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ouccccccch chite.....oops I mean ah thank you Evil Geoff Sirwrites on the back of my hand.............. BEHAVE
yes that ought to do it !!!!
I know I will regret this..................
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New Article from Google Alerts ~ Nancy Irwin / Xtra / Thursday, May 25, 2006
A slippery slice of the rainbow
9ICB / Bisexual activists head to Hogtown for international conference
Just one week before the city is overrun with sexual rebels of all stripes, Toronto will play host to a more focussed gathering of deviants, the Ninth International Conference On Bisexuality, Gender And Sexual Diversity (9ICB).
"This conference is going to be a chance to build on the energies of all the people out there working for bi-inclusivity, creating bi communities," says 9ICB chair and organizer Dana Shaw. "We'll bend the brains of all the people who think there are only two genders, that there can only be gay and straight. We've been sending out our publicity to bi, queer and genderqueer organizations so we expect a diverse group of attendees from all over the world."
With 170 attendees registered by press time and room for a maximum of 400, the conference is attracting both presenters and attendees from Europe, Africa, South Asia, South America and the US.
True, the numbers are low in comparison to the hundreds of thousands that will come out to celebrate Toronto Pride, but significant when you consider that the vast majority of attendees will be bisexual activists in their own right, coming together to explore and celebrate what it means to experience multiple-gender attraction, to blur the distinction between the straight and gay society. These folks are different from the closeted ones found cruising the parks or the baths. These are out bisexuals making waves and many will stay to celebrate Pride Week.
Sometimes considered to be queer among queers, bisexuals are often overlooked as a sub-culture because they tend to blend in socially to either the queer or the straight world. Though the famous Kinsey report suggested that most people experience attraction to multiple genders, bisexuals often fly under the radar in order to avoid discrimination on either side of the fence.
The international bisexual conferences are held every two years, though there is no official international organizing body. The seventh conference was held in Minneapolis in 2004, and before that in Sydney, Australia in 2002.
The Toronto conference has been organized by local bisexual activists, many of whom have been inspired by their experiences at previous International Conferences On Bisexuality (ICB).
"We had it in mind to eventually host a North American conference," says 9ICB chair Dana Shaw. "My friend [the late] Karol Steinhouse was inspired after attending an ICB in Boston [in 1998] and [at that time] we talked about hosting a conference in Toronto, which [fellow 9ICB organizer] Stephen Harvey was also excited about.
"At the event in Minneapolis I knew we had a good, strong bi community locally with the three organizations TBN [Tor-onto Bisexual Network], BIWOT [Bisexual Women Of Toronto] and BIMOT [Bisexual Men Of Toronto], in addition to BiNet-Canada. We knew that Toronto was ready to host a conference from a size-of-group standpoint, but we didn't know if we had enough volunteers."
Shaw agreed to take on the responsibility of hosting the event herself and built the 9ICB committee from the local community with TBN as the host organization.
The conference, which will take place on the Ryerson University campus just south of the Church-Wellesley village, will begin Thu, Jun 15 with an opening ceremony hosted by BiNet USA and the Bisexual Resource Centre. The ceremony will include a dedication to Steinhouse, cofounder of Bisexual Women Of Toronto, and Fritz Klein, a founding father of the bisexual movement in North America.
Over the course of the week-end there will be approximately 80 workshops, running all day on both Friday and Saturday, and three keynote addresses.
Loraine Hutchins will provide the opening keynote on Friday evening. Hutchins is a sexologist and sacred sexualities scholar who will discuss a possible future where the world isn't divided by religious war and oppression. Hutchins will be inviting attendees to consider how to nurture faith-based communities where bisexuals are fully accepted and where different spiritualities might emerge.
Saturday's keynote speaker, Trevor Jacques, is a local physicist, activist and author of On The Safe Edge: A Manual For SM Play. Jacques will be presenting the results from his recent study on BDSM with an emphasis on the ways in which bisexuals differ from heterosexuals and homosexuals.
"This will look at male, female [responses] and sexual orientation and where bis fit," says Jacques. "The study started about 10 years ago. The data collection took a year and a half and another five years to analyze it.
"It's really quite interesting. There are definitely trends and patterns. I'll be looking at the links, if any, between gender orientation and BDSM orientation [such as top, bottom, switch, etc]."
Details about a possible third keynote address on Sunday won't be released until the speaker is confirmed.
"The third keynote is some-one from Uganda and in order to be able to come he needs to get a travel visa," explains Shaw. "The nearest embassy for Canada is in Nairobi so I've sent our request there to invite him to be a keynote [speaker]."
On the social side of things, there will be a dinner and dance on Fri, Jun 16 at Oakham House (63 Gould St) with the local musical duo and bi couple The Wet Spots performing. On Saturday night there will be a film screening and discussion and, for the kinkier attendees, a BDSM play party. Details weren't available at press time.
"There's a lot of crossover between the bi community and the kink community," says Shaw. "There's nothing more outcast than bisexuals... and if you're already that outcast it's easy to throw off other normalcy and expectations and just do whatever you want."
Conference organizers have their own projected highlights for the weekend. (The list of workshops is still being fine-tuned so the times and locations are not yet available; go to 9icb.org for updates.)
"I'm interested in Loraine Hutchins' keynote, A Future Full Of Erotic Spiritualities For All, and in the pro-sex spiritualities roundtable with Hutchins, Lynna Landstreet, Brian Walsh and Luigi Ferrer," says 9ICB finance and programming coordinator Margaret Robinson.
