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!

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.

Check this out if you are interested in finding out more about LSM and becoming a member:

Mark your calendars now! In order to be a full member of the Lesbian Sex Mafia, you must attend one of their Safety & Orientation workshops. This workshop ensures that the entire membership has a common understanding of BDSM and will be able to uphold our basic tenets of safety, consensuality, confidentiality and the right of women to explore their sexuality as they choose. Whether you are an experienced player or a newbie to the scene, please join LSM for Safety & Orientation — and fulfill this important membership requirement! For more information, please contact our Membership Coordinator at LSMNYC@hotmail.com.

Where: The LGBT Center at 203 West 13th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues
Please show up ON TIME. Latecomers will not be admitted!
Cost: $5

Can’t make it to this workshop? Don’t worry – LSM will be conducting future safety and orientation workshops on the first Sundays in September and November.

KinkyJews is holding another event.

Featuring:
Tsaurah Litzky, Matthue Roth, Lainie Speiser, Albert Stern and P.K. with Special Musical Guest Avi Fox-Rosen.Readings begin promptly at 7:15pm, so get there before then!

LOCATION: KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. at 2nd Ave., New York, NY
Check out http://www.kgbbar.com.

COST: Free

OPEN TO: All

They missed last year, but this year they’re planning to be back bigger and better! TESFest is The Eulenspiegel Society‘s (mostly) annual BDSM extravaganza, an event loaded with educational workshops, playtime, and lots and lots of interesting personalities! Check out the TES Fest website for more details.

Should you be interested in going to TesFest for cheaper, then consider emailing tf-volunteers@tes.org to volunteer at the events and get on the volunteer’s list. Volunteering for 12 hours of work gets you free admission to the entire event.

Check out this upcoming event from TES:

Does the thought of struggling for air excite you? Does the idea of holding someone by the throat turn you on? Have you heard about “breath play” but considered it too dangerous or simply didn’t know enough about it? Sir Barry explains what breath play is and how to do it safely. This event is open to all.

Location:
260 W 36th Street 3rd floor, between 7th and 8th Avenues @ 8:00pm, doors open at 7:30pm.

As listed on the promotional material:

$15 bucks before midnight
$20 after
18+

for exact location call 718.789.4053 or
email Red@submitparty.com

Voyeurs & Experienced Players Always Welcome
Women and Transgendered Only

No CD’s No TV’s

Slings ~ Bondage Bed ~ Live Sex ~ Hot Porn ~ Medical Room
~ Shower ~ Kiss ~ Watch ~ Play ~ Flirt ~ Fuck ~ BYOB

for more info:
www.SubmitParty.com
or call 718.789.4053

SWITCH returns to Paddles this month:

SWITCH

the all new monthly
women/trans/genderqueer
bdsm party
in a room of our own
behind closed doors
at PADDLES

EVERY 3RD FRIDAY
MAY 16TH
JUNE 20TH

$10
($5 for LSM members)

MAT FOR WRESTLING! BOY FOR BOOTBLACKING!

No experience necessary. No participation required.
We won’t beat you up unless you ask for it.

PADDLES 250 W. 26TH STREET
(enter through parking lot side door facing 8th Avenue)
mailing list/info/volunteer:
switchparty@riseup.net

Thanks to an email from Richard Cordage, one of the new TES-TNG Co-Facilitators, we at CV can bring you information about an exciting upcoming event being hosted not by TES but by Niuka Dragon Stables of which the owner, Reina Darkness, recently held a pony play workshop for TES also. Below is the information for how to register and attend:

Last chance to register for our Pony Romp in the Park event in Central Park, New York City, Fri – Sat, May 2-3, 2008! Click here to register and go to their website to find out all the details of the Romp.

The $45 event registration fee includes the Friday Field Trip with discounts at Purple Passion, the Round Up at the Pony Romp Headquarters, Romping the Park including a cross-country trot down the Ravine and the opportunity to run (or ride) the famous NYC Central Park Bridle Path, pony watering and PG grooming by The Pool, a catered BBQ feast back at HQ, and the Private Pony Play Party!

