Thursday, September 9, 2010

MISSION CONTROL

Your favorite place to get friendly

Love

People, Places, and Things We Love

Annie Sprinkle – an artist, sexologist, ecosexual, author, lecturer, educator and thespian. A former sex worker of all sorts, a pioneering adult film director/performer and a professional photographer. The first porn star to have earned a Ph.D.
Carol Queen – A writer, speaker, educator and activist with a doctorate in sexology.
FetLife – free social network for the BDSM and fetish community
Madame Butterfly – Madame Butterfly is a Shibari expert and she makes beautiful hand-made ropes from silk and bamboo. Available in custom colors, sizes, and diameters.
Marc Taro – Sketches, drawings, and digitial art
Nancy Peach – Artist Nancy Peach’s style has been described as pop art with the graphic styles of the 60′s, her bold lines work and luscious, vivid colors being produced on oversized canvases. Her subject matter is erotic, human, and powerful.
Openly.us – Social network for friends of Mission Control, Kinky Salon, Pink, and others. Openly is the best way to stay in contact with friends you meet at Mission Control or other Nor Cal events.
Planet Midori – An educator and columnist on adventurous sexuality, she’s also the author of "The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage", "Master Han’s Daughter" and "Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink". Midori travels the world presenting to universities, education events, organizations and media.  She’s known for her humanistic, humorous and warm classes that help people to spice up their sex lives and encourage self discovery and personal growth.
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – Founded in 1979, the mission of the Sisters — to promulgate universal joy, expiate stigmatic guilt and serve the community — spread far and wide. Houses can be found across the United States and in several countries around the world.
Stefanos and Chey – Stefanos & Chey, Purveyors of Perversion, are the controlling minds behind the devilishly deviant live fetish and BDSM events & shows sweeping across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Susie Bright - A writer, speaker, and educator covering a broad range of sexual topics.  She is also involved in the visual arts including t.v., movies, and theater.
Suzanne Forbes Portraitist – Portaiture and Illustration artist focusing on traditional portrature with a fetish flavor.
Ted Naifeh – Graphic novel illustrator and "Shatner" frontman for music group "The Frontiersmen".
Two Knotty Boys – Reknown, dynamic duo of rope bondage instruction, rigging, and performance.
The Wet Spots – Internationally acclaimed cabaret duo The Wet Spots  write the most elegant songs about sex that you will ever hear.
Violet Blue – Violet Blue is a Forbes "Web Celeb", Associate Editor at Laughing Squid, a high-profile tech personality and one of Wired’s "Faces of Innovation." She is regarded as the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology, a sex-positive pundit in mainstream media
Bondage-a-Go-Go – Voted best theme club by SF Weekly readers for the past FIVE consecutive years, Bondage-A-Go-Go is a San Francisco institution and the City’s longest running fetish dance party.
Center for Sex and Culture – The Mission of the Center for Sex & Culture is to provide judgment-free education, cultural events, a library/media archive, and other resources to audiences across the sexual and gender spectrum; and to research and disseminate factual information, framing and informing issues of public policy and public health.
Dark Garden Corsetry – Dark Garden creates beautiful Ready-to-Wear and Made-to-Order corsets (available in 11 sizes!), and Custom corsets and clothing in any size, for women and men.
Edges – One of the largest national pansexual playspaces for adults interested in the safe, sane, consensual, non-exploitative erotic exchange of power between consenting adult partners.
Femina Potens Art Gallery – Femina Potens, which means “powerful woman” in Latin, is a community-building multidisciplinary arts space at Sanchez and Market Streets.
Good Vibrations – Making the world a sexier place
Kinky Salon London – Kinky Salon has hopped the pond!
Mr. S / Madame S Leather – High quality sex toys, latex, leather, and kink products

SF Citadel - The premier BDSM and kink play space in San Francisco.
Wicked Grounds Café – San Francisco’s first and only kink café and boutiqué
Asking For What You Want -Workshops focused on creating sustainable open relationships. Mission Control’s own Marcia B. consults, coaches, and guides participants to get what they want in the bedroom, relationships, and life.
Bawdy Storytelling -Dixie De La Tour created Bawdy Storytelling 3 years ago. Bawdy is now *the* spot to get dirty from a distance, to listen to juicy tales by those with poor impulse control…and to live vicariously through the stories onstage. There is no safer sex!
Beauty Engine – The hyper-networked community leaders Scott & Polly.  As a team they have been producing events and bringing people together for nearly 10 years.  The founders of Kinky Salon and Mission Control.
Carnal Nation – Personal, political, perverted news and information. Updated daily with tons of content for the kinky-minded
Cuddle Party – Cuddle Party is a playful social event designed for adults to explore communication, boundaries and affection. The brainchild of two relationship coaches, Cuddle Party was conceived in Feburary 2004.
Kink.com – Kink.com seeks to demystify and celebrate alternative sexualities by providing the most ethical and authentic kinky adult entertainment. Building the largest community for sexual exploration and fantasy fulfillment through innovative content, products, events and technology.
San Francisco Sex Information – San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI) trains people to become sex educators and operates a free information and referral switchboard.
SanFranSexy A monthly ‘zine bringing a bulging package of sex-positive culture. Featuring juicy bits of news, events, resources, and advice to keep you in the know. Brought to you by Kinky Salon.
SF Boylesque – One of San Francisco’s premier burlesque troop, features a nearly all-male cast. Mixing fast-paced sexy theater with strong art direction, they conjure-up a reality in which the unexpected is carefully crafted and every interaction is an invitation to participate.
Snarky McF*ckButtons – Irreverent buttons for any occasion
Sexploration With Monika – is a sex-positive feminist radio talk show about sex, love, and everything in between… every Friday night from 8-10pm on FCC Free Radio 107.3 FM. Podcasts and Youtube videos also available.
Tending The Flame – Rope bondage is a dance — one person leads, the other follows, one person commands, the other surrenders. Rope is a means to focus attention, generate trust and create the conditions for surrender. Tending the Flame holds workshops, events and coaching for couples and individuals who want to gain confidence, heat things up and have fun along the way.
Thrillpeddlers – Thrillpeddlers have been performing authentic Grand Guignol horror plays, fetish vignettes, and lights-out spookshows in San Francisco for more than 15 years.
Tied out West – Shibari Japanese rope bondage classes, demos, and events
Von Guttenburg Fettish Ball – Latex and fetish wear, magazine, parties, and clothing


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