"I'm interested to see how bi spiritualities might be different from both straight and gay or lesbian models," adds Robinson, who is a theology student at U of T and a director of the Toronto Bisexuality Education Project, the nonprofit corporation created for the purposes of hosting the conference.
"There are some good workshops about race," continues Robinson. "I'm looking forward to Dawn Comeau's workshop on getting white women to talk about whiteness, and also to May Lui's Boundaries And Borders: Crossing Lines Of Sexuality And Crossing Racial Boundaries.
"I'm biracial and I like it that the bi movement has an awareness of biracial existence and identities apart from sexuality. Yet in Toronto, the most multi-cultural city in the world, our conference is still too white, like most gay and lesbian events here. I think these workshops will be a good chance to listen to some different perspectives on this. Is bisexuality a white identity? Or are our spaces marginalizing bis of colour?"
Stephen Harvey, 9ICB outreach coordinator and also a director of the Toronto Bisexuality Education Project, cites Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way as an anticipated highlight. The workshop centres on an anthology of the same name of bisexual men's coming out stories edited by Ron Suresha and Pete Chvany. The editors and several writers will be on hand to read from the book and to discuss the issues it touches on.
"I look forward to listening and learning from peers, as well as comparing the coming out stories of others to my own," says Harvey.
"When I have attended bisexual conferences in the past there has always been an element of fun in my workshop choices, so I look at workshops such as Pepper Mint and Andrea Zanin's Bisexuality And BDSM with an interest," adds Harvey.
Zanin is a queer/bisexual woman who describes herself as polyamorous and a trans ally. She's a founding member and play party organizer for the Unholy Army Of The Night, a 100-member BDSM group in Montreal. Zanin developed a following in Toronto through her workshops at the BDSM conference TO Kink this past April.
Shaw is reluctant to choose from the myriad of workshops and presentations available over the course of the weekend; she says she's just going to be taking in as much as she can when she's not occupied by her organizational role.
"Someone once said to me that sexuality is so amazingly complex that we should all stand in slack-jawed awe at how many creative ways people can live with it," says Shaw. "At this con-ference, people can see beyond socially accepted views and really look at the diversity of expression that's possible and the people who make that real."
The Ninth International Conference On Bisexuality takes place Thu, Jun 15 to Sun, Jun 18. Tickets for the conference cost $150 with an additional $30 for the Fri, Jun 16 dinner and dance. For more information or to register go to 9icb.org. Check out the next issue of Xtra for a preview of the other big queer conference happening the weekend before Pride, the sci-fi fest Gaylaxicon.
A slippery slice of the rainbow
9ICB / Bisexual activists head to Hogtown for international conference
Just one week before the city is overrun with sexual rebels of all stripes, Toronto will play host to a more focussed gathering of deviants, the Ninth International Conference On Bisexuality, Gender And Sexual Diversity (9ICB).
"This conference is going to be a chance to build on the energies of all the people out there working for bi-inclusivity, creating bi communities," says 9ICB chair and organizer Dana Shaw. "We'll bend the brains of all the people who think there are only two genders, that there can only be gay and straight. We've been sending out our publicity to bi, queer and genderqueer organizations so we expect a diverse group of attendees from all over the world."
With 170 attendees registered by press time and room for a maximum of 400, the conference is attracting both presenters and attendees from Europe, Africa, South Asia, South America and the US.
True, the numbers are low in comparison to the hundreds of thousands that will come out to celebrate Toronto Pride, but significant when you consider that the vast majority of attendees will be bisexual activists in their own right, coming together to explore and celebrate what it means to experience multiple-gender attraction, to blur the distinction between the straight and gay society. These folks are different from the closeted ones found cruising the parks or the baths. These are out bisexuals making waves and many will stay to celebrate Pride Week.
Sometimes considered to be queer among queers, bisexuals are often overlooked as a sub-culture because they tend to blend in socially to either the queer or the straight world. Though the famous Kinsey report suggested that most people experience attraction to multiple genders, bisexuals often fly under the radar in order to avoid discrimination on either side of the fence.
The international bisexual conferences are held every two years, though there is no official international organizing body. The seventh conference was held in Minneapolis in 2004, and before that in Sydney, Australia in 2002.
The Toronto conference has been organized by local bisexual activists, many of whom have been inspired by their experiences at previous International Conferences On Bisexuality (ICB).
"We had it in mind to eventually host a North American conference," says 9ICB chair Dana Shaw. "My friend [the late] Karol Steinhouse was inspired after attending an ICB in Boston [in 1998] and [at that time] we talked about hosting a conference in Toronto, which [fellow 9ICB organizer] Stephen Harvey was also excited about.
"At the event in Minneapolis I knew we had a good, strong bi community locally with the three organizations TBN [Tor-onto Bisexual Network], BIWOT [Bisexual Women Of Toronto] and BIMOT [Bisexual Men Of Toronto], in addition to BiNet-Canada. We knew that Toronto was ready to host a conference from a size-of-group standpoint, but we didn't know if we had enough volunteers."
Shaw agreed to take on the responsibility of hosting the event herself and built the 9ICB committee from the local community with TBN as the host organization.
