Kink

This workshop will discuss the pitfalls and strengths of D/s relationships though Argentine Tango. Dance is often very helpful in teaching and establishing nonverbal communication and connection. The class will strongly focus on those nonverbal commands and connections. The class is geared as the dance is traditionally danced with the man’s role in the dance as the top/lead and that of the woman’s role in the dance as the bottom/follower. Of course if the parties so desire the can reverse the roles. Due to the nature of the class you will need a partner to participate. This class is not gender/or role specific, but each partnership will have to decide who will be top or bottom for the class.

This is a hands on workshop that will teach several leg binds, designed to immobilize the bottom. While most of the ties simply restrict the legs, some include full immobilization my incorporating the arms as well.

Whether you’re in to latex, leather, uniforms, humiliation or simple costume, dressing for pleasure can enhance anyone’s experience publicly and in private. Come listen to three enthusiasts discuss their experience with dressing up and how it can intensify and enhance interactions with those around you. Of course personal gratification and self exploration are just part of the fun! Bring your own stories to discuss and questions on how you can get started on your own road to revelry through the transformative experience of playing dress up!

Join the Furries as we talk about being furry and about fursuiting. We'll also talk about how to make fursuits, here to buy them, and how to bring a bunch of fur to life, as well as a few other 'fun' topics.

The mission of the NCSF – Education Outreach Program is to provide members of the SM-Leather-Fetish-Swing-Polyamory communities’ educational information concerning relevant legal, medical and other issues. To provide education, as appropriate, to law enforcement, care providers, and other authorities about alternative sexuality and to assist and support the outreach and education efforts of local communities.

National Coalition for Sexual Freedom allows you an opportunity to pick and choose from a plethora of topics that address the needs and concerns of all members in our community. Most importantly, come learn about the NCSF and how to better protect yourself and OUR lifestyle. It is our pleasure to offer you a compilation of these topics at one setting. 

• The Alleged Domestic Violence Call
• Traveling With Toys
• Protecting Yourself Legally
• Life and Death issues for the Alternative Community
• SM Groups and Law Enforcement

The presenter is not an attorney. His background is in Law Enforcement and currently involved in civil legal matters regarding computer use.

A large room, a lot of whips and many happily perv can come up with something fun to do?  Absolutely!!!!   Join me for an hour and a half of fun as we learn about playing with single tails.  This will be a hands on workshop with the emphasis on learning to use a single tail in an SM scene. We will learn practice methods, throwing techniques, scene strategies and safety.  People will be able to use their whip and learn new skills or hone some existing techniques.  It is a class for everyone with a whip and a desire to learn to use it (or use it better) in play. 

Please note, you will have to supply your own whip for this class. 

Introduction to Safety, Tips on how to get started, Colors and types of candles, Waxing with pillars, jar candles, votives, crock pots and other instruments, And many different techniques to turn up the heat. Tenderdom's answers question between demo explaining in detail tried and true techniques. By the end of each class you will be ready for a little hands-on time and feel the warmth of erotic wax!! So come on out and feel the heat with one of hottest wax artist around.

This class is geared to those newly discovering their passion for bootblacking as well as those of you that have had some experience behind the laces. In this class we will cover everything from the history of bootblacking, general leather care, and the basics of bootblacking. If you have a particular piece of leather you would like some advice about, I’d be happy to discuss it in the class. Questions and comments are strongly encouraged in this interactive class.

This exciting workshop will explore all the aspects of Pony play. Is pony play a real fetish or just theatrics?? This question and more will be answered. After a discussion and demonstration of the basic tack (equine equipment) and techniques, a new pony will be tacked up with initial training started. Will the new pony be a show pony, a cart pony, or a beast of burden? Only the pony within will tell!

 

Any wanna-be pony girls wish to volunteer to be a demo dollie ? Write to Foxy at the e/mail address foxden@mfi.net

This is an interactvie, open forum class for those curious or entering into alternative lifestyles.  Class itinerary includes meeting safely, brief introduction to BDSM, terminology, basic etiquette, and tips for getting out and getting active. Old or new there will be something for you!!
 

Atlanta is full of erotic hypnotists! If you haven't had the fun of experiencing erotic hypnosis play, come hear more about it... and maybe even find a partner! In the first half-hour, Lady Ru'etha will do some mythbusting on popular media perceptions of hypnosis and a discussion of safety. In the second half-hour, there will be a demo of different quick hypnotic inductions. In the last half-hour, participants will be given a script and offered the chance to induce or experience hypnosis themselves! Bring a partner, or meet one there.

Join us for a discussion and demo about robokink and how you can use hypnosis to play with it yourself! The first half hour of this presentation will be a little bit more about robokink and its various flavors. The second half hour will be talking a bit about hypnosis and its relation to robokink, and in the last half hour those who attend will see a demo of someone being put into a robotic state and learn how to play with this for themselves!

