Broaden Your Mind

Other Community Events to Enjoy!

The CSPC throws amazing parties and hosts many important discussions on various topics. But luckily, we live in a place where there are many more options to dive into sex- and body-positive culture. The list below is just a sampling of some great events coming up in the next month.

We include non-CSPC events in every issue. If you have an event suggestion or feedback from a past event you’ve attended, please email Marissa at newsletter@thecspc.org and it might make it into our next issue!

Editor’s note for all events*

As a reminder, these are non-CSPC events. We include them as a way to open your mind to other experiences, but we have no control over them, their content, or their missions. We encourage you to vet other organizations to see if they are places you would feel comfortable. 

March 15

Hypnokink Enthusiast Group (suggested $10 donation | in person)

Have you thought about including hypnosis in your kink or sex life? Infinitely adaptable, you can use hypnosis to enhance arousal, do bondage without restraints, build fear play and mindf*ck scenes, strengthen D/s training, increase relaxation for sensual scenes, and much more!

Doors open at 1pm, and we start our programming at 1:15pm with introductions, icebreaker activities, and demos. For details on the theme of one of our meetings, you can visit the Seattle Hypnokink Enthusiasts FetLife group at https://fetlife.com/groups/53446 or email heg@pan-eros.org.

March 20

Papaya Project | Sex Trivia ($10–$20 | in person)

This monthly event is the best way to learn about and celebrate pleasure, queerness, and the science of sex! Trivia questions cover a wide variety of sex and sexuality-related topics, so get ready to challenge yourself, learn something new, and have a good time. A portion of each ticket will be donated to the Healing Retreat for Survivors of Child Sexual Trauma, taking place from June 12-15, 2025 at The Whidbey Institute. NOTE: This is a repeat of Sex Trivia on March 12th @ Stoup Cap Hill. Only choose one of the two events to attend!

March 20

Lumberyard Bar: ABDL Night (free | in person)

Seattle's ABDL bar event, Diapers and Drinks, returns to the Lumber Yard on Thursday March 20. It's a school night, so this time we'll be ending at 12am. King Corvid and Lil B will be DJing all night, we'll be handing out free diaper samples, there will be an area to store your vanilla clothes, and the bar will be serving our themed drink, ABDLemonade. We'll also be setting up a private space for diaper changes! Come out and enjoy an evening of diapered fun with us.

March 22

Pan Eros: Practical Application of Floggers ($45–$100 | in person)

Want to create a great flogging scene? Not sure about the basics? Know the basics inside-and-out but think there might be something more? This experiential flogging workshop is for anybody that thinks they've got something to learn. We'll discuss the foundations, practice basic and non-basic strokes, and cover how to turn it all from a collection of techniques into a scene.

March 22 and 26

Beacon Cinema: SECS Fest Presents The Visitor ($13 | in person)

The Visitor is a British-set reimagining of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema. Pasolini’s enigmatic protagonist, known to everyone as “the visitor”, arrives at the house of an upper-class family and seduces each family member one after the other. When he suddenly departs, he leaves behind an emptiness for which the rest attempt to compensate in different ways. The Seattle Erotica Cinema Society brings world-class erotic films to Seattle audiences throughout the year, inspiring diverse communities to engage in adult conversations about sex. SECS Fest, an annual sex-positive festival celebrating the artistry of erotic cinema, will be held at the Beacon Cinema in Fall 2025!

April 10–12

Theatre Off Jackson: Sweaty Thots ($10–$20 | in person)

Matthew Reynolds bares all in this hilarious, heartbreaking and inspiring sharing of his life story as he emerges into his biggest, fullest, brightest self. Meet important figures in Matthew’s life, including Sissy and Isidor (of ReBar fame!) A performance of transformation, sparkle, and an invitation to find your JOY! Afro Puff Girls Unite – APGUFS, WORLD WIDE!

Applications Open for Discord Moderators

• Do you enjoy hanging out in the CSPC Discord server and want to make it a better place to be? 

• Do you have experience moderating online groups or servers? 

• Do you have a solid foundation of knowledge around consent practices and how to enact them in digital spaces? 

You may be a good candidate to help moderate our Discord server! Check out the job description here, and submit an application using the link in the document. We are so excited to build up our moderation team, and look forward to what our membership has to bring. 

Questions? Email Ari at communicationsdirector@thecspc.org. 

We Want to Hear From You

Thanks so much to all the folks who turned out for our March board meeting this past Wednesday evening! We always appreciate getting to hear from the community, especially when there’s something that you’re passionate about.