The conference, which will take place on the Ryerson University campus just south of the Church-Wellesley village, will begin Thu, Jun 15 with an opening ceremony hosted by BiNet USA and the Bisexual Resource Centre. The ceremony will include a dedication to Steinhouse, cofounder of Bisexual Women Of Toronto, and Fritz Klein, a founding father of the bisexual movement in North America.
Over the course of the week-end there will be approximately 80 workshops, running all day on both Friday and Saturday, and three keynote addresses.
Loraine Hutchins will provide the opening keynote on Friday evening. Hutchins is a sexologist and sacred sexualities scholar who will discuss a possible future where the world isn't divided by religious war and oppression. Hutchins will be inviting attendees to consider how to nurture faith-based communities where bisexuals are fully accepted and where different spiritualities might emerge.
Saturday's keynote speaker, Trevor Jacques, is a local physicist, activist and author of On The Safe Edge: A Manual For SM Play. Jacques will be presenting the results from his recent study on BDSM with an emphasis on the ways in which bisexuals differ from heterosexuals and homosexuals.
"This will look at male, female [responses] and sexual orientation and where bis fit," says Jacques. "The study started about 10 years ago. The data collection took a year and a half and another five years to analyze it.
"It's really quite interesting. There are definitely trends and patterns. I'll be looking at the links, if any, between gender orientation and BDSM orientation [such as top, bottom, switch, etc]."
Details about a possible third keynote address on Sunday won't be released until the speaker is confirmed.
"The third keynote is some-one from Uganda and in order to be able to come he needs to get a travel visa," explains Shaw. "The nearest embassy for Canada is in Nairobi so I've sent our request there to invite him to be a keynote [speaker]."
On the social side of things, there will be a dinner and dance on Fri, Jun 16 at Oakham House (63 Gould St) with the local musical duo and bi couple The Wet Spots performing. On Saturday night there will be a film screening and discussion and, for the kinkier attendees, a BDSM play party. Details weren't available at press time.
"There's a lot of crossover between the bi community and the kink community," says Shaw. "There's nothing more outcast than bisexuals... and if you're already that outcast it's easy to throw off other normalcy and expectations and just do whatever you want."
Conference organizers have their own projected highlights for the weekend. (The list of workshops is still being fine-tuned so the times and locations are not yet available; go to 9icb.org for updates.)
"I'm interested in Loraine Hutchins' keynote, A Future Full Of Erotic Spiritualities For All, and in the pro-sex spiritualities roundtable with Hutchins, Lynna Landstreet, Brian Walsh and Luigi Ferrer," says 9ICB finance and programming coordinator Margaret Robinson.
"I'm interested to see how bi spiritualities might be different from both straight and gay or lesbian models," adds Robinson, who is a theology student at U of T and a director of the Toronto Bisexuality Education Project, the nonprofit corporation created for the purposes of hosting the conference.
"There are some good workshops about race," continues Robinson. "I'm looking forward to Dawn Comeau's workshop on getting white women to talk about whiteness, and also to May Lui's Boundaries And Borders: Crossing Lines Of Sexuality And Crossing Racial Boundaries.
"I'm biracial and I like it that the bi movement has an awareness of biracial existence and identities apart from sexuality. Yet in Toronto, the most multi-cultural city in the world, our conference is still too white, like most gay and lesbian events here. I think these workshops will be a good chance to listen to some different perspectives on this. Is bisexuality a white identity? Or are our spaces marginalizing bis of colour?"
Stephen Harvey, 9ICB outreach coordinator and also a director of the Toronto Bisexuality Education Project, cites Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way as an anticipated highlight. The workshop centres on an anthology of the same name of bisexual men's coming out stories edited by Ron Suresha and Pete Chvany. The editors and several writers will be on hand to read from the book and to discuss the issues it touches on.
"I look forward to listening and learning from peers, as well as comparing the coming out stories of others to my own," says Harvey.
"When I have attended bisexual conferences in the past there has always been an element of fun in my workshop choices, so I look at workshops such as Pepper Mint and Andrea Zanin's Bisexuality And BDSM with an interest," adds Harvey.
Zanin is a queer/bisexual woman who describes herself as polyamorous and a trans ally. She's a founding member and play party organizer for the Unholy Army Of The Night, a 100-member BDSM group in Montreal. Zanin developed a following in Toronto through her workshops at the BDSM conference TO Kink this past April.
Shaw is reluctant to choose from the myriad of workshops and presentations available over the course of the weekend; she says she's just going to be taking in as much as she can when she's not occupied by her organizational role.
"Someone once said to me that sexuality is so amazingly complex that we should all stand in slack-jawed awe at how many creative ways people can live with it," says Shaw. "At this con-ference, people can see beyond socially accepted views and really look at the diversity of expression that's possible and the people who make that real."
The Ninth International Conference On Bisexuality takes place Thu, Jun 15 to Sun, Jun 18. Tickets for the conference cost $150 with an additional $30 for the Fri, Jun 16 dinner and dance. For more information or to register go to 9icb.org. Check out the next issue of Xtra for a preview of the other big queer conference happening the weekend before Pride, the sci-fi fest Gaylaxicon.
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sound like my sort of event - after all, I look like a white middle-age male, but am a bisexual ambidextrous multiracial agnostic crossdressing moderate temperate kinky switch (more or less)@}-}rebecca---- said:
but enought about me, what about more about me?
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Shank you left out adorable , generous and sincere.
Ohh love the icon btw has a celtic appearance to where the symbols are intergrated ........charming .
