Conversio Virium

TES TNG: The Brain and Kink with Lady Miyabi

From the TES website:

In recent years, there have been an abundance of medical studies regarding the differences between the “male” and “female” brain. Lady Miyabi, a student of psychology and gender studies, will be sharing with us some of the newest information about the human brain and how we interact with one another–and specifically, how this research can be applied to kink, whether you’re a lifestyle-er or just looking for something new to incorporate into your scene play.

Attendees must be between the ages of 18 to 35 or be a guest of someone in that age group.

$4 for members of TES and other SM/leather organizations; $4 for students with valid id; $8 for others

Doors open at 7:30 PM (no early arrivals please!); meeting begins at 8 PM.

Location: 260 West 36^th Street, 3^rd floor

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

TES TNG: Microbranding aka Cell Popping with Soulhuntre

Join Soulhuntre this Wednesday, October 29^th as he presents on Microbranding (also known as Cell Popping).

From the TES website:

Microbranding (also known as cell popping) is the new kid on the block for ‘temporary’ marking. In this meeting we will discuss the technique, some safety concerns and have some demonstration and hands-on opportunities. Searing hot flames, glowing metal and burning skin… life is good.

Attendees must be between the ages of 18 to 35 or be a guest of someone in that age group.

$4 for members of TES and other SM/leather organizations; $4 for students with valid id; $8 for others

Doors open at 7:30 PM (no early arrivals please!); meeting begins at 8 PM.

Location: 260 West 36^th Street, 3^rd floor

TES TNG: Scary Movie Outing w/ TNG Co-facilitators

TES TNG is hosting a scary movie outing this Sunday! The movie that will be shown is Quarantine.

‘Tis the season for thrills and screams galore, so join TES TNG this Sunday, October 26^th for a showing of QUARANTINE at:

AMC Loews 34^th Street
312 West 34^th Street, New York, NY 10001

Show starts at 3:05 PM; facilitators Richard Cordage and Michelle Storm will be outside the theatre at 2:15 PM. Please arrive no later than 2:30 PM so as to get tickets, snacks, bathroom run and good seats.

RSVP to tes-tng@tes.org or just show up (on time, of course).

Happy Halloween!

TES TNG welcomes all participants ages 18-35 and their guests.

MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival: Punk Fuck Fuck screening

Blaise writes in to tell us that MIX NYC, a queer experimental film festival is happening this week, and at least one (but probably most!) of the films are a must-see!

them radical anarchoQueers are at it again…

We’re screening PUNK FUCK FUCK at the MIX FESTIVAL!

Punk Fuck Fuck is a short Qurash Co-lab product, featuring the sweet & rude, the liberated & the bound, bicycles, chains, godzillas with hard-ons attacking turkeys, DIY fuck toys, fab art & guest appearance by the Matriach of Dildos. It is not to be missed.

The MIX Festival is the one and only NYC festival of Queer (and kinky!) Experimental films, installations and amazing parties. If you wanna know what all the other cool kids are up too…. ;)

Tickets and listings of their other fabulous movies and parties at MIXNYC.org.

Punk Fuck Fuck is in the X Marks the Spot program, on Friday night Oct 17^th, 10 PM at the MIX Factory at the Seaport, 217 Water Street at Beekman.

Suspension Party

Thanks everyone for coming out to support the last Suspension party!!!

We all had SUCH a blast, it was a fantastic event. It was getting pretty hot and heavy in there with everyone playing until the very bitter end. The music was great, thanks to our DJ Terro.chic, and the new larger venue gave us a little more breathing room, yet still remained very sexy and intimate. But what really made the party was YOU- all the beautiful people! Not only were you pleasing to the eye dressed in all your fetish glory, but the walls were practically vibrating with the good energy and sexual tension you created. So thanks for coming out to support our cause!

So come on out and do it all over again…
spread the word and bring out more sexy fetishists!

The next Suspension party is Sunday, Sep. 28^th. Same time, same place!

China1: Ave B and 4^th street
Doors open at 10:30 PM
for the creatively dressed: $5 for the ladies, $10 for the gents
surcharge of $20 to the mundane

Drink Specials! $6 Wells & Vodka Red Bull

Brought to you by:
Mike B, Kelly Dane, Powder & the Suspension Staff

KinkyJews: History of Jews, Sex and Politics on the LES Walking Tour

Editor’s Note: Please welcome Naomi, the KinkyJews.com coordinator as a new contributor to our site. Myself and the rest of the CV Editors thank her for listing her organization’s events on our calendar and for reaching out to the members of Conversio Virium!

