Participating Groups
The heart of any event is the people who run it. The Floating World works in a unique model; the event is not made up of a single organization with a single point of view. Instead, the Northeast’s finest community groups join together, creating a vibrant culture that blends many different viewpoints. Participating groups make this event possible by providing volunteers, promotional support, special events and framework for the event. Please have a senior staffer contact us at and we’ll be happy to tell them how easy it is to become a participating organization!
TFW2012 Participating Groups:
AB+ Fence Sitting Neopolitan Rainbow Unicorns — Is compartmentalization getting you down? Are you too kinky for the swingers or too swingy for the kinksters? Too femmy for the butches or too butch for the femmes? Too straight for the gays or too gay for the straights? Too toppy to be a bottom and too bottomy to be a top? Can you just not get off the goddamn fence? Do you just want to have it all? Us too.
Black Phoenix club is a 25,000 square foot facility with over fifty play individual play spaces. Whatever your lifestyle orientation, you will find the Black Phoenix Club to be a comfortable place to learn, talk, socialize and play.
ClubFEM NYC is a BDSM organization for Female Dominants and submissive men in and around the New York City area. FEM is an acronym for “Females Enslaving Males”. The term “Club” does not refer to a physical place, but an organization of people coming together based on their mutual interest in exploring Female Domination and male submission. ClubFEM was started thirty years ago in Houston, Texas, and there are chapters all over the US and internationally. The NYC chapter was started in 2008 by HeadMistress Reina Darkness and the current HeadMistress is M. Mata.
DomSubFriends is a friendly pansexual BDSM Society open to all 18+ years old. We have weekly/monthly educational demos/lectures, munches, fetish parties, and socials. We serve the NYC and immediate surrounding area(s). Our website is http://www.DomSubFriends.com
Femdom Circle Femdom Circle is a social and educational organization for females who want to develop sincere relationships. The Circle strives to foster education among its members in an atmosphere devoid of judgment, prejudice, or comment. It is our hope to be able to deal with concerns and problems that we might face in our lifestyles; it is intended to be a nurturing and caring environment that is strictly devoted to the Femdom lifestyle.
The Gate Your gateway to BDSM … Our group helps, advertises, promotes, and educates people about events up and down the East Coast, posting from Rhode Island to Georgia. We have three chapters: two are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one is in Central Massachusetts. Our first chapter is the oldest munch group in the Philadelphia area; we just celebrated our 13th anniversary! The Gate is dedicated to providing members and other community participants a very relaxed, public, and safe place for meeting others with common interests. We welcome anyone, from novices to experienced. Locate our group on FetLife at: https://fetlife.com/groups/1576, or our Yahoo group is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thegatenews/
The International Violet Wand Guild is a not-for-profit associated membership whose mission is to promote up-to-date information, safer techniques, and ongoing research and development, to work to dispel myths and incorrect or outdated information, to certify knowledgeable instructors through an instructional program, and to continue the extensive art of the violet wand through a variety of means.
Iron Bell Academy - IBA is an exclusive, intimate members-only education, training, party and play space located in the New York City metro area. Our mission is to serve the education, training, play and party space needs of the adult kinky, leather, BDSM, gay, lesbian, queer and polyamory communities in our region, nationally and internationally.
Knot For Everyone (KFE) is a BDSM support group serving central and northern New Jersey since 1997. Currently KFE has a munch in Bridgewater on the first Wednesday of each month, a munch in Wayne on the second Tuesday, a munch in Westfield on the third Thursday, a Meet and Beat in Wayne on the fourth Wednesday of each month, and a play party every month in Trenton. KFE welcomes you to come out to a munch or a party. We are especially friendly to newbies and will help you get into the Scene. We hold a novice discussion night every few months at one of the Munches; you can get your questions answered. For more information write to knot4every1@aol.com, visit our website at http://www.knot4every1.org, or check us out on Fetlife at https://fetlife.com/groups/2003.]
Lesbian Sex Mafia — Founded in 1981 by Dorothy Allison and Jo Arnone, the Lesbian Sex Maifa (LSM) is the oldest continuously running women’s BDSM support and education groups in the country. We are located in New York City, with a membership primarily in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. However, we also have members along the East Coast, across the country and even in Europe! LSM is a support and information group for all women 18 years of age or older, including transexual and intersexed women who live their daily lives as women and all female-born transgender people who feel they have a connection with and respect for the women’s community. And, who are interested in fantasy and role playing, bondage, discipline, S/M, fetishes, costumes, alternate gender identities and uninhibited sexual expression in a safe, sane, consensual and coni dential way. We are not a social service agency. However, we are interested in providing information, encouragement and general support. Our principles are few but basic: conifdentiality, consensuality, safety and the right of women to explore their sexuality as they choose.
Long Island Leather N Roses is an alternate-lifestyle, pansexual group of adults, 19 and older that meets on Long Island. Our members and guests come together for a common interest: Enjoying a loving, nurturing environment that revolves around BDSM and/or D/s in a safe venue. LILNR began in October 1997 and we are the longest running lifestyle organization on Long Island. LILNR is both an educational and a social organization, and is open to everyone with an interest in alternative lifestyles, whether novice or experienced. We accept all persons interested in education associated with BDSM and D/s lifestyles. Members and friends represent a broad spectrum and we believe that diversity is our primary strength and appeal.
