by Brad Warner

About a week ago I saw a posting on Facebook regarding a big Buddhist gathering in upstate New York. The post read as follows, “Next week, New York’s Garrison Institute will be hosting some 230 Buddhist teachers for a conference on a range of topics concerning the future of Buddhist practice in North America, including legacy, succession, lineage, ethics, and ‘how to preserve and adapt the Dharma in new conditions without losing depth.’ The conference, known as the Maha Teacher Council, is by invitation only.”

I reposted this link on my own Facebook page with the following comments, “Oh nice. A self-selected group of important Buddhists get together to decide what’s best for the rest of us. Gatherings like this worry me a lot. The intent is to create a unified sense of what Buddhism ought to be. It’s like trying to create a unified sense of what art ought to be. Very Soviet sounding to me.” This generated a lot of commentary and crosstalk that’s still going on even as I type this.

One of the initial comments asked if I was “butt hurt” at not being invited. I’m not sure if “butt hurt” is how I would describe my feelings. But the commenter was correct in assuming I was not invited. And he was on the right track in thinking that my not having been invited was part of my problem with the event. But it wasn’t because I was “butt hurt.”

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by Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D.

In California there is a magical, sensual temple by the sea where two erotically gifted women-of-power live, work, play and bring excruciating pleasure to many. They are the busiest, most successful erotic practitioners that I know (and I know many). Miss Jaeleen and Ms. Montaine created and practice the art of “Bondassage.” Having been present at three of their sessions, I can tell you that they are extraordinary and do brilliant work. They also have been teaching a series of Bondassage workshops and offer Bondassage training for professionals, couples and individuals.

Jaeleen and Montaine each have their own luxury apartment in the same ocean front building. Their Bondassage room has delicious sacred space energy, with its lovely altars, tantric and Buddhist statues, fresh flowers, and a plush massage table. All is impeccably clean and neat. The room is painted hot pink, florescent orange, and Mediterranean blue. Along one entire wall is a big cabinet with many doors and drawers which, when opened, flood the room with kinky, fetish and SM accoutrements. This dynamite duo embraces and utilizes the archetypes of both the ‘Slut’ and the ‘Goddess.’ My kind of girls!

On a full moon night, with the sounds and scents of the ocean, we sat together on their plush couch. Montaine and Jaeleen let me peek behind their scenes, probe their brains, and let me in on some of the secrets of their sexcess.

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by SG’s Team Agony feat. Yulia and Kraven

Let us answer life’s questions – because great advice is even better when it comes from SuicideGirls.

Q: I have something I’m in hoping an SG could help with — mainly cause it’s about an SG. Over the past year I have had my attention drawn toward a very beautiful Suicide Girl. The problem is that I’m falling for her big time and I’m really not sure how to go about getting her attention with all the other messages she has to wade through sending “love.” I’m sure you girls get all kinds of messages, and disregard most — right? 
Thanks for any and all help with getting connected with my longed for love.


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by SG’s Team Agony feat. Lyxzen and Dalila

Let us answer life’s questions – because great advice is even better when it comes from SuicideGirls.

Q: I’m at a loss to know the best way to introduce some of my interests to the woman I’m dating. For a few years I’ve written fetish erotic fiction, and explored those fetishes in real life as well. I don’t want to have to keep these interests secret, but I’m also unsure about the best way to introduce them. Many are fantasy level fetish stories, but some are closer to reality.

Ideas?

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by Laurelin

Remember that dream from when you were younger? The one where you’re walking the halls of your high school and everyone is looking at you funny and you can’t figure out why, and then you look down and find that you’re naked, and everyone sees you at your most vulnerable. That dream came true for me this past Saturday night. Instead of being involuntarily naked in a dream, it was real life, and I had actually consciously chosen to go nude on a stage in front of a theatre full of strangers.

Naked Girls Reading is exactly what it sounds like. I heard about it randomly one night out in Boston and thought that it would be a perfect wacky event to cover for my Boston nightlife blog. I sat in the darkened theatre at midnight and watched with bated breath as four women came out in beautiful silk robes and sparkling jewelry and fantastic heels, and one by one, they approached the microphone, dropped their robes, and read to the audience from a book. Was anyone listening to them? I kept losing track of what they were saying because I was just so amazed, they were there… naked, for everyone to see.

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by Darrah de jour

Women have long been considered the sum of all wickedness. Something about our siren nature, which is able to distract, lure, bankrupt, limp, stronghold, harden, weaken and dilate a man’s – well – everything. Add money to the mix, and you have some interesting table talk.

My interest in the lure of sex work has little to do with the pedestal-izing of its workers, more so with their private relationships. Likely, it is difficult to carry on a typical, standard, monogamous partnership if your profession dictates you wrap your hands, lips, and lady bits around your male clients. Are sex workers, by nature, polyamorous? And what are the risks of telling or not telling your boyfriend or girlfriend what you do for a living?

I got up the nerve to chat with two really cool ladies, who are 100% comfortable and very erudite when asked to talk about such issues. In fact, as widely respected sexperts, they are frontrunners in the carnal knowledge movement. In this first installment of a two part series on love, sex, porn and polyamory, I chat with famed “prostitute and porn star turned sex educator and artist” Annie Sprinkle. During our conversation, I decided to roll the dice and ask her about a few other things I’m, ahem, curious about…Listen in:

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by SG’s Team Agony feat. Bailey and Tekky

Let us answer life’s questions – because great advice is even better when it comes from SuicideGirls.

Q: Last year I was sexually assaulted on a date. I really want to start dating again but I’m so scared that it is going to happen again. This fear has kept me from dating, yet alone spending any alone time the opposite sex. And to make this whole thing worse, I was never sexually active before I was assaulted and now I just don’t know what to do. I would some advice, thanks.

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