Posted on 08/25/2005 7:13:07 AM PDT by dukeman
A place to avoid, as advertised on DU:
benburch (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-28-05 10:55 PM
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August 27, Mendocino County, Witches’ Ball: A Sexy Witch Celebration
Witches' Ball: A Sexy Witch Celebration
A freaky, friendly, sex positive, size positive, queer positive, play positive, kitschy, kinky, Magickal Extravaganza!
August 27, Mendocino County, address and other details available with ticket purchase.
Come witness the unveiling of Sexy Witch by LaSara FireFox, help to kick off LaSara's 20-city (!!!) book tour with a silly, sexy, fun, celebration...and benefit two radical Mendocino County based women's groups in the process!
Festivities will include:
* Ritual with The Dionysian Cycle and theBoundary/PLAY Collective (Reverend FireFox , Bobby Cochran , tj Burleigh and friends)
* Burlesque with Simone de la Getto, founder of the award-winning Harlem Shake Burlesque
* Erotic performances (featured performers tobe announced)
* Late-night DJs (Friction , Damien )
* Boudoir Photo Booth with the World Renowned Charles Gatewood
* Yoni Self-Portrait (self-controlled up-skirt) Booth
* Raffle for Sexy Prizes (including a copy of Sexy Witch, hot off the presses and personalized for the winner, as well as prizes from Good Vibrations ,Babeland , Llewellyn , Three Sisters , and many more)
* Divination
* Altars and Ambiance by Freyja and Yolkai ofBad Girl Botanicals
* Sexy Witch book sales by Three Sisters
* Snuggle zone
* Sex Magick zone
* Witchy themed hors' deouvres providedby Ellis Literary Agency
* Sangria provided by Frey Vineyards and M.U.F.F.
* Full no-host bar, with thanks to The Ukiah Brewing Company and others.
* And MORE! Check for updates.
Experience a sultry late August night in the country with a bunch of sexy freaks doing freaky, sexy things. Enjoy overnightcamping in a lovely, secluded location only two hours from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dress code: Witchy, Fantasy, Full Dress, Ballroom, Formal to Fetish. Cross-dress and gender-play encouraged. Nudity and partial nudity entirely permissible.
18 and over ONLY. All attendees must present ID at the door. All attendees will be pre-screened (see below); absolutely NO at-the-door ticket sales. Tobegin the process of purchasing a ticket read the rules posted here, and then drop a note to: events (at) lasara (dot) us.
50% of proceeds will benefit two local women's organizations: 40% to M.U.F.F and 10% to Goddess Gather ; scholarship fund. Tickets are $50 - $30 each. Please pay according to level of affluence. Group rate: five for $200 - $120. Only 60 tickets willbe sold, so get yours early!
Low on cash, but really want to attend anyway? As always, we have a few work-trade positions available. Work is traded at the rate of $10/hour. Barter options will also be considered.
Please note: This is a media event; photographers may be taking photos. It will also be filmed for LaSara's personal archives. (...And to be leaked to the press by some unknown party when LaSara runs for office, just to make sure she doesn't actually WIN.) If you want to conceal your identity, please incorporate a mask, facial scarf, or other obstructive element into your costuming. All attendees must sign the model's release form aspart of the ticket terms. THIS DOES NOT MEAN necessarily that your picture will be taken, or if it is, that it will ever be viewed. But, it might be!
Rules of Engagement:
The success of this event relies on you taking an active part. Knowing thatwe all create our own experiences, we trust you to create this one as a wonderful, sexy, fun, sweet, gentle, silly, respectful, deep and enriching one.
No pressure.
You do not have to cross any lines of behavior that you don't want to.
Zones will be provided for the guests looking to get lucky. Please confine ALL overtly sexual activity to the appropriate zones.
Remember to be safe, sane and consensual.
No means no. And if the object of your desire has to verbally say no, you've probably already crossed the line. (There are many signs that can be read before the verbal "no" is encountered. Please be sensitive.)
Don't be afraid to ask for what you want.
Be gracious in denying requests.