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Community Service Announcement...oh my
Masturbate-a-Thon 2006
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The Center for Sex and Culture's National Masturbation Month plans include Masturbate-a-Thon San Francisco. Founder and director Carol Queen, Ph.D. announced that the Center for Sex & Culture will hold its fifth annual fund-raising Masturbate-a-Thon on May 27, 2006, doors open at 5:00 for regular participants and at 4:00 for those attempting to set this year's time record. The event is one of many National Masturbation Month events planned around the US and Canada, including many sponsored Masturbate-a-Thons. Unlike most of the others, the CSC's Masturbate-a-Thon is a live group event at which participants will raise funds by getting others to sponsor them for each minute they masturbate. CSC will hold the event at 398 11th Street in San Francisco.
Founded by San Francisco's own women-owned, worker-owned sex toy company Good Vibrations in the wake of then-Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders' firing for stating that masturbation "is perhaps something that should be taught" about when discussing youth sexual options, National Masturbation Month seeks to raise awareness and dispel shame about this most common and natural of sexual activities. Good Vibrations and its sister sex toy stores and sex-positive nonprofits have been celebrating National Masturbation Month since 1995. Information about Good Vibrations' role in NMM will be available on GV's website, www.goodvibes.com, in early May. The Masturbate-a-Thon became the centerpiece of National Masturbation Month when it was added to Good Vibrations' slate of activities a few years later. GV sponsors the Masturbate-a-Thon as a private event, as most masturbation is; the Center for Sex & Culture followed the lead of a private organization in Salt Lake City in celebrating it as a group activity.
Last year's Center for Sex & Culture Masturbate-a-Thon raised close to $5000.00 from participants and their sponsors, who pledge any amount per minute to support their friends' efforts. One man and one woman participant won trophies for Longest Time Spent Masturbating (the longest spent nearly seven and a half hours), while one person was awarded Most Funds Raised (close to $1000.00) and another received the trophy for Most Orgasms (CSC director Carol Queen had predicted a woman was likely to win this particular award). A reporter from Reuters was on hand, as were representatives from several Bay Area publications. The entire event was webcast by bondage.com and so was available for interested supporters outside the region.
Who participates in a live Masturbate-a-Thon? Not surprisingly, representatives from various San Francisco sexual subcultures attend to "come for a cause"; the Center for Sex & Culture is arranging this year's co-sponsorships among gay men's clubs, erotica producers, and other sexual adventurers. Separate areas of the Masturbate-a-Thon site will be set aside for men who would prefer to masturbate together and women who want a single-sex space, with the rest of the room a mixed-gender venue. Only part of the room will be set aside for the webcast cameras, so less exhibitionistic attendees can participate somewhat more privately. Participants have also been drawn to past Masturbate-a-Thons to publicly acknowledge the importance of solo sexuality in their lives, so not everyone handing in a pledge sheet will be a committed erotic adventurer; many will never have done anything like this before. Tony, a 2004 first-time participant from Los Angeles, emailed CSC afterwards to thank them for setting up a space where he could feel comfortable and let go of the shame that had been instilled in him about masturbation. CSC director Queen comments: "People like Tony are everywhere; most of us engage in self-pleasure, but there is so little support for doing so that it can become a source of distress. This is exactly why National Masturbation Month is needed; people need to understand that self-stimulation is common, pleasurable, healthful, and nothing to worry about."
Word of the Masturbate-a-Thon has spread around the globe. We expect participants to come from as far away as Australia this year; in past years press hits have come in from South Africa, France, Brazil, Ireland, India, and elsewhere. Pledge sheets and cosponsorship links are available at the Masturbate-a-Thon's website. Participants can download a pledge sheet and begin collecting pledges right away; after the Masturbate-a-Thon they will let their pledgers know how much to remit. Pledges can be paid by check and sent to CSC; they can also be remitted via the event website. All monies raised will be used to support the Center for Sex & Culture's educational and sex-positive cultural programming. People who wish to participate but who can't find pledgers may pledge themselves at any amount plus pay a $20.00 entry fee. Pro-masturbation voyeurs may attend the Masturbate-a-Thon at $50.00, as space allows, and are encouraged to also pledge a participant of their choice. Supporters who live too far away to attend can tune in to the webcast that evening (May 27); interested parties who prefer a private Masturbate-a-Thon can download the pledge sheet, stay home and participate, and remit by mail, or they can participate in Good Vibrations's private Masturbate-a-Thon.
The site for Portland, Oregon's Masturbate-a-Thon (to be held on May 10th ) is www.masturbate-a-thon.org. Good Vibrations's site is www.goodvibes.com. Visitors to these sites and Masturbate-a-Thon participants should be 18 and over only.
The Center for Sex & Culture (CSC) received its nonprofit status in late 2002 and was declared "Best Emerging Sex Nonprofit" in the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay issue in June 2004. It is open by appointment and for events. (It does not yet maintain regular drop-in hours.) The Center for Sex & Culture is a volunteer organization that subsists on donations from the public, including donations of books, art, videos, archival materials, etc. CSC's mailing address (where donations can be sent) is 2215-R Market Street, #455, San Francisco, CA 94114. Website donations can be made at www.sexandculture.org. Telephone: (415) 255-1155
Masturbate-a-Thon 2006
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The Center for Sex and Culture's National Masturbation Month plans include Masturbate-a-Thon San Francisco. Founder and director Carol Queen, Ph.D. announced that the Center for Sex & Culture will hold its fifth annual fund-raising Masturbate-a-Thon on May 27, 2006, doors open at 5:00 for regular participants and at 4:00 for those attempting to set this year's time record. The event is one of many National Masturbation Month events planned around the US and Canada, including many sponsored Masturbate-a-Thons. Unlike most of the others, the CSC's Masturbate-a-Thon is a live group event at which participants will raise funds by getting others to sponsor them for each minute they masturbate. CSC will hold the event at 398 11th Street in San Francisco.