KinkyJews is proud to announce a one-of-a-kind event that should not be missed! For the next four Sundays only, come join a walking tour of Manhattan’s Lower East Side that teaches you the history of jews, sex, and related politics of the area.

Discover the lurid secrets of sex and sexuality as you wind through the streets of the Jewish Lower East Side.  Spanning from the 1880’s to the 21^st century, from synagogues to sex shops, the former shtetl will come alive with tales of Jewish prostitution, pornographers, birth control pioneers, undergarment peddlers, bath houses, burlesque performers, erotica, fetish and fashion.

The tour costs $16.25 per attendee, and you can buy your ticket online. Then meet with the rest of the tour group at the Educational Alliance building at 197 E. Broadway, near Seward Park.

We encourage you to buy your tickets early, as this event will sell out!

LSM Event: Breath Play with the Sexy Sadist

Check the LSM website for more details to come.

Pleasure Salon - Back to School Bash for Perverted Pupils of All Adult Ages

Pleasure Salon will be starting the new semester off right with this month’s quickly approaching gathering:

Pleasure Salon - Back to School Bash for Perverted Pupils of All Adult Ages
Host: Patricia Johnson
Location: Happy Ending, 302 Broome St., New York, NY 10002

6-8 p.m. Open Bar with Espiritu Liquor

Wednesday, September 3rd at Happy Ending Lounge. We will be here the first Wednesday of every month. (10/1, 11/5, 12/3)

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.

Hope to see you there!

TES Party: “Pirates of the Caribbean: At Summer’s End Party”

Michelle Storm and August are hosting a TES party this Friday. From the TES website:

Come ye wenches and ye scurvy dawgs to Paddles for an evening of swashbuckling fun. You may be tied to the mast or hoisted by your own petard by the evenings end. Plenty of grub for your belly and virgin ale for your spirits. Come as a gentleman, dirty pirate, Lady, wench or any combination of those, and enjoy the seas and possibly win some booty. Arrr!

This meeting will be held at Paddles, located at 250 West 26^th Street, between 7^th and 8^th Avenues, basement floor.

As usual, party attendance costs $25 for members of TES and other BDSM/leather organizations (including Conversio Virium!) and $35 for non-members. If you attend the TES-TNG meeting beforehand then you can stay for the party for only an additional $20.

TES-TNG Meeting: It’s amazing what you can find (with Lolita)

Join Lolita this Friday as she presents “It’s amazing what you can find!” From the TES website:

Don’t have to have a lot of money to stock your toy bag? Mix a little imagination with ordinary, everyday items and you can have some fabulous SM toys. This workshop will cover finding, converting and using mundane items for SM play. Bring one of your own pervertibles for some kinky show-and-tell. Come on! That Paddleboro kitchen spoon is the most famous pervertible in the country.

This meeting will be held at Paddles, located at 250 West 26^th Street, between 7^th and 8^th Avenues, basement floor.

As usual, meeting attendance costs $4 for members of TES and other BDSM/leather organizations (including Conversio Virium!) and $8 for non-members. Non-memers who are students also pay $4 with a valid ID.

TES-TNG: Booted Domination with Avivokhai and Kyle

From the TES website:

Boot domination doesn’t have to involve pain to be fun. Avivokhai discusses usual boot kink, pain, and kicking, as well as methods of femme style domination with boots, especially forms that are creative but non-painful. Kyle then demonstrates the joys and details of boot-blacking, and Avivokhai follows with one booted Domme demonstration of a pretty and flexible nature. Then she will demonstrate booted domination with pain and mindfuck. Enjoy!

Attendees must be between the ages of 18 to 35 or be a guest of someone in that age group.

$4 for members of TES and other SM/leather organizations; $4 for students with valid id; $8 for others

Location: 260 West 36^th Street, 3^rd floor

Doors open at 7:30 PM (no early arrivals please!); meeting begins at 8 PM.