Be gracious in taking no for an answer.
If you are having trouble with any gues217;s behavior, please let a Monitor know about your concerns. Monitors willbe wearing red arm-bands.
Snuggle Zone:
The snuggle zone is NOT foreplay for the Sex Magick zone. It is a space that encourages cuddling for its own benefits. Do not go to the Snuggle Zone if what you actually want is to have sex. No using the snuggle zone as a pick-up spot for the Sex Magick zone.
Sex Magick Zone:
don't take stupid, unnecessary risks. The Sex Magick zone will be outfitted with all the safer sex gear needed to provide a safe, fun, slippery sexual experience. Just add sex!
No bare-backing (unprotected intercourse).
Do not enter someone else's scene without verbal invitation from all of those involved.
Camping:
Camping is self-sufficiency based.
Bring water for your personal use, camping gear, food (that is edible without cooking - see fire danger warning below...hors d'ouvres will be available in the evening, but snacks are never a bad idea. Breakfast will not be provided.) and anything else you will need to make this experience sweet.
Fire Danger Warning:
NO SMOKING of ANYTHING except in designated areas.
No open flame.
No fires, camp-stoves, candles, incense, etc.
Leave No Trace:
Remember: the Earth is alive. This is living land.
Please clean up after yourselves (and others, if necessary).
Pack out what you bring in.
Take only memories, leave only gratitude!
How long will God put up with this type of thing?
Geesh---I'm assuming this in California, right?
'is'
Yep!
Even Satanists are anti-smoking, looks like I won't be joining that crowd.
Here's what the pagens are up to while we're discussing theology here on FR. Be on the look out for earthquakes in CA on the night of 8/27....
Well, we're at four million years and counting...I think He has bigger concerns. ;)
Hey, it's better that all the oddballs have a place to gather way out in the woods of Mendocino - otherwise, they might be holding this kind of event in suburban neighborhoods.
This is why I usually say queers and witches in the same sentence.
Kind'a like the movie 'Race with the Devil'.
For all the womyn-power crap, actually sounds like it was dreamed up by a guy.
Dan
Yuck! Sangria??
Mendocino County
Are there piperans and phobeans too?
It does, doesn't it?
Pagan Whack-Job Lollapalooza PING
(better than Burning Man?)
She had that
Camarillo brillo
Flamin' out along her head,
I mean her Mendocino bean-o
By where some bugs had made it red
She ruled the Toads
of the Short Forest
And every newt in Idaho
And every cricket who had chorused
By the bush in Buffalo
She said she was
A Magic Mama
And she could throw a mean Tarot
And carried on without a comma
That she was someone I should know
She had a snake for a pet
And an amulet
And she was breeding a dwarf
But she wasn't done yet
She had gray-green skin
A doll with a pin
I told her she was awright
But I couldn't come in
(I couldn't come in right then...)
And so she wandered
Trough the door-way
Just like a shadow from the tomb
She said her stereo was four-way
An' I'd just love it in her room
Well, I was born
To have adventure
So I just followed up the steps
Right past her fuming incense stencher
To where she hung her castanets
She stripped away
Her ranchid poncho
An' laid out naked by the door
We did it till we were un-concho
An' it was useless any more
She had a snake for a pet
And an amulet
And she was breeding a dwarf
But she wasn't done yet
She had gray-green skin
A doll with a pin
I told her she was awright
But I couldn't come in
(actually, I was very busy then)
And so she wandered
Trough the door-way
Just like a shadow from the tomb
She said her stereo was four-way
An' I'd just love it in her room
Well, I was born
To have adventure
So I just followed up the steps
Right past her fuming incense stencher
To where she hung her castanets
She said she was
A Magic Mama
And she could throw a mean Tarot
And carried on without a comma
That she was someone I should know
(Is that a real poncho...I mean
Is that a Mexican poncho
or is that a Sears poncho?
Hmmm...no foolin' ...)
What does "size positive" mean in their description of this event?
If Ben Burch is there, you automatically KNOW to avoid it.
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