FLOG SWARM DEADLINE TONIGHT, and Purpose

The Flog Swarm is an annual event, hosted by gay leathermen, welcoming our heterosexual, bi and trans sisters and brothers to COME PLAY WITH US.  We want to develop deeper friendships and trust within our shared Tribe.  You are warmly invited.

Tonight (Tuesday the 26th) at midnight is the LAST CHANCE to attend this year’s Flog Swarm.  Just like last year, many folks have neglected to sign up until the last moment (we are busy people), and it’s a problem.  We need a certain number of folks to make it work for the venue’s purposes.  Please make sure that you follow through, right away!

Please go IMMEDIATELY to the Eventbrite page and get on the list, because we want you there!

Purchase Flog Swarm 2015 and Dinner tickets ASAP!

Flog Swarm 2015 and Dinner ticket sales ENDS

just before midnight on Tuesday, 26 May 2015. 

Why so soon?

Because we need to inform the caterer Wednesday morning how many people will be joining us for dinner Saturday evening. 

Please purchase your tickets ASAP by clicking here.

Every year, the men of FetishMenSanDiego host the rest of the San Diego kink community for pleasurable events that draw us closer as a family.

This year, the theme is "ALL IN THE LEATHER FAMILY!"

The mood will be light, the events will be low-pressure, and the opportunities to build new friendships will be numerous!

More events may be added, later on…

Saturday, May 30: 

Flog Swarm and Dinner, starting at 4PM, and ending after dinner is done.  Followed by:

We WILL be taking our annual group photo 

before we go in to see the movie - It's a tradition!

Movie Night: SEED MONEY, starting at 10PM, hosted by FilmOut San Diego and FetishMenSanDiego.

All Male Butchmann's Experience, Phoenix Arizona June 12-14

The All Male Butchmann's Experience will be held in Phoenix Arizona June 12 to June 14 this year.  This is a weekend opportunity for self discovery. The event uses basic S&M practices to explore awareness of internal direction and it uses the practices of Master/slave dynamics to mindfully inner resources and qualities that we find transferable to our relationships in our life. 

We held a BE here in San Diego in January that was sold out and very successful. You probably know someone who attended. Ask them about their experience, though yours will be different.

Check out the Butchmanns Web site to get more information. and to register.

Family Reunion Weekend 2015: "ALL IN THE LEATHER FAMILY!"

Every year, the men of FetishMenSanDiego host the rest of the San Diego kink community for pleasurable events that draw us closer as a family.

This year, the theme is "ALL IN THE LEATHER FAMILY!"

The mood will be light, the events will be low-pressure, and the opportunities to build new friendships will be numerous!

More events may be added, later on…

Saturday, May 30: 

Flog Swarm and Dinner, starting at 4PM, and ending after dinner is done.  Followed by:

We WILL be taking our annual group photo 

before we go in to see the movie - It's a tradition!

Movie Night: SEED MONEY, starting at 10PM, hosted by FilmOut San Diego and FetishMenSanDiego.

Movie Night, May 30: SEED MONEY

This event is part of the larger Family Reunion Weekend!

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There WILL be a group photo outside the theater at 9:45PM… 

It's an annual tradition!

Movie Night, Saturday, May 30th, starting at 10PM, presented by FilmOut San Diego and FetishMenSanDiego.

Festival is at the North Park Theatre. 2891 University.

SEED MONEY: THE CHUCK HOLMES STORY – West Coast Premiere!!

See the trailer here.

Buy your tickets online…

Sponsored By: SDGLN/SDPix

2015, Director: Michael Stabile, USA, 72 min:
This documentary is a revealing look at Chuck Holmes, San Francisco Falcon Studio’s founder/pornographer turned philanthropist. Holmes helped shaped and create gay identity in the years after Stonewall,and became a founder of gay rights advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign and the LGBT Victory Fund…only to find later in life that while his philanthropic money was welcome, he wasn't.

Appearances by John Waters, Jeff Stryker, Chi-Chi La Rue, Holly Woodlawn, Jake Shears, Zak Spears and John Rutherford.

**This film contains nudity and scenes of sexual situations**

With: HOLE – California Premiere
2015, Dir: Tony Radevski, Australia, 5 min:
Two men share an unlikely encounter at a bathroom gloryhole in this insightful animated short.

With: MIDNIGHT – West Coast Premiere
2015, Dir: Ted Wilkinson, USA, 22 min:
Shane (Sean Paul Lockhart) and Aiden (Anderson Goncalves) are a couple who decide to try an open relationship. As one-on-one encounters turn into group orgies…will their experiment broaden their horizons, or lead to mistrust and paranoia?


Here is the ticket link:
http://filmoutsandiego.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=753959

Here is the Facebook link to spread to your peeps:
https://www.facebook.com/events/809857989070070/

FLOG SWARM!!! Saturday, May 30th

This event is part of the larger Family Reunion Weekend!

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The newest, exciting, and deeply TRIBAL Flog Swarm is coming soon! Come for the Flog Swarm, and stay for the dinner!   It's all part of the FAMILY REUNION WEEKEND.

WHEN: Saturday, May 30, 2015. The Flog Swarm starts at 4pm SHARP!!!

If you are not there and ready by 4 PM, we will start without you. No mercy. This event is very tightly coordinated, and will be following specific plans that will cause people to bond closely as friends. If you miss out, you miss out.

Dinner starts at 7PM.

WHERE: Sunset Temple

3911 Kansas Street

San Diego, CA 92104

Here is a Google Map.

