Conversio Virium

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.

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

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.

Stratton and KFANYC

Jack Stratton will be joining us to talk about the organization, so to speak, of KinkForAll, and to give a demonstration of its typical content by assembling presenters for three 20-minute presentations.

CV Meeting: Hypnosis 102

Rachel joins CV this week to give us an idea about bottoming for hypnosis.

Ever wonder what it’s like to be in trance? Have you found it a challenge to just relax and let go? Curious about all the sexy hallucinations you keep hearing about? Getting hypnotized is a skill that you can develop yourself, and no one is completely un-hypnotizable. This workshop is all about learning to stretch your mind and your imagination to places you never thought it could go!

Location: 316 Hamilton Hall

CV Meeting: Hypnosis 101

The first in a three part series! This first week, join us for the basics of topping for hypnosis – taught by Ben and demoed by Rachel. Next weeks: bottoming for hypnosis, brainwashing.

316 Hamilton Hall

CV Meeting: Massage

Wendy Blackheart joins us this week for a class on massage. Not sensual massage, not ten gallons of scented oils and slippery dildos massage, but straight-up hard-core old-school MASSAGE: anatomy and the the ways to get out all those unfortunate kinks our difficult life of kink creates.

Location: 316 Hamilton Hall

CV Meeting: Oops…

In our ongoing streak of excellent luck, we’re out of a presenter for tomorrow night as of 5 PM this afternoon. A long story involving massage tables and Pennsylvania is to blame, but you can be heartened by the fact our complete lack of content will not prevent us from going forward with our meeting.

Food and sociability tomorrow night, 9 PM to 11 PM, in 316 Hamilton Hall on Columbia’s campus.

We will resume our regularly scheduled programming next week.

<3 The Administration

CV Meeting: Edgeplay from the Top

Corey Alexander joins CV once again.

Pushing Your Own Limits: Edgeplay from the Top
Bottoms are not the only ones that push their limits. This interactive workshop/discussion focuses on edgeplay that pushes tops out of our comfort zones. Whether you are a seasoned or newly exploring edgeplayer from the top, or want to support a top in pushing edges, this class is for you.

Location: 316 Hamilton Hall, Columbia campus

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: Whips

That right: whips. All of them, ever, tomorrow night. Who said CV isn’t ambitious?

Okay, maybe not all the whips. Maybe just some of them. A few of them. As many as Dov can get to during our two hour meeting.

This is a class geared to get anyone who has just bought a signal whip up and running with a good basic set of throwing skills to grow and develop with. We will be covering basic throws and how to string them together in to a complete throwing style, covering different types of strikes and techniques and working on your throwing form as time allows.

Location: 316 Hamilton Hall

CV Meeting: Tightlacing

Halo Jones on tightlacing and corsettry.

Tightlacing for Beginners: types of corsets, fitting, corset cleaning and care, how to lace and tighten corsets, the experience of wearing a corset daily, and, of course, how to lace in a friend.

CV Meeting: Menace

We’re joined by Rob for a look at menace.

Menace: Fear and Intimidation
How to scare the hell out of your bottom without actually hurting them. It will have a review of some techniques, a discussion, and demos. At no point would anyone actually be hurt, but expect a lot of safewords.

Location: 316 Hamilton

CV Meeting: Japanese Rope Bondage

The first in a two part series, we’re joined by Sebastian for some good rope fun. Some rope will be provided by CV, but feel encouraged to bring your own if you have it.

Japanese Rope Bondage
Shibari or Kinbaku is a form of rope bondage that involves intricate weaves and few knots. The goal is not just to immobilize or restrain the bottom, but to cause pleasure or pain using only rope (well – mostly rope). We’ll go over the simple knots and wraps that form the basis for most Shibari/Kinbaku ties, discuss the principles of the style, and practice several of the most common forms. Bring rope! This is the first class of a two part series on rope bondage. You need not attend this class in order to attend the other, or vice versa.

Location: 316 Hamilton Hall

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

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: Shakespeare was a Kinky B*tch

CV regular makes her presentation debut with: SHAKESPEARE WAS A KINKY BITCH.

Strap your codpieces and cut your laces! We’re going to look at hot sex and kink in Shakespeare. When does Juliet have an orgasm onstage? How many times does Shakespeare refer to his own penis in the Sonnets? And what is the deal with Taming of the Shrew, anyway? If you love Shakespeare, bring your favorite sexy scene or speech to share. If you don’t, this class just might convert you.

Rachel has received a BFA in theatre from New York University’s Tisch school and classical Shakespeare training from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, but has pretty much always been enthusiastic about kinky sex.

LOCATION: 316 Hamilton Hall, Columbia campus