Conversio Virium

TES meeting: People of Color Forum moderated by Lady Sabrina and Sir Guy

An important topic I’ve almost never heard addressed is the clear racial divide in the BDSM community. At long last, TES is hosting a forum for the discussion of this exact topic:

When you see images of BDSM and Fetish, do you ask yourself, “Where are the ‘people of color’?” When you go to your favorite dungeon, do you see a cross section of the community, or is it mostly a “whites only” affair? Is it because Blacks, Latinos, Asians and other ‘people of color’ aren’t kinky, or is there some other reason? Join Lady Sabrina and Sir Guy as they moderate a forum on ‘people of color’ in the Scene.

Lady Sabrina and Sir Guy are both long-time TES members and people of color who now hold positions on TES‘s Board of Directors. This promises to be an eye-opening meeting and I, for one, am really looking forward to the discussion.

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Playing with Sex Toys with Maymay

With Halloween behind us, we’re now only weeks away from the Winter Holiday season, but it’s already getting quite cold! This Monday, grab a cup of hot chocolate or coffee and come out to CV, where maymay will be presenting Playing with Sex Toys, a topic that is sure to warm you up more than your drink!

Very simply, BDSM can be considered a superset of sex, so it makes sense that just about everything you know about having sex can be applied to having kinky sex, too. With this in mind, let’s take a few moments and turn our attentions to those seemingly innocent, common-place sex toys that everyone, kinky and vanilla alike, delight in. What can they do, and—more interestingly—how can we use them for the kinds of kinky sex we like to have? In this presentation, maymay will cover the (obligatory and very handy) basics of sex toy safety and then quickly move on to the less mundane, with a focus on incorporating traditional BDSM activities such as bondage and impact play with sex toys.

Maymay also writes sex toy reviews for EdenFantasys, and occasionally also on his blog. He’ll also be bringing a bunch of various toys to showcase, so expect to see a lot of fun and interesting anal toys. In fact, why not bring in some of your own to show off, too?