Conversio Virium

CV Meeting: Booted Domination

Join us for the last official meeting of the semester! Avivokhai will discuss usual boot kink, pain, and kicking, as well as methods of femme style domination with boots, especially forms that are creative but non-painful. Demonstration will be “pretty and flexible”.

On a personal note: Avivokhai introduced me to Conversio Virium and her legs have captivated me since freshman year. I can’t think of a more suitable ending to my time as an administrator. Drop in and say goodbye before our graduation!

ECLTH: BDSM Community Forum

The East Coast Leather Town Hall (ECLTH) presents a moderated, open forum and panel discussion on the history and future of the different BDSM, Scene, and Leather and Fetish groups. Many people, whether members of this community or just discovering it, are unaware of the vast array of different groups, their goals, and the variety of events in which they are involved.

Conversio Virium’s current and future presidents will both be on the panel representing our organization. Come to show your support for CV and experience the diversity of the BDSM community!

The event details:

5$ suggested donation
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212 620 7310

CV Meeting: BDSM E.R. with Sir Guy

Join us in 303 Hamilton for a very important presentation. Sir Guy is a dominant uniform fetishist, a NYS certified emergency medical technician, and a trainer of EMS personnel. His presentation on BDSM E.R. is a must see:

Your “hot” wax scene gets a little TOO hot, and someone gets burned… You are a little TOO sharp with your knife play and your bottom finally gets the point… Your gag works a little TOO well and your bottom has no voice, and NO BREATH… What do you do? Sir Guy will review these and other scenarios as he guides you through medical emergencies in the scene. He will also deal with first aid musts, improvised first aid, when to call for help, and what to tell first responders.

CV Meeting: Single Tailing with Rob

Do you like consensual violence and loud noises? Do you aspire to Zorro and Indiana Jones? Or would you prefer to disarm them and give them a taste of their own medicine? Would-be heroes and dastardly perverts, join us as Rob introduces the sexiest, noisiest toy in the box.

If you have a single tail handy, it’s BYO toys! Glow-in-the-dark nylon, kangaroo hide, whatever; CV encourages diversity.

Please note: due to spring break, there will be no meeting on March 17th.

Suspend DC: Flesh-Hook-Piercing Suspension @ The Crucible

Suspend DC is a flesh hook event that offers horizontal and vertical suspensions, energy pulls, and plenty of vicarious endorphins. At The Crucible, DC’s largest and best equipped public dungeon. The club’s ceiling winch allows for plenty of lift for high flying. Play stations throughout the space give ample public and private space for BDSM play. Early registration closes March 22nd.

Vertical Suspension costs $100 for pre-registrants/$120 for those paying at the door and includes 4-6 hooks set in the shoulders, chest, arms or knees which are then attached to ropes and rigging. As the rigging is lifted, up you go on your hooks. Like bungie jumping with a little more edge and not so much bounce.

Horizontal Suspension costs $140 for pre-registrants/$160 for those paying at the door and includes upward from a dozen smaller hooks set into the sides of the body at key points, then attached to more extensive ropes and rigging before being lifted. Fly like Superman or just hang and chill like one of the bodies in the movie Coma.

Folks not ready to fly can still play with hooks and sensation by participating in an energy pull, alone or with friends.
Energy Pulls cost $60 for pre-registrants/$80 for those paying at the door and include hooks set in the chest, arms or back which are then attached to ropes allowing the hooks to be pulled by others or by the individual in resistance to an anchor point.

If this sounds exciting, but you are not sure if you are ready to try either, supporters and spectators are welcome, and encouraged.
Spectators/supporters pay $25 to get in the door and are welcome to drum, eat and generally help hold the space.

The Crucible
1816 Half Street SW, Washington DC
Suspend DC asks that you be sober for this event. There will be enough endorphins and adrenaline to go around. Please read the Registration Guidelines for more information.

TES’s Novice Group: How Do I Get You To Play With Me?

Join Mistress Trish, Calico, Mike S, Lady D, and Bo as they tackle the age old question:

This “SM Thing” is really exciting and all cool and stuff but… How come it’s so darn hard to attract the kind of top/bottom/switch I want?! Why does everything seem so clique-ish. Do I need a secret handshake? A Password??

Join a fabulous panel of Tops, Bottoms, Switches, Pro and Lifestyle players who will give you insight and answer all your questions.

