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  • Keynote 2013

    Our keynote speaker Dossie Easton Dossie Easton is a long time player on the San Francisco S/M scene and co-author with Janet Hardy of The Ethical Slut, The New Bottoming Book and The New Topping Book, and more! Read More

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    PRESS RELEASE: March 18, 2013 Dallas, TX - The Beyond Vanilla Committee proudly announces the return to the fabulous Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown Dallas again this year!!! Read More

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Keynote 2013: Dossie Easton

2012-12-10 09.13.20Dossie Easton, a long time player on the San Francisco S/M scene, is co-author with Janet Hardy of The Ethical Slut, The New Bottoming Book and The New Topping Book,  When Someone You Love Is Kinky, a book designed to give to outsiders to inform them about our lifestyle, and Radical Ecstasy:  SM Journeys to Transcendence.  The second edition of The Ethical Slut, released in April of 2009, is bigger and better and all round sluttier, and soon to be released as an audio book, narrated by the authors.

Dossie is a licensed psychotherapist working with individuals,  couples and more in her private practice, with a particular interest in how SM journeys into Shadow can bring old wounds into the healing light of consciousness and and give them a shot of life force in the form of good hot sex.

An active sex radical since 1961, Dossie was a member of the first Board of Directors of the Society of Janus in San Francisco in 1974.  In the eighties under the name of Hidebound Leatherware, she had a business crafting whips and restraints. Currently she makes her home in the mountains north of San Francisco, travels around to teach at conferences all over the world, and spends her nonexistent free time hiking the hills declaiming filthy poetry to the vultures and hosting outrageous pajama parties.  You can check out her website at www.dossieeaston.com.

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    Registration Information On behalf of the Beyond Vanilla Committee and the National Leather Association-Dallas, it is our pleasure to welcome you to Beyond Vanilla 23. We invite you to spend September 27-29, 2013 indulging in our hands-on workshops, discussion forums, vendors, play parties, silent auction, and the leather dinner with our keynote speaker, Dossie Easton. We could not produce Beyond Vanilla without the dedicated presenters, committee members and the numerous additional volunteers who make an… Read More

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    2013 Sponsorship Levels  From humble beginnings to world class education, Beyond Vanilla has grown each year with 2012 showing our biggest attendance increase to date.  We want to make Beyond Vanilla even bigger and better.  To do that, we need sponsorship partners.  We’d really like to partner with--well, you!  We love our mission to educate people new to Leather, BDSM and kink.  We take pride in presenting an event that makes new generations of Leather… Read More

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    Advertising rates We, the planning committee for Beyond Vanilla, think we’ve got an awesome event.  From our steadily increasing attendance numbers, to the number of presenters asking to give classes for us, we think there are some folks in the larger Leather and Kink communities who agree with us.  Would you like to get your information in front of them?  We can help you do that.  We’re going to have a great program book this… Read More

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    Keynote 2013: Dossie Easton Dossie Easton, a long time player on the San Francisco S/M scene, is co-author with Janet Hardy of The Ethical Slut, The New Bottoming Book and The New Topping Book,  When Someone You Love Is Kinky, a book designed to give to outsiders to inform them about our lifestyle, and Radical Ecstasy:  SM Journeys to Transcendence.  The second edition of The Ethical Slut, released in April of 2009, is bigger and… Read More
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