We're working on bringing back a purrfectly pampered petplay + ageplay party to the CSPC, and we'd love to hear what kind of shenanigans you'd like to get up to.
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Black Ties & Alibis - An "Intriguing" New Year’s Eve Gala!
The Mysterious Anonymous–Part Deux
I shivered slightly in the entryway of the Gallery as I waited to check in. Although I was wearing a shimmery, barely-there dress as Anonymous had instructed, I wasn't cold--just excited. The scene before me unfolded with as much mystery and throbbing desire as the weeks of teasing correspondence promised. I craned my neck to scan the room. Where was Anonymous? How would I even recognize them in this room of sexy bodies dressed to kill?
Anonymous had been dropping clues as we texted, in between messages that made my nipples hard and my panties wet–growing up somewhere they learned to be good at keeping secrets… “camouflage,” they said. And something about quilts. But how would those details help me identify my secret admirer?
I fingered the five “microchips” I was given at check in, wondering how to spend them. A mocktail at the bar? A tarot reading to shed some light on the mysterious Anonymous? (other?) I strolled through the Gallery, moving sinuously to the music that filled the space. There was a beautiful woman in black leather smiling wickedly down on a man kneeling at her feet over in the corner. Another woman was squirming against the cross as her Mistress brought a riding crop down across her juicy ass in perfect time with the music’s beat.
A bearded man in a tuxedo was sitting for a bootblack. Mmmmm…. Tuxedo and boots! Another sexy human in a trench coat and fedora winked at me before graciously accepting a mocktail from the bartender. Could this be Anonymous? I started moving toward the bar, but as they tangled their fingers in the hair of the person next to them and led them toward the dance floor, I realized I’d been mistaken.
“One microchip to have your cards read,’ the Tarot reader called to me.
Why not? I thought, and handed her one of my chips. As she shuffled the deck of cards, she asked me to think of my question.
“Actually, I said, I’m looking for someone in particular. Someone mysterious, who invited me to this party. Can the cards help me find them?”
She winked at me. Again, with the winking. “I think a lot of people are looking for your friend Anonymous. Seems to be a game they like to play. I can offer you a clue, if you’d like, for the price of another microchip. Oh, and your cards say that you will meet someone with a message for you, and that you’ll find what you are looking for, although it may take some time.”
Come help us unravel the secret of Anonymous and partake in the intriguing delights of Black Ties and Alibis on NYE!
Gallery Erato - 309 1st Ave S.
Friday, December 31, 8:30 pm - 12:30 am
CSPC Members and Invited Guests, 18+ with ID
Tickets: $50
Dress to impress as we uncover seductive secrets at the final BDSM party of 2021! Your entry includes:
Dance floor & music by our “licensed to thrill” professional DJs
Generous BDSM playspace
Myselfspace for solo, voyeur, exhibitionist fun
Spy game (opt-in) “Codenames”
Tantalizing Interrogation Scene
Guess who Anonymous is to win an amazing “Date Night & the Morning After” Basket (one winner)
A midnight virgin(!) toast
5 Microchips to be used towards our premium perks!
Premium Perks:
Tarot Reading
Bootblacking for your luscious leather
Mocktails including Mystery Mimosas, the Shirley Templar, and our own Secret Cider
Commemorative photo
Extra clues to who Anonymous is
Live Auction for fabulous next level tools of the trade and a Paddlepalooza preview!
Sybian Rides
Additional Microchips may be purchased at the party $20/20 by donation online at the Registration table
Come discover lifestyle decadence as we ring in the New Year together!
Intrigued? Join us! Party tickets must be pre-purchased online!
Consent 2.5
by Emma Atkinson and Rachel Drake
Hello treasured readers! We’re so grateful for your continued support and encouragement.
We talked a lot about building solid foundations on respect, understanding the pillar of capacity, yours and theirs, and envisioning the way our consent frameworks could look. As you are embarking on interactions and potential gatherings during this season, it’s a great time to examine how and when you get (and give) information.
