Mmm, piercing. If you couldn’t get enough of this sexy art-form at the College-Night party at Paddles, check out this workshop with the Lesbian Sex Mafia.

Where: The LGBT Center at 203 West 13th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues
Cost: $5 for members, $10 for non-members (Be sure to renew your LSM membership for 2008!)

Piercing flesh can be any combination of incredibly erotic, intimate, painful, beautiful and brutal. Have you been curious about temporary piercing but didn’t know where to start? Playing with needles is fun but getting started can be daunting. This workshop will cover where to find the materials to start, safe play for piercer and piercee, proper preparation of the skin, how to set up a clean and safe play area, and how to safely pierce for pain, pleasure and art. We will start with piercing fruit and move on to piercing people. Each person who wants to experience piercing and/or being pierced will have the opportunity to do so. Partners, play partners and singles all welcome.

Ray Aims is the alter-ego of a Boston, MA USA based artist/designer/producer/performer who has been piercing in public and private since 2003. The fight between beauty and pain is what draws Ray to temporary piercing. Ray learned temporary piercing from Fetish Diva Midori and consultations with Aimee Ross/The Bearded Lady and is always practicing and learning. Ray’s work can be seen at www.truthserum.org/rayaims and http://www.truthserum.org/rayaims_photos.