Conversio Virium

Pleasure Salon: Location Revival

The first monthly gathering of sex bloggers, queer activists, tantra, BDSM, and other pleasure-positive communities of 2008 is happening in a new location this time, appropriately called “Revival” at 129 East 15^th Street. From the invitation:

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, 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 gatherings. A community of New York area Pleasure Positive folks is developing rapidly, and we hope that you will join us or continue to be part of it. Please invite your like-minded friends. In keeping with the spirit of Dark Odyssey, we encourage everyone to embrace the basic principles of respect, tolerance, acceptance, openness, and non-judgmental support.

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

CV Meeting: Welcome back and Show and Tell!

CV is back with a vengeance after a long (and much needed) winter break. Join us for a relaxed meeting to connect with old friends, and to make some new ones. Bring something interesting and kinky to share (toys, anecdotes, yourself, etc.).

Please note, we have a new location for meetings this semester! Conversio Virium meetings will now be held in Room 303 Hamilton Hall. We’ll try to post a sign on our old room (301 Hamilton Hall) pointing you to come in next door to Room 303, but that sign won’t stay up long.

TES Bondage Group meeting: Medical Restraints

If I were to draw a Venn diagram showing bondage (a hugely diverse kink in itself) and medical play (another arena with incredible diversity), this meeting would show up smack dab in the middle of the space overlapping both circles. Medical restraints are, for many people, exactly what the intersection of medical play and bondage look like and—lucky folk!—there’s a ton of stuff to play with just in this niche. In fact, TES‘s Bondage Group is doing an entire meeting all about Medical Restraints:

Various types of restraints from straps to straitjackets have been used to calm and protect patients throughout history. Come and explore various real medical restraints and learn how to add a new meaning to “medical play”.

This is the kind of meeting, as a bondage enthusiast, would attend to learn more about how I might branch out into a kink like medical play I’m not personally excited about. I don’t doubt that there’s probably a medical play enthusiast thinking the same thing….