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WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A KINKY DOCENT AT THE FOLSOM ST. FAIR? Folsom Street Fair NEWS!! Are you a "People Person"? A professional involved in the sex culture? Been involved with The Folsom Street Fair for years? Are you a good talker? Enjoy leading strangers on a leash, or being led? Have a great leather, or rubber, or similarly kinky wardrobe? Want to have an extra special Fair this year? Would you enjoy showing novices the best side of our City? CSC is inaugurating the first ever Docent Program for The 2008 Folsom Street Fair. What's a Docent?? Webster's -"Doe-scent: a person who leads guided tours, especially through a museum or art gallery" If you are interested in helping CSC with a fun fund raising event, meeting new folks, and helping visitors understand the leather/fetish scene, respond by email and get on the list. Please put Docent in the subject line. We are asking that you have attended at least 2 Folsom Street Fairs in the past, know something of the culture -- and it's a plus, but not recommended, that you have an appropriate outfit to wear. We are asking for a commitment to attend at least one training class, and to spend at least 2 hours with your clients at the Fair. If you are multi-lingual, let us know and we might make someone's event even more special. Docents will commit to leading at least one Fair tour -- if you have lots of energy, you can do as many as three. We encourage a tour to last about 2 hours, since there's a lot to see (and explain) at the Folsom Street Fair! You may give the tour to an individual, a couple, or even a small group. Docent clients will include but aren't limited to people who: 1. Would like to attend, but are shy, nervous, and reluctant without some good old fashioned hand-holding. 2. Have attended and want a different perspective - to delve deeper into some of the culture and history of the SF leather/fetish community. 3. Would like to see The Fair more as a participants than a spectators & have no one to go with. 4. Want to meet new people and perhaps get involved in new fun activities. 5. Media folks, Students, Educators, who have lots of questions and experiences of their own to share.CSC will charge for the the docent service -- helping out as a docent is another way you can help keep the Center alive and thriving! Subject Line: GettoNoir Productions is looking for talent!! GettoNoir Productions is launching a new club and performance event for the lesbian/queer girl/tranny community and we are looking for lesbian/queer girl/tranny talent to perform. If you got what it takes to get an audience juiced, aroused, and begging for more, then WE WANT YOU!!! All levels of experience welcome. All we ask of performers is that you TAKE IT OFF, your clothes/costume that is, during your performance. Well...according to the law, you can't get completely naked, but we'll expect you to get close. We are looking for: Burlesque/Striptease Artists: campy, twisted, subversive, classic, comedic, original Time limit for performance acts is 8 minutes. Interested??? Performers email vixen_noir@hotmail.com with a photo (in which we can clearly see your face and body, no nudity please), a brief description of your act and/or performance style and include your name, stage name, age, and special talent(s). Please include your myspace URL if you have one. Go-go dancers email simonedelagetto@gmail.com with a full body photo (again nudity not necessary thanks), and a brief description of your go-go dance experience if you have any. Also include your name, stage name and age. You must be 21 and over to be considered!!! Thanks. GettoNoir Productions Subject Line: GettoNoir Productions is looking for staff for new performance club. GettoNoir Productions is launching a new club and performance event for the lesbian/queer girl/tranny community and we are looking for staff to fulfill the following positions: Videographer w/ camera and solid experience Positions are volunteer, barter and paid. If you're interested in becoming part of what promises to be one of the hottest monthly events in the Bay Area, we want to hear from you. Please send us a brief letter describing the position you are interested in and why you want to be a staff member for our club, along with your resume, bio, myspace or website URL to vixen_noir@hotmail.com or simonedelagetto@gmail.com. We can't wait to hear from you. GettoNoir Productions Vixen Noir The Center for Sex & Culture received its third Best of the Bay this week! We're San Francisco's "Best Sex Education Resource" -- but then, you knew that. Last year our Erotic Reading Circle won a Best of the Bay for Best Erotic Resurrection, and our first one was as Best Emerging Sex Nonprofit, back in 2005. Thanks to the SF Bay Guardian for honoring us again! Vote for At Your Cervix on Idea Blob! http://ideablob.com/ideas/2882-At-Your-Cervix-make-pelvic-exa We have posted our film on Idea Blob for a $10,000 gift if we get the most votes. Whether or not you can personally donate to the film, come to a fund raiser or help in other ways, this is one way you can help us NOW that could literally get us to the finish line. We need money to finish this film that we don't have. Please vote now and please please get your friends/colleagues to vote. It only takes a minute. Thank you friends. Amy Jo Goddard, M.A. For the past year, I have been conducting research on sex offender laws and their effect on people and our society. Last Saturday, I gave a presentation on this research at the Los Angeles Social Forum. Preliminary results of the research are presented at www.ennex.com/external/RSOL/doc/topics.htm. The most horrible thing I have been finding is the harmful effects of these laws on children and adolescents, including prosecution of juveniles for consensual sexual activity with each other. We have children as young as 11 years old on the sex offender registry. A new phase of this research has begun in which I am conducting interviews with people who engaged in consensual sexual activity when they were children and/or adolescents. This could include anything from