Educational, campaigning, and community organizations related to BDSM. Where membership is restricted by gender or sexual orientation on the group’s own materials, that is noted. Many social clubs require an orientation meeting to teach rules and screen out obviously unsafe people or those whose interest is professional (journalists, law enforcement) rather than personal.
Europe
- Czech Republic — Other World Kingdom: private female-supremacy / femdom destination project.
- Denmark — SMil: national BDSM community education and social group.
- Germany — Böse Buben; Bundesvereinigung Sadomasochismus; SMJG: community and association structures for SM practitioners.
- Netherlands — SamariuM; VSSM: Dutch club and federation-level SM organizations.
- United Kingdom — Spanner Trust: advocacy after the Operation Spanner prosecutions; consensual SM legality and civil liberties.
North America (United States)
- Black Rose, Washington, D.C. — education and social BDSM organization.
- Center for Sex Positive Culture (The Wet Spot), Seattle — sex-positive center with kink programming.
- Conversio Virium (CV), Columbia University, New York City — campus-adjacent BDSM education group.
- The Eulenspiegel Society, New York City — long-running pansexual BDSM educational society.
- Folsom Street Events, San Francisco — Folsom Street Fair and related leather/kink public events.
- Lesbian Sex Mafia, New York City — lesbians and bisexual women only.
- National Coalition for Sexual Freedom — U.S. advocacy on BDSM and consensual adult sexual expression.
- National Leather Association International — leather/SM education and activism network.
- Samois, San Francisco (historical) — lesbian-only BDSM organization, late 1970s–1980s.
- Society of Janus, San Francisco — historic West Coast pansexual BDSM education group.
See also BDSM glossaries, topic maps, and lists of universities with BDSM clubs.
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