260 W 36th Street 3rd floor, between 7th and 8th Avenues
$4 for members; $8 for non-members

TES-TNG: “TNG Summit Forum” with special guests Boymeat and Josh Hightower

TES-TiNG, TES’s group for young adults, aged 35 and under, is like Conversio Virium’s big sister; a sexy, incestuous big sister who coordinates with us on parties, demos, discussion groups, and kink-related mayhem. Now we urge our members to come show their support at TNG’s summit forum:

Is TNG, still relevant? Does the need for such a SIG still exist? Does TNG still serve the needs of its young members…, and the larger leather community? Or is that need now being met by local college BDSM groups? Please join us for this important meeting, where we hope to discuss/answer these questions, as well as develop ideas and strategies on how to reenergize TES-TNG. We are very honored to have Boymeat and Josh Hightower, our TNG founders, to discuss the history and growth of TNG, as both a local and national entity…and to give a special reading of Boymeat’s 2007 Rio Grande Leather Keynote Speech.

$4 for members; $8 for non-members
260 W 36th Street 3rd floor, between 7th and 8th Avenues
College students get in FREE with a valid student ID!!!

TES College Night Play Party: A Cyborg Invasion @ Paddles

“And they came, with silver skin & flashing hair, eyes glinting with cold metallic mercy. A virus of lust had been downloaded & they had gathered to run the program… They came to dent fenders, to overload circuits, to liberate black oil thick like blood… It was the beginning of the CyborRevel”

NOT TO BE MISSED: the first College Night of 2008, hosted by Antonia and Blaise. Come for Rob’s “piercing couture” and stay for college discounts, cyborg-themed decadence, Automaton Tunes, anime porn, and a floor show!

Paddles 250 W 26St, basement, between 7th and 8th Ave
Students With Valid ID: $10, Members: $25, Non-Members: $35

TES-TNG Meeting: CV Invasion! Play Piercing for Fun and Fashion with Rob

You are all set to go to a Friday night play party… But what are you going to wear? Join Rob and friends for a demo that Combines piercing and fashion. We will cover the basics, demonstrate some techniques, and then show off our hot couture. Please join us for this very special pre-party meeting, where TNG will be handing us the reins. And don’t forget to stay for the TES Annual College Night Party, one of the hottest play parties of the year.

Paddles, 250 W 26St, basement, between 7th and 8th Ave
$10 student special with valid ID!

CV Meeting: TES-TiNG Takeover! Panel Discussion on Youth and Leadership in the Scene

Come one, come all to 303 Hamilton for a panel discussion, moderated by Blaise. TES-TiNG, TES’s group for young adults, aged 35 and under, will be dropping by for a visit. Together, we will tackle questions of purpose and identity. Why are young adults a special interest group? What can we offer? Where can we improve? Why did I choose head a BDSM Education Group when I should have been studying for my GREs? In what ways are Conversio Virium and TES-TiNG important to the wider BDSM community?

CV Meeting: Dirty Sexy Money with Calico

Sex and money are a potent combination. From prostitution to financial domination, stripping to pornography, and mistresses to sugar daddies, the sex trade is rich with power, paradox and archetype. We’ll discuss venues for experimentation, risks and rewards—including how to indulge your fantasies without throwing away your partner, Columbia education, or a clean bill of health. Join us, in 303 Hamilton, to talk about why money’s hot and how to play with it in roleplay and reality.

In addition we will also be creating Membership Cards at the beginning of the meeting for any and all eligible persons who do not already have one.

CV Meeting: Predicament Bondage with Dov

Are you being forced to choose between permanent student loans and a boring nine-to-five? How about standing on tiptoes to avoid the tug of nipple clamps? When either/or isn’t much of an option, you’ve got yourself a predicament. Join Dov as he teaches us the basic concepts and simple setups that lead to complicated choices.

CV Special Event: Fed Bash 2008!

The Fed Bash is Columbia University’s annual celebration of mayhem and debauchery. This year, we’ve given it a futuristic twist; sadistic cyborgs, aliens, and sexbots, don your favourite silver lamé jumpsuit and come show your support! There’ll be live bands, DJs, burlesque, Latin dance, drunken co-eds, and a special CV performance!

Lerner Party Space; $5 to get in, 2 IDs to drink, $3 beer!

Important: If you don’t have a valid Columbia/Barnard ID, you must RSVP to attend this event. You can RSVP by commenting here or by emailing us at conversio@columbia.edu. We promise, you won’t be disappointed.