innocently "playing doctor" as a young child to having sex with your sweetheart in high school. Two interviews have been conducted to date and several more are currently scheduled. Several dozen interviews or more will be conducted before the project is complete. I will be traveling to the Bay Area in mid-August for one interview that is currently scheduled, and I would be interested in conducting other interviews on that trip. If you were involved in any kind of consensual sexual activity before the age of 18, please contact me ASAP to discuss it with complete confidentiality. If you do not know me, I can provide references that can vouch for my trustworthiness. If you know someone else who was involved in consensual sexual activity before the age of 18, feel free to forward this e-mail to them. HAI participation is not required. A brief description of the interviews is attached below. More details will be sent upon request. Please ask any questions you have. Thank you. Background and Procedure of the Interviews I am conducting a series of interviews with people who engaged in consensual sexual activity when they were children and/or adolescents, either with other youth or with adults. The purpose of this research is to test the commonly accepted hypothesis that such activity is universally a traumatic experience. The purpose is not to deny or minimize the trauma of child sexual abuse, but to investigate the possibility of children and adolescents for whom sexual activity is not necessarily experienced that way. If you were (or are) engaged in consensual sexual activity before the age of 18, I'd like to talk with you and discuss the possibility of an interview. Also, if you know someone else who might qualify and wish to tell his or her story, I'd appreciate if you would discuss it with them and/or forward this e-mail to them and ask if they'd like to think about contacting me. The interview is typically conducted in your home when you are alone and free to speak privately without interruption. The length of the interview is entirely up to you, as long as you wish to talk. The interview is recorded to allow me to accurately reflect your story. All information you give me is held as strictly confidential unless you specifically tell me otherwise. Anything I write based on your story will be sent to you for review and further comment before publication. The intention is to publish a collection of stories, anonymized as necessary, in a book, website, and/or series of magazine articles. Subjects do not need to be in Los Angeles, as I will travel for some interviews. You can see preliminary results of my research on sex offender laws at www.Ennex.com/external/RSOL/doc/topics.htm. You can learn more about my professional background at my website, www.MBurns.com Please let me know if you would like to talk about this further or if you have any questions. Best regards, Marshall Burns (805) 451-4507 www.Ennex.com/external/RSOL/doc/topics.htm From Kathleen Hunt, Esq., member of CSC Board of Directors: This is about culture, rather than sex, and I'll warn you now: it's very sad news. Rory Root, giant of the comics industry and friend to gazillions of us, passed away on Monday 5/19/08, following emergency hernia surgery over the weekend. I was fortunate to be able to be with him in ICU all night on Sunday; his family & friends made sure that he was not alone at any time. He never woke after surgery, but I believe that he knew we were there for him. The family has not yet decided about a memorial event and so forth; if you wish to be kept informed, please let me know via email (kathleenhunt@uniquelaw.com). Rory's comic bookstore, Comic Relief, has a terrific memorial website up at the moment (www.comicrelief.net); if you're in the area, stop in and buy a book in Rory's memory. Also, there's a great article about him at http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/rory_root_1958_2008/, if you're not sure who he was or what I'm talking about. And then there's the personal side of this for me. Rory Root was my friend. Yes, he was a comics visionary and an inveterate gamer, but the most important thing to me was that he was my friend. Sure, he loved comics and books and games, but that wasn't all. He was so much more than that. Memories of him clamor for attention - which to choose? The times we went to a Mexican restaurant in Oakland (now long gone), so we could tease my sister about her flirtation with the waiter? We planned our trips - once or twice a week at that point - around the waiter's schedule, then he and I gleefully dissected their every interaction. She squirmed and blushed and protested - until we got home afterwards, and the three of us would set a date for the next time. Maybe I should write about his affection for cats, like Pia, the cat he'd rescued from a Berkeley pet store to be our first Comic Relief mascot and who became queen of the place for 16 years. Rory was just like the Chinese emperor in the story, the one who would cut off his sleeve rather than disturb the cat sleeping on it. He adored his cat Oolong for every one of the twenty-three years she had him, but there was plenty of love left in his heart for Shelby, the stray that adopted him. Or perhaps it's the way I waited for his first taste of chopped liver every year at Passover; I could always count on him to tell me if it was right, or if I'd overcooked it again. Other people would be polite or tactful: Rory would be honest. He knew it was a trait I cherished. In that same spirit, I'll be honest here: Rory and I didn't always get along easily, especially during the time I worked with him (and later, for him) in my teens and twenties. He drove me absolutely crazy sometimes, and I know he felt the same way about me. We're both - we were both - opinionated people, perfectionist to a fault, often sure of ourselves when we have least reason to be. We both like - liked - to have the last word, and we both had plenty to say on any given topic. And stubborn . . . well, he was stubborn. Me, I was just a little obstinate. Yeah, yeah, that's it, just a little obstinate. (I can hear his voice saying that last sentence, the