With celebrations aplenty, all with varying levels of safety as we are in the midst of a pandemic, getting, or giving, all of the information you need about an event is important to the health and safety of you and those you hold dear. If you are hosting the event, it’s a great idea to have a “Pandemic Plan” and let your guests know in advance, as well as details like: How many people will be attending? Indoors or out, what kind of airflow? Masks? Vaccination/test status? And any other details that might help you keep your loved ones safe.
We all have varying levels of comfort, when it comes to socially interacting, so first, know yourself. What are you comfortable with? What are your “hard no’s”? Where you have been, and with whom? Was the event or gathering open air, or inside; masked or unmasked? These are great pieces of information to share with potential merry-makers you want to see and interact with. Just like a “safer” sex talk, we can share information in the same way, as well as request it from others. You can help make it an easy conversation by sharing with care, curiosity, and compassion.
We wish you the warmest, happiest, merriest, cuddliest, jolliest, holiest, and sexiest holiday season possible! And we wish you a consent-filled 2022!
Homework: Please do your utmost to enjoy the holiday season to the maximum extent possible. You can share holiday greetings with us at info@thecspc.org.
“Be excellent to each other” - Bill and Ted
“Be sexcellent to each other” - Emma and Rachel
Community Matters
By Eirikah Delaunay
Huge thanks to our Volunteers of the Month as recognized at the Board Meeting on December 8, 2021. Nicole and Shelley have worked hours upon hours to help prepare and organize the CSPC’s volunteer team that is so essential to our Community. Since our organization is entirely volunteer run and led, this is an enormous undertaking! Nicole and Shelley’s work makes everything else we do at the CSPC possible. Thank you, Nicole and Shelley!
Speaking of volunteers, the more volunteers we have able to serve at events, the more events we can offer. Volunteering is also a fantastic way to get to know other CSPC members and build your personal circle of friends within the larger Community. Join the volunteer team today!
IMPORTANT REMINDER: Now is also an excellent time to purchase a membership renewal. Standard membership dues will be going up to $10/month for monthly membership or $100 per year for annual membership in January 2022, with Reduced ($5/month) and Supporter ($20/month) membership levels available to allow members to easily select the price point that best reflects their ability to support the Community that adds so much to all our lives. Renewing by December 31 lets you lock in our current rates (only $5 per month) for up to a year. Treat yourself this holiday season to the gift of CSPC membership. You can give yourself access to all our Community benefits--our play parties, discussion groups, Discord server, etc.--for a whole year to come!
There will also be a change in our Discussion Groups in the new year. Beginning in February, Discussion Groups will still be free for members, but will cost $5 for non-members. Membership is $10/month, so if you’re going to two Discussion Groups, your membership is essentially paid for! To become a member, sign up for a New Member Orientation here!
However you contribute to the CSPC Community, thank you! Your generosity of time, money, thought, and energy is what makes our Community what it is.
Paddlepalooza Prize Proclamation
Pleasantries to our plethora of producers, proponents, and patrons of pretty paddles! Our Paddlepalooza promotion is picking up the pace, and we have at present picked up some paddles that are, to put it plainly, the pussy’s pajamas!
We’ll have a gallery of photos up on the website presently – a parade of paddle pictures for you to peruse. Meanwhile, we are preparing for the Paddlepalooza auction, which is planned for February 1-5, so we can get paddles out to the winning bidders in time for Valentine’s day (the perfect way to proclaim your passion for a paramour is the presentation of a posh paddle).
Is there still time to pick up a paddle and prepare it for Paddlepalooza participation? Positively! Here is our artist entry form. For a $25 donation to the CSPC, you will get a plain pinewood paddle to pretty up til it’s the pink of perfection. Present it back to our Paddlepalooza personnel by January 15th, and we will have plenty of time to put its picture (and any artist info/links you proffer) in our portfolio of pretty paddles. Late submissions will be accepted until January 31st for the auction, but the sooner your paddle is passed back to us, the more protracted the period for people to pine over its pretty picture prior to auction.