IRWAG Conference: What is Feminist Politics Now? Local and Global

It’s a little early to be thinking about the coming school year, but the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWAG) is holding a conference September 19^th and 20^th that may be of interest to many of you. Famed writers on sexuality, BDSM and queer issues Pat Califia and Dorothy Allison, among many others, will be speaking at the conference on various issues of feminism.

The conference will explore:

• The changing meanings of feminism, and its goals (intellectual, social and political) in a global context: to examine whether these meanings can any longer be contained within the rubric of common social agendas.
• Emerging social movements within the United States and beyond, including those that foster the collective interests of women across national, class, religious, and racial borders; the common interests of women and men; and those that call for greater individual autonomy.
• Questions about how women within the post-industrial west can effectively relate to, and remain engaged with, issues that arise from diverse locations and affect differently situated women in different ways.

Visit the IRWAG website for more information on the conference itself and how to register.

Suspension: “Let’s Hang”

We have been notified of a play party, and it sounds quite interesting. It’s the second SUSPENSION party, and the details are all here:

On the heels of a successful first night,
the creators of AVN After Party, Las Vegas, Mike B and Kelley Dane announce, a Powder coated production……

SUSPENSION

A private play party.
“Let’s hang”

Sunday June 29, 2008

Tonight’s Parlor Games:
Voodoo Doll
Puppet Master
Kelley Dane’s Bondage Challenge

further…..

“Let there be dancing girls!”

So it is said, so it is done, a stripper pole will be installed.

Doors open 10:30pm

Habibi Hookah Lounge

http://Habibiloungenyc.com

198 Ave A between 12th and 13th Street Manhattan

(212) 982-0932

Support the gig: Creatively dressed individuals $7.00 but only $10.00 per couple. To the mundane a surcharge of $15 per person is imposed for bringing us down.

This is a private anything goes play party devoid of judgment and preconceived notions. Full suspension, rope and play equipment for general use.

Full bar and hookah service. 21 and over.

Fixed Drink Prices:
Vodka mixes (cranberry OJ etc.) $5
Rum mixes (coke etc.) $5
Domestic beers (Bud etc.) $5
Imported Beer $6
Water $4 (Tap available at discretion of bar keep - translation - support the bar)
Grey goose and other top shelf expect to pay more.

Contact: Kelleydane@gmail.com, mailmrbig@yahoo.com, Michael-tarik@gmail.com with inquires.

All proceeds go to support the party.

NYC Gay Pride 2008

Come march in the Heritage of Pride Parade (formerly known as the Gay Pride Parade) this Sunday, June 29^th, starting at noon! The march is from 5^th Ave. & 52^nd St. to Christopher & Greenwich St.

From the Heritage of Pride website:

The March began as an annual civil rights demonstration beginning the year after the Stonewall Riots in 1970. Over the years its purpose has broadened to include recognition of the fight against AIDS and to remember those we have lost to the illness, violence and neglect. It has also evolved to include being a celebration of our lives and our community.

TES TNG: Caning with Lady M

Join Lady M as she presents on canes, and the many ways they can be used. Note that the meeting originally scheduled by TES TNG on this date was titled “Humiliation for Fun and Profit”, presented by Jeff Mach.

From the TES website:

The cane is a versatile tool that can strike fear into the heart of the penitent, and deliver the most exquisite erotic pain, or even a relaxing massage. Whether your goal is punishment or reward or just plain fun, Lady M will discuss how to structure a caning scene to achieve your desired outcome. Of course, we’ll talk about safety, types and care of canes as well.

Attendees must be between the ages of 18 to 35 or be a guest of someone in that age group.

$4 for members of TES and other SM/leather organizations; $4 for students with valid id; $8 for others

Location: 260 West 36^th Street, 3^rd floor

Doors open at 7:30 PM (no early arrivals please!); meeting begins at 8 PM.

Folsom Street East XII

Folsom Street East is coming this Sunday! From the Folsom Street East website:

Folsom Street East, New York’s premiere s/m-leather-fetish themed street festival, will hit the streets of Manhattan from 2 to 8pm on June 22. Produced by Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA), Folsom Street East is the largest outdoor event of its kind on the East Coast, attracting nearly 10,000 visitors. Folsom Street East takes place in New York City on West 28th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues.

Performances already scheduled this year will feature indie rocker Bob Mould, Sylvia Tosun, Fredrick Ford, Trai La Trash, and The Imperial Court. Porn producer extraordinaire Chi Chi LaRue will serve as emcee.