Founded by San Francisco's own women-owned, worker-owned sex toy company Good Vibrations in the wake of then-Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders' firing for stating that masturbation "is perhaps something that should be taught" about when discussing youth sexual options, National Masturbation Month seeks to raise awareness and dispel shame about this most common and natural of sexual activities. Good Vibrations and its sister sex toy stores and sex-positive nonprofits have been celebrating National Masturbation Month since 1995. Information about Good Vibrations' role in NMM will be available on GV's website, www.goodvibes.com, in early May. The Masturbate-a-Thon became the centerpiece of National Masturbation Month when it was added to Good Vibrations' slate of activities a few years later. GV sponsors the Masturbate-a-Thon as a private event, as most masturbation is; the Center for Sex & Culture followed the lead of a private organization in Salt Lake City in celebrating it as a group activity.
Last year's Center for Sex & Culture Masturbate-a-Thon raised close to $5000.00 from participants and their sponsors, who pledge any amount per minute to support their friends' efforts. One man and one woman participant won trophies for Longest Time Spent Masturbating (the longest spent nearly seven and a half hours), while one person was awarded Most Funds Raised (close to $1000.00) and another received the trophy for Most Orgasms (CSC director Carol Queen had predicted a woman was likely to win this particular award). A reporter from Reuters was on hand, as were representatives from several Bay Area publications. The entire event was webcast by bondage.com and so was available for interested supporters outside the region.
Who participates in a live Masturbate-a-Thon? Not surprisingly, representatives from various San Francisco sexual subcultures attend to "come for a cause"; the Center for Sex & Culture is arranging this year's co-sponsorships among gay men's clubs, erotica producers, and other sexual adventurers. Separate areas of the Masturbate-a-Thon site will be set aside for men who would prefer to masturbate together and women who want a single-sex space, with the rest of the room a mixed-gender venue. Only part of the room will be set aside for the webcast cameras, so less exhibitionistic attendees can participate somewhat more privately. Participants have also been drawn to past Masturbate-a-Thons to publicly acknowledge the importance of solo sexuality in their lives, so not everyone handing in a pledge sheet will be a committed erotic adventurer; many will never have done anything like this before. Tony, a 2004 first-time participant from Los Angeles, emailed CSC afterwards to thank them for setting up a space where he could feel comfortable and let go of the shame that had been instilled in him about masturbation. CSC director Queen comments: "People like Tony are everywhere; most of us engage in self-pleasure, but there is so little support for doing so that it can become a source of distress. This is exactly why National Masturbation Month is needed; people need to understand that self-stimulation is common, pleasurable, healthful, and nothing to worry about."
Word of the Masturbate-a-Thon has spread around the globe. We expect participants to come from as far away as Australia this year; in past years press hits have come in from South Africa, France, Brazil, Ireland, India, and elsewhere. Pledge sheets and cosponsorship links are available at the Masturbate-a-Thon's website. Participants can download a pledge sheet and begin collecting pledges right away; after the Masturbate-a-Thon they will let their pledgers know how much to remit. Pledges can be paid by check and sent to CSC; they can also be remitted via the event website. All monies raised will be used to support the Center for Sex & Culture's educational and sex-positive cultural programming. People who wish to participate but who can't find pledgers may pledge themselves at any amount plus pay a $20.00 entry fee. Pro-masturbation voyeurs may attend the Masturbate-a-Thon at $50.00, as space allows, and are encouraged to also pledge a participant of their choice. Supporters who live too far away to attend can tune in to the webcast that evening (May 27); interested parties who prefer a private Masturbate-a-Thon can download the pledge sheet, stay home and participate, and remit by mail, or they can participate in Good Vibrations's private Masturbate-a-Thon.
The site for Portland, Oregon's Masturbate-a-Thon (to be held on May 10th ) is www.masturbate-a-thon.org. Good Vibrations's site is www.goodvibes.com. Visitors to these sites and Masturbate-a-Thon participants should be 18 and over only.
The Center for Sex & Culture (CSC) received its nonprofit status in late 2002 and was declared "Best Emerging Sex Nonprofit" in the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay issue in June 2004. It is open by appointment and for events. (It does not yet maintain regular drop-in hours.) The Center for Sex & Culture is a volunteer organization that subsists on donations from the public, including donations of books, art, videos, archival materials, etc. CSC's mailing address (where donations can be sent) is 2215-R Market Street, #455, San Francisco, CA 94114. Website donations can be made at www.sexandculture.org. Telephone: (415) 255-1155
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I attended the 2003 event in San Francisco
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Shankara20 said:I attended the 2003 event in San Francisco
hmmmn let me see would you have been in the $20 participate section or the $50 view section Shank............smiles
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My Dear Dr. , I was the center of attention in the participation section at one point. I was interviewed by both the print and broadcast media and Carol Queen and her partner Robert, long time acquaintances, were a bit taken aback at what I was doing with my rings.