Finally, we have our Paddlepalooza prizes to announce! The paddles that pull in the most pay at auction will procure for their producers:
1st Prize – a week’s stay in Hawaii*, with a panoramic view of the powerful Pacific!
2nd Prize -- $100 to put in your pocket!
3rd Prize – A free year of CSPC membership!
*No holidays and subject to availability; airfare not included.
Do these prizes please or persuade you? Do they prompt you to procure them? Perfect! Now ponder, plan, pick up a paddle, and put together the most pulchritudinous piece you can produce, posthaste!
It's Femme Dominion, Pervs!
By Mistress Katherine and Eirikah Delaunay
Let’s set the stage with a little Femme Dominion mood music….
The first-ever Femme Dominion party is just two weeks away--December 18! Tell me a little bit about the Party Champion team.
Femme Dominion’s intrepid Party Champions are Moneek, flame-haired, vertically-gifted Enchantress, Sonatina, who might actually be Selina Kyle, and myself, Mistress Katherine, an always mischievous, sometimes maternal, Muppet. Each of us are long- standing members of the CSPC with over a decade and a half of community involvement under our leather corsets. Inspired by the social restrictions of the pandemic, we all felt a renewed motivation to make sure that the type of party we most wanted to attend ended up on the CSPC calendar. Hence Femme Dominion was born!
I loved the Ladies' Sovereign Tea and Women On Top, and I'm excited to see Femme Dominion joining the lineup of in-person parties at the CSPC! Tell me about your inspiration for this party. What kind of atmosphere are you and your team creating?
Our event is heavily inspired by the Women on Top party and the Ladies’ Sovereign Tea. Both events were strong favorites for all our Party Champions and Sonatina was part of the WoT team. Back in the Interbay location days the Tea was one of the reasons I started The Chateau. Then as now, our desire was to create more opportunities for Femme identified people to explore power dynamics, with each other as well as appreciative others.
Who will enjoy this party?
If you enjoyed the vibes of those two previous Femme-focused parties you’ll probably enjoy our groove as well. But if you didn’t get the chance to check those events out, the appeal is a Femme-led space. So anyone who appreciates that energy being more represented among other attendees, whether or not Femme is a part of their own identity, will fit right in. But if you are a Top who is partially or entirely Femme-identified, OR someone who loves to bottom for that demographic, well then you’re in for a particular treat.
What kinds of activities will there be?
While the focus is more of a play party than a sex party, both activities are actively encouraged. From conversations I’ve been having with other pent up pervs, I suspect many scenes will be hot, intense, and often on the heavy sensation side. I know I’m looking forward to dusting off my whips and zappy toys. Conversely, lots of folks have been feeling a lack of touch and connection lately, both socially and sexually. As a result I think the event vibe will be pretty sensual and notably flirty.
Will there be flagging? Pickup play? Activities for folks attending single?
One of our not-so-secret agendas is to grow our community by helping folks get to know each other and by getting all the lovely pervs we know hooked up! To that end, we have our opening hour conversation salon and will supply name tags with pronoun stickers for those who want them. For the more adventurous, we’ll have wristband flagging for attendees to signal to other guests their openness to being asked to play as well as their preferred power position.
So much hotness! What excites you the most about creating and attending this party?
I think like a lot of folks right now, we’re all just so freakin’ excited to be able to gather again at all, let alone gather and get our kink on. As a solid voyeur, being in a space with a bunch of beautiful pervs all being their best sexy selves has been sorely missed. Also, I mentioned whips and electric toys right?
What advice would you offer someone who is thinking about attending the inaugural Femme Dominion?