CV Meeting: Brutal Affection with Felice Shays

303 Hamilton Hall is hot with anticipation for next Monday’s meeting. Join performance artist and sex-educator, Felice Shays, as she presents “Brutal Affection: Punching, Kicking, Slapping & Sex”:

It ain’t about the brawn. Regardless of your size, experience, gender, or physical ability, this highly interactive meeting uses scads of demos to teach you fierce, passionate methods of slam, slap, thud and mmmm. Learn to use your brain and a multitude of body parts to bring you and your partners to new found levels of physical, sensual, sexual intensity and intimacy. With humor, affection, straight talk, and smarts, Felice Shays will discuss and demonstrate technique, safety, partnered positions, head space, anatomy, and helpful items. Participation is optional—but we bet you’ll want more!

CineKink @ Pioneer Theater: Pornology New York

Michele Capozzi’s award-winning documentary, Pornology New York is back by popular demand, taking us on a bitter-sweet tour of New York’s sexual underground. If you, like me, were born in the mid-eighties, this documentary is a must see.

A paean to the New York sexual underground, circa 1970-85, this engrossing documentary brings together four of its most colorful protagonists. Guide to the action is Michele Capozzi, urban explorer and self-titled pornologist, with an up-close introduction to Neville Chambers, founder of the infamous porn-producing Fuck Factory; Lenny Waller, long-time front-man of the meat-packing district’s now-defunct Hellfire Club and renowned pornstar/mistress/shaman, Porsche Lynn – for a look back in time, an assessment of where we are today…and one very wild farewell party.

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“Pornology New York reinvents a time when anybody could go to Plato’s Retreat, the Hellfire, Mindshaft, The Vault, the Anvil, Le Trapeze and even Show World, to indulge in their dirtiest, wildest fantasies and fetishes.”
- Stephanie Sellars, New York Press

Book your tickets at CineKink’s Pioneer Theater web site in advance as last month’s showing was booked out. It’s only $6 for students ($10 full price), and you have to be 18 or older to attend.

CV meeting: Story Time with Papa Bear

For all us youngun’s who missed pre-Giuliani New York, Conversio Virium is happy to present a talking tour of our city that never sleeps, with Leonard S. Waller. I first saw Lenny featured in the award-winning documentary Pornology NYC. He’s an activist, founding father of Bears International as well as the NY Strap & Paddle Association, and an oral historian who managed such notorious hangouts as the Manhole (1979–1985, 1993–2002), the Hellfire Club (1980–1985, 1993–2002), and the Vault (1987–1993), just to name a few.

What happened to these seedy, sexy bars? These meccas of kink culture?

Join us in 301 Hamilton to learn more. Milk and cookies provided.

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.

A play party for women and transfolks: The Beaver Stampede!

A New York City-based women’s Burning Man group called Camp Beaverton is hosting a Western-themed party tonight! From their event announcement:

Put on your cowboy boots and assless chaps on Tuesday, Aug 21^st for a Western ho-down New York style! Put on some cute Western wear, bring your naughty toys, and prepare to meet some of the foxiest ladies and trans folks in the city.

This is a fundraiser for Camp Beaverton: Camp for Wayward Girls, a new queer women’s camp at Burning Man 2007. We’re looking for support from NYC women to make the camp awesome, and are hoping for a dose of wayward fun to kickstart our trek to the desert! Please help by passing this invite on to women who have sex with women and transfolks.

• 18 years and up
• BYOB (they’ll keep it chilled for you)
• Fun safe sex supplies
• Snacks and munchies
• $15 at the door

Located in a beautiful loft space in the financial district not far from Bowling Green. Please RSVP to campb2007@hotmail.com for the exact address.

Doors open at 8 PM, Welcome Circle 8:30, Doors close 11.

The Welcome Circle is an opportunity for us to break the ice and get to know each other better, and we strongly recommend that you arrive before 8:30.

This is a supportive, safe, no-pressure environment. Come to play, watch, touch or be touched…

CV Newsletter Subscription List Update (Important!)

The CV newsletter subscription list is being moved to our new database. If you want to continue to receive CV mailings, you will need to subscribe on the CV site and provide an email address. Don’t worry; your email address will be used only for CV mailings and your CV web site account and will never be distributed or displayed publicly.

We will send a reminder via the old CV subscription list but we plan to switch over, by the beginning of next semester.

Single Tailing with Rob

Do you like consensual violence and loud noises? Do you aspire to Zorro and Indiana Jones? Or would you prefer to disarm them and give them a taste of their own medicine?

Would-be heroes and dastardly perverts, join us as Rob introduces the sexiest, noisiest toy in the box.

And don’t forget: CV elections are right around the corner!