LSM: Leather Pride Demo on Flogging with Jo Arnone

June 20, 2008
8:00 PMto11:00 PM

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

June 14, 2008
10:00 AMto8:30 PM

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