I definitely suggest that people try to make it to the first hour of the event (7-8pm) for our conversation salon if they are new to the CSPC, generally socially anxious, or just out of practice attending play parties…which these days covers a lot of us. It can be a bit more challenging chatting up new people once play begins, so that first hour is meant to give folks a chance to introduce themselves and get comfy in the space.
Event Details?
Our first event is Saturday, December 18th. Doors open for the conversation-only part of our festivities at 7pm. The play start pistol goes off at 8pm, and things wrap up at midnight. There's a new member orientation immediately preceding the event at 6pm for folks who haven't yet completed this necessary step toward CSPC membership.Tickets are $25 and must be purchased online in advance--get them here! In order to reduce Covid risks, only 100 tickets will be sold, vaccination is required, and masks must stay on except for eating, drinking, or using your mouth in a scene. If we are as successful as we're gearing up to be, we'll be back again in February if you can't make it this month.
Any last thoughts to share with our readers?
Whether you knew it before, or whether you’ve come to realize it in the last year and a half, Community matters. Gathering amongst like-minded peeps is about social support as much as it's about hot kinky scenes. So if you’ve been desperately craving both, we’ve got you covered. Come make some new friends, reconnect with familiar faces, and revel in the unapologetic pervert you are--with us!
Protecting Our Community--COVID Policies and Practices
Hello our marvelous members and vivacious volunteers,
November marked our third month of hosting in-person events, and we couldn’t be more excited to see all of you coming out to play with us!
This was also the month during which we had our first member report a COVID-19 infection after attending one of our events. Our best information at this time indicates that the infection was likely contracted prior to our event. All attendees and volunteers have been notified, and we want to share this here in full transparency. The fact that we’ve gone this long with only one known infection is on one hand an indicator that the precautions we’re taking are effective. On the other hand, this is a reminder that no precautions are perfect, and we should all continue to be cautious.
Communicating symptoms and/or positive test results to people we’re in contact with is an important part of keeping one another safe. We encourage anybody who suspects they might have COVID after having recently attended an event to alert any play partners as soon as possible, to get tested, and to email info@thecspc.org to notify the CSPC Board of any positive tests so that we can help keep other attendees informed. Transparency is important not just for managing risks, but also helps us all practice fully informed consent.
Meeting in person has some risks, as we all know. We’re attempting to manage these risks using a multi-level defense strategy:
We currently limit event sizes to 100 tickets sold, plus up to 20 volunteers. In practice, all of our events so far have had fewer than 100 people total due to no-shows.
We require proof of full vaccination of all attendees and volunteers. Booster doses are not currently required, and we will continue to evaluate this policy and King County requirements around vaccination.
We require attendees and volunteers to keep masked at all times other than when mask removal is needed (for eating, drinking, or using your mouth in a scene).
We provide condoms and other safer sex materials, and encourage their use. These are primarily useful for prevention of unwanted pregnancy and STIs, but they could in some cases reduce risk of COVID transmission (e.g. the possibility of transmission through semen or fecal matter).
We encourage full communication surrounding risks and testing, both before and after scenes.
Some of these methods require work on the part of our members. The payoff from doing this work is helping to protect the health of the community as a whole, so that we are all able to continue to meet and play as safely as possible.
Here is current guidance from the CDC regarding self-isolation periods, which we ask all members to observe strictly if you should have or suspect a COVID infection. We encourage members to use tools like WA Notify, which exchanges codes with other users’ phones anonymously and can provide notifications of possible exposure much faster than we can share them.
We’d also like to mention that if you’re not feeling well as an event approaches, we will gladly help move your tickets to a later event or credit your account. We want to help everybody make choices based on informed consent, to better protect yourself and our shared community.
Stay safe, stay sexy,
--The CSPC Board of Directors
Black Ties & Alibis NYE 2021
“You’ve got mail!”
My hand shook as I reached for my mouse. Only one contact is associated with that notification. I admit to being a bit of a romantic movie enthusiast.
