Conversio Virium

TES party: Back to High School Party

Our friends at TES are throwing a party at Paddles:

Remember that feeling deep in the pit of your stomach when the weather got cooler, the days a bit shorter and the thought of returning to school loomed large in so many ways…? Well those days are back and the first bell just rang people! Please join your hosts August and Mike for the TES Back To High School Party! Freaks, Geeks, Jocks, Preps, Dead Heads, Goths…. Come as you were or always wanted to be! Enjoy the buffet at the TES “Cafeteria”, Redefine what being bad means when you ‘cut class’ for one of our special events and as always hang out with all the coolest kids in school at what promises to be a memorable and amazing TES party! Welcome back kiddies….

(Do you know of an event that you don’t see on our calendar and want to share? Please send it in!)

DSF meeting: Caning—Beyond the Basics

This Friday, DomSubFriends is hosting Mistress Coraline as she presents an intermediate to advanced class on caning.

You’ve learned the rules, now it’s time to get creative. We’ll talk about different kinds of canes, different positions to use, creative targets to hit, and roleplays to incorporate. We’ll also touch on how to make your own rattan canes. And best of all a super hot demo to top it all off.

Mistress Coraline, by the way, is a graduate college kinkster having been the president of NYU‘s (unfortunately now defunct) BDSM club, WHAP, for two years. Here’s a 2003 NYU News article about WHAP, in case you’re interested.

Also, regardless of what university your college ID says you go to, don’t forget about Boymeat‘s Caning 101 presentation this Monday at Conversio Virium!

Salon Convention: A Day of Neo-Victorian Celebration

Some of us have a thing for black leather and lace, while some of us enjoy ball gowns and formal teas (and even more of us enjoy all of these things). If these things sound like fun to you, be sure to check out SalonCon:

[W]e embrace the ideals of the Victorian era, but seek to bring them into a modern context. We do not seek to be Victorian era reconstructionsts. We seek to provide a space for artists, thinkers, and dreamers to express themselves as well as to give people a chance to experience things such as a fancy dress ball and a formal tea. These kinds of experiences are still often reserved for people with money and class privileges, so we are also attempting to even out the playing field.

Presale tickets for $20 ($15 for students!) will stop being sold this Friday, September 14^th.

Special thanks to Nicholas of Nicholas Leather for informing us about this event!

TES meeting: The Anatomy of a Scene

Over at TES‘s Novice Group, a long-running presentation called The Anatomy of a Scene is being presented.

Join us for one of our most popular meetings, a live BDSM scene with full analysis and commentary. We are excited to have the very beautiful & talented (and pretty darn evil), Pro & lifestyle Domme, Mistress Trish with us, as well as everyone’s favorite masochistic board member, Thrash. The meeting will start with our guests telling us a little about themselves and answering a few questions. When the scene itself starts, they will do their best to juggle “headspace” with “being coherent” and let you know what they are thinking while they are actually playing. Finally we’ll have an in depth Q&A with them, where they will be answering all of our questions about the scene we just watched. This one should be crowded so come down early!

Of course, it’s always important to keep in mind that what might feel “right” for one person might not feel the same way for somebody else, so I would suggest that this presentation be taken as an opportunity to view an example of a scene rather than be considered a dissection of what a scene “should be like.”

That said, who wouldn’t want to see Mistress Trish and Thrash play together?

Caning 101 with Boymeat

British colonels and bespectacled headmistresses delight in strict discipline; now you can too! Join us as Boymeat presents Caning 101, a fun, easy-to-follow beginners class on the joys of corporal punishment. Don’t “spare the rod”, embrace it!

Meet us in 301 Hamilton for a night of pink bottoms and stiff upper lips.

Update: Handout now available for download! So it’s taking a little bit of time, but we now have Boymeat’s 3-page handout all about sensual BDSM caning (PDF) right here for you to download.