That event is one of the sexual highlights in my history.
I still have my masturbate-a-thone T-shirt - see attached.
ps - I see photobucket raider your account again..
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Shankara20 said:My Dear Dr. , I was the center of attention in the participation section at one point. I was interviewed by both the print and broadcast media and Carol Queen and her partner Robert, long time acquaintances, were a bit taken aback at what I was doing with my rings.
That event is one of the sexual highlights in my history.
I still have my masturbate-a-thone T-shirt - see attached.
ps - I see photobucket raider your account again..
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awwww Shank trust you ......smiles softly.........have you got any of that media still......that is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cool
Re the photo : OMG !!!! Shank I am not worthy but thank you ......thank you..........thank you
......I am getting a Phd in 'spoilt' at this rate ......lol.......me likeyRe : Photobucket : Did they ? The .......close your eyes hun ....THE BAST**DS.........what this time.........sighs
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That darn cat.........
This picture was passed onto to me today by a friend who shall remain nameless , apparently kitty here wandered into the very successful Masturbate-A-Thon in Texas of all places.
Yeeeeeee haw !!!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/rebecca000/kittymas.jpg
Thanks FT Sir........oops
Yeeeeeee haw !!!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/rebecca000/kittymas.jpg
Thanks FT Sir........oops
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Also had this arrive as a Google Alert under Fetish its really just another fairly average commercial site .......I had a browse........
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/rebecca000/FF-Logo-3-D.jpg
Fetish Factory Site
One of the first places I am compelled to examine when sites like this pop up is the Miscellaneous section where I found the following for sale...............
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/rebecca000/pillowcaseforthebrave.jpg
I like to call it the pillowcase for the brave and or stupid submissive .........
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/rebecca000/FF-Logo-3-D.jpg
Fetish Factory Site
One of the first places I am compelled to examine when sites like this pop up is the Miscellaneous section where I found the following for sale...............
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/rebecca000/pillowcaseforthebrave.jpg
I like to call it the pillowcase for the brave and or stupid submissive .........
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Miss Jade where are you ?
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FurryFury said:Aww! What happened to pussy's ears? Were they "rubbed" off?
Fury
ohhhh my Miss
Fury you naughty girl.....laughsannnnnnnnnnnnd I only recently learnt what 'that' term meant can you believe it !!!
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Ohh Ohhh guess what I have one of your holiday pictures of the stormy sea as my screen saver currently it 'matches' the weather here brrrrrrrrrrr its so cold and rainy ...........boo hoo
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Shankara20 said:
awwwwwwwwww Sir Shank that rocks thank you.........thank you .............thank you ...........smiles........ I really need to get my hair back when I cook huh ..........ohh there is a fish in my bra does that make me.........ohhhh nvm .............smiles
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Sorry, sorry!!!
I've been running an odd work schedule and went to see a couple of movies and was out last night -- this is the first access I've had to a computer pretty much since Thursday or so.
Wow. I didn't realize it was that long. I am SO SORRY! *grovels*
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jadefirefly said:Sorry, sorry!!!
I've been running an odd work schedule and went to see a couple of movies and was out last night -- this is the first access I've had to a computer pretty much since Thursday or so.
Wow. I didn't realize it was that long. I am SO SORRY! *grovels*
laughs.......Miss Jade no need to grovel was just concerned about you. Its my 'way'. To many damn people seem to disappear from Lit and often overnight. Probable that others closer know whats going on but for all intensive purposes it appears that the beat goes on with little mention often. I don't like it ......I must have abandonment issues ........laughsmiles.
Don't hold out on us what movies did you see Miss ? Can we have a Jade review please
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before I go for the day..............
Just read normhards post on O'Mac's Dutch pedophiles to launch political party Thread the humor wasn't lost on me . I quite wanted to follow up "The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public and promotes legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all." from the initial News Article.
Sooooooooooooo as a tribute to humor over insanity please if you wish to avail yourself of the following site
Oh yeh Thomas is there alright...lol ~ Click Me
Just read normhards post on O'Mac's Dutch pedophiles to launch political party Thread the humor wasn't lost on me . I quite wanted to follow up "The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public and promotes legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all." from the initial News Article.
Sooooooooooooo as a tribute to humor over insanity please if you wish to avail yourself of the following site
Oh yeh Thomas is there alright...lol ~ Click Me
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@}-}rebecca---- said:laughs.......Miss Jade no need to grovel was just concerned about you. Its my 'way'. To many damn people seem to disappear from Lit and often overnight. Probable that others closer know whats going on but for all intensive purposes it appears that the beat goes on with little mention often. I don't like it ......I must have abandonment issues ........laughsmiles.
Don't hold out on us what movies did you see Miss ? Can we have a Jade review please
It's okay, I can be the same way. People disappear or stop posting and I start worrying. Sometimes it bites me in the ass, but it's all good.
I saw X-Men3, and Scary Movie 4. The first one was pretty darn good, SM4 was just blah. But I didn't feel like watching Over the Hedge just because my mom said to, and it was the only other thing out I had any interest in seeing.
A coupla drinks made it a lot funnier.
Trust me, if I'm taking off from Lit, y'all will know it.