The MAsT: Central New Jersey — Masters And slaves Together International (“MAsT”) is an association of individuals interested in engaging in personal relationships that are based upon the conscious exchange of power and authority. MAsT believes that such relationships can be a valid path to authenticity, self-actualization, and happiness for such individuals, and MAsT is therefore dedicated to equipping them with tools and resources that will assist them in developing relationships that are healthy, functional, and real. Through the sanctioning of local chapters that meet on a regular basis, MAsT provides social and support opportunities for its members and fosters the beneficial exchange of lifestyle knowledge and experience. MAsT is committed to demystifying M/s, D/s, and other power exchange relationships for those in the leather/fetish/BDSM community and, on a greater level, to correcting the misinformation and combating the denigration that often occurs in our larger societies with respect to such relationships. The MAsT: Central New Jersey chapter serves the Central New Jersey area, and welcomes all genders, all sexual orientations, and any relationship status.
MaST: Long Island - A pansexual group of individuals, couples, and multi-coupled persons exploring relationships that are authority based and/or power dynamic based. We share our experiences, our questions, and our discovery process in the pursuit of healthy M/s and D/s relationships. We are open to all genders, identities, sexual preference, and relational preferences.
MaST: Metro New York - MAsT is a community-inclusive support group for individuals involved, or interested, in Master/slave or other power exchange dynamics. It is intended as an educational resource and forum for like-minded individuals to come together once a month for discussion of issues of concern, to share ideas, and to gain/share knowledge of M/s dynamics. MAsT meetings are not about SM skills/techniques or sex but focus on the relationship of the Owner/property or Master/slave dynamic.
The New England Dungeon Society (NEDS) is a pansexual educational, support, and social group. The New England Dungeon Society holds socials for NEDS members & escorted guests, regular BDSM seminars, workshops and demonstrations, as well as many and varied special events. The New England Dungeon Society has been providing a comfortable environment for people to explore bondage, dominance & submission, and their kinkier side since 1992. We are also a volunteer organization that depends upon its membership to help us thrive and grow.
NH Seacoast Kinky Con is an annual all-ages (over 18), sexual orientations, gender identities, or spiritual beliefs conference. Each event has a different energy, with alternating classes, demos, vendors and other activities (silent auctions, raffles, socials). We have expanded from 50 participants to over 200 and expect to reach 300 for our 6th conference, being held November 9th-11th 2012 in Portsmouth NH. Visit our website for more information – http://www.seacoastkinkycon.com – and join our FetLife group – https://fetlife.com/groups/10786
Who are The Other Fuckers? We are a family, a group of peers, community organizers, and a home for folks on the fringe, wayward kinksters, the in-betweeners, explorers of gender & identity, and non-hetero/queer spectrum rope and kink addicts. We believe in family, humor, education, consent, and more humor. The Other Fuckers have been “doing it wrong” since 2009.
Philadelphia Western Suburbs Munch is an opportunity for people to get together in a non-play and vanilla atmosphere. Basically, it’s a place we can kick back and hang out together and get to know one another in a restaurant/bar setting. The munch will be held in the Western Suburbs of Philadelphia on the FOURTH Tuesday of every month from 6-10pm. We have about 50 people at each munch with a wide variety of ages and preferences. Ask for Lily Langford’s party or the PWSM. Separate checks are available. Your hostess is Miss Lily Langford. Feel free to email me at MistressLily138@gmail.com with any questions. We’re on FetLife at fetlife.com/groups/6318. EVERYONE is invited.
Shelter is a gathering place for a group of individuals who share similar beliefs regarding relationships involving the exchange of power and authority. Shelter believes that a conscious exchange between a dominant and submissive can build a strongly fulfilling relationship and can lead to self actualization for those individuals. Shelter is committed to providing a safe atmosphere in which those individuals can develop and deepen their relationships in a way that is healthy, functional and real. Through monthly meetings, we provide discussion topics for exploration of the dynamics of these power exchange relationships, and foster an exchange of support and knowledge between members. Shelter is committed to promoting awareness of the validity and functionality of power exchange relationships, including M/s and D/s, to the BDSM community at large. Our events are meant to provide a safe haven for these lifestyle relationships to be practiced openly and without fear of reprisal.
The Society is a group of like-minded individuals who share an interest in BDSM. The members of the Society are dedicated to pride in ourselves and in others like us throughout the world. We are committed to maintaining our individual integrity and, in all our encounters with people of our community, acting in a way that accents our integrity. The Society constantly attempts to provide a safe place for all members of the BDSM community to gather, enjoy sociability, find the opportunity to get training, and to practice the arts of our community. At no time will anyone be pressured to go beyond any limit they may set for themselves.
Syracuse D/s Society is a warm and welcoming lifestyle group for Upstate New York kinksters. We promote lifestyle-related learning opportunities and host private social events for our members, including monthly munches and play parties that are held in the greater Syracuse area. We believe that lifestyle activities should always be safe, sane and consensual. What makes SDsS special? We are pansexual; passionate about the lifestyle in all its forms; and we welcome new members into our kinky family whether they are bedroom kinksters or living a 24/7 M/s dynamic. We enjoy meeting new people and introducing them to the erotic variety of our lifestyle in a safe and secure manner. Last but not least, we are focused on having FUN! After all, if you’re not having fun, what’s the point?
TNG Pittsburgh is a group focused on the needs of the 18-35 age demographic (and their partners) of our community. We welcome all sexualities and gender identification, and any D/s or M/s or any variant of power exchange dynamic. As a group, we will strive to maintain a safe, respectful, supportive and educational environment for the youngest members of our Pittsburgh kink community, to further the education and safety of our community as a whole. We will provide an open forum (both on Fetlife and primarily in real life) for our members to discuss relevant topics in regards to alternative sexuality, relationships, general BDSM, events and safety within the active community.
The Triad — A monthly gathering and social group for those in Central, NJ and the surrounding metro areas (NY, NJ PA) in the Dominant/submissive lifestyle. The group is open to anyone, male, female, Dom, sub, hetero, gay, bi, CD/TV/TS) who is interested in D/s, B&D or S&M.
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