 

We'll discuss things of interest and of concern to us s-types.  Please bring your questions and topics, and please leave your d-type at home (only bottoms, submissives, slaves, boys, girls, and switches who submit please)

Hey, Little Girls and Boys!  Put on your creative hat and come play with glue and scissors (safety scissors, of course).  We'll have foam door hangers and name signs to decorate with all kinds of sparkly goodness, as well as bookmarks to personalize with paints or cut-outs.  You can also bring your favorite plushy or stuffed animal to enter in our "Cuddly Buddy Contest".  The best Buddy wins an extra prize, so be sure your friend has something fun, interesting, or naughty to say about you! Bigs are welcome to attend with their Little, but not required to do so. 

Improv actors have been using certain techniques for decades to create compelling and emotionally-charged scenes on stage. During this fun and practical workshop the presenters will take you through a variety of group and one-on-one games and exercises to show you how you can use these same techniques to:
◘ Stop worrying about what to say or do next, and be more natural and present during your play
◘ Step outside stereotypes and bring individuality and depth to your scenes
◘ Use unexpected moments and mishaps to take your play in new directions

 

However you like to play, these methods will help you communicate better and feel more with comfortable with yourself and your partners. The presenters have years of experience in professional phone sex, theatre, improv comedy, and amateur BDSM.

David Bowie twirling a riding crop seductively in Labyrinth.  The Borg Queen tempting Picard or Data when she has them at her mercy. Rhett ravishing Scarlet in Gone with the Wind.  We have all seen TV shows or movies that strike a chord because they connect to something in our own BDSM fantasies. For many of us, our fantasies were shaped in some way by those scenes. You may have known why you liked it at the time, or you may have found yourself years later making a connection and thinking, oh my gods “THAT’S why I kept watching that scene over and over again.” Whether the scene was explicitly kinky, or just contained a dynamic that plays into your own particularly twisted imagination, those things can shape how we see kink, and how we talk about it.
 
 In this class we’re going to watch a number of those scenes and discuss them, trying to cover a number of classic ‘archetypes’ and seeing how they affect us. The same scene from a movie or TV show that leaves one of us panting may be utterly vanilla and boring to another, and that can be a fascinating window into how our different kinds and paradigms can manifest.  We’re going to view a number of such scenes, and talk about them. We’ll also talk about how those kinds of scenes shape our kink, and how they can be a helpful way to talk to others about just what rings our bell.

Maybe your Dom wants gourmet meals but you don't know how to boil an egg.
 
Maybe you're trying to keep house, raise kids, hold down a job, and make it all fit into your D/s relationship.
 
Maybe your Dom is a slob and you secretly want to tell him to clean up after himself.
 
Many of us are drawn to service, but don't want to end up in our mother's shoes.  How does a feminist submissive of any gender or orientation find beauty, fulfillment, and a kind of power in doing laundry, and cleaning house? 
 
Calliope is a 21st century slave who cooks from scratch, keeps the house clean and manages many aspects of her Master’s life, all while holding down a job, taking classes and being involved in her community in ways she adores.  Come hear some of her house-keeping tricks and resources, including websites and books that are helpful for all those tricky household problems that your mom didn't show you how to fix. Bring questions, or the strategies that you use to manage your own household.

We’ve all been there. The lout lumbering between top and bottom in the dungeon. The idiot who can’t tell the difference between “dominant and “dominate.” The jerk with a flagrant, tasteless photo of their genitals on their online profile. The douchebag who presumes to lay hands on you because they feel entitled to do so. We’ve all been there…and yes…we’ve all been “that guy” at some point in our kink careers. ‘Fess up! We have all pulled gaffes that we can look back on and shake our heads. But how do you handle this? What do you do with the persistent douchebag whose behaviour seems unchecked? The high-profile douchebag that everyone seems reluctant to confront? How do you handle your behaviour in the face of flagrant douchebaggery, and most importantly, how do we handle our own inner douchebag when they rear their ugly, nozzled head?

 

This class takes a look at the gamut of idiocy…both ours and others, and examines ways to handle ourselves and others. Turning an awkward situation towards positive outcome or opportunity to educate. Bring your stories, and let’s hash this out! From the silly to the serious, we’ll take a look at how we can manage ourselves, our expectations, and our reactions to Douchebag Deviants.

If you’ve been in the BDSM community for any length of time, you will probably have a situation that takes an unexpected turn. It can be easy to feel “damaged” or even “broken” by difficult scenes. However, isn’t it also possible that even a difficult scene is a learning experience? If not for mistakes, for things going awry, how would we ever learn? Join me in the exploration of the topic of “Bad Scenes” and why I believe this to be an outmoded and ultimately limiting concept. Feel free to bring in your tales of things gone torqued, and let’s see if we can find the silver lining, the hard lesson, or the eventual epiphany that can come from the truly tough exploration of our Kinky Selves!