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The News Tribune
Girl said she was 19, man testifies at trial
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/rebecca000/NWS0526_SEXTRIAL_P.jpg
Stanley Scott Stadler listens Wednesday to a question from Pierce County deputy prosecutor John Neeb in Stadler’s kidnapping, rape and pornography trial. At left is a photo he used on the Intern
A 48-year-old Fircrest man who prosecutors say raped and kidnapped a 14-year-old girl got on the witness stand this week and told jurors he was a “pleaser,” committed to fulfilling women’s fantasies, and that he would never knowingly have sex with an underage girl.
In a soft voice, Stanley Scott Sadler explained why in the bondage and discipline community he called himself “Master Thorn.”
“In the context of a dominant and a submissive, if the submissive is a rose, the thorn would be the protector of the rose,” he said.
Sadler, a postal technician, said the Clark County teen he is accused of raping, kidnapping and photographing sexually told him she was 19 and showed him documents online to prove it.
She also agreed to everything they did, he said.
But during two days of scathing cross-examination, he acknowledged he also called himself the more intense “Demon2ownFe-male,” and that in 2003 he said online he would abduct and rape someone who told him she was a 15-year-old South Tacoma girl.
Sadler said that Internet chat – which he said he didn’t remember – must have been a role-play with an adult woman.
Deputy prosecutor John Neeb grilled Sadler on the details of the explicit conversation.
“You are very pretty,” Sadler said in the online conversation his attorney fought to keep out of the trial. “Age is a legal thing, that’s all.”
That “legal thing” is the primary question in Sadler’s trial.
The ex-Marine and father of three is charged with 38 crimes in connection to the girl whom he acknowledges he had sex with, chained to the ceiling, whipped and photographed during two weeks in September 2004.
If he’s convicted of all counts, he likely would face at least 12 years – and potentially the rest of his life – in prison.
To defend himself from the rape and kidnapping charges, Sadler would have to prove the girl told him she was 16 or older, he reasonably believed her and that he never held her against her will.
To be found not guilty of the sexual exploitation charge, he’d have to convince the jury he saw the girl’s state-issued identification. To acquit him of the 22 child pornography charges, jurors would have to believe Sadler had no evidence to suggest the girl was younger than 18.
Through Sadler’s testimony over four days, defense attorney Michael Schwartz worked to show jurors his client is a regular guy – with some unsavory habits – who was duped by a lying teenager.
Neeb tried to show Sadler did what he did for his own sexual pleasure, and had plenty of information that should have indicated the girl was too young.
Sadler, who testified he’d started exploring adult Web sites in the late 1990s, told jurors bondage was about trust, and that role-playing was a creative outlet for him.
“For me, it’s … an adult consensual activity,” he said.
In 2004, he met a 29-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., who agreed to let him blackmail her and later signed a contract to be his sex slave.
Sadler later advertised for another slave to join them, and found the Clark County teen, whom he went to a Camas grocery to meet on Aug. 29, 2004.
He said that at the teen’s request, he took her camping with his children and then to his house in Fircrest.
Sadler said he had plenty of reason to believe she was over 18. She’d shown him a birth certificate from the state of Michigan, as well as Washington state identification.
He said she advertised on Web sites where people had to certify that they were 18. She told him she’d dropped out of high school at 17, worked at a day-care center and was moving in with friends. He said she wrote “amazing poetry” and she was sexually experienced.
Sadler said that when the teen went with him to sex shops in Tacoma and Seattle that required customers to be 18, no one asked her for identification.
The Kansas City woman, who met and had sex with the girl in September, also believed she was 19.
“Did she ever indicate to you that she was under the age of 19?” Schwartz asked.
“Never,” Sadler said.
Neeb, in his tense and often sarcastic cross-examination, confronted Sadler with several factors that indicated the girl was just barely 14.
He repeatedly showed Sadler a photo of the smiling teen sitting on Sadler’s sofa holding a pillow.
“Do you believe that a reasonable person sees that picture … and thinks she’s 19 years old?” the prosecutor asked.
“I believe everybody thought she was 19 years old,” Sadler said.
Pressed about how old the girl looks in the photo now that he knows her age, Sadler estimated between 17 and 20.
The prosecutor pointed out that one of the girl’s screen names online was the childlike “GummyNummyBear,” that she used baby talk like “sworry” instead of “sorry” and she had told Sadler she slept in bunk beds with her 12-year-old sister.
And Neeb – who several times asked Sadler to speak to jurors as “Master Thorn” – confronted Sadler with numerous chat sessions he had with the Kansas City woman in which he called the teen “little,” “young,” “immature,” “cute” and described her body as looking like a girl’s.
Sadler’s responses were almost always the same.
“It’s a role play,” he said. “It’s not a life.”
Sadler acknowledged there were a couple of times when he restrained the girl and she couldn’t unhook herself.
He said she could have been freed by saying “Jason” – the “safe word” she’d given him in case she needed all activity to cease.
During a break in court, Sadler said he hoped jurors would see his side.
“I just have to pray to God,” he said.
Girl said she was 19, man testifies at trial
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/rebecca000/NWS0526_SEXTRIAL_P.jpg
Stanley Scott Stadler listens Wednesday to a question from Pierce County deputy prosecutor John Neeb in Stadler’s kidnapping, rape and pornography trial. At left is a photo he used on the Intern
A 48-year-old Fircrest man who prosecutors say raped and kidnapped a 14-year-old girl got on the witness stand this week and told jurors he was a “pleaser,” committed to fulfilling women’s fantasies, and that he would never knowingly have sex with an underage girl.
