Latest presentation a sucess
My BDSM history presentation at the Art of Loving last night went surprisingly well. A friend came through with the LCD projector, which always makes it better. I've done it with only my laptop screen before, but it doesn't work with more than a few people.

Even though only two people registered in advance, six people attended. Why, oh why do people not register in advance for something when every newspaper announcement, blog post and other piece of promotion I made say that registration is necessary? If there isn't at least two people registered at the venue, it won't go ahead.

I try to add new material every time I do it, and this time I added a lot more modern material: the founding of early hetero organizations in the early 1970s, professional artisans and publishers around the same time, the pansexual movement beginning with the NLA in 1987. A lot of this was based on my interview with Jack McGeorge.

I wonder how close I am to having enough material for a book? I don't know. In theory I could research this forever, adding new material, but accumulation of data is not the same as writing. To do the book justice, I think I'd have to travel, to the Leather Archives in Chicago and probably the Kinsey Institute archive in Indiana, and do some really solid research. Also hopefully track down people who were involved in the early days of the hetero Scene and interview them.