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Pleasure Salon NYC – October

by Viviane on 10/17/2012

We hope to see you October 25 at the Happy Ending Lounge. We’re there the last Thursday of every month. This event is free.

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.

Where: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street (bet Forsyth & Eldridge) (pink awning says “Xie He Health”)

Cost: FREE

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Fetlife Rsvp: https://fetlife.com/events/127338

For further information, email: info@pleasuresalon.com.

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In pleasure,
Patricia Johnson, Selina Fire & Mark Michaels
Pleasure Salon Founders and Hosts

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Pleasure Salon NYC – July

by Viviane on 06/17/2012

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Hi everyone:
We did have Happy Ending for Jul 4th, but we are going to something different. We’ll probably organize a group to go watch the fireworks on the Hudson. We’ll keep you posted!

Update: Selina Fire is organizing a group to watch the fireworks. Plan on meeting beginning at 2:00 at Riverside Park South, Hudson River at 65th Street. More info, and a photo of where people are meeting are at:

Facebook

Fetlife

In pleasure,
Patricia Johnson, Selina Fire & Mark Michaels

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Ravenous Nights June 1st: Pride! Part One

by Viviane on 05/31/2012

in Events, new york

It’s Pride month and we’ve got the first of two line-ups to celebrate it! Join host-for-the-month and 2012 Lambda Literary Finalist Debra Hyde as we honor all things queer and colorful. Our on-going Dirty Word Draw promises prize packages bulging with wonderful books, ebooks, and other goodies so be sure to bring your favorite dirty word!

Location: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street (Pink awning says “Xie He Health”), NYC
(212) 334-9676
www.happyendinglounge.com

Free. Casual dress.

Sassafras Lowrey is an international award winning queer author and artist who came into a gutterpunk leather community a decade ago. Sassafras is the editor of the two time American Library Association honored and Lambda Literary Award Finalist Kicked Out. Sassafras’ first novel, Roving Pack, will be released autumn 2012, an excerpt of which earned hir an Honorable Mention in the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund for Fiction. Ze tours to colleges, and community organizations across the country facilitating workshops that support LGBTQ people in telling their stories. Ze is currently editing Leather Ever After an anthology of BDSM fairy tale retellings to be released by Ravenous Romance. Sassafras lives in Brooklyn, New York with hir partner, two dogs, and two kitties. You can learn more about Sassafras and hir work at www.SassafrasLowrey.com.

Our good friend (and self-confessed “reading whore”) Jefferson curates and hosts Spill Stories: True Stories of Queer Sex, Desire and Romance as well as Bare: True Stories of Sex, Desire and Romance. (Something for everyone!) A sex educator and writer, Jefferson keeps a pseudonymous blog, One Life, Take Two, that details his life as a parent and pervert. He is a storyteller frequently seen on stages around the city and elsewhere, including The Moth, where he is a StorySlam winner.

Indigo is a black poly kinky feminist queer dyke; writer, teacher, artist and aspiring sex education/blogger. She’s about liberating the woman, questioning the man and fantasizing about all folks in between. She reads, questions, wonders, writes and hopes the art leads the way. Her blog, Indigo’s Theory, explores being in a loving poly relationship, having sex in great spaces, learning to love her skin, belly, hair, etc. and coming into her kinky queer self. Visit Indigo at http://indigostheory.wordpress.com.

D.L. King is a smut writing—and editing—New Yorker who lives somewhere between the Wonder Wheel at Coney Island and the Chrysler Building. The editor of The Harder She Comes: Butch Femme Erotica, Spankalicious, Spank! and the Lambda Literary Award Finalist,Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica, D. L. King also publishes and edits Erotica Revealed, the erotica book review site. The author of dozens of short stories in dozens of anthologies, she is the author of two novels of female domination and male submission, The Melinoe Project and The Art of Melinoe. Find out more at dlkingerotica.com and dlkingerotica.blogspot.com.

Be sure to join us July 6th for a second Pride line-up. Hey, when it comes to the erotic word, the celebration never ends!

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Lesbian Sex Mafia presents BDSM and Anal Play with Tristan Taormino

by Viviane on 05/30/2012

in Events, new york

tristan taormino 350 Lesbian Sex Mafia presents BDSM and Anal Play with Tristan Taormino

Tristan Taormino leads you through the world of all things anal and kinky in this class about how to incorporate kink into your anal sex and anal sex into your kink. She’ll cover a wide variety of topics, including: the ins and outs of anal penetration; extended butt plug wearing and butt plug bondage; creating scenes around the psychological aspects and power dynamics of anal play; using consensual force safely; an introduction to enema play; plus, an extensive Q & A—ask her anything!

Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), NYC
When: Friday, June 15 , 2012; 8:00-10:00PM
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10

About Tristan Taormino

Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, sex educator, college lecturer, and feminist pornographer. She is the author of eight books, including The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge, which features chapters written by some of the best kinky educators in the country (forthcoming in March 2012). She is the editor of twenty-three anthologies including Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica and Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica, which won a 2011 Lambda Literary Award and the 2011 Samois Anthology Award from the National Leather Association: International. She is also founding editor of the award-winning series Best Lesbian Erotica. She runs her own porn production company, Smart Ass Productions, and is the director/producer of Rough Sex, a series that explores women’s real kink and BDSM fantasies and features performers like Madison Young, Dylan Ryan, Claire Adams, Sasha Grey, April Flores, Adrianna Nicole, Sinnamon Love, and Jiz Lee. Rough Sex has garnered a Feminist Porn Award, several AVN Award nominations, and two Audience Awards from The CineKink Film Festival. She has been in the BDSM scene for nearly two decades and taught, keynoted, and emceed for over one hundred kink organizations and events around the world, including Black Rose, Boys Training Camp, CAPEX, Desire, FIST, The Floating World, IMsL, Kinkfest, Leather Leadership Conference, Living in Leather, MOB New England, NLA Columbus, Pacific Friction, South Plains Leatherfest, TES, Thunder in the Mountains, Winter Wickedness, and Xplore Berlin. She has been honored with the Vaughn Keith National Educator of the Year Award from Black Rose, a nomination for Pantheon of Leather Businessperson of the Year, and the Lesbian Sex Mafia Appreciation Award. She has a wide variety of kinks, but mostly loves her boy Colten, D/s and service, sharp things, organization, and anal fisting. Visit her on the web at Puckerup.Com and TristanTaormino.com.

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.

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Ravenous Nights: New Faces, New Voices

by Viviane on 03/02/2012

in erotica, Events, new york

With the promise of a new season right around the corner, join us as we welcome new faces, new voices (and a couple of alums!) to Ravenous Nights. Yes, authors visiting Ravenous Nights for the first time! From the tapestry of India to the weird paranormal to sex storytelling and performing, it’s looking to be a diverse evening of eclectic erotic works.

EVENT DETAILS:
Where: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street, NYC (pink awning says “Xie He Health”)
Phone: (212) 334-9676
Cost: Free
21+

Joining us:

Nicholas Kaufmann is the critically acclaimed author of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated General Slocum’s Gold (Burning Effigy Press), Hunt at World’s End (as Gabriel Hunt, Leisure Books), Chasing the Dragon (ChiZine Publications) and the collection Walk in Shadows (Prime Books, out of print). His fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 3, City Slab, The Best American Erotica 2007, Playboyand others. In addition to writing the monthly “Dead Air” column for The Internet Review of Science Fiction, his non-fiction has appeared in On Writing Horror (Writers Digest Books), Dark Scribe Magazine, Annabelle Magazine, Fantastic Metropolis, Hellnotes and others. He has also served on the Board of Trustees for the Horror Writers Association and is a member of the International Thriller Writers.

Born and raised in the United States by traditional Indian parents, Suleikha Snyder has always marched to the beat of her own dhol. As a child, she began writing fan fiction, mixing canonical TV characters with invented Indian-American characters, the genesis of the multicultural and interracial themes she explores in her current work. Today, her short stories and novellas are spicy, often LGBT-themed and frequently peppered with bits of Hindi or Spanish. (Expect both masala and masti!) Her short fiction appears in Cleis Press and Ravenous Romance anthologies. Her eagerly anticipated LGBT novella, Spice and Smoke, will be released on April 10 from Samhain Publishing. (Warning: This book contains gay and straight sexy times, smoking, drinking, references to drug use, and a gratuitous musical number involving The Beatles.)

Our good friend, Jefferson, curates and hosts of Bare. A sex educator and writer, Jefferson keeps a pseudonymous blog, One Life, Take Two, that details his life as a parent and pervert. He is a storyteller frequently seen on stages around the city and elsewhere, including The Moth, where he is a StorySlam winner.

Mo Beasley is an award-winning performance poet and storyteller. He is also a sexuality educator, author, and public speaker. He has successfully integrated his love of performing with his love of education and community building. In the fields of sexuality, race, manhood, and arts advocacy, he has over 20 years experience as a stage performer, teaching artist, workshop facilitator, consultant, activist, and mentor to youth. Mo Beasley’s presentations range from cutting-edge perspectives on sex, sexuality, to art as action, fatherhood and family building, hip hop as a tool for education, to re-defining masculinity for the 21st century.