Stressing the body is often done to indelibly print the significance of a ritual. From Kavadi to the Sundance to firewalking, these practices show sacrifice and can be used to achieve transcendence. Discover a bit of the history of body stress rituals and explore how various body modifications and stresses can be used to recreate useful rituals in our lives. We’ll even demonstrate a Kavadi style flesh hook ritual and a modern blood ritual in this class.

 

Flogging is one of the ubiquitous forms of SM play and floggers come in a very wide range of shapes, sizes, and forms. We will cover techniques, pitfalls, equipment, and how to get started flogging.

 

Come sink your teeth into the juicy, sensational, and tasty morsels of Biting and Other Animalistic Energy Exchanges and Play.  Biting is as much a Sadist’s delight, as a sweet gift of succulent service.  It is an energy exchange and manipulation that can be deeply sensual, physical, sadistic, playful, erotic, spiritual, emotional, and mental.

 

Via experiential learning we’ll discover how things such as biting, scratching, clawing, licking, and sucking can be beneficial tools of control and intimacy in the BDSM relationship, setting a scene, full body explorations, techniques, and safety.

While most BDSM 'instruction manuals,' assume that both partners are able-bodied, many of us don't fit that mold. Whether we have acute depression, cardiac issues, or just a healing injury, most of us will be less than able-bodied at some point in our lives, and this requires a certain level of knowledge and care on the parts of our partners- whether we are the Top or the Bottom.
This class will be a discussion forum to share ideas, information, tips and tricks for those of us who are disabled or have disabled partners.

Learn what to use, the options of what you can use to create mummification and how to do a full body wrap. We will cover different types of head wraps, body wraps, partials and whole wraps. Learn what to do with them once you have them all wrapped up. Games, temperatures, windows and options galore!

This will be the fourth year that Mercury has facilitated a discussion forum for Dominants... and no doubt this year will be yet another amazingly insightful look into the role these people take upon themselves to take care/control of others.  So let's talk about what makes a Dominant (and what makes a GOOD Dominant), what makes us a minority (are we really?), the effect of social networking (like FetLife) on how the rest of kinkdom sees us, and any other topics that come up at the time.  No you don't have to be a Dominant to attend, but we would like everyone who attends to come prepared to listen and participate in a constructive fashion. 

 Are you very into needles but not really sure where to go with it after the basic “In-and-Out” technique? This presentation will begin with a quick overview of the basic needle play experience and then ramp up to demonstrate individual advanced techniques to build more intensity into that basic experience. Those individual advanced techniques will then be combined to further show methods to build intensity into your need play sessions. Be advised that this class will demonstrate extremely sadistic needle play that may not be for the light hearted.

This is a great opportunity for “Players” to have fun doing what they love to do, or feel comfortable trying something new by watching, playing, and/or joining in

There will be a sign up sheet on which players can list who they intend to play with, or signify that they are open to be matched.

 

What you need to know before signing up:
1. Play is in Sessions, and each Session consists of three (3) rounds of two (2) minutes each
2. Sessions begins with all players on their knees
3. Sessions can consist of two, three, or four players
4. Play can be mixed or same gender, and amongst mixed body types and sizes
5. All players are strongly encouraged to negotiate their own limits and rules prior to play
6. Sessions can be playful, competitive, sensual, sexual, rough play, or submission oriented
7. Regardless of prior relationship, players shall identify and disclose to the ref at least one play “safe word”

Additional things to know:

No choking out - No eye gouging - No body slamming - No digit manipulation - No lube, oils, or lotions - No use of weapons or toys - No standing positions or starts - No fleeing the mats to avoid submission - No intentional scat, water sports, or blood play - No limb locks or bars, or intentional bone breaking - No wrestling if one or more players are visibly intoxicated - Each group of players is responsible for cleaning up the mats after their Session - Resistance, mounting, restraining, smothering, biting, hair pulling, scratching, and rough play is welcomed

 

What to & Not to Wear:

No belts - No shoes - No glasses - No loose/large jewelry - If choosing to wear clothing, comfortable/“workout” clothes are suggested - Remember this is Erotic Wrestling, thus, though clothing is ok, semi-nude, or naked is also and option.

 

Ending a round:
Round ends immediately if…
    time is up
    an injury occurs
    the ref says stop
    someone “taps out”/uses their safe word

This workshop will teach the technique of English Style caning; the physical as well as mental aspects and punishment approach. Participants will have the ability to practice the techniques with supervision after the demo period. There are several different types of caning; English style can be very harsh but fun if done correctly.

What does it mean to be a boy? How do service, SM and gender relate to play? How can BDSM be a means of gender discovery? How does one play with boys who have body related issues? How has the boy movement shifted and changed? How did it start? Please join this interactive forum and bring all your questions and share your experiences.

Bio Males Only Play Party

Bio Female Only Strap-On Party

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