List of BDSM organizations
Encyclopedia
This is a list of educational, campaigning and community organizations related to BDSM
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Where an organization clearly indicates on its website
that membership is restricted by gender
or sexual orientation
, this is noted. Pansexual in this context means than no such restrictions apply. Note, however, that many BDSM organizations of the social/community variety will require prospective members to attend an orientation meeting, where among other things, the
organizers will attempt to screen out the obviously mentally ill
and those whose interest in BDSM is professional
(for example as journalist
s or law enforcement personnel) rather than personal
.
BDSM
BDSM is an erotic preference and a form of sexual expression involving the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role-play. The compound acronym BDSM is derived from the terms bondage and discipline , dominance and submission , and sadism and masochism...
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Where an organization clearly indicates on its website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
that membership is restricted by gender
Gender
Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...
or sexual orientation
Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation describes a pattern of emotional, romantic, or sexual attractions to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither, and the genders that accompany them. By the convention of organized researchers, these attractions are subsumed under heterosexuality, homosexuality,...
, this is noted. Pansexual in this context means than no such restrictions apply. Note, however, that many BDSM organizations of the social/community variety will require prospective members to attend an orientation meeting, where among other things, the
organizers will attempt to screen out the obviously mentally ill
Mental illness
A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and which is not a part of normal development or culture. Such a disorder may consist of a combination of affective, behavioural,...
and those whose interest in BDSM is professional
Professional
A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialised set of tasks and to complete them for a fee. The traditional professions were doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and commissioned military officers. Today, the term is applied to estate agents, surveyors , environmental scientists,...
(for example as journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
s or law enforcement personnel) rather than personal
Personal
Personal may refer to:* Personal hygiene* Personal identity * Personal web pagePersonal may also refer to:* Personal advertisement, an ad, like a classified ad, generally meant to find romance or friendship...
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Norway
- SMil Norge
- UngBDSM
- SMBergen
- Sol og Måne
- Rogaland BDSM Klubb
- OsloBDSM
- SM Sør
- Val Eyja
- Kaffe, Kaker & Kink
- Troms BDSM og Fetisj Klubb
- BatzBatz-People:*Philipp Batz, , a German poet and philosopher*Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan , a famous French Musketeers of the Guard*Michael "Das Batz" Hollmen...
- Chains
- SLMSLMSLM may refer to:* Service Lifecycle Management, a business strategy that bundles all service-based operations into a single lifecycle model* S-L-M, the tri-consonantal root of many Semitic words, such as shalom and salam...
- SMia
- ReviseF65ReviseF65ReviseF65 is a committee that is working to get sexual sadism, masochism, fetishism and transvestic fetishism abolished from the World Health Organization's list of psychiatric diagnoses, ICD...
United States
- National Coalition for Sexual FreedomNational Coalition for Sexual FreedomThe National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is a pro-sexual freedom, advocacy and educational organization founded in 1997 in the United States...
- National Leather Association- International
- Black RoseBlack Rose (BDSM organization)Black Rose is a contemporary BDSM organization based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded in June 1987 as a support group for the BD/SM, TS and other alternative sexuality communities in the Washington, DC area. The Black Rose hosts, among other things, educational classes addressing BDSM...
, Washington D.C. - Eulenspiegel Society, TheThe Eulenspiegel SocietyThe Eulenspiegel Society is the oldest and largest BDSM education and support group in New York City, where it is based, and claims to be the oldest group in the United States...
, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... - Lesbian Sex MafiaLesbian Sex MafiaThe Lesbian Sex Mafia, founded in 1981, is an information and support group in New York City for lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, and transexual women. The group's focus is to help promote fantasy role playing, bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, fetishes, costumes, alternate gender identities,...
, women only, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... - Conversio ViriumConversio ViriumConversio Virium , the oldest university student-run BDSM education group in the United States, is the central Columbia University student organization that represents the college's collective population who engage in consensual BDSM and related activities...
(CV), Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... - SamoisSamoisSamois was a lesbian-feminist BDSM organization based in San Francisco that existed from 1978 to 1983. It took its name from the fictional estate of Anne-Marie, a lesbian dominatrix character in Story of O, who pierces and brands O...
, women only, San Francisco, CaliforniaSan Francisco, CaliforniaSan Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
(historical) - Center for Sex Positive CultureCenter for Sex Positive CultureThe Center for Sex Positive Culture or CSPC is a non-profit, membership-based organization located in Seattle, Washington. It organizes events and provides space for several different sex-positive subcultures, notably BDSM, swinging, and polyamory groups. It caters to both heterosexual and LGBT...
(aka The Wet Spot), SeattleSeattle, WashingtonSeattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country... - Society of JanusSociety of JanusThe Society of Janus is a San Francisco, California based BDSM education and support group, and is the second oldest BDSM organization in the US. It was founded in August 1974 by the late Cynthia Slater and Larry Olsen....
, pansexual, San Francisco, CaliforniaSan Francisco, CaliforniaSan Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland... - Threshold, Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
- Group With No Name (GWNN), pansexual, Austin, TX
- Fightclub Ohio, pansexual, Cincinnati
- Southern Cross BDSM
- 411BDSM - support, information, lifestyle community
- Folsom Street EventsFolsom Street FairThe Folsom Street Fair is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's "Leather Pride Week"...
, San Francisco, CaliforniaSan Francisco, CaliforniaSan Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...