The Lesbian Sex Mafia (LSM) is an information and support group for bisexual women and lesbians interested in sexual activities involving BDSM, fetishes, costumes, etc.[1][2] Founded in 1981 by Jo Arnone and Dorothy Allison, it is located in New York City.[2]
The LSM works "to organize for [women's] sexual desire as strongly as we have tried to organize for our sexual defense".[3] The name was deliberately chosen "in the same spirit of humor as the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorism Society."[4][5]
History
editThe LSM organized a "Speakout on Politically Incorrect Sex" rally at the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality.[6][7] The group was also a subject of a documentary by the German filmmaker Monika Treut, Bondage, the first of four films in the Female Misbehaviour series.[8][9][10]
In 1993, Pride Night by LSM, The Eulenspiegel Society, Excelsior MC, GMS/MA, and NLA: Metro New York received the Large Event of the Year award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.[11]
In 1996 LSM cofounder Jo Arnone received the National Leather Association International’s Jan Lyon Award for Regional or Local Work,[12][2] in 2005 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards, and in 2010 she received the Mr. Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Woman) as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.[13]
Membership
editMembership in LSM is open to women 18 years and older, including intersex or transgender women, and transgender men who were assigned female. To become a member, one must fill out the application and then becomes an LSM Pledge. Next, the pledge must attend an LSM Orientation/Safety Procedure Meeting.[14]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Pat Califia (1988). The Lesbian S/M Safety Manual. Lace Publications. ISBN 978-1-55583-301-5.
- ^ a b c "About Us – Lesbian Sex Mafia". Lesbian Sex Mafia. Lesbiansexmafia.org. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
- ^ Abrams, Kathryn (1995). "Sex Wars Redux: Agency and Coercion in Feminist Legal Theory". Columbia Law Review. 92 (2): 304–376. doi:10.2307/1123232. JSTOR 1123232.
- ^ Moira, Fran (1982). "Politically Correct, Politically Incorrect Sexuality". Off Our Backs. 12 (6): 22–23. JSTOR 25774474.
- ^ Allison, Dorothy (2013). Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature. Firebrand Books. ISBN 978-1-4804-2660-3.
- ^ E. J. Graff, "Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature", The Women's Review of Books, September 1, 1994. Copy available here [1] .
- ^ Carla Frecerro, "Notes of a Post-Sex Wars Theorizer", in Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller, eds., Conflicts in Feminism (Psychology Press, 1990), ISBN 978-0415901789, p. 311. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ^ Dawson, Leanne; Treut, Monika (2014-09-02). "Same, same but different: filmmakers are hikers on the globe and create globalisation from below". Studies in European Cinema. 11 (3): 155–169. doi:10.1080/17411548.2014.972710. ISSN 1741-1548. S2CID 191498162.
- ^ Monika Treut, "Female Misbehavior", in Laura Pietropaolo and Ada Testaferri, eds., Feminisms in the Cinema (Indiana University Press, 1995), ISBN 978-0253345004, pp. 113ff. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ^ Gerd Gemünden, "How American Is It? The United States as Queer Utopia in the Cinema of Monika Treut", in Scott D. Denham, Irene Kacandes, Jonathan Petropoulos, eds., A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (University of Michigan Press, 1997), ISBN 978-0472066568, pp.342ff. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ^ 🖉"Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients - The Leather Journal". www.theleatherjournal.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
- ^ "List of winners". NLA International. 2019-03-14. Archived from the original on 2020-01-03. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ^ "Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients - The Leather Journal". www.theleatherjournal.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
- ^ "Become a Member | Lesbian Sex Mafia". lesbiansexmafia.org. Retrieved 2018-10-03.