COST: For the entire event, (which includes the Flog Swarm and a sit-down dinner), is $25 per person.

PAY FOR YOUR TICKET HERE.

Ticket sales for Flog Swarm 2015 and Dinner end just before midnight, Tuesday, 26 May 2015. We need to inform the caterer Wednesday morning how many folks to serve Saturday evening. 

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IF YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO USE A FLOGGER:

Papa Tony's one-hour online instructional video is strongly recommended.

If you would like to participate in the practice-sessions before the Swarm, contact us at SignMeUpForEvent AT gmail DOT com

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So… What is a Flog Swarm?

It is coordinated and joyful kinky play, that is designed to break down the walls between us. This event is for the most open-minded folks, who tend to lead with their big, beautiful hearts. 

If you struggle without a rock-solid itinerary, you're really not going to enjoy this. However, if you're willing to open your mind, drop the shields and play as if you were a happy three-year-old in a mud puddle, you're going to have a great time!

If you are one of the 72 lucky folks who attended last year's Flog Swarm, please bring your best new ideas along with you  this year, because we want to stir things up a lot. Bring your A-game! We want to hear from you, preferably beforehand, so that we can mix your ideas in with everyone else's. 

Send your ideas to us at SignMeUpForEvent AT gmail DOT com.

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The Kinky King is Back!

Photos by Scott Smith and Mike.

This time around, our brother Brett will be the Ringmaster for the Swarm. He played the role of "King Versatile The First" last year. He brings creativity, patience, credibility and a wonderful sense of humor to the party.

Brett will be guiding the flow of events and people, as only a deeply creative person can do. Brett, Papa Tony and International Ms. Leather 2015 Sarge all share the exact same personality-type. We will all be in attendance, along with dozens of other women and men who are natural Tribal leaders, elders, hotties and activists.

Expect surprises, laughter, thoroughly pleasing flogging in every possible style, and wonderful new friends that you never thought that you would ever find reasons to treasure. 

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RULES

- The #1 rule for the Flog Swarm is: "No Lonely People!"  So, let's all drop the shields and reach out to the shy, the new and the unsure. There is no one here who will cause you harm, or treat you shabbily.  We guarantee it.

- There will be cameras. If you're not wild about the idea, please bring a mask, or, we can help you make one. Your presence is greatly desired.

- There will be various levels of nudity, but no bare asses. This is as a courtesy to the folks who own the venue, who don't want to dry-clean the furniture after we leave. This seems reasonable.

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Photos by Mike:

The super-popular and powerful DANCE OF THE BOOBIES!  This was meant to break down the walls between women and gay men.  It worked wonderfully.

FMSD Potluck and Sock Donation

Wednesday, May 13, 2015, 6:30 to 9PM at Stomping Ground.

Photo by the ever-excellent Scott Smith!

From Kurt:

Hi Fellow FMSD Guys, Kinksters and Bro's.

Time to Show Off your FOOD, COOKING and ORAL GRATIFICATION talents!!

We’ve got us a POTLUCK Dinner happening at NEXT WEEK’S MEETING.  If YOUR LAST NAME starts with:

A-K: Please bring us a salad, maybe a light and non messy / finger food kind of appetizer, or a side dish.

L-Z: Bring a main dish, the primary entrée item that the rest of the meal is built around.

Meat or Vegan, Hot or Cold, Sweet or Spicy or Mild, … no worries.  It’s a food item that really “Turns You On.”

Baby Back Ribs, Meat Loaf, A Meatless Item … whatever is your favorite that you really enjoy, and want to share and want to open the door to the rest of us on … “what are you into …. With food???”

We did Pizza and Fried Chicken at the Park Picnic, so some new items will be a great variation for us, this time around, ok?

If you would like to bring a dessert item, it can be in addition to your main/side dish choice.  Again, something that you really are into, and think the rest of us will be into.   I got hooked up on some killer Cinnamon Rolls that are usually a breakfast item, but says who that we can’t have them.  Personally, it would be like Pig Heaven for me, if someone brought Bacon … still slightly Limp, and also the Hard Munchy kind.  Just saying.  It could be a Kurt-Kink.  (kidding buds)

I don’t know how if we have a stash of Utensils and Napkins and Table-wear somewhere, so if anyone can clue me in, or bring some, that would be kewl.

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SOCK DONATION

Also, Friday evening is the night that I bring Food, Clothes and Sleeping Bags to Homeless Kids.  FYI, the leftover Bagels last week went to a Homeless Dude in Mission Valley and the Day Laborers in the Home Depot parking lot.

People living on the streets have a need for Socks and Laundry Detergent.  Sox wear out, and they can’t carry a gallon bottle of Liquid Detergent like we keep above our Washing Machine.

Hence, if you can please bring any gently worn sox  ( a hole at the toe or heel isn’t a big deal when you have no sox at  all ) or a baggie with enough Dry Laundry Detergent to wash one Load of clothes, that would be sweet.

I learned about the laundry detergent issue when a guy asked me if I would turn him on to enough of it to wash his clothes at the Encinitas laundrymat.  He even mixed the colors and the whites.  No bleach.

Anyone with any thoughts, suggestions or support from past experiences … please share. “I’ve never done anything like this before,” and since we all like to eat, we all like each other and enjoy sharing … I wanted to put the word out, since Jerry’s pictures  of Hot Masculinity distracted me.  You know, shiny objects, lights, dudes and I glaze over.

Looking forward to seeing everyone next Wednesday, May 13th, at the Stomping Ground around 06:30pm, ok?

Stay Happy

L8rz

kurt