If you have ideas, thoughts, or concerns, please bring them to a Board member you trust at any time; you don’t have to wait for a Board meeting! You can find email addresses on the Board directory, or fill out a feedback form and use the last question to request someone contact you (you have to provide contact info though, if that’s something you want). If you know a Board member who is on Discord, feel free to ask to DM them, and respect their boundaries around when and where they choose to discuss CSPC business. Please keep in mind that everyone is volunteering their time and can’t always be on call to handle CSPC business immediately, and everyone is doing their best to respond to things in a timely manner.

Lastly, if you have reached out and feel you’re not being heard, please email the Board President directly at Jadzia@thecspc.org. Thank you to everyone for your contributions and ideas for making our community a better place! 

Call for Community Resource Articles

Hi all, Ari here (your Communications Director). I’ve been hearing a call for more community resources to be made available online around various topics including how to vet play partners, ways to practice consent, and sexual health. I want to take this opportunity to tap into the vast knowledge of this community and start building that up! To that end, I want to start collecting articles written by the CSPC membership, for the CSPC membership (and also people who happen to come across our website). 

If you have a topic that you’re knowledgeable on, an experience you had (good or bad) and how you dealt with it, or any information that you think could serve the community, please write it up and send it to communicationsdirector@thecspc.org. If you’ve written up any extensive responses to questions on Discord and just want to copy and paste that into an article, do that!  

Logistics:

A name of your choosing will be attached to the piece, and it will live on our website and appear in the next newsletter following the submission’s approval. Please don’t name anyone other than yourself in these pieces (Person A and Person B are great ways to anonymize stories!). As consent is revocable, if an article of yours is posted and you want us to remove it, just email and we’ll take it down within three days. 

Questions? Comments? Email!

Changes for New Member Orientation offerings

We have made some adjustments to when we offer New Member Orientation based on community feedback, volunteer availability, and event host suggestions. 

Beginning in April, both Power Play Mixed-Tape and The Grind events will not include a New Member Orientation (NMO). As a result, these parties will begin one hour earlier and end one hour earlier. The Board is also looking at possibilities for holding in-person NMOs that may run in conjunction with our non-play weeknight events, however this has not been finalized yet and will largely depend on volunteer ability to support a weeknight NMO. 

If you are interested in becoming a NMO leader, please email volunteerliaison@thecspc.org to get more information!

Frolic 2025 Hiatus

The Frolic, a week-long camping event traditionally held in August, is going to be on hiatus for 2025. This event is a massive undertaking, requiring very dedicated Directors and a large volunteer team to work on putting it together for months prior to the event and a lot of hard work during the event to ensure it goes smoothly. In 2025 we don’t have any past Frolic Directors able to run this team, and frankly it’s too large of a project at this point to leave to unseasoned volunteers. 

There will be work done on The Frolic this year, however—we will be reviewing documentation from last year and taking some time to work on ways we can make the event more sustainable and able to be recreated. The Board is in full support of The Frolic team taking this year to regroup and make The Frolic even better going forward.

We’re sad to not be holding this incredible event in 2025, but we also recognize the need to take a step back and put some further structure in place before holding The Frolic again. Any questions or concerns about this can be directed to the CSPC feedback form, where comments are reviewed by volunteers on a regular basis.

Mar. 17th Clothing Closet Social and Swap Meet

Join us on March 17, 2025 between 5:00pm and 9:00pm for a members-only, non-play Clothing Closet social event! 

This “Clothing Closet” event  is a community resource where everyone is welcome to browse, try on, and take whatever items they can use. This will be a temporary, pop-up Clothing Closet, stocked by Members for Members. 

• Please do not bring anything that is soiled, broken, incomplete, or that cannot be received by a donation center

• Everything is free—no sales

• There will be mirrors available for try-ons, and non-sexual nudity is allowed

• At the end of the evening you may reclaim anything you brought

• Anything left at 8:30 will be packed up for donation

• You are welcome to take items even if you didn’t bring anything!

• Pre-registration is required, although it is free to do so

We’re really excited about this event and hoping for great turnout so we can hold similar events on a semi-regular basis! Check out the event page and register for free here.

Broaden Your Mind

The CSPC throws amazing parties and hosts many important discussions on various topics. But luckily, we live in a place where there are many more options to dive into sex- and body-positive culture. The list below is just a sampling of some great events coming up in the next month.

We include non-CSPC events in every issue. If you have an event suggestion, please email Marissa at newsletter@thecspc.org and it might make it into our next issue!

