Why Was That Night Different from All Other Nights? KinkyJews Chocolate Passover Seder
Cherries dipped in chocolate syrup
The Ten Implements of Torture
Erotic Maggid Storytelling
Kinky Show and Tell
This is not your bubbes Pesach Seder!
On the fourth night of Passover about 30 Jewish kinksters gathered at an erotic gallery and play-space in Manhattans trendy Chelsea District to hold the first ever KinkyJews Chocolate Seder. Of all the events KinkyJews NYC have held since the beginning of the year, this was by far our most successful, original and exciting event.
Attendees dressed up for the occasion, brought along a indulgent kosher for Passover treats and sat around an old church boardroom table at the posh KFMK Gallery for a festive celebration of our kinkiness and our Jewish heritage.
A special Haggadah was prepared for the event. Weaving elements of S&M, chocolate and Judaica together, the evening was truly a unique experience.
After we went around the table introducing ourselves, we turned to two of our specially invited guests, Laura Antoniou and Karen Taylor, the authors of the Avadim Chayanu Haggadah: (Once We Were Slaves - A Seder for the Leather Community) a previous guide to conducting a kinky Seder; Laura and Karen told about their efforts to combine faith and fetish in times gone by (way, way back in 2002). Another participant who had used their Haggadah a couple of years ago told of his previous kinky Seder too.
We talked about personal chameitz and abandoning traditional power dynamic relationship dynamics over the holiday and putting away or symbolically selling possessions that represent any power exchange relationships we might be in for the duration of the holiday.
We asked participants to tell the group about a possession that best represents them as a kinkster or their power exchange relationships. There were some very moving stories told and items shown. One person brought a Penthouse magazine from the 1970s in which he saw pictures and read stories of S&M for the first time. He showed us the pictures and read us the passages that made him realized what excited him most. Another person had a very similar story and showed us the entire collection of erotica from an erotica publisher. When he was a young yeshiva boy in Brooklyn a friend showed him one of these books and while his friends dwelled on the sexually explicit sections, he was turned on by the sections that described sadomasochism. Another person showed us the scar on her ear where she was nailed to a door post one Shabbat eve to symbolize her desire to remain a slave, just as in the rules for slavery from the bible. Some of the toys on display included suspension leg restraints, a UV glow in the dark flogger, a double insertion glass dildo, rope and a penis shaped gag.
While we were in the spirit of chameitz, we then played with the wooden spoon and feather from a few chameitz kits (some fun slap and tickle). Although it was already Passover, we symbolically conducted a search for mock chameitz, in this case 10 hidden packages of kosher for Passover M&M-like candies. A prize of a CD went to the person who found the most packages of these candies.
We sang light-hearted songs like Our Passover Things sung to the tune of My Favorite Things from the Sound of Music, The Ballad of the Four Children sung to the tune of My Darling Clementine Pharaoh Doesnt Pay sung to the tune of Ive Been Working on the Railroad, The Frog Song and Let My People Go. More Traditional songs and parts of the Seder were sung as well such as the Four Question (Ma Nishtanah), Dayenu, Who Knows One and Chad Gadya (One Little Goat). During Dayenu, we followed the Sephardic tradition of everyone getting up and whipping the other guests with scallions at the chorus of the song.
Chocolate was even more prolific in our Seder than the number four. The traditional Seder plate items were replaced with chocolate items like a chocolate log for the drumstick, a chocolate filled plastic egg for the egg, bitter chocolate in place of bitter herbs, cherries instead of the green leafy vegetable (Karpas) and a chocolate, nut, dried fruit and Passover granola mixture for the charoset. Four glasses of chocolate milk were drunk and chocolate covered matzah instead of plain matzah.
The Haggadah was peppered with Passover jokes like: Q: What do you call someone who derives pleasure from the bread of affliction? A: A Matzochist. For the two hand washings, each person washed someone elses hands and had their hands washed by someone else to again symbolically free ourselves from our traditional power dynamic roles. We read excerpts of racy erotica that included Passover references, at the reading of the 10 plagues, we also did a demonstration of 10 implements of torture (4 smacks with each on our volunteer), and we ate a dessert filled meal, and afterwards searched for the afikomen.
After we concluded the Seder we moved into the play den area of the club and talked and engaged in a bit of play to round out the evening.
Here is a sample of the feedback we received after the event.
Wow, what a Seder. And 'twas the only one I went to this year. Thanks!
-A1
Wow, what a sweet Seder! I found the afikomen. Then I win a book on Jewish Lesbian erotica!!!
KinkyJews rock!
-A2
Thanks again for the lovely Seder.
-L
What a wonderful event yesterday! Much thanks
-B
What an AMAZING job you did for the chocolate Seder!!!!!!!!!! I'm always impressed by the events. B had a great time too and if we're hanging out, he'll come to more events with me. We hung out with T and M. I was with them until 2:30 AM. We spent most of our time in a hookah bar where I gave a belly dancing class to most of the women (and some of the men) in the joint. It was a great party too! I'm glad that I avoided studying that night.
-U
KinkyJews NYCs next event is scheduled for Sunday May 14th at 5:30 PM. We will be having a KinkyJews movie screening and a demo of play equipment and PLAY TIME. So save the date and stay tuned for details.
