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

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!

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!

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.