smile in his voice even coloring the accent he'd put on.) Anyway, it's not surprising that we would clash, with so much in common. It didn't really matter, though. No matter how annoyed we were with each other, we always knew that it had nothing to do with our friendship. Nearly all of our visits and conversations ended with expressed affection on both sides, whether or not we'd been passionately "debating" a topic ten minutes earlier. (Actually, come to think of it, we hardly fought at all in the last ten years - maybe we both grew up a little?) He knew I loved him, and he loved me. I'll always be glad of that. Rory introduced me to more than I can possibly list: new people, new foods, new games, new music, new books . . . there were always new books. I'm reasonably well-read, but I could never keep up with Rory. Actually, I remember how thrilled I was, four or five years ago, when I actually discovered a new book series before him. I lent it to him, of course; he laughed to see me puffing up with pride, but there was affection and understanding under the amusement. In Rory's memory, I will drink hot tea (his favorite beverage, carried everywhere in an enormous mug) and wine (which he always supplied for festive occasions). I'll eat . . . what? Maybe a blueberry ring, like the one he always brought to the shop on Christmas Day; or Indian food, from his favorite Indian restaurant in Berkeley; or perhaps just some dark chocolate and sharp cheeses, his favorites among the many foods he loved. For 33 years, Rory has been part of my life. At Thanksgiving, at Passover, at the store, at home . . . and now, as another dear friend put it, there's "a Rory-sized empty space." I miss you, dear friend. While I'm listening to your Celtic music, or watching (yes, finally!) your favorite TV show The Wire, I offer this - these halting words of my own, and then some, written by someone a lot more eloquent than me: Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust. A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew, A formula, a phrase remains, - but the best is lost. The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love, - They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve. More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world. Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. Spread the word: the Wanderlust bike tour is coming to town! This summer, a group of sixteen women are traveling from New Orleans to New York City on a reproductive justice bike tour. In solidarity with local activists and rooted in the belief that sharing stories is a powerful way to elevate awareness and create social change, we'll be pedaling from town to town to listen to your stories and document how you and others are working to expand access to reproductive health care, defend reproductive rights, and promote reproductive justice. It's a story collective - it's a bicycle caravan - it's building the movement for reproductive justice! The goals of the trip are to document the inspirational, groundbreaking work happening across the country and build horizontal networks to strengthen our collective movement for reproductive health, rights, and justice. THE INVITATION: Do you or does someone you know live along the route? We're looking for health care providers, sex educators, supportive clergy, reproductive justice advocates, policy changers, radical activists, doulas, midwives, culture jammers, and anyone who is working to empower women to control their bodies and their lives. Join us to share your story at a Wanderlust discussion gathering. We're interested in knowing what you do and why you do it, what the important issues in your community are, and how we can work together to build a strong and vibrant movement for social change.TOUR DATES
INTERESTED? If you'd like to join the Wanderlust story collective and bicycle caravan for a gathering when we come through your town, please fill out this survey by clicking here, or email wanderlust@protectchoice.org and let us know where you are and what you do. We're also looking for people to host the riders as they come through town - if you are willing to let all or some of the riders stay with you, that would be delightful! We can sleep anywhere, from backyards to rec rooms to church basements. If you're able to host please email wanderlust@protectchoice.org and let us know. For more information about Wanderlust, please visit www.protectchoice.org
Wanderlust is a program of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Nora Dye News from the Center for Sex & Culture: We are VERY excited to tell you that we moved into the old Jon Sims Center space's front room, at 1519 Mission, Suite 1. PLEASE DO FORWARD & POST THIS LETTER March 15, 2008 Dear Friends and Community of Jwala, We are a group of friends of Jwala; the pioneer Tantra teacher, pleasure priestess, author of Sacred Sex, extraordinary sexual healer and sex educator of Marin County, California. We're writing to inform you that Jwala is having a really tough time right now and needs emergency love and support. Jwala has had a serious back injury-a herniated disc. She has gone to eight doctors, tried all kinds of treatments and sadly she's still in pain. The back injury has had a domino effect in her life. The pain makes it impossible for her to do many of the kinds of work she used to which is causing financial hardships. Then friends she was renting her home from, moved-- so she had to move out too. Now she can't afford the deposit and last month rent needed for a new place. This has all put her on an emotional roller coaster; she's having panic attacks aggravated by sleep apnea. Jwala is working as many hours as she can at a hot tub place but her pay just doesn't nearly cover her immediate needs. Perhaps Jwala has brightened your life over the years. Perhaps you have found benefit in her life enhancing and beautiful teachings, directly or indirectly. Perhaps you've been inspired by her normally joyous celebratory nature, creativity and love. We have! Some of us owe a debt of gratitude to Jwala. So we want to help her out. Maybe you do too. You can help Jwala in any of these ways:
Here are some ways you can help Jwala with great returns via her friends businesses:
Time is of the essence. Act now, before April 30, 2008. (May 2 is her birthday by the way.) Checks can be made to her legal name and sent to Kathleen Bingham (Jwala's legal name.) 775 E. Blithedale, #174, Mill Valley, Ca. 94941. Call Jwala at 415 -847-7801. Email Jwala at: jwalaji@hotmail.com Sincerely, (In random order) Evelena Rose (lovejourneytantra.com) Deborah Sundahl (isismedia.org) Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. (anniesprinkle.org) Joseph Kramer, Ph.D. (eroticmassage.com) Carol Queen (carolqueen.com) Kutira Decosterd (mauiretreat.com) Francesca Gentille (lifedancecenter.com) Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Ph.D. (www.SacredProstitute.com) Veronica Vera (missvera.com) Dr. Megan Scott - Psychologist PS-If you like, please add your name to this letter, and send around to people who might know Jwala on your email list, or post, and add anything you might like to offer as well. PSS-Jwala has approved this letter and sends her love and gratitude to all. AND! CSC has scheduled a workshop with Jwala on May 4th -- see calendar for details. CANDYE KANE BEING TREATED FOR CANCER, NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT (CSC will do a benefit for her soon!) "Cancelled my European Tours and scheduled surgery for April 18th. It was an agonizing decision but I decided I had to cancel my european shows and my appearance on the blues caravan tour for the time being. I will endure the whipple procedure (pancreatic duodectomy) on april 18th at UCSD Thornton Hospital. I will be in the hospital for two weeks minimum. The address for the hospital is : 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla Ca 92037. It was a very difficult decision to cancel this tour. So many people depend on me for their income and so many people worldwide just wanted to see me sing. But I will sing again and by doing this surgery early, I have a better chance of recovering quickly and thus being able to do my other shows later this summer. I am feeling great and this extra time at home will allow me to continue my juicing and exercise and get in optimum shape before I endure this very radical surgery. Thanks so much to those of you who wrote me kind and sometimes funny emails encouraging me to stay at home. The permission slips you sent were hilarious! I have already lost 20 pounds as a result of my dietary changes and will be lose probably another 50 pounds from this intense operation. I am sure I will be fine and will be in better shape than ever. I am already thinking about the activism I will embrace when I am well; for the health care that should be available to all of us regardless of our economic status. Poor peoples lives are worth as much as rich peoples and if I hadnt had a child under 21 and been eligible for partial pay medi-cal, if I hadnt had generous friends, fans and family who are helping, I wouldnt even be able to have cancer surgery and would just be sent home to die! This isnt right and I will fight to publicize this issue. Right now though, I just have to fight to get better and beat cancer and survive this surgery. I am strong and I can do it. I just know it. But I still need your love, prayers, support and healing white light. Keep those positive thoughts coming! If you want to donate $$ to the cancer fund, check out my myspace www.myspace.com/candyekaneband for a benefit near you or you can send money thru www.paypal.com. My user name is candyekanetour@aol.com Or you can send a check to: candye kane cancer fund 315 s. hwy 101 #47 encinitas, ca 92024. Please also keep my friend Chris Gaffney in your thoughts who has been diagnosed with liver cancer. Chris is an amazing singer and musician from The Hacienda Brothers and the Dave Alvin Band. His website is www.helpgaff.com Thank Goddess, I have partial pay Medi-cal insurance now but I will be laid up for months after this intense surgery and will still need to pay bills and survive with no income. Thanks in advance for your continued generosity and for keeping me and my sons evan and tommy in your thoughts and prayers. Much love and gratitude; We have one silent auction item from that event that we are throwing open for e-list bidding: an admission to the couple's party to La Domaine Esemar in upstate New York. Please scroll down to the very bottom of this message to read more about it. If you'd like to bid, just send us an email with "auction bid" in the subject line; minimum bid is $20. Bids will close on April 20. You'll be able to send us a check, or pay with Visa, MasterCard, or discover if you're the high bidder. LA DOMAINE ESEMAR COUPLE'S PARTY (UPSTATE NY) This is Master R from La Domaine Esemar: the world's oldest SM traning chateau, located in upstate NY. We would be delighted to offer an invitation to one of our 2008 Couples Parties as part of your Reclaiming Eros auction. It has been said (frequently) that there is no hotter place on earth then a Satyrday night La D Couples Party. Our parties are normally $125 percouple, $175 for an individual, m or f. More info on our web site. The donation is for either an individual or couple. It covers; the satyrday party, does not cover the overnight stay (most people stay at local motels) but it does cover the sinday brunch. For your/their information, we will advise the winning party as to which of the 2008 parties would be good choices for their attendance, depending on their interests and skill levels. If you want, you can post the link to our site www.LaDomaine.com, or to the couples party page in specific, which is: http://www.ladomaine.com/partyschedule.htm La Domaine Esemar is unique among contemporary SM training facilities. To begin with, La Domaine is far more than a simple professional dungeon. Esemar is a private home where people can explore their complex sexuality for periods of time ranging from basic, short training sessions to a lifetime's commitment, shared with our remarkable lineage of Mistresses, Masters, and slaves. La Domaine offers insight, guided personal development, and camaraderie to all our clients. Our Mistresses