May 302012
 
    Tristan Taormino
    Tristan Taormino leads you through the world of all things anal and kinky in this class about how to incorporate kink into your anal sex and anal sex into your kink. She’ll cover a wide variety of topics, including: the ins and outs of anal penetration; extended butt plug wearing and butt plug bondage; creating scenes around the psychological aspects and power dynamics of anal play; using consensual force safely; an introduction to enema play; plus, an extensive Q & A—ask her anything!
    LSM will be holding a free members-only raffle at the meeting for tickets to The  Floating World (August 3-5) and TESFest (June 29-July 1)! Be sure to renew your membership. If you can’t make it to the meeting you can still enter your name just send an email to lsmnyc@hotmail.com. Good Luck!

    Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), NYC
    When: Friday, June 15 , 2012; 8:00-10:00PM
    Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10


    About Tristan Taormino

    Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, sex educator, college lecturer, and feminist pornographer. She is the author of eight books, including The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge, which features chapters written by some of the best kinky educators in the country (forthcoming in March 2012). She is the editor of twenty-three anthologies including Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica and Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica, which won a 2011 Lambda Literary Award and the 2011 Samois Anthology Award from the National Leather Association: International. She is also founding editor of the award-winning series Best Lesbian Erotica. She runs her own porn production company, Smart Ass Productions, and is the director/producer of Rough Sex, a series that explores women’s real kink and BDSM fantasies and features performers like Madison Young, Dylan Ryan, Claire Adams, Sasha Grey, April Flores, Adrianna Nicole, Sinnamon Love, and Jiz Lee. Rough Sex has garnered a Feminist Porn Award, several AVN Award nominations, and two Audience Awards from The CineKink Film Festival. She has been in the BDSM scene for nearly two decades and taught, keynoted, and emceed for over one hundred kink organizations and events around the world, including Black Rose, Boys Training Camp, CAPEX, Desire, FIST, The Floating World, IMsL, Kinkfest, Leather Leadership Conference, Living in Leather, MOB New England, NLA Columbus, Pacific Friction, South Plains Leatherfest, TES, Thunder in the Mountains, Winter Wickedness, and Xplore Berlin. She has been honored with the Vaughn Keith National Educator of the Year Award from Black Rose, a nomination for Pantheon of Leather Businessperson of the Year, and the Lesbian Sex Mafia Appreciation Award. She has a wide variety of kinks, but mostly loves her boy Colten, D/s and service, sharp things, organization, and anal fisting. Visit her on the web at Puckerup.Com and TristanTaormino.com

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      Negotiation of scenes can be tough on people who are adept at bargaining, expressing their needs, wants, and desires. so how is this gauntlet to be run by those of us perverts who are super shy or kind of awkward when it comes to saying “I need…” or “I won’t…” or giving the dreaded “No”??Join Mollena Williams, Closeted Shy Freak ™  as she shares some techniques that can help even the most awkward kinkster battle their own personal hurdles and insure that your needs are met, your expectations expressed more clearly, and that your scenes are satisfying for all parties! Bring your questions (jot ‘em down if you are to shy to ask!) and we’ll brainstorm ways to help you on your own journey to openness, clear communication and awesomeness!

      Where: LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave)
      When: Friday, January 20, 2012; 8:00-10:00PM
      Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10

      About Mollena Williams

      This “Delicate, Trembling Flower of Submission” © is a NYC born and raised writer, actress, BDSM Educator and Executive Pervert.  She is extremely honored, humbled and proud to have served as International Ms Leather 2010. She is also thrilled to have been named Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009 after that contest’s decade long slumber.’s Woman of the Year AND Northern California Regional Awards!

      With over 12 years of experience in the BDSM and Alternative community she frequently travels nationally, teaching Leather Lifestyle Classes. Her work has been published by the Society Of Janus Newsletter, The Eulenspiegel Society’s magazine, Prometheus, as well as the online magazine at ALT.COM and Bondage.com. She was interviewed for The Bottoming Book, ColorLines Magazine, and the award winning documentary Vice & Consent. She also get all tied up in the instructional video, “Jay Wiseman Teaches Rope Bondage.“ Her essay entitled “BDSM and Race Play” was published in Best Sex Writing 2010.

      Her background includes a lifetime of training and involvement in the performing arts, which include spoken word, classical theater, dance, performance art, and all manner of stagecraft.

      A founding member of Crowded Fire Theater Company, Mo blogs on http://mollena.com and is the  author of the “Toybag Gude: Taboo Play.” Her essays appear in 2 anthologies curated by Rachel Kramer Bussel:  ”BDSM and Race Play” appears in “Best Sex Writing 2010,” and “Kiss my Boots” is featured in  ”The Lust Chronicles.”  Her challenging essay on “race play” is featured in“Spirit of Desire: Personal Journeys in Sacred Kink” edited by Lee Harrington. Not one but two essays  commissioned by Tristan Taormino will be appearing in the upcoming book, “The Ultimate Guide to Kinky Sex.”  Mollena is pleased and delighted to be a featured educator with The Kink Academy, where you can see clips of her speaking on various and sundry topics!