This is a list of educational, campaigning and community organizations related to

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. Where an organization clearly indicates on its

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that membership is restricted by

gender Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most cultures us ...

sexual orientation Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. These attractions are generally ...

, this is noted. Many BDSM organizations of the social/community variety will require prospective members to attend an ''orientation'' meeting, where among other things, the organizers will attempt to screen out the obviously

mentally ill A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitt ...

and those whose interest in BDSM is

professional A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and ski ...

(for example as

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s or law enforcement personnel) rather than personal.

Europe

Czech Republic

Other World Kingdom The Other World Kingdom (OWK) was a large, commercial BDSM and femdom facility, resort, and purported micronation, which opened in 1996 using the buildings and grounds of a 16th-century château located in the municipality of Černá in Žďár ...

Germany

* Böse Buben * Bundesvereinigung Sadomasochismus * SMJG

United Kingdom

Spanner Trust The Spanner Trust is a United Kingdom organisation set up to campaign for the right for adults to take part in consensual BDSM activities without fear of prosecution. It was set up after the Operation Spanner court case. As part of its campaign, ...

North America

United States

* Black Rose, Washington D.C. * Center for Sex Positive Culture (aka ''The Wet Spot''),

Seattle Seattle ( ) is a port, seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the county seat, seat of King County, Washington, King County, Washington (state), Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in bo ...

* Conversio Virium (CV),

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

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* The Eulenspiegel Society,

* Folsom Street Events,

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for "Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

Lesbian Sex Mafia The Lesbian Sex Mafia (LSM) is an information and support group for bisexual women and lesbians interested in sexual activities involving BDSM, fetishes, costumes, etc. Founded in 1981 by Jo Arnone and Dorothy Allison, it is located in New York Cit ...

, lesbians and bisexual women only,

* National Coalition for Sexual Freedom *

National Leather Association International National Leather Association International (NLA-I) is a BDSM organization, based in the United States with chapters in various cities in the United States and Canada. It was founded in 1986 as the "National Leather Association" (NLA), as a national ...

Samois Samois was a lesbian- feminist BDSM organization based in San Francisco that existed from 1978 to 1983. It was the first lesbian BDSM group in the United States. It took its name from Samois-sur-Seine, the location of the fictional estate of Ann ...

, lesbians only,

(historical) * Society of Janus,

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