and Masters are among the finest in the world, with personal backgrounds in the most extensive training program one can find today. Because of this, the slaves and Dominants we train are easily recognized by the knowing eye. Our guests are extraordinary. We are fond of saying that we host the most delicate beginners as well as the most sophisticated players. For many, La Domaine is the first step into a much broader world of sexuality. Others, far more advanced in our persuasion, bring us their many experiences. They add polish and depth to Esemar. Some visit for only hours, some shall be with us for as long as we are privileged to exist. For those who find they have a place in their sexuality to serve as a household member at a great SM training chateau, we offer placements in our personal, non-professional acolyte programs. In addition, we offer Couples Parties, dungeon rentals, overnight, weekend and week long getaways, workshops, fine food and wine, and other very special events. Call for Presenters: POLYAMORY CONFERENCE: SEPT 12-14: 2008 GREETINGS! This year's WORLD POLYAMORY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE will be happening September 12-14 at Harbin Hot Springs, in Middletown, California, (2 hours north of San Francisco). This is our official call for presentation proposals. If you want to do a presentation, now is the time to let us know: http://www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com SHARE WITH OTHER POLYAMOROUS FOLKS: What Works for You! Lead a discussion. ...or whatever else your creative brilliant mind can come up with that other polys might find fun, illuminating, inspiring, uplifting, healing, fun, informative, instructive, entertaining or fun. (Did we mention FUN?) Note: Generally speaking, academic lecture-style events or abstract/theoretical presentations do NOT go over well, while audience participation/interactive events are usually MUCH MORE popular. All events MUST be directly related to polyamory, polyfidelity, open relationships or other forms of consensual non-monogamy. General topics not related to polyamory, even if "very interesting," will not be considered. Please send in your application before June 1st, 2008. Selections will be made by our organizing committee within a few days of that closing date. If you want view a two-minute video about the conference, click here. In case you've never been there before, you'll love Harbin. Harbin Hot Springs, CA near Middleton (two hours from both San Francisco), nestles on 1200 acres of beautiful canyon land. It offers natural healing waters (hot, warm and cold pools), miles of hiking trails. The Poly Conference's area is totally private within Harbin; in our area, we can be openly affectionate and even sexual. Harbin is a clothes-optional facility. Presenters who wish are listed as Faculty of the World Polyamory Association. As one of our presenters, your listing on our web site links to a your description of the workshops you present for the WPA. Your presentation will be archived and permanently listed on the WPA. Your listing includes a link to your web site, your biography and a link to your products page on your site. Presenters receive: *A partial waiver of fees for the conference. *Free space to sell their poly-related products and display promotional literature. *Free World Polyamory Association Membership for one year. Presentations are a minimum of 1 hour. Workshops are usually 90 minutes. http://www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com For more information call 808-244-4103 Happy holidays from the Center for Sex & Culture! We have a LOT going on this month and are planning on an exciting early '08.
"We all know ALT.com has the hottest members on the web - and we also know there's a lot more to our community than meets the eye. We deeply value our members and want to support the things they care about - that's why we're donating $200,000 to your favorite charities! 'Tis the season for giving, and we want to give back to you: our community. So tell us about your favorite certified charity, and we just may leave them an extra-special gift under the tree this year! Post your suggestions in the comments below (name only, we don't need the address). If you like, give us a few short words about what makes your charity special and why we should choose it. The $200,000 will be divided over 5-10 different groups. The deadline to submit is Saturday, December 15, at 11:59PM (PST). We'll evaluate your suggestions and post our selected charities in January 2008. Good luck, and Happy Holidays from all of us at ALT.com!" Here's the URL at alt.com. Here's Giveline info: *Shop on Giveline this holiday season, and you could win $3,000 Our October contest was a huge success, so we've decided to do it again -- this time for $3,000, and with more time to spread the word to family, friends, and supporters who are shopping for the holidays. From November 19th through to December 31st, we will be keeping track of all purchases over $50 made in the Giveline store. In early January, we will randomly select one of these purchases as the winning entry, and give that winning customer:
Again, each purchase over $50 will qualify as an entry, and there's no limit to the number of entries. Our October Winner Our congratulations go out to Ann Usherwood, who won our October drawing to receive a $500 gift card for herself AND a $500 Giveline donation for her charity, Bridges of Hope -- a community support organization in the Brainerd Lakes area of Minnesota. By shopping on Giveline and choosing her favorite cause, she had already earned a donation for Bridges of Hope -- not to mention a third donation she will earn for them when she redeems the winning gift card! Five More Weeks to Shop In the meantime, the holiday season is in full swing and Giveline has the perfect item for every person on your list. With thousands of items to choose from, including wine, gift baskets and high end electronics, we are your one-stop-shop this year. Since Giveline donates a percentage of every purchase to your favorite cause, your gifts can give back as well this holiday season! Start shopping