Lolita Wolf's Predictions & Predilections

Princess Kali and her doggy at Dark Odyssey Summer Camp 2007

Perhaps this is what all those submissives who yearn to be trained are looking for.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the Texas statute that made it a crime to “promote or sell sexual devices.” That law included dildos, and stated that if you owned 6 or more of them, you had the “intent to promote” them — i.e., sell, give, provide, or lend them. The finding quoted Lawrence vs Texas and spoke about privacy in the bedroom and the right to have sex for reasons other than procreation.

The Dyke Uniform Corps is back! (That’s D.U.C. Don’t call them Ducks!)

Pairs with Spares is about the recent Poly Living conference.

And Tilda Swinton makes the news with her poly relationship structure.

Florent has been the last good reason for me to go to the old meatpacking district, and it looks like it will soon be gone. Their rent is going up from $72,000 per year to an asking price of $700,000! Crazy!

The American Family News Network posted an inflammatory article condemning the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force for honoring Guy Baldwin with their Leather Leadership Award at the 20th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change, on February 6-10, 2008 (www.thetaskforce.org).

According to the February 7th article:

Peter LaBarbera, executive director of Americans for Truth commented that he is not sure if he is more surprised by one of the sponsors of the event or by one of the activists who will be honored. “It’s incredible to me,” he continues. “But the Democratic Party is endorsing an event where they’re actually presenting an award for sadomasochism.”

A sponsorship acknowledgement notes that the Democratic National Committee gave at least $2,500 to help pay for the event. The recipient of the “Leather Leadership Award” is Guy Baldwin, a psychotherapist who has successfully lobbied against treating sadomasochism as a mental health problem.

To see the entire article, go to: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=66629

In point of fact, the Democratic National Committee did not sponsor Creating Change or the Leather Leadership Award.

The Task Force does have a strong history of supporting the BDSM-leather-fetish communities. In previous years, this included awarding their Leather Leadership Award to Dave Rhodes of The Leather Journal and Tony DeBlase, creator of the Leather Pride Flag, as well as providing tracks and roundtables for activists dedicated to leather community issues.

“Those who persecute our communities know that The Task Force and the BDSM-leather-fetish communities have shared agendas in promoting tolerance and non-discrimination for sexual minorities, including those involved in alternate lifestyles. We grow stronger the more we stand together,” says NCSF Spokesperson Susan Wright.

From Guy Balwin’s acceptance speech for the Leather Leadership Award at Creating Change:

“One of the many reasons it is important for The Task Force to be sending these signals of acknowledgement and legitimacy out to the LGBTIQQ world is that when our enemies in the struggle for self-determination look in our direction, they can’t see the amazing diversity represented in a room like this one. No, to our enemies, we all look the same. They make none of the distinctions that we, ourselves, have made. To our enemies, garbage is garbage, no matter what color we are…..how old we are…..how we smell, or how we play. And that’s just one reason it’s important that we build bridges between our diverse communities and that’s why this award to me today matters to all our communities. But the effort to build these bridges will be wasted unless they are vigilantly maintained from both sides.” – Guy Baldwin

We ask you to send a short note of appreciation to the Task Force:

Roberta Sklar, Communications Director
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
rsklar@thetaskforce.org

Dear Ms. Sklar,

Thank you for your recognition and inclusion of the BDSM-leather-fetish communities in your annual conference, Creating Change. The Leather Caucus and workshops on alternative sexuality have been very important to the LGBT members of our communities, providing a place where we can gather with our peers and discuss activist issues.

I congratulate you on choosing to give your Leather Leadership Award this year to Guy Baldwin for his activist efforts on behalf of the leather community. I proudly support The Task Force and am glad to join together on our common and shared goals of equality for all Americans.

Sincerely,
(your name)

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Guy Baldwin is a Los Angeles-based psychotherapist, author and activist on behalf of “erotically uncommon people.” Baldwin may be best known for his monthly essays which appeared in Drummer Magazine and were collected in his 1993 book, Ties That Bind. Baldwin is a former titleholder, having served in 1989 as Mister National Leather Association and also as the 11th International Mr. Leather. In 1987, Baldwin launched the DSM Project to mobilize mental health professionals worldwide to press for changes to the official clinical definitions that had long been used to label leather people, gay and otherwise, as pathological. The DSM Project succeeded with the publication of new and substantially improved language in 1993 in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is a national organization committed to creating a political, legal, and social environment in the United States that advances equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual expression. NCSF is primarily focused on the rights of consenting adults in the SM-leather-fetish, swing, and polyamory communities, who often face discrimination because of their sexual expression.

National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
822 Guilford Avenue, Box 127
Baltimore, MD 21202-3707
410-539-4824
media@ncsfreedom.org
www.ncsfreedom.org

Dylan Edwards

My new computer shipped yesterday and should be delivered on February 14th! I am very excited about this.

Jocasta does a step-by-step photographic rope tutorial for a strap-on.

On January 17th I was part of Blogger Sex Night at In The Flesh Erotic Reading Series (), hosted/curated by Rachel Kramer Bussel, January 17, 2008, Happy Ending Lounge, NYC

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIaEWx6Ro6A

Men are no longer needed for procreation. They have become obsolete. Who needs them any more? Um, well, I think they are quaint and would keep a few around anyway. Just for my amusement.

I no longer have to schlep down to the Lower East Side for my S’Mac fix. Tonight I went to Pinch & S’Mac on the Upper West Side. I had yummy macaroni and cheese. The “nosh” size on the UWS seems smaller than the one on the Lower East Side though. So, we had 10 inches of pizza, too. The name Pinch & S’Mac sounds like a scene, doesn’t it? Afterwards, we walked down to Magnolia Bakery, which now also has an outpost on the UWS. We split a huge slice of minty icebox cake. I’m in heaven.

So the other night I used the term “beard” and I was not talking about facial hair. My friends did not know the reference. Here’s a link.

Come out Wednesday night for The TES Bondage Group. Andy Weiner (aka Tyutumi) will be teaching “Rope Bondage Japanese-Style.” Bring rope and learn some new ties. Details at the TES website.

And am I really supposed to be concerned about the color of my bunghole? Really?

My computer is *still* not working. I am worried that I will have to buy a new one now and I did not want to do that for another six months or so. Oy!