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EVERYTHING YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO ASK SOMEONE ABOUT FISTING, BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Center for Sex & Culture
1349 Mission Street (bet 9th & 10th)
Door Opens at 7:00.
Program begins promptly at 7:30, ends at 9:30
FREE
(Donations encouraged.)
Light refreshments provided
You won’t want to miss this ground-breaking, free-wheeling conversation with four of our most respected and beloved members of the fisting, BDSM, leather and kink scene in the San Francisco Bay area and beyond!
We are honored to have four highly respected men join us for tonight’s topic, “Ask-the-Expert." During tonight’s moderated panel discussion, our panel members will field all questions thrown their way by you, our audience. Nothing is pre-screened, pre-arranged or pre-determined. Our panelists truly believe that the only dumb questions are the ones that aren’t asked!
You have three options in bringing questions to our panel:
- Grab the mic and ask your questions of the panel directly from the floor;
- Write your question on a card that night which will be read to the panel by the moderator; or,
- Submit your question(s) in advance byEMAIL(click the link to be directed to your email server).
About the Panelists:
Mr. Allan is well known in the Bay Area leather community for his work with Alameda County Leather Corps, and as a coach in the Handball Academy’s Novice Workshops. He’s been involved with fisting since 1982, and advocates “organic play"—that is, fisting wiithout the use of alcohol, drugs, or poppers. At the Handball Academy, Mr. Allan specializes in teaching tantric breathing and massage techniques for anal relaxation. Aside from his Handball Academy work, Mr. Allan also teaches “Fisting 101" to a variety of groups. He lives in an open/poly relationship with his husband Randy, who he legally married in Vancouver BC in 2003. Professionally, Mr. Allan has worked in the Information Technology field since 1980, as a systems architect, network engineer, and technical trainer. He regularly presents classes at industry technical conferences, conducts onsite training for customers, and sets in-house standards for systems documentation. His collected writings on fisting and sexplay can be found online at http://ethicalslut.livejournal.com Ed Ehrgotthas walked many paths in life. In 2004, after more than 20 years in the tech world, he realized that he needed a change and started a journey of aligning his passions with his work. Currently, he exercises his right brain as a bodyworker and sex coach in San Francisco. In this capacity, Ed helps men experience a holistic view of embodiment that integrates our erotic energies with all aspects of who we are. He helps men explore their curiosities about kink in a safe and sane manner.
Ed keeps his left brain occupied as a web developer and all around technogeek. This intentional combination of right and left brain helps Ed communicate embodiment in a language that most people find approachable and easy to understand.
Ed has been a facilitator at many kink events locally and throughout the country. He is the lead facilitator at Kinky Camp at Easton Mountain in New York state – a weeklong exploration of conscious and intentional kink. He also facilitates ‘Mindful Self Loving,’ a monthly erotic practice in San Francisco for men to explore new ways to express their solo erotic energies. Ed is active in the bear and leather world and is a speaker at SF Ring – a biweekly discussion on various types of kink play.
Cullen Frandsen, has over a decade of experience with personal growth and healing bodywork techniques. He has a passion for intimate connection, and over the last 5 years he has incorporated these skills into his leather lifestyle and love of BDSM.
Ganymede is a kinky queer leathersex shaman with over thirty years experience with ritual and tantric BDSM, community piercing rites, and group dungeon space. He is a co-founder of the Black Leather Wings tribe, and was a contributing author in the definitive anthology LeatherFolk by Mark Thompson and The Divine Androgyne by Purusha.
Dr. Robert Lawrence, Ph.D. As Board President and co-founder of The Center for Sex and Culture, Dr. Lawrence has 38 years of experience lecturing in the field of public sex education and health. He holds a Doctorate of Education in Human Sexuality and an additional Doctorate in Chiropractic. He has served as a writing and movie consultant, educator and academic author and lectures both nationally and internationally about human sexuality and health. He has lectured at the doctoral and post doctoral levels at schools and universities including San Francisco State, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Sonoma State University, the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, and the University of Chicago. His lectures have taken him to places as far flung as Canada, Mexico, Amsterdam, London, Beijing (direct grant Ford Foundation), Italy, Croatia, Greece and France.
His focus is on adult remedial sex education and he is known as a hands-on theorist who designs sex education praxis and is a specialist in anatomy and sensation. He has produced and designed safer sex education events of many kinds, and has been active as a sex educator since 1973 with more formal training as one of the early safe sex educators from the San Francisco model from around1980.
In SF he worked with The Coalition for Healthy Sex and San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI). He is an ex-Associate Fellow at the American Academy of Clinical Sexology, an occasional member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and the former West Coast Chapter Secretary for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex (SSSS).
His professional work has been published in juried journals, magazines and textbooks. He has been interviewed in books, online and radio and television programs worldwide, including, Penn and Teller, Montel Williams, Playboy TV and Channel 4 of London.
His practical methods of teaching safer sex, applied sex education praxis and sexual anatomy have reached millions of people worldwide and are in use today at educational events and programs across the nation. He is currently writing a book on the practical teachings of sexual anatomy and the neurology of pleasure as it applies to sex education. His most recent public lecture on sexual neurology and physiology was at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco in June of 2012. He is a disabled person and currently lives in San Francisco with his two life partners (Carol Queen, PhD and Dina Fayer).
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