now!: giveline.com Women Sex Expert (50+) Needed for MTV Show I'm a casting producer working on an honest and eye-opening new television project on sex and relationships for MTV Networks. MTV is now on a nationwide search for a recognized specialist to moderate a new series that gives parents and children the confidence to talk about relationships, sex and contraception together. The program hopes to create an open dialogue for topics that are never easy to discuss for millions of Americans. This series is designed to foster communication within families by tackling the hardest topic of all with the help of the expert. In each episode, the expert and one family will work through their issues through group assignments and open, frank discussion. The hope is that the more families talk openly about sex, the more supportive and honest they can be in other areas of their lives. I'm reaching out to you for assistance in finding viable candidates to host the program. We're only in the casting phase and in search of the right person for the position. Details and discussions will follow once we have made a decision on our expert. We're looking to speak with women (in their 50s and up) who are recognized experts in the field of sexuality issues. Candidates can be either practicing therapists, educators, doctors, authors, etc. or retired. We'd like to find women considered to be thought leaders in the field. We're searching for an expert that is able to facilitate, in a fun way, frank, direct, no-nonsense discussions about sex, as well as, help design family activities and homework that will promote further conversations. If you or someone you know is interested, please have them contact me immediately at: mtvcasting@picturethistv.com or 212-586-2235. We're moving quickly and would like recommendations as soon as possible. Candidates will need to submit their credentials, a photo and references to be considered. The show is produced by Emmy-award winning Picture This Television (picturethistv.com). Have you read Exhibitionism for the Shy? Or have you decided, on your own, to get more erotically outgoing and exhibitionistic? CQ is revising Ex for Shy and would love to hear your stories. We can chat in person, by phone, or you can send me an email. WERE YOU AT KINK INK IN APRIL, 2006? PLEASE READ! CSC is trying to find a mystery attendee from Kink Ink 2006. Please visit http://sexandculture.org/pages/KinkInk.html -- it's a special page on our website with a pic of the last person we are trying to identify from the photo session done that night. If you have ANY idea who this woman might be and how to reach her, please let us know, or ask her to get in touch with carol@sexandculture.org. Without her ID, the images Carlos Batts took that night of his wife April Flores (and their whole new movie) may have to be canned. We really hope to help them contact everyone, and the women in the pic is the last person we have yet to find. Thank you! WOODULL FREEDOM FOUNDATION goes to Philly! See http://www.woodhullfoundation.org/events/default.aspx. Now you can support Center For Sex And Culture when you travel! Attention all Center For Sex And Culture supporters! Giveline has partnered with a leading provider of fundraising travel packages which include cruises, golf vacations, adventure and fantasy trips and more. Go to http://giveline.com/productbestsellers.asp?V=&p=&mc=MC010 to see the vacation packages we offer and the huge pricing discounts offered exclusively to Giveline customers. START SPREADING THE WORD! OUR PERSONALIZED LINK: http://www.giveline.com/default.asp?v=V004587299 (bookmark it!) START SHOPPING NOW! Get FREE SHIPPING using this discount code: NCD07 New Michael Rosen book out now! A message from Michael: Friends, This PDF is a reprise of a 2005 show at the Center for Sex & Culture in San Francisco. It's my latest and best work. For me, "vanilla" means the spectrum of our community's sexuality; what we normally do. So, some photographs are of acts generally considered normal and standard (missionary position sex, for example), while others are of acts considered normal and standard only within the radical sex community. The 53 photographs are soft and romantic images of explicit sex that challenge the banality of pornography. And, check out the introduction by the preeminent photography critic, A.D. Coleman. Think of this as an advertisement for myself and my work. For me, publication has always been about putting my point of view out in the world in the most effective manner. Last century, I chose printed books for sale; so far this century I choose a free PDF. Support this work. Buy my art prints. Buy my books - Sexual Art, Sexual Magic, Sexual Portraits and Lust & Romance - from Amazon and other online vendors, or from me at my website, http://www.michaelrosen.com. I'm always looking for people to photograph - individuals, couples and groups - for a variety of sexually oriented projects. I pay and/or trade. Tell your friends! I wish you all the very best, Psych. and therapy professionals with kinky clients: San Francisco 415 255-7866 http://www.LifeStyleEducation.net FEMINA POTENS has a new home! Of course, we are always looking for volunteers and interns in all areas! Please contact us at feminapotens@gmail.com if you would like to be involved in this exciting new phase of developing an even stronger feminist, queer, and artistic presence in San Francisco! Femina Potens Gallery & Performance Space (New location!) Jen Cross and Writing Ourselves Whole have a new space all their own! Jen will still help facilitate the Erotic Reading Circles at CSC (for which we won a Best of the Bay award this year!), and she'll still hold readings with us sometimes. Best of luck to Jen in her now home! Get more detail on Jen's events, including her fall classes, at www.writingourselveswhole.org (visit the new blog!) Giveline The Center for sex & Culture has been confirmed and added to Giveline, a shopping site that makes donations to non-profits, and is now eligible to receive donations. OUR PERSONALIZED LINK: http://www.giveline.com/default.asp?v=V004587299 (bookmark it! Pass it on!) Get FREE SHIPPING using this discount code: NCD07 Wank! Documentary Seeks Interviewees Why is that masturbation jokes are common in popularculture, yet the topic remains a virtual taboo inother contexts? Why do some vociferously oppose it,and others love it? Can't we all just get along withourselves? Wank! is a documentary about all aspectsof self-pleasuring. 3 years in the making, we'veinterviewed almost everyone in sight. Now we'recoming to the Masturbate-a-thon and we'd like tointerview you. We'll be at the M-a-thon itself, butwe'd like to interview a few participants beforehandand after. We'll have time the day before, themorning of the event, the night of, and Sundaymorning. Please let us know at your earliestconvenience: bluemetalrain@yahoo.com www.myspace.com/wankdoc Welcome to my blog! www.carolqueenblog.com Click HERE to read the CSC Winter '07 Newsletter! http://www.blowfish.com/radio/
