Conversio Virium

No meeting: Valentine’s Day

There will be no CV meeting this week due to Valentine’s Day.

Instead, some of us are going to meet up at m2m at 9pm for conversation and socializing. m2m is a fun Asian food store / restaurant cafe place. Come join us!

It’s between 114th and 115th street on B’way.

Monday, February 14, 9-12pm.

Address:
2935 Broadway, New York, NY 10025-7801

Cock Confidence: Strap-On 101, with Sinclair Sexsmith:

Join us Monday  November 15th in Hamilton 302 for this awesome presentation by Sinclair Sexsmith!

Many of us have experience with strapping on, packing, and playing, but there are lots of new products out there on the market that might be exciting and that you haven’t encountered yet. Writer and sex educator Sinclair Sexsmith talk about what cocks are good for packing, what options are out there for pack-and-play, which harnesses are the most loved, and which to avoid. Plus, she’ll delve into some cock confidence, getting into the psychology of penetration, and discussing what it’s like to shoot from the hip. If you’re a butch, a stud, an AGs or anywhere on the masculine side of center, come get the nuts and bolts of strapping it on and fucking. You’ll learn about positions and lube, how different products work, what “cock confidence” means, and the psychology behind strapping on and playing with a cock with a partner, or with oneself.

Interrogation with Eric Pride!

Please join us in Hamilton 302 this Monday for a lovely presentation by Eric Pride on interrogation techniques!

Can’t wait to see you all!

The Power of Complex Sex Positivity

This interactive discussion-based workshop will offer a framework that illuminates the importance of complex approach to sex positivity as kinky people. It will examine how sex negativity works, and the pitfalls of a simplistic sex positive perspective. It will also cover ways to respond to sex negativity and kink shame in ourselves and others.

Location: Pending! Somewhere in Hamilton.

CV Meeting: Flogging w/ Valentine!

Hello CVers! Please join us this upcoming Monday for a lovely flogging demonstration–we haven’t got confirmation from the University re: which room we’ll be using, but I assure you it will be one on the 3rd floor of Hamilton so do stop by! (Also I’ll update this page as soon as I find out). There will be snacks and fun, as always!

See you monday!

CV Meeting: Kinky Science, sort of!

On 9/27, please join us while we attempt to pervert Science itself.  We will abuse the forces of physics by running 50000 volts through some eager volunteers.  We will exploit chemistry by revealing the terror inducing secrets of polyvinylidene chloride.  We will misuse psychology by reading aloud a small work of interactive fiction.

There will be demos, discussions, and lots of hot safety information.
Bring your lab coats and lab partners – because science is sexy.

Location: Hamilton 302!

CV Meeting: Intro to the Scene/Scene Etiquette.

On 9/20 please join us for a lovely introduction on joining the NYC BDSM scene! This meeting will be a discussion group of sorts, in which both presenters and members will weigh in on their experiences in the NYC scene and most importantly, what they feel comprises appropriate behavior.

SSC? RACK? What is consent anyhow? Safe play? Let’s talk about it!

Location: Hamilton 316.

Updated CV Meeting: Hellos and Mistakes!

Location:  Somewhere in Hamilton!! :(

DSD now at 8:30pm

Due to popular demand, DSD will now begin on 8:30pm Monday nights. We’re still at the Good Stuff Diner though.

Location: 109 West 14th Street, between 6^th and 7^th Ave.

Summer CV begins, now DSD-NYC

With the end of the school year, yet another set of official of CV meetings has come to a glorious close, leaving many CV’ers with a dearth of kinky social interaction.

Summer CV to the rescue! Now with a new name — DSD (and a website)!

We’ll be having weekly, unofficial, meetups at the Good Stuff Diner, every Monday at 8pm.

What better way to enjoy the blazing heat of an early summer?

Location: 109 West 14th Street, between 6^th and 7^th Ave.

CV Mini-Munch

Hello, lovely people! As there is no regular CV meeting due to Spring Break, please come join us for a fabulous time at 7pm, at the Good Stuff Diner, 109 West 14th Street, between 6^th and 7^th Avenue. Food and company await.

There’s a FetLife event too.

CV Meeting: Erotic Writing as a Tool

We’re joined by Jack Stratton (http://writingdirty.com/) this week for a workshop in erotic writing.

Erotic Writing as a Tool: Erotica and Sex Blogs as Tools for Negotiation, Seduction and the Articulation of Desire
1. How to use writing as a tool to articulate and process your desires and experiences.
2. How to use sex writing and correspondences as a negotiation tools.
3. How to use erotic writing as a tool of seduction and a way of making partners and prospective partners aware of your desires.

The presentation will include handouts and a short writing exercise in which participants will try and express their desires in artistic ways to communicate to partners and prospective partners.

I’ve presented at Sex 2.0 DC, KinkForAll NY and DC. I’m a published erotic and non-erotic writer with a thriving erotica and sex blog at writingdirty.com

CV Meeting: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Hurt Me

Conversio Virium returns January 25^th with Mistress Coraline

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Hurt Me: Playing with a Vanilla Partner

Your lover is sweet, your lover is hot, your lover is… vanilla?!? Not everyone is kinky but a lot of vanilla people are kinkier than they know. We’ll talk about broaching the subject, negotiation for beginners, where to learn the basics, what NOT to do and how to deal if your interests simply cannot match. Kink is a wonderful way to deepen intimacy, explore yourself and your partner, and have a hell of a lot of fun. Isn’t it time your lover found that out?