Please contact us if you have questions or need more information.

I can’t wait to see our ponies under the Central Park Cherry Blossoms!

Best regards,

Ms. Reina
Niuka Dragon Stable

As listed on the SPAM party web site:

Admission: $10 women/trans $20 men
student’s 18-22 w/valid id FREE!!
Doors close at 2am.
Call for exact location 718.789.4053

Brooklyn’s Nastiest Queer Party!
Mandatory Pants Check Down To Your Underwear!

New expanded space! New equipment!

**NO HETEROSEXUALS ALLOWED** NO SMOKING **
**Other New Rules to Maximize your Fun and Keep It Safe**

Bklyn’s Hottest Sex Party for the entire LBGT community
BYOB~~Hot Music~~WOMEN/TRANS ONLY ROOM~~Queers Only!

Safety’s name of the game with our SPAM quality control experts who
circulate in order to maximize your nasty fun.

For more info and party location please call 718-789-4053

check out spam party at their website
If you have questions, please email Red@submitparty.com

We at CV are so happy to announce that Grapple Den, an awesome-looking wrestling party taking place on a regular basis, has approached us to spread the word and find more people to wrestle with. Check out the Grapple Den website for any and all information regarding news and events. Here’s a brief intro of their club, and the info for their next party:

About The Grapple Den Wrestling Party:
NYC’s Sweaty Underground Fetish Fight Club
@ Tagine. 537 Ninth Ave (@40th St)

Underground wrestling, competitive grappling, and physical domination at it’s finest, brought to you by the Grapple Den Association for Recreational Violence.

Come to the neutral meeting ground for pro session wrestlers, fetish wrestlers, and grappling hobbyists.

Watch wrestling performances, come play, come enjoy the straining bodies in action. View a variety of matches as you recline on our couches and enjoy a drink or two. We have female vs female and mixed matches taking place all evening. Male vs male matches take place after midnight.

For you voyeurs, we have *both* ring-side couches and dark corners where you can sit and observe the action.

Our Next Party:
Grapple Den Wrestling Party
May theme = Tribal

Stay tuned. Note that Grapple Den events are all-inclusive unless otherwise noted for specific purpose. Men, women, straight folks, gay folks, trans folks, wrestlers, spectators, young, old, tall, small, and so forth, all are welcome. You just need to sign our liability waiver if you want to wrestle.
All play must be safe, sane, and consensual.

Barbara Carrellas generously returns as our host into the Tantric workings of our bodies and minds. Please join her if you have not yet experienced her unique and deep workshops that tie in Tantra and BDSM so well together:

This evening we’ll explore the ecstatic potential of conscious erotic power exchange. All our relationships involve an exchange of power. Some of these exchanges are subtle and unconscious, others are intentional and consensual. Using techniques borrowed from both Tantra and BDSM, you’ll learn how to create your own personalized style of power sharing and discover how the conscious, intentional use of active and receptive energies can amp up the energy in any style of erotic relating.
Note: Please attend this workshop with a partner. That partner can be a lover, a friend, or someone you just met. There will be no nudity or explicit sexual touch. Single attendees will be paired at the workshop, with consent, of course. All genders and sexual preferences welcome.

The beautiful and talented Barbara Carrellas continues with her amazing Tantra workshops all around the city.

Catch her while she’s still in town!

In this workshop you’ll learn Tantric techniques for building and sharing sexual energy with a partner. Simple techniques such as conscious touch, breath, and movement can expand our concept of gender roles, help us transcend fears of intimacy, and enable us to build and share enormous amounts of sexual and spiritual energy and power. Come and learn how to transform your touch into an energetic exchange of love and bliss.

