex trafficking industry to the forefront of social consciousness and empower people to take action. Shackles bind perpetrators [...]
[ November 7, 2009; 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. ]
Where: Babeland LES, 94 Rivington Street, NYC (Google Maps)
Admission: FREE
Hang out with Jiz Lee and Syd Blakovich, the stars of some of our favorite queer porn flicks, including The Crash Pad, which was awarded the Feminist Porn Awards’ “Best Dyke Sex Scene”, and in Champion, which won the Feminist Porn Award for Movie of the [...]
Posted in Events on Oct 30th, 2009
[ November 21, 2009; ]
KinkForAll is an ad-hoc educational unconference about the convergence of sexuality with the rest of life for anyone and everyone. It is 100% free and open to the public. Anyone with the desire to learn or with something to contribute is welcome and invited to participate.
Vitals
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What: A free and highly social day of sexuality [...]
[ November 1, 2009; 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM. ]
Where: Collect Pond, 45 Berry Street, corner of N 11th St, Brooklyn (Google Maps: http://bit.ly/derivtheat)
Cost: Pay what you can, suggested donation $15 includes snacks
Presented by Derivative Theater Company
RSVP: Seating is limited! Please, RSVP to booking AT sbearbergman DOT com with your name and and the number of people.
Multiple award-winning writer, performer, gender-jammer and instigator [...]
[ November 4, 2009; 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. ] Location: Happy Ending, 302 Broome St. NYC
Admission: FREE
Wow! We had over 130 people at last month’s Pleasure Salon. A big welcome to the 30+ new attendees.
Some of us can’t get enough of dressing up and assuming a new persona, so if you love Halloween (or just playing with your identity) we have extended the celebration [...]
[ October 18, 2009; 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. ] Location: The LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St (7th/8th)
Cost: Sliding scale $5 – 0
Presenter: Seraphin
Presented by Instigate NYC
You’re a Bottom. What does that mean? The answer to that question isn’t simple. Who you are as a bottom and what you want can only be defined by you. The possibilities are limitless. What turns you [...]
[ September 25, 2009; 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM. ] Location: Reflections Yoga Studios
Street: 250 W 49th Street, 2nd Floor, Manhattan
Cost: Free, though a $10 donation is most appreciated!
Masters of Ceremonies- Richard Anton Diaz, founder of SexySpirits.com & Alan Steinfeld, founder of NewRealities.com
Our Keynote speakers include-
*Carla Tara
*Reid Mihalko
*Baba Dez
*Luba Evans
*Sheri Winston
*Mark & Patricia Michaels
….and more to come!
Whether you are a beginner, a [...]
Posted in Events, Tony Comstock, nyc on Sep 23rd, 2009
[ September 23, 2009; 6:15 PM to 8:15 PM. ] WHERE: Michelson Theatre, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 648
Department of Cinema Studies
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
A Film Studies Center Special Event
The world is awash in sexualized imagery, but that imagery rarely speaks to or captures the pleasurable reality of sex. Award-winning filmmaker Tony Comstock takes us into the legal [...]
Posted in Events, san francisco, sex on Sep 1st, 2009
[ October 1, 2009 to October 4, 2009. ] Location: Roxie Theater, Center for Sex and Culture, PariSoMa, Noisebridge
City/Town: San Francisco, CA
Scottish SF author Iain Banks created a fictitious group-civilisation called “Culture” in his eponymous narrative. The vast majority of humanoid people in the “Culture” are born with greatly altered glands housed within their central nervous systems, who secrete – on command – [...]
[ September 2, 2009; 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. ] Where: Happy Ending Lounge (pink awning says “Xie He Health”)
Address: 302 Broome St., New York, NY 10002
Cost: FREE
Whether or not you are attending Dark Odyssey Summer Camp, come with or wear something that will make you a happy camper. We can’t promise s’mores, we hope you will be wanting more, more, more.
We’re there [...]
Posted in Events, transgender on Jul 29th, 2009
[ July 30, 2009 to August 2, 2009. ] Location: Dixon Place
316 Chrystie Street, New York NY, 10002 [map]
Tickets: $20 general / $15 students & seniors
Online Tickets: www.hotfestival.org;
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/171
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After taking San Francisco by storm with an extended sold-out run, standing ovations and critical praise, Sean Dorsey’s acclaimed Uncovered: The Diary Project is coming to New York! [...]
Posted in Events on Jul 20th, 2009
[ August 5, 2009; 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. ] Location: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome St., NYC
(www.happyendinglounge.com)
Cost: FREE
Hot Fun in the Summertime
hosted by Mark and Den
Patricia and Selina will see you in September
Start a fire in your sexy summer attire! We’re there the first Wednesday of every month.
The Pleasure Salon has been created to build community, allowing sex-positive activists to cross-pollinate. Our gatherings [...]