This class is presented by Coraline, former pro-domme and long time pervert. She entered the scene in 2002 and has learned from and played with some of NYC’s greatest players. She has has taught classes for TES, DSF, WHAP and Galleria Domain 2.

Location: 316 Hamilton Hall, Columbia main campus

Call for Volunteers and Presenters for Spring 2010

As Columbia’s spring semester approaches, CV’s administration is looking to fill up our presentation roster. If you have a new demo, an old demo newly perfected, an idea you’ve wanted to try in front of a live audience, or the narcissistic need to hear yourself talk, CV would love to have you present at one of our meetings. All the information for presenters is available on our website.

Right now, our available dates for the spring 2010 semester: February 1, 8, 15, 22; March 1, 8, 29; April 5, 12, 19, 26; May 3. If you’re worried a date has already been claimed, check our continuously updated planning calendar.

If you are interested in presenting for CV, please e-mail us at conversio@columbia.edu with two or three Monday nights you would be available and the subject on which you would like to present.

Thank you-
Elizabeth B.
President, Conversio Virium

CV End-of-Semester Party

Sassafras Lowry has elected to avoid inflicting finals-ridden Columbia students with her ongoing case of H1N1 by staying home tomorrow night, rather than regale us with her presentation on Leather Storytelling. She will be making her debut next semester.

Instead, CV will be throwing a small party; food and drink will be provided, CV’s next semester will be discussed, and fun will be had. We promise.

CV Meeting: Trust

Lolita Wolf joins CV this week to present on trust.

Location: 316 Hamilton Hall, Columbia campus

How do you achieve intimacy and create an awesome, even sacred bond with a partner? How is it that one person allows another to take control over them? Before such a potent understanding is forged between adults, trust needs to exist. Trust can be built up in a number of ways. Come, learn and put to use the communication skills and honorable actions that go hand in hand on the road to complete and total trust.

CV Meeting: BDSM ER

Sir Guy will being giving a presentation on BDSM ER, or what to do in case of an emergency.

316 Hamilton Hall

BDSM ER: It’s Not a Scene
Your fire play session was hotter than expected. Now someone got burned. What do you do? Your knife play was cutting edge and your bottom got the point. Now you’re in for some unexpected blood play. What do you do? Your breath play scene took your bottom’s breath away…literally. What can you do to breathe life into the scene? Sir Guy, a NYS certified EMT, will review medical emergencies, show you what questions to ask before you play, what to do when things go wrong, and how to deal with first responders. In addition he will give tips on creating a first aid kit.

CV Meeting: Gendering Power

We are joined this week by Sinclair Sexsmith, writer of the Sugarbutch Chronicles (http://www.sugarbutch.net/) and kinky presenter. Expect a more extended description of the presentation in the next few days.

Gendering Power, or: How to Spice Up Your Roleplay! An interactive workshop on how the addition of gender to power dynamics in sexual role play scenarios can increase desire, vulnerability, and intimacy, as well as explore deep inner personal gender identities. It will be a lecture with lots of discussion and probably some writing prompts.

LOCATION: 316 Hamilton Hall, Columbia campus

CV Meeting: The BDSM-iad – Self-Discovery Through Mindful BDSM

Ray Warman headlines tomorrow night for one of CV’s few forays into the world of art.

“The BDSM-iad of John Van Tuyl,” an autobiographically-based poem (“John Van Tuyl” being my bygone scene-name) in four cantos comprising some 700 lines that are tightly constrained, but that also burst with exuberance celebrating both the journeys on which BDSM can take us and its power to connect us intimately with one another and to transform our lives (as well as, of course, its power to provide plenty of down-home “boner-bringing diversion”). The constraint — quirky, even manic, but surprisingly workable — is that each line contains just four poetic “feet,” each with one or more words (or compound or contracted words) beginning exclusively with that foot’s designated letter (B, D, S or M, in that order). Thus, “stereotypical masters boast drill-sergeant manners,” because “boys denied spankings mature badly”! Or (from the concluding canto, which shifts to a broader, if not elegiac, perspective): “dim-visioned society marginalizes BDSM.”

LOCATION: 316 Hamilton Hall, CU campus

CV Meeting: Topping as Service

We’re joined by Conrad, addressing questions and applications of topping as service.

I am a sex worker that started first with stripping back in 1995 and since has been a male model, escort, investment banker, squater and now a pro dom for the past 2 years. I also co founded swop-nyc the new york city chapter of sex workers outreach project and swank sex workers action new york, both being sex worker organizing and activism. I have spoken at Desiree Alliance 2008 in Chicago and at Critical Resistance 2008 both on the subject of sex worker activism. I have been in the BDSM community for 2 years and attended as many conferences and workshops as possible. Roughly one per month. And now I want to start to give back what I have learned.

As a prodom in my work life and as a lifestyle service top in my private life, I feel that “Topping as a Service” will be the most beneficial workshop I can give to our community.

LOCATION: 316 Hamilton, Columbia campus