Join us as we examine the psychological play of consensual, non-consent and the mind. This, often controversial class, will include a demo and an intimate look at the motivations and rewards from both the top and bottom perspective. We will explore verbal humiliation and assault, sexual manipulation and rape and other ways of being just plain mean. (With Gwendolyn).

Where:  LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave)
When:    Friday,May 17, 2013; 8:00-10:00 PM
Cost:      $5/LSM members; $10/Non members

About Nina Love

Nina Love is a fierce femme, an educator, a freelance writer, an activist, and a Leather Woman.  A native of Baltimore, Nina splits her time between Baltimore and New York, where she is active in the Leather/BDSM community.  She is the current Mid-Atlantic Leather Woman and an active member of the Lesbian Sex Mafia (LSM) and The Eulenspiegel Society (TES) and is an Emeritus Board Member of the Baltimore Education and Social Society (BESS).  She is proud to be the Education Director for FetFest Con!  An advocate of education, play, and sex, Nina has a diverse background in Fashion and Organizational Development and has used this experience to explore identity, self expression, and communication in the Leather/BDSM lifestyles.  She is blessed to be self employed and enjoys traveling throughout the United States presenting on topics such as: Self Discovery: Finding individuality in a community of labels; Communication Skills for your Alternative Relationship; and Head Games: Playing with Emotions. Nina enjoys giving back to the community whenever she can by volunteering and presenting for events and organizations such as FetFest, Southeast Leatherfest, International Ms. Leather, Black Rose, Dark Odyssey, Leather Leadership Conference, Leather & Levis Weekend, The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and Playhouse Studios.

Are you new to or curious about BDSM? Or perhaps you’ve a kink curious friend or partner? Ever wondered what it was like to have rope pulled tight across your chest? To feel the sting of a cane, or the caress of a flogger? If there is a BDSM sensation that you haven’t tried, but want to… Please join us  on Friday, April 26th.  You’ll have an opportunity to “taste” several kinky activities, to include:

• Flogging

• Bondage

• Caning

• Single tails

Where:  LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave)
When:    Friday, April 26, 2013; 8:00-10:00PM* (Changed meeting date)
Cost:      $5/LSM members, $10/Non members

*Please note that because International Ms. Leather/Bootblack is being held during our normal meeting we have changed the meeting day.

Lolita Wolf by Stacie Joy. Reprinted with permission.

When thinking of needles, most people remember of going to the doctor and getting shots. Ick! The last thing that they want to do is play with needles. But once one gets over that fear, playing with needles can be a lot of fun. Play piercing can give you a big endorphin rush. Endorphins are those sensations that your body makes to give you a natural high. Long distance runners experience a runner’s high that is very similar. Needles can leave you a different sort of breathless.

Where:  LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave)
When:    Friday, March 15, 2013; 8:00-10:00PM
Cost:      $5/LSM members, $10/Non members

About Lolita Wolf

Stone is often only seen as an absence, a loss, a problem. This interactive workshop offers an alternative perspective on stone, celebrating the hotness of stone sex and play, discussing the impact of anti-stone prejudice, and ways we all can honor the desires and boundaries of our partners and ourselves.

Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), New York, NY
Date/Time: Friday January 18, 2013, 8:00-10:00 PM.
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10
Fetlife RSVP: https://fetlife.com/events/147217

About Corey Alexander

Corey Alexander is a TG Stone Butch writer and activist, who has been organizing kink education and presenting classes on kink, sex, and relationships in the NYC area since 2003. His queer kink erotica is published widely under the nom de plume Xan West, and centers trans and genderqueer characters. He is plotting a book on pain and is about to move to the SF Bay Area.

Rituals are a key part of any D/s relationship, whether we acknowledge them or not. From casual kisses as the door to formal slave poses, ritual objects such as collars to slave contracts, the BDSM world is rife with concepts of ritual- but what is a ritual? What are the levels of ritualistic interaction we have between one another? Let’s look at rituals for day to day life (including how to get out of work or parent space), sacred time, intense connection, erotic play, solidifying relationships, changes within our relationships, and the taboo subject of the devastating loss of a relationship or its natural end. From terminology to developing your own code of ethical interaction, this class covers a bevy of styles and types of interpersonal reactions.

Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), New York, NY
Date/Time: Friday December 21, 2012, 8:00-10:00 PM. Our annual workshop at which all genders are welcome.
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10

About Lee Harrington

Lee Harrington is an internationally known spiritual and erotic educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist and award-winning author and editor on human sexuality and sacred experience. He is a nice guy with a disarmingly down to earth approach to the fact that we are each beautifully complex ecosystems, and we deserve to examine the human experience from that lens. He’s been traveling the globe (from Seattle to Sydney, Berlin to Boston), teaching and talking about sexuality, psychology, faith, desire and more, and has no intention to stop any time soon. He has been an academic and an adult film performer, a world class sexual adventurer, an outspoken philosopher, is a kink/bondage expert, and has been blogging about sex and spirituality since 1998.

His books include “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Negotiating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities” (with Mollena Williams), “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond,” “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé,” the “Toybag Guide to Age Play,” and “Shed Skins: Journeying in Self-Portraits.” He has also worked as an anthology editor on such projects as “Rope, Bondage, and Power” and “Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink,” while contributing actively to other anthologies, magazines, blogs and collaborations internationally. Check out the trouble Lee has been getting into, as well as his regular podcast, tour schedule, free essays, videos and more over at www.PassionAndSoul.com.

Photo Credit: Lee Harrington

Where:  The LGBT Center at 203 West 13th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues
When:   Sunday, November 18, 2012, 3:00-5:00 PM
Cost:    $5.00

In order to be a full member of the Lesbian Sex Mafia, you must attend one of our Safety & Orientation workshops. This workshop ensures that our 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 us for our Safety & Orientation — and fulfill this important membership requirement! For more information, please contact our Membership Coordinator at LSMNYC@hotmail.com.

New relationship energy can propel a couple into a phenomenal experiential phase of sexual energy—bursts of passion, exploration, and intensity. Long term relationships, however, face the day-to-day life navigation of bills, scheduling, job and career difficulties or changes, disappointments, changes, and grief. How do we build a long term relationship that keeps the passion alive? How do we ensure we have enough time for our partner(s), and for ourselves? How do we both separate from our partner to have our own rich inner life and come back together to build a loving bond? And what kind of kinky play can be used to keep the fire going? We’ll explore all of these concepts and more at this interactive workshop.

Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), New York, NY
Date/Time: Friday November 16, 8:00-10:00 PM
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10

ABOUT Sinclair Sexsmith
Sinclair Sexsmith (mrsexsmith.com) writes the award-winning personal online project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at sugarbutch.net. They have contributed to more than a dozen anthologies, and is the editor of Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica. They teach workshops on gender and sexuality throughout the US, including at various colleges.

Photo credit: Syd London

Ignacio Rivera

Compression is the act of pressing together or to force into less space. I see Compression Play as out-of-control deep tissue massage meets climbing, meets unfair wrestling. CP is a form of controlled resistance exchange, using body weight to restrain. Join in and find out how to “Cum into” someone with controlled force.

Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), New York, NY
Date/Time: Friday September 21, 8:00-10:00 PM
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10

About Ignacio Rivera

Ignacio Rivera aka Papí Coxxx, who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they,” is a Black-Boricua, two-spirit, gender-fluid, kinky, sex positive sex educator, sex worker, performance artist and filmmaker. They are the creator of Poly Patao Productions. Poly Patao Productions is dedicated to producing sex-positive workshops, performance pieces, play parties, panel discussions, teach-ins, social/political groups and educational opportunities that are specially geared toward queer women, transgender, multi-gender, genderqueer, gender non-conforming and gender variant folx of color. Ignacio has been facilitating workshops, doing lectures and creating events for kinky, kinky-curious Queer/Trans POC’s and their white allies for over a decade.

Bottoms are not the only ones that push their limits.  This interactive workshop/discussion focuses on edgeplay that pushes tops out of our comfort zones. Whether you are a seasoned or newly exploring edgeplayer from the top, or want to support a top in pushing edges, this class is for you.

Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), New York, NY
Date/Time: Friday July 20, 8:00-10:00 PM
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10

ABOUT COREY ALEXANDER
Corey Alexander is a Brooklyn based TG Stone Butch kink educator and writer. He was the founding facilitator of the Queer Special Interest Group at The Eulenspiegal Society, a member of the CC4D collective, and was Head of Programming for The Floating World 2010. He has been a kink and sex educator since 2003. His erotica is published widely under the nom de plume Xan West, and he is plotting a book on pain.