2008 Workshops
Below is a sampling of workshops that will be offered at DESIRE 2008. Keep checking back for updates!
BDSM & Anal Play - Tristan Taormino
Blood Attraction - SM Practice of Cutting - Dana
Bondage – Power Play and Bondage - Controlling what you want and whom - T'Hayla
Brattiness: The Most Playful Play - Elaine Miller
Cogito Ergo Thud - Ronin T
Fire Play – Celeste Firetender
How to Cum with Your Cock - Jack Slash
Single Tail Dancing for Tops and bottoms - DaddyCrone Leenie
Sparks Will Fly - Lydia
Tending the Fires of a Master/slave Relationship - Shaira 'Sid' Holman
BDSM & Anal Play – Tristan Taormino
Writer/sex educator Tristan Taormino (author of The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women) leads you through the world of all things anal, covering a wide variety of topics,including:
* the ins and outs of anal penetration
* incoporating anal play into a scene
* extended butt plug wearing
* anal sex, D/s, and power play
* strap-on anal sex
* an introduction to enema play
* plus, an extensive Q & A -- ask her anything!
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Blood Attraction – SM Practice of Cutting - Dana
Blood is both powerful and magical, a symbol of life and death. Come learn how to cut flesh. Share the various reasons for our attraction to blood. Tools, technique, safety. All will be covered.
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Bondage – Power Play and Bondage - Controlling what you want and whom - T'Hayla
Rope as an external manifestation of your control over her. Binding her body, her mind and her heart to you. Every inch of rope on her body is you, your hands, and your desire to control her. Bondage is an excellent way to ramp up your power exchange. Giving her a delicious moment of rich vulnerability or a feisty moment to struggle against your control! Come explore how bondage can enrich your power exchange and turn up the erotic heat on your play.
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Brattiness: The Most Playful Play - Elaine Miller
Elaine thinks brats are the most darling creatures, and is often shocked to find herself in a slight minority. This demo is for brats, brat lovers, and for otherwise perfectly well-behaved bottoms who wouldn't mind being just a little naughty once in a while. And it's definitely for those who find themselves with a double-handful of deliciously sparky brat, and would like to stick a few more tricks up their sleeves.
If you don't feel "Yes, of course, Master!" or "I'll do anything you say, Mistress!" on the tip of your tongue, you're not alone. If you delight in a bottom who runs out of the room and hides when you pick up a paddle, you're (at least metaphorically) not alone either.
Besides the usual whys and wherefores, we'll talk about brat behaviour in the wild, how to make your adult brat have a tantrum, and ways for tops to gracefully safeword just before the nervous breakdown. We'll demonstrate how to tie up a brat in moments, despite the squirming, and what to do with them once we've caught 'em.
Come explore the form of play where "Oh yeah? Make me!" are the words guaranteed to make all our eyes light up.
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Cogito Ergo Thud - Ronin T
If you enjoy impact play, this hands-on workshop will introduce practical ways to hit (and keep on hitting!) with increased accuracy, increased power and minimal effort (when desired) and a reduced risk of injury.
We will cover techniques to help keep your body (especially you wrists, elbows and shoulders) safer. These very same techniques will also help you control the depth of impact from sting all the way to thud.
This workshop will primarily focus on the mechanics of hitting with an open hand. Time permitting we will also address techniques for paddles, canes and similar implements.
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Fire Play – Celeste Firetender
Celeste Firetender has been playing with fire and giving workshops on this form of play since 1993. Come learn the safety issues, what to use and not, how to apply to the body, build your own torches and other exciting things to do with this form of play. Top or bottom this workshop is for you. Come explore this erotic form of play and feel the fire. If you wish to have fire applied to your body DO NOT have anything on your body. No lotion, deodorants, perfume, hairspray, oil etc.
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How to Cum with Your Cock - Jack Slash
Don't come to this presentation if you're shy. Seriously. I will show you mine and you will show me yours. I have techniques to teach, and I'll bet you do, too. Discussion and demonstration will include fucking (if there are volunteers,) masturbation, and handicrafts. This workshop is for people - butches, femmes, trannies, whomever - who can, or would like to, cum with their cocks. Note: Please bring your own.
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Single Tail Dancing for Tops and bottoms - DaddyCrone Leenie
Have you every witnessed a scene that draws you in and changes your breath? That is what happens when Leenie handles the whip. Come learn the dance and flow that is possible. In class Leenie will go person to person having them feel the dance. This class is for both Top and bottoms, especially beginners. Guiding those that wish to throw the whip and with the aid of Hys lovely assistant, Debil, they will help the bottoms work through their resistance of receiving the whip. Hopefully you will leave with a solid foundation, grace and continued Whip Desire. Experience the Passion, Joy,and Fear that comes from the whip.
Let's Dance!
Please bring your signal or mini bullwhip.
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Sparks Will Fly - Lydia
Electrical play, electro-stimulation, medical electrical, and erotic electro-stim all basically mean the same thing: using electrically powered devices in BDSM games! Lady Lydia will bring her TENS, EROS Tec 312, stun gun, and Violet Wand for some show and tell and hands on experience. Lydia loves playing with electricity. She turns into a mad scientist who is ready to throw the switch and make her creature come to life... Electricity can range from a soft touch to a hard thump or to an intensely sharp pain. She will give a little history behind electrical play and torture as well as showing you what the different devices do. Bring your questions, fears, and experiences. If you have your own devise and have a question, then Lydia is happy to assist. Lydia would love to have a couple of brave volunteers to be electrified. If interested, wear loose clothes or no clothes and let her know if she can experiment with your cunt.
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Tending the Fires of a Master/slave Relationship - Shaira 'Sid' Holman
Sid will draw from her experience in building a strong, long-lasting Master/slave relationship, where the power imbalance is continued, deliciously, on a day to day basis.She will explore navigating the complexities of weaving our erotic desires and fantasies of power into our daily lives, while still keeping the humour and the erotic charge going.
Sid will talk about mindset, tips, responsibilities, negotiation, tools,
rules, rights, and... Love: the problem area. She'll talk about how to begin a Master/slave relationship;from doing our own work on ourselves, to choosing a slave or master, to constructing a relationship that is sustainable, and how to continue that Master/slave through common pitfalls and problems, such as anger, self-esteem issues, and how that pesky real life stuff keeps getting in the way.
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Workshops Offered at Prior DESIREs