Note: Please attend this workshop with a partner. That partner can be a lover, a friend, or someone you just met. There will be no nudity or explicit sexual touch. Single attendees will be paired at the workshop, with consent, of course. All genders and sexual preferences welcome.

The workshop will take place at:
Phoenix Temple
65 West 55th Street, Suite 7C
New York, NY

$35. Reservations: sensualshaman@gmail or 646-460-9397.

Want to spice up your Passover this year? Join KinkyJews for this annual treat:

A Seder like you’ve never experienced before. While maintaining key elements of tradition, celebrate Passover with KinkyJews, as we have a humor and hedonism infused chocolate themed Seder with four cups of chocolate milk, chocolate covered matzah, Hillel S’mores, and more. Have a wild time with the search for chametz kit (candle, feather and wooden spoon), Passover erotica, maggid show and tell, re-enactments slavery and redemption, floggings a-plenty, new friends and fun! Play space is available for use after the afikomen is found.

LOCATION: Grand Space, 778 Bergen Street (at the corner of Grand Street) in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 11238

RSVP: RSVP by April 23 to contact@kinkyjews.com. A $5 charge will be added to the cost of anyone who RSVPs after April 23.

COST: $30 for couples (any gender), $25 for single men, $10 for women and $10 students under 25. If the cost is prohibitively expensive for anyone, please let our coordinator know at contact@kinkyjews.com.

Check out SWITCH, the newest monthly BDSM party, set to take place at Paddles. Gina, the organizer, has also asked us to pass on the following message:

“In case anyone is feeling particularly enthusiastic, I’m looking for volunteers for the door! It’s not the door of paddles, and not taking money or anything, but just being in front of the closed doors of the party to let people know it’s going on and that it’s a women/trans/genderqueer party (there will be signs for the door and everything and i’ve been telling people to team up to make it more fun!)”

The party information follows from the promotional material:

SWITCH

the all new monthly
women/trans/genderqueer
bdsm party
in a room of our own
behind closed doors
at PADDLES

EVERY 3RD FRIDAY
APRIL 18TH
MAY 16TH
JUNE 20TH

$10
($5 for LSM members)

MAT FOR WRESTLING! BOY FOR BOOTBLACKING!

No experience necessary. No participation required.
We won’t beat you up unless you ask for it.

PADDLES 250 W. 26TH STREET
(enter through parking lot side door facing 8th Avenue)
mailing list/info/volunteer:
switchparty@riseup.net

Head down to Babeland’s Mercer Street location for another workshop hosted by the lovely Barbara Carrellas about her Urban Tantra techniques. For more information regarding this event, please contact Babeland directly at (212) 966-2120, or visit Babeland Events.

Barbara developed Urban Tantra as an approach to sacred sexuality that adapts and blends conscious sex practices ranging from Tantra and Tao to BDSM. The result is a hot and healing brand of sex for the 21st century sensualist.

On the Tantric path, pleasure, vision and ecstasy are celebrated rather than repressed. In other words, when other spiritual practices say no, Tantra says a great big YES. Tantra is not only a sexual practice, it also is a sensuous way of life and path to spiritual growth. In this workshop, you’ll learn Tantric techniques for intense full-bodied orgasms, amazingly deep, heart-centered connections (with a partner or with yourself), and the bliss that comes when your spiritual and sexual paths are one.
We’ll practice techniques and exercises that can help you to:

• Discover your top ten turn-ons
• Open your senses and develop your sensuality
• Unleash your orgasmic energy
• Attract your ideal lover
• Create and practice self love
• Celebrate pleasure, vision and ecstasy

This evening is instructional, and respects personal boundaries. All genders and sexual flavors are welcome.

Pleasure Salon hosts an exciting book launch party! About this upcoming event:

In honor of our connection to Tristan Taormino, whose visionary work inspired the Pleasure Salon, we invite you to join us at Mark, Patricia and Tristan’s joint Book Launch Party, at the Happy Ending Lounge. For the book party, please RSVP by emailing sarah@puckerup.com.