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February 8–16

Northwest Film Forum | Playland ($7–$15 | in person)

PLAYLAND conjures a time-bending night in Boston’s oldest and most notorious gay bar. Featuring an eclectic ensemble of queer performers, including drag icon Lady Bunny and POSE’s Danielle Cooper, the transdisciplinary film sees music, dance, archival footage, tableaux, opera, and performance art layered into an ethereal piece subverting all boundaries. The work of queer fantasy and history takes place inside the empty husk of the Playland Café. Although the cafe shut down in the late ’90s, PLAYLAND stages one last bawdy night on the town for the ghosts of their LGBTQ+ ancestors.

February 21–22

Kremwerk | 11-Year Anniversary ($12+ | in person)

For 11 incredible years, Kremwerk has been a cornerstone of underground electronic music, a hub of creativity, and a space where our community thrives. We're marking 11 years with two nights dedicated to the artists and sounds that make the Pacific Northwest so special.

March 2–5

Beacon Cinema | Some Like it Hot ($13 | in person)

Few works in film history have earned so many horselaughs through the years as has Wilder’s relentlessly zany gender-bender, featuring two of the most famous (even if fake!) beauty marks in Hollywood, courtesy Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. Wilder brings the sexual anarchy of the Weimar Berlin cabaret into Eisenhower America, in a work which has lost nothing of its spirited exuberance and zest for life.

March 8

Consent Academy | Red Flags: Skills for Recognizing Abuse ($15–$45 | online)

Red Flags: Skills for Recognizing Abuse is a workshop that explores both the obvious and subtle signs of abusive relationships and provides options for what to do about it. Participants will understand the power dynamics at play, and how abuse manifests as violence, manipulation, and other techniques of coercive control, in physical, emotional, psychological, and financial aspects. We also explore the importance of consent when navigating out of abuse and building healthy relationships.

March 12

Papaya Project | Sex Trivia ($10–$20 | in person)

This monthly event is the best way to learn about and celebrate pleasure, queerness, and the science of sex! Trivia questions cover a wide variety of sex and sexuality-related topics, so get ready to challenge yourself, learn something new, and have a good time. A portion of each ticket will be donated to the Healing Retreat for Survivors of Child Sexual Trauma, taking place from June 12-15, 2025 at The Whidbey Institute.

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Editor’s note for all events*

As a reminder, these are non-CSPC events. We include them as a way to open your mind to other experiences, but we have no control over them, their content, or their missions. 

Phase One of the Volunteer Appreciation Program: Event Coordinator Perks

Without Volunteers, there would be no Center for Sex Positive Culture. We are a nonprofit run by Members, for Members.

For quite some time the Board has been working behind the scenes to develop a Volunteer Appreciation Program that takes into account the needs of individual Volunteers as well as the needs of the organization as a whole. Part of the program involves offering Volunteer perks!

Establishing, offering, and implementing perks is a difficult task, especially when factoring in the tax and legal implications to which we are all bound. A comprehensive plan involving perks takes many things into account and requires a multi-prong strategy and cannot be a matter of simply handing out free tickets. 

The Board of Directors passed a motion at the 1/8/25 Board Meeting to implement the first round of perks! This begins a gradual yet immediate rollout. A gradual rollout allows for an expedited initial implementation, provides opportunities to assess its efficacy, and allows for easier adjustments over time. Due to persistent difficulty in staffing Event Coordinator shifts, especially Closing EC shifts, ECs will be the first to receive perks. These perks will be implemented no later than March 1st but retroactive to shifts dating back through to the start of 2025:

Opening EC

• Free admission to events at which they volunteer

• Invitations to Volunteer appreciation events

• Swag distributed at those events

• Additional swag options

• 20% off tickets 

• Free, last-minute entry to one event that has not sold out, for every two events they’ve opened

Closing EC

• Free admission to events at which they volunteer

• Invitations to Volunteer appreciation events

• Swag distributed at those events

• Additional swag options

• 20% off tickets

• Free, last-minute entry to events that have not sold out, equal to one for every event they close

• Free event coupon code for every shift worked (up to tax limit 3-4 per year)

This is the first in a series of Volunteer benefits the Board intends to implement. Other Volunteer roles will eventually receive perks. These will not be distributed based on a simple, accumulated volunteer hour basis. Instead, some roles and shifts will be weighted to provide greater perks in recognition of Volunteer contribution and to assist in encouraging Volunteers to fill needed shifts. Look for more to come on that throughout 2025. Questions can be directed to Skitty at HRdirector@thecspc.org

Thank you Volunteers!