Cherries dipped in chocolate syrup
The Ten Implements of Torture
Erotic Maggid Storytelling
Kinky Show and Tell
This is not your bubbes Pesach Seder!
On the fourth night of Passover about 30 Jewish kinksters gathered at an erotic gallery and play-space in Manhattans trendy Chelsea District to hold the first ever KinkyJews Chocolate Seder. Of all the events KinkyJews NYC have held since the beginning of the year, this was by far our most successful, original and exciting event.
Attendees dressed up for the occasion, brought along a indulgent kosher for Passover treats and sat around an old church boardroom table at the posh KFMK Gallery for a festive celebration of our kinkiness and our Jewish heritage.
A special Haggadah was prepared for the event. Weaving elements of S&M, chocolate and Judaica together, the evening was truly a unique experience.
After we went around the table introducing ourselves, we turned to two of our specially invited guests, Laura Antoniou and Karen Taylor, the authors of the Avadim Chayanu Haggadah: (Once We Were Slaves - A Seder for the Leather Community) a previous guide to conducting a kinky Seder; Laura and Karen told about their efforts to combine faith and fetish in times gone by (way, way back in 2002). Another participant who had used their Haggadah a couple of years ago told of his previous kinky Seder too.
We talked about personal chameitz and abandoning traditional power dynamic relationship dynamics over the holiday and putting away or symbolically selling possessions that represent any power exchange relationships we might be in for the duration of the holiday.
We asked participants to tell the group about a possession that best represents them as a kinkster or their power exchange relationships. There were some very moving stories told and items shown. One person brought a Penthouse magazine from the 1970s in which he saw pictures and read stories of S&M for the first time. He showed us the pictures and read us the passages that made him realized what excited him most. Another person had a very similar story and showed us the entire collection of erotica from an erotica publisher. When he was a young yeshiva boy in Brooklyn a friend showed him one of these books and while his friends dwelled on the sexually explicit sections, he was turned on by the sections that described sadomasochism. Another person showed us the scar on her ear where she was nailed to a door post one Shabbat eve to symbolize her desire to remain a slave, just as in the rules for slavery from the bible. Some of the toys on display included suspension leg restraints, a UV glow in the dark flogger, a double insertion glass dildo, rope and a penis shaped gag.
While we were in the spirit of chameitz, we then played with the wooden spoon and feather from a few chameitz kits (some fun slap and tickle). Although it was already Passover, we symbolically conducted a search for mock chameitz, in this case 10 hidden packages of kosher for Passover M&M-like candies. A prize of a CD went to the person who found the most packages of these candies.
We sang light-hearted songs like Our Passover Things sung to the tune of My Favorite Things from the Sound of Music, The Ballad of the Four Children sung to the tune of My Darling Clementine Pharaoh Doesnt Pay sung to the tune of Ive Been Working on the Railroad, The Frog Song and Let My People Go. More Traditional songs and parts of the Seder were sung as well such as the Four Question (Ma Nishtanah), Dayenu, Who Knows One and Chad Gadya (One Little Goat). During Dayenu, we followed the Sephardic tradition of everyone getting up and whipping the other guests with scallions at the chorus of the song.
Chocolate was even more prolific in our Seder than the number four. The traditional Seder plate items were replaced with chocolate items like a chocolate log for the drumstick, a chocolate filled plastic egg for the egg, bitter chocolate in place of bitter herbs, cherries instead of the green leafy vegetable (Karpas) and a chocolate, nut, dried fruit and Passover granola mixture for the charoset. Four glasses of chocolate milk were drunk and chocolate covered matzah instead of plain matzah.
The Haggadah was peppered with Passover jokes like: Q: What do you call someone who derives pleasure from the bread of affliction? A: A Matzochist. For the two hand washings, each person washed someone elses hands and had their hands washed by someone else to again symbolically free ourselves from our traditional power dynamic roles. We read excerpts of racy erotica that included Passover references, at the reading of the 10 plagues, we also did a demonstration of 10 implements of torture (4 smacks with each on our volunteer), and we ate a dessert filled meal, and afterwards searched for the afikomen.
After we concluded the Seder we moved into the play den area of the club and talked and engaged in a bit of play to round out the evening.
Here is a sample of the feedback we received after the event.
Wow, what a Seder. And 'twas the only one I went to this year. Thanks!
-A1
Wow, what a sweet Seder! I found the afikomen. Then I win a book on Jewish Lesbian erotica!!!
KinkyJews rock!
-A2
Thanks again for the lovely Seder.
-L
What a wonderful event yesterday! Much thanks
-B
What an AMAZING job you did for the chocolate Seder!!!!!!!!!! I'm always impressed by the events. B had a great time too and if we're hanging out, he'll come to more events with me. We hung out with T and M. I was with them until 2:30 AM. We spent most of our time in a hookah bar where I gave a belly dancing class to most of the women (and some of the men) in the joint. It was a great party too! I'm glad that I avoided studying that night.
-U
KinkyJews NYCs next event is scheduled for Sunday May 14th at 5:30 PM. We will be having a KinkyJews movie screening and a demo of play equipment and PLAY TIME. So save the date and stay tuned for details.