Conversio Virium

Pleasure Salon at the Happy Ending Lounge

Pleasure Salon returns, this time at the Happy Ending Lounge, on 302 Broome Street.

If you still haven’t been, this is a great opportunity to go:

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.

Starting in June, Pleasure Salon will meet at Happy Ending the first Wednesday of every month.

We hope to see you there,
Patricia Johnson, Selina Fire & Mark Michaels

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

SPAM Party

SPAM’s happening once again. No, it’s not in your inbox (unless that’s what you want to call it).

Admission: $10 women/trans $20 men
Students 18-22 w/valid ID free.
Doors close at 2 am.
Call for exact location 718.789.4053

Brooklyn’s Nastiest Queer Party!
Mandatory Pants Check Down To Your Underwear!

New expanded space! New equipment!

**NO HETEROSEXUALS ALLOWED** NO SMOKING **
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CV Featured in the Gadfly

CV has been featured in the Winter 2008 issue of the Gadfly, Columbia’s Undergraduate Philosophy magazine.

In the article, May May and I talk about pleasure, pain and how those two things relate to [kinky] sex.

If you haven’t already seen the article, you should check it out on their website (it’s a PDF). The article is called “Tie Me Up: A Gadfly Interview with Conversio Virium” and begins on page 13 of the magazine.

Without notions of pain, we could not know pleasure—pleasure and pain, one might argue, are two sides of the same token. Or, as the following interlocutors might argue, one side of the same delicious, voluptuous token. In exploration of this latter view on pleasure-pain, Gadfly is proud to bring you an interview with Vice President Tyler and webmaster Maymay of Conversio Virium (CV), Columbia’s very own student BDSM club.

Read the rest of the article here.