“Anonymous has purchased you a guest ticket to the Black Ties & Alibis Gala at the Center for Sex Positive Culture on Friday, December 31st, 2021. Please arrive at 8:30 pm and await instructions from Anonymous.”
I felt the blood drain from my face as I suddenly felt a surge of blossoming heat elsewhere. Breathe. Okay, breathe deeper. What did I get myself into? Where is the website? There’s gotta be a website. There’s always a website, right? Ahhh...there it is!
Let’s just click on... everything! Hmmm... no ominous pictures of dirty places and rusty shackles. No porn website ads. Pretty classy actually. Hmmm... I watch too many movies.
You have mail…mail…mail!
You have an encrypted message in chat! (from Anon)
Anon: Did you receive my gift?
Anon: Will you be able to clear your evening?
Anon: Wear something sexy... no underwear.
Me: Anonymous?
Anon: Yes?
Me: How will I recognize you?
Anon: I will be the one biting your neck.
Me: ...Ummm...
Anon: With your prior consent, of course.
Me: This whole year and I’ve never met you in person. I don’t even know what you do.
Anon: That’s because I’m classified.
Me: So do I call you Mr. Anonymous in person or Sir?
Anon: You are assuming my gender, that’s cute. Do you have a preference?
Me: I never thought about that. What do I call you then?
Anon: The Japanese have a saying: “Sore wa, hi mitsu desu.”
Anon: It simply means “That is a secret.” Being respectful is a core tenant of my house.
Me: Much to unpack there.
Anon: Let me reassure you that we shall spend a glorious evening together- Enjoying mock-tails or the divination of a real Tarot reader. There will be professional DJs, dancing, a live auction and even rides on a Sybian.
Me: Is that some kind of horse?
Anon: Well I suppose we should leave some mysteries to be solved at the gala!
Me: I saw that there is a spy game called “Codenames”- If your codename is Anonymous- Could someone else have the same name?
Anon: I guess there may be more than one Anonymous- But figuring out who is the real one is could win you an awesome prize, that prize being our date. >:)
Anon: We will toast the New Year and your mission- should you choose to accept it- is to scene with me. Our first scene ever in the New Year! Let the negotiations begin!
Me: Bring it on, Anonymous! I’ve got a pair of sparkly new 5“ inch heels to break in!
This chat has ended.
Tickets are $50. Get your tickets today! See the event listing for a complete description of all the enticing festivities included with the ticket price.
Community Matters
By Eirikah Delaunay
You know the CSPC’s mission, right? The Center for Sex Positive Culture creates spaces to celebrate, develop, and explore sexuality and sensuality among a diverse, supportive community.
One of the defining features of a true Community is the sense of belonging that comes from contributing to its well being. At the CSPC, that might mean volunteering your time at parties or behind the scenes, donating your financial abundance, sharing your great ideas, adding your energy and enthusiasm to our many online and in-person events, and using your voice on Discord and our social media spaces to connect with and support each other.
The CSPC is an organization created by our members in order to serve our members. As the number of in-person parties increases, so does our need for trained volunteers! The more volunteers we have able to serve at events, the more events we can offer. Volunteering is also a fantastic way to get to know other CSPC members and build your personal circle of friends within the larger Community. Join the volunteer team today!
Now is also an excellent time to purchase a membership renewal. Standard membership dues will be going up to $10 per month for monthly membership or $100 per year for annual membership in January 2022, with Low-Income and Supporter membership levels available to allow members to easily select the price point that best reflects their ability to support the Community that adds so much to all our lives. Renewing now lets you lock in our current rates (only $5 per month) for up to a year. Treat yourself this holiday season to the gift of CSPC membership. You can give yourself access to all our Community benefits--our play parties, discussion groups, Discord server, etc.--for a whole year to come!
However you contribute to the CSPC Community, thank you! Your generosity of time, money, thought, and energy is what makes our Community what it is.