Reminder: NELA's Welcome Wagon presents: Lee Harrington & Mollena ... @ Wed Oct 24 7pm - 9pm (NELA Calendar)

more details » NELA's Welcome Wagon presents: Lee Harrington & Mollena Williams Negotiations Class & Book-Signing! NELA's Welcome Wagon (formerly the Fleadom Trail event series) offers 101 kink education and an opportunity for low-pressure socializing for self-identified new kinksters. Check us out: http://nelaonline.org/cmsms/index.php?page=fleadomtrail-sig . Lee Harrington (www.passionandsoul.com) and Mollena Williams (www.mollena.com) are climbing aboard a Whistle-Stop Book Tour to celebrate the release of their new book, "Playing Well with Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities." First stop? Boston! (https://fetlife.com/events/125060) $10 pre-paid (http://nelaonline.org/event-ticket-sales/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=14)/$15 cash/check at the door/discounts for NELA associates and affiliated groups -- please bring your up-to-date group card! The book: Whether you're a trembling novice or a jaded expert, there's always something new to be discovered in the endlessly changing, complex and titillating world of kink. While there are plenty of other books out there that explain how to give a spanking or tie a half-hitch, Playing Well With Others is the first book that explains kink culture -- the munches, parties, leather bars, conferences, workshops, fetish nights, exploratoriums and all the other gatherings of kinksters that turn BDSM and leather from a bedroom predilection to a lifestyle and a community. You'll learn to: Examine your own motivations, needs, wants and desires Ease your way into established communities Understand etiquette in different adventurous sex communities Familiarize yourself with the many types of events available to you Care for your relationships as you explore new territory Negotiate for play and aftercare Go back to the "world at large" without ruffling feathers …and, of course, answer the all-important question: What do you wear?! The team of Harrington and Williams offers 30-plus years of experience in diverse kink communities: top, bottom and switch; gay, bi and straight; female, male and trans; white and POC. Both former titleholders and international educators, they are an unbeatable pair of "sexual sherpas" with an inimitable voice and a great deal of wisdom. Playing Well With Others is an unprecedented and essential guidebook for anyone who wants to explore or understand the "community" aspect of the kink lifestyle. The class: Negotiating Well With Others... and Yourself Mollena Williams and Lee Harrington At every turn, kinksters are encouraged to know their needs and limits, express them to partners, and negotiate! negotiate! negotiate! It is common to feel overwhelmed and uncertain how or where to begin, what to bring up or what to focus on - even for the most extroverted pervert. Let's take an opportunity to use negotiation as foreplay, self-exploration, and a road map to our most intimate fantasies, and then come back to developing our skills for negotiating with others, whether for play or within relationships. And there are so many approaches to negotiation we can take! Remember, negotiation is a practice and takes practice - like Kung Fu for the erotic explorer. New, experienced, shy, outgoing, top, or bottom, everyone can benefit from negotiating! When Wed Oct 24 7pm – 9pm Eastern Time Where Seminar Room, Athenaeum Building, 215 First St., Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA (map) Calendar NELA Calendar Who • NELA Calendar - organizer • opnheartd@gmail.com - creator

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