The street will once again be lined with some 50 community groups and vendors that appeal to the LGBT and the kink communities. A one-stop shop for leather gear, porn, and toys. And no throw pillow, magic mops, or tube socks – promise!

And given that this is all part of leather pride weekend, check out the other events section and see what other filthy fun is in store.

Suggested donation is $10.

Some background information about Folsom Street East from their website:

GMSMA held the first Folsom Street East in 1997. Named after the famous Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco, the block party was an instant success, bringing our S/M-Leather-Fetish brothers and sisters together for a great celebration, while raising money to support worthy causes. Over the past 11 years, the success of FSE has enabled GMSMA to donate more than $250,000 to support organizations such as The LGBT Community Center, the NYC Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP), and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF).

The 25th Annual Leather Pride Night

Hi, everybody!

The Leather Pride Night Auction is coming this Saturday! From the LPN website:

The 25th annual Leather Pride Night Auction will take place on Saturday, June 21st, 2008. This year the festivities will be at Splash!, 50 W. 17th Street. SPLASH!’s doors will open for LPN at 6:00 PM, and the auction will run from 7 PM until 10:00 PM. Liquor, beer, wine and soft drinks will be provided at a cash bar. Light finger food will be served. A sign language interpreter will be present throughout the evening. This year, as every year, there will be a team of bootblacks to keep your boots and shoes looking sharp. All tips go toward the event’s total for the beneficiaries.

MCs Susan Wright, writer and activist, and Leatherman of Color 2007 “Doc” Hoskins will keep the evening moving, directing attendees to the varying activities and announcing the opening and closing of the auction times.

Jo Arnone, LPN’s veteran auctioneer, will preside over almost a hundred items being auctioned, including leather and latex fetish clothing, unique toys and equipment, art objects, Broadway theater tickets, and much more.

Leather Pride Night is sponsored by ten NYC S/m-leather- fetish organizations: Gay Male S/M Activists, Imperial Court of NY, Iron Guard BC, Lesbian Sex Mafia, MAsT Metro NY, MetroBears NY, New York boys of Leather (NYboL), Pariah MC, The Eulenspiegel Society and ONYX NY and many committed individuals.

Over the years, Leather Pride Night has donated over $300,000 for local and national charities. This year, Leather Pride Night will donate the 2008 Auction proceeds to: The National Council for Sexual Freedom, Scarleteen, Sylvia’s Place, Youth Enrichment Services, Leather Archives & Museum and as is customary, an annual donation to Heritage of Pride, the producer of New York’s annual Pride Parade. Tickets for Leather Pride Night are $15 in advance, and $20 at the door. Paypal payment is available at the LPN website. Tickets can also be obtained at any of the sponsoring organizations or the beneficiary organizations, as well as the following supporting commercial venues: The Baroness, David Samuel Menkes Custom Leatherwear, Purple Passion / DV8, Paddles, The Leather Man, Passional, Rubio Leather, Nasty Pig, Le Chateau Exotique and Come Again.

LSM: Leather Pride Demo on Flogging with Jo Arnone

As Leather Pride gets into full swing this June, LSM will be having a very special demo on Flogging, presented by one of their own co-founders Jo Arnone. If you plan on attending, remember to present your CV membership card for a discount! For more information about Jo Arnone and this demo, please read below:

LSM is pleased to present special guest Jo Arnone, co-founder of the Lesbian Sex Mafia, to take us through the painful pleasures of flogging. From the soft caress of deerskin, the sharp sting of a braided cat or the heavy thud of flat tails, a flogging can be sensual, erotic or simply a painful experience. Learn the proper techniques, safety, equipment and the fun of it all. Bring your whips, if you have any. There will be a few available to try as well.

Location: Room 410 at the LGBT Center in Manhattan, 208 West 13th Street. Admission is only $5 for LSM Members, $10 for non-members — and you’ll want to get there early as we expect the room to fill fast.

Jo Arnone has been a member of the NY Leather Community since it’s earliest years and has been teaching flogging to willing audiences for even longer. She is a Co-Founder of LSM and has been the Leather Pride Night Auctioneer for nearly 25 years. During that time she has donated her auctioneering talents to over 150 events all across the United States helping to raise over one million dollars for worthy charities including In the Life, Whitman Walker Clinic, God’s Love We Deliver, Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS, and Bucks County Community Services.