In a soft voice, Stanley Scott Sadler explained why in the bondage and discipline community he called himself “Master Thorn.”
“In the context of a dominant and a submissive, if the submissive is a rose, the thorn would be the protector of the rose,” he said.
Sadler, a postal technician, said the Clark County teen he is accused of raping, kidnapping and photographing sexually told him she was 19 and showed him documents online to prove it.
She also agreed to everything they did, he said.
But during two days of scathing cross-examination, he acknowledged he also called himself the more intense “Demon2ownFe-male,” and that in 2003 he said online he would abduct and rape someone who told him she was a 15-year-old South Tacoma girl.
Sadler said that Internet chat – which he said he didn’t remember – must have been a role-play with an adult woman.
Deputy prosecutor John Neeb grilled Sadler on the details of the explicit conversation.
“You are very pretty,” Sadler said in the online conversation his attorney fought to keep out of the trial. “Age is a legal thing, that’s all.”
That “legal thing” is the primary question in Sadler’s trial.
The ex-Marine and father of three is charged with 38 crimes in connection to the girl whom he acknowledges he had sex with, chained to the ceiling, whipped and photographed during two weeks in September 2004.
If he’s convicted of all counts, he likely would face at least 12 years – and potentially the rest of his life – in prison.
To defend himself from the rape and kidnapping charges, Sadler would have to prove the girl told him she was 16 or older, he reasonably believed her and that he never held her against her will.
To be found not guilty of the sexual exploitation charge, he’d have to convince the jury he saw the girl’s state-issued identification. To acquit him of the 22 child pornography charges, jurors would have to believe Sadler had no evidence to suggest the girl was younger than 18.
Through Sadler’s testimony over four days, defense attorney Michael Schwartz worked to show jurors his client is a regular guy – with some unsavory habits – who was duped by a lying teenager.
Neeb tried to show Sadler did what he did for his own sexual pleasure, and had plenty of information that should have indicated the girl was too young.
Sadler, who testified he’d started exploring adult Web sites in the late 1990s, told jurors bondage was about trust, and that role-playing was a creative outlet for him.
“For me, it’s … an adult consensual activity,” he said.
In 2004, he met a 29-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., who agreed to let him blackmail her and later signed a contract to be his sex slave.
Sadler later advertised for another slave to join them, and found the Clark County teen, whom he went to a Camas grocery to meet on Aug. 29, 2004.
He said that at the teen’s request, he took her camping with his children and then to his house in Fircrest.
Sadler said he had plenty of reason to believe she was over 18. She’d shown him a birth certificate from the state of Michigan, as well as Washington state identification.
He said she advertised on Web sites where people had to certify that they were 18. She told him she’d dropped out of high school at 17, worked at a day-care center and was moving in with friends. He said she wrote “amazing poetry” and she was sexually experienced.
Sadler said that when the teen went with him to sex shops in Tacoma and Seattle that required customers to be 18, no one asked her for identification.
The Kansas City woman, who met and had sex with the girl in September, also believed she was 19.
“Did she ever indicate to you that she was under the age of 19?” Schwartz asked.
“Never,” Sadler said.
Neeb, in his tense and often sarcastic cross-examination, confronted Sadler with several factors that indicated the girl was just barely 14.
He repeatedly showed Sadler a photo of the smiling teen sitting on Sadler’s sofa holding a pillow.
“Do you believe that a reasonable person sees that picture … and thinks she’s 19 years old?” the prosecutor asked.
“I believe everybody thought she was 19 years old,” Sadler said.
Pressed about how old the girl looks in the photo now that he knows her age, Sadler estimated between 17 and 20.
The prosecutor pointed out that one of the girl’s screen names online was the childlike “GummyNummyBear,” that she used baby talk like “sworry” instead of “sorry” and she had told Sadler she slept in bunk beds with her 12-year-old sister.
And Neeb – who several times asked Sadler to speak to jurors as “Master Thorn” – confronted Sadler with numerous chat sessions he had with the Kansas City woman in which he called the teen “little,” “young,” “immature,” “cute” and described her body as looking like a girl’s.
Sadler’s responses were almost always the same.
“It’s a role play,” he said. “It’s not a life.”
Sadler acknowledged there were a couple of times when he restrained the girl and she couldn’t unhook herself.
He said she could have been freed by saying “Jason” – the “safe word” she’d given him in case she needed all activity to cease.
During a break in court, Sadler said he hoped jurors would see his side.
“I just have to pray to God,” he said.
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First off, I have to laugh as well. Strictly from a humorous photo point of view, those are priceless.
In all seriousness, though, I do feel that sometimes, those of us who are "into" the lifestyle feel that they need to push the envelope, so to speak, just so that they'll stand out.
what i mean by that is that being kinky has suddenly become the norm. the cool thing to do, if i may be so bold. and it sometimes seems to be all about who can be the bigger better dom/sub. sometimes i think that they meaning behind it gets lost in all the glitz and glamour.
In all seriousness, though, I do feel that sometimes, those of us who are "into" the lifestyle feel that they need to push the envelope, so to speak, just so that they'll stand out.
what i mean by that is that being kinky has suddenly become the norm. the cool thing to do, if i may be so bold. and it sometimes seems to be all about who can be the bigger better dom/sub. sometimes i think that they meaning behind it gets lost in all the glitz and glamour.
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