*APA's Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients -- A survey Two groups within the American Psychological Association, the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns and Division 44, the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues are joining forces to revise APA's Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients. We invite you to participate in this effort. If you know of other groups or individuals who might be interested in participating in this effort, please feel free to pass this information on to them. To access the survey, please use the following link or paste this address in your browser: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=550063185188 If you have any questions about the survey, contact Glenda Russell at gmrussell5@hotmail.com -- Thank you in advance for your input into the revision process. What is Great Sex?: We are a group of researchers in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University and at the University of Ottawa who are studying optimal sexuality. We are interested in interviewing individuals, preferably over the age of 65 who have been in long-term relationships and who have had great sex at some time in their lives. It doesn't matter if it was once, long ago or every day. We are hoping that we can contribute to the field by getting some idea of what great sex actually consists of from people who have lived it. We would like to gain wisdom from people who have a lifetime of sexual experiences to share. VOLUNTEER WEB PROGRAMMER NEEDED FOR SEX-POSITIVE JOURNALISM AWARDS Sick of knee-jerk anti-sex media coverage? Want to lend your web skills to the cause? The Sex-Positive Journalism Awards needs a few hours of your time to launch our website. Our graphic designer will provide Photoshop layouts of the home page and a few sample pages that clearly define the exact layout. We need someone who can then program the pages in HTML/CSS/whatever to match that, including slicing & optimizing any graphics, if necessary. It will be a fairly simple page. We want a basic site up ASAP. By the end of the summer we'll need to add a form that will allow users to upload pdfs. Contact writer@mjoy.org if you're interested. Sex Survey Participants Wanted We are conducting a study into the nature of optimal sexuality. In the field of sexology, we often spend too much time focusing on problematic sexuality and not enough time talking about really memorable sex. We are interested in interviewing individuals, particularly those marginalized by society in general and mental health professionals in particular (i.e., members of sexual minority groups and the elderly), about wonderful sex. We are especially interested in learning from those who have been in long-term relationships and who have had great sex at some time in their lives. We are hoping that we can contribute to the field by getting some idea of what great sex actually consists of from people who have lived it. Ideally, we would like to gain wisdom from people who have a lifetime of sexual experiences to share. If you would like more information, please feel free to contact us at dana.menard@gmail.com and/or kleinpla@uottawa.ca or by phone at (613) 563-0846. Sincerely, Psychology Masters Degree student posts survey about casual sex: Here is the link to the survey: https://www.psychdata.com/s.asp?SID=119878. "My name is Tom Pearson and I am a psychology graduate student at the University of Northern British Columbia. With the help of my supervisor, Dr. Sherry Beaumont, I am currently working on my thesis proposal that is focusing on potential individual difference factors that may predict why casual sex has a variable impact on young adult's psychological health. My survey will be about 150 items, of which 60 items will be very short (just rating emotions after reading casual sex scenarios). Participants will also be asked to fill out demographic information, sexual history information, a questionnaire on styles of relating to others, and a questionnaire on casual sex motives." A message from the Woodhull Freedom Foundation: CREATING CHANGE AND SEXUAL FREEDOM We'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to largest LGBT political change conference in the country: Creating Change. For this year's conference, held in Kansas City, MO, the Woodhull Freedom Foundation has partnered with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to create an entire track dedicated to Sexual Freedom. Our mission for this conference is to help educate activists and advocates on the importance of focusing on the general issue of sexual freedom rather than any one particular identity. In order to accomplish this we are showcasing a daylong, Pre-Conference Institute on Sexual Freedom that will be led by experienced activists and leaders from different areas of the Sexual Freedom movement. During the main conference schedule, the Sexual Freedom track will include great workshops and skills academies covering topics ranging from discussions about sex in the disabled community to youth issues and leather issues, as well as understanding sexual freedom as a political leader. These workshops will help further the skills and knowledge base of any activist and translate across communities, helping