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.

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.

Apologizes to all for the delay of posts. Join us again at the Malibu diner as we bid farewell to what I hope has been an amazing summer for everyone, and for the last installment of Summer CV this year! After this, we will return to our regularly scheduled meetings, the first of which will be held on September 15^th.

Malibu Diner: 163 W 23^rd St, between 6^th and 7^th Ave.

For this week only, Summer CV will be relocating to the Moonstruck Diner, because another group will be having a vanilla munch there. The Moonstruck Diner is at
400 W 23^rd St, on the corner of 9^th Ave. and 23^rd St. Tell everyone you know!

It’s finally August, which means one more month until the school year begins (along with our regularly scheduled meetings). This week, Summer CV will be at the Malibu Diner as usual. However, please remember that for the next week only (August 11), we will be at the Moonstruck Diner. Anyone can come to Summer CV, so please don’t hesitate to do so!

The Malibu Diner is at 163 W 23^rd St, between 6^th and 7^th Ave.

If you’re anything like me, Monday is the best weekday ever ;)

Since it’s not the second week of the month, Summer CV will be held at Malibu Diner once again. Come!

163 W 23^rd St, between 6^th and 7^th Ave.

A lanky guy in jeans and a red T-shirt announced that he had recently had an “awesome” time learning how to play with needles. A young woman in a Columbia ‘05 sweatshirt described her interests as “knitting, crocheting, flogging and bondage.” A studious-looking man in horn-rims identified himself as a “funny kind of sadist.”

Laundry lists of fetishes were ticked off as if they were top choices for graduate school. The group sidetracked into an erudite discussion of the psychological underpinnings of sadomasochism. Finally, club members got down to the business at hand, which was scheduling discussion topics, activities and outings for the semester.

First, even though it’s not readily apparent to most of you guys, the CV Executive Board receives emails almost weekly asking for advice, support, or some other kind of question. With CV’s growth, these emails are becoming increasingly difficult to respond to in a timely fashion and, more to the point, sometimes we just don’t have the expertise to answer the question thoroughly even though we know that one of you probably does.

That’s why we’d like to encourage everyone who hasn’t done so already to check out the recently-renovated CV Google Group, which hosts a public email discussion list that we’d love to see you join. In fact, if you’ve got an account here, you were already invited. (Don’t worry, you won’t get subscribed unless you accept the invitation, which is on its way to you right now if not already there.)

We’ll be pointing our many email corresponders to the discussion list in the future as well as trying (hard) to keep up with the load ourselves. Our hope is that with the discussion list, we’ll be able to involve everyone in this process more readily. We also hope that the discussion list will be a great place to just bring up whatever sexuality- or kink-related things you want to discuss.

Since the mailing list is not the only unofficial CV site, there’s now also a Related Sites page that lists some of the other places you can go to chat with fellow CV’ers online.

Finally, we’ve also begun to invite contributed event postings from readers just like you. This means that, if you’re inclined to do so, rather than simply telling us about upcoming events, you can post the events directly to our calendar yourself. Just request contributor status for your account via email and we’ll show you the rest. We’re really hoping event organizers will take advantage of this and contribute their own events to the CV calendar.

Do you run a kink group? Are your events on the CV calendar? Here’s looking at you, kid.

Can you believe it’s not even August and the new Executive Board has done all this? And September has even more letters!

Apologizes for the confusion regarding the location of our munch last week. Apparently, a photography group meets on the second Monday of each month, and they have been meeting there for a while. So, we relocated to the Moonstruck diner on 9^th Ave., two blocks directly west of Malibu diner. It’ll likely be our alternate diner in case we need to relocate again for whatever reason (and we’ll probably go there again on August 11).

I love meeting new people, and it seems like I have every time! If you haven’t come yet, we encourage you to release your inhibitions!

163 W 23^rd St, between 6^th and 7^th Ave.

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.