Lesbian Sex Mafia is a social and educational organization for women and transfolk (see membership description below) who have a positive personal interest in BDSM with other women. Our tenets are safety, consensuality, confidentiality and the right of women to explore their sexuality as they choose.

Membership in Lesbian Sex Mafia is open to all women 18 years of age or older including gay, straight, bi, and transsexual and intersexed women who live their daily lives as women, and all female-born transgendered persons who have a connection with and respect for the women’s community. Please visit the LSM website for membership information and benefits.

LSM reserves the right to deny admission to non-members it has reason to believe will not abide by the LSM principles of safety, consensuality and confidentiality.

For ASL interpretation request please email LSMNYC@hotmail.com.

No member is turned away from an LSM event based upon ability to pay. Please contact us in advance to request a scholarship.

Pleasure Salon: Return to Sandy Hook, NJ

Pleasure Salon is a social mixer for the sex-positive and alternative sexuality communities in New York City that typically occurs once a month at a downtown bar and lounge. Their next outing is taking place at Gunnison Beach in Sandy Hook, a clothing-optional beach on the not-too-far-away Jersey Shore and, naturally, you’re invited! You’re sure to see some familiar faces (and more than likely bodies), so make sure to RSVP and plan your trip out there!

Naked On the Beach!

What better way could there be to meet members of the BDSM, swinger, LGBT, sex-activist, nudist, sex-magic, polyamory, radical faerie, tantra, dark odyssey, sex-blogger, and sex-worker communities, and others whose passion is sex? It’s summer. It’s time to escape New York City for some fun in the sun. Amazing things happen each time we cross-pollinate!

Pleasure Salon on the Beach
Saturday, June 14th, 10am to Sunset
If you miss this date, we hope to see you on one of our other beach days, on July 12, and/or August 9th.

Sandy Hook - Gunnison Beach (Clothing Optional)

If traveling by car: Parking Lot G ($10 per car) It fills up fast, so get there early, or you may have a very long walk. Walk to the right of the snack stand. We will have a large “Pleasure Salon” sign.

If interested in carpooling, please indicate in your reply by clicking the car pool option, especially if you can give someone a ride.

If traveling via Public Transportation: East Side Seastreak Ferry at Pier 11 (Wall Street) or at East 34th St in Midtown. Travel time is 35 minutes.
Roundtrip Fare $43 (cash only) ferries leave 34th Street at 8:00am and 10:30am. Returns to Manhattan at 3:45 and 5:45.

Keep in mind - you can only purchase roundtrip tickets for the ferry!

We will bring two large coolers of ice for drinks (alcohol is allowed; all food and drink must be in plastic containers or cans — no glass). There is a snack stand, if you get hungry, or you can bring snacks to share. You should bring at least one bottle of water for yourself.

When you respond to the evite, include your web address or something about yourself, so we can know more about each other. Feel free to bring like-minded friends.

We hope to see you there!

Patricia Johnson, Selina Fire & Mark Michaels

SUSPENSION - “Let’s hang”

We just got wind of an upcoming private play party called Suspension, and it sounds like quite an interesting event:

The creators of AVN After Party, Las Vegas, Mike B and Kelley Dane present, a Powder coated production……

SUSPENSION

A private play party.
“Let’s hang”

A night of a thousand kisses, a night of a thousand lashes, when reality falls away and you take flight. Weightless above the earth, you are the breath that stills between intakes of air, the time that exists outside of time, the complete absence of preconception. Reason halted, mystery divined, a celebration of sensation, altered, clarified. Welcomed, you drift high, surrounded by creatures, playing, spinning, dancing, beautiful creatures just like you - suspended.

Sunday June 1, 2008 10 pm till….

Habbi Hookah Lounge

198 Ave A between 12th and 13th Street Manhattan

$7.00 creatively dressed. $15.00 to the mundane. $2.00 discount for students.
A private anything goes play party devoid of judgment and preconceived notions. No cameras, no stage performances, no fans.

Welcome home.

Full bar, hookah service, and open kitchen. 21 and over.
Contact Kelleydane@gmail.com with inquires.

All proceeds go to support the party.