the Sexual Freedom movement to expand its relationships with other segments of the social change movement as a whole. Creating Change is an inspiring conference that brings together activists from across the country and around the world to meet and discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the LGBT, Sexual Freedom and other social change movements alike. We hope that you can join us in Kansas City, MO this November from the 8th through the 12th. To register for the conference or for more information please visit the conference website at http://www.creatingchange.org or contact the conference team at creatingchange@thetaskforce.org. Ricci J. Levy, Executive Director WorkingStories is an audio documentary project based on the lives of sex workers. A note from Lynne Breedlove: hey pals i am proposing a book with a working title something like How Girlz and Boyz Can Love Each Other by Someone Who Has Been Both. It's a collection of letters to Unka Lynnee and my responses about dating, boinking, community, and relationship etiquette, so i can be just like dan savage, only better. cuz i am a big tranny who needs to make money so i can write the damn Godspeed feature length screenplay. [CSC note: Godspeed is Breedlove's terrific book that will eventually be made into a movie.] I need straight bio boys to write me some questions about girls, and straight girls to ask questions about boys, fags about their drag queen boyfriends, and everyone else. so send em over. thanx! let's make the world safe for democracy again. me@lynnbreedlove.com xoxo lynnee The Hastings Women's Law Journal is excited to announce that we are currently seeking personal essays, narratives, and other forms of art and literature for our upcoming issue. In furtherance of our commitment to provide a forum for alternative voices, we are seeking pieces that convey the author's personal experience with the legal system. We hope that by sharing your story, we can provide our readers with an understanding and awareness of how individuals are directly impacted by our legal system. We welcome submissions from practitioners, clients, and anyone else who would like to share their personal experience. The Hastings Women's Law Journal, a scholarly publication of the University of California, is one of the leading women's law journals in the nation. We are committed to producing publishing the highest quality of scholarship and are dedicated to providing a forum for alternative voices in legal discourse. We encourage you to become part of the Hastings Women's Law Journal by submitting a piece for publication. We prefer that you email us your piece, but you can also submit it by mail. We regret that we cannot return pieces mailed to us, except upon receipt of a self-addressed postage-paid envelope. Please contact us with any questions that you may have. Please also forward this message to colleagues and clients who may be interested in publishing with the Hastings Women's Law Journal. Hastings Women's Law Journal WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? Take the survey! Another survey: http://www.socioscape.com/quo. Marriage and family, including the same-sex kind. Hi, my name is Rachel Harris and I am doing an interview project on sex workers and healers (basically anyone who engages in any type of sexual activity, be it actually having sex, guiding others in having sex or dancing/teasing etc, and gets paid for it) and spirituality. I am curious about the connections between the two and how sex workers feel about this topic. Anyone involved in spiritual/sexual work, or sex workers or people involved mostly in spiritual work -- I'd greatly appreciate hearing from them and will send on my survey questions. CQ note: You can contact Rachel at rachel_h@riseup.net to answer her Q&A. Sadie says: I have started a new yahoogroup, Erotic Industry Workers Support. It is a place for people to talk about their work, their feelings, ask questions, network, and get support. I created it out of an expressed need at the Sex Workers Burnout Workshop hosted by Annie Sprinkle at the CSC last sunday. There is already a tribe on tribe.net for this purpose, but I think yahoogroups are more accessible to most people than tribe. If you are interested in joining please email sadielune@gmail.com. Feel free to pass this information along to people who are working or have worked in a provider capacity in the sex industry. (i.e. no producers, furniture builders, photographers, etc.) TRANSSEXUAL/TRANSGENDER SURVEY I am writing to ask for your help with what will be the largest non-clinical study of the lives of transgender people in the U.S. (in the first ten days, we have had more than 600 participants, and are aiming for more than 2,000). While much has been written about individual transgender experiences, there has been little trans-positive research on the processes by which people come to see themselves as MTFs, FTMs, crossdressers, genderqueers, and other transgender and gender diverse identities. The researchers are a genderqueer college administrator (me!) and a queer campus diversity specialist (full bios are below). We are undertaking this study because we feel that high school and college administrators, therapists, doctors, and other professionals who work with transgender people often have a limited understanding of transgender experiences, which leads to poor treatment and discrimination. We hope that our findings will help foster a greater awareness of transgender people. You can take part in the study by completing the survey at https://web.survey.psu.edu/transgender (it is a secure server). The questionnaire will take about 30 minutes to fill out. It is completely anonymous and responses cannot be tracked back electronically to the sender. Please feel free to forward the study's web address to other transgender people you know who might be interested. And please feel free to contact me with any questions. Thank you very much! I really appreciate your help. To be informed of all our activities, join our mailing list! Send an email to info@centerforsexandculture.com |
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