In The Wake of DOSC09, I’m torn.

I’ve used Livejournal since 2001. I have many posts there. What I like about these posts is the ability to keep them locked so only certain viewers can see them.

Most of my adventures at DOSC09 have been chronicled there.

I want to be able to put out snippets for public consumption, but I am a bit gun-shy about putting my sex life out there for just ANYONE to see.  Living in the DC Metro area, the memories of The Washingtonienne blog sex scandal are still fresh in my mind as a warning. Especially since I’m not nearly as slim and hot as Jessica Cutler. I mean, face it, with my bottom heavy natural boobed goddess shape I’ll never be getting offers from Playboy. But that’s another rant for another time.

Now, if I thought for a second that this little blog would make it so I wouldn’t have to worry about bills anymore, I might not have such reservations. Alas, I am a realist.

Of course, I’ve been gonzo with the sex chatter on Twitter since returning. But, for me, that’s a bit different. 99% of the time that’s me trying to be funny in 140 characters.

Yet, it’s crazy to have a site dedicated to promoting my abilities as a sex educator and not talk about sex in the adjacent blog. No?

What are your thoughts, my fellow sex blogger and sex educator friends?

Dark Odyssey Summer Camp is perhaps the most amazing event I’ve ever gone to or had the privilege of teaching at. I love all the Dark Odyssey produced events, but the summer camp is special for a number of reasons. Not the least of which is its isolation from the outside world.

See, at a hotel event there are certain expectations that the guests won’t do anything “kinky” in areas that the public might accidentally see. There are no such areas at summer camp.

This years camp was very special for me. For the first time ever, I got out of my own way. What I mean by this is that, for the most part, I was able to put aside my fears and just exist in the moment. Rather than be disappointed that I missed something or someone, I took advantage of opportunities as they appeared for me. I made a choice of having what I wanted rather than caring about what it looked like.

At the closing of the event, during a grounding circle that I run to help make transition back to the outside world easier, a friend of mine said that he thought DOSC must be what heaven is like.

I thought about it a moment.

No judgment.
No artificial constraints on behavior that harms none.
Freedom to be however you want to be rather than how the world expects you to be because of what chromosome you were born with.
The freedom to express desires that the outside world calls “evil.”
The freedom to experience pleasure as loudly as you want.
The freedom to shed the identity trappings of “normal” society to just be yourself.

Yes, I think my friend was right.

Dark Odyssey Summer Camp is heaven on earth

A couple of weeks ago Harvey J. “Jack” McGeorge II passed away. I started writing this right after his funeral. In typical Margo Eve Style, when I write something this deep, I rarely finish it. So, even thought I don’t think this is great, I’m going to post it anyway.

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I would hope that my first post here would be more up-beat, but the moment calls for something more somber. I spent Sunday evening at the funeral service of Jack McGeorge. So many turned out for this service that the entire funeral home was dedicated to seating those who celebrated his life and mourned his passing.

This is a significant loss to 2 very distinct and vastly different communities.

First, the US Intelligence community. We owe a lot of our safety in the US to Jack McGeorge. Listening to his colleagues eulogize him I was struck at how much he sounded like a character out of a Tom Clancy novel… times a thousand. He was the go-to-guy on chemical and biological weapons. He’s been all over the world. He’s been in the Marines, The Special Forces, and the Secret Service. He’s been recognized by Princes, Presidents, and Popes (well, at least one). More over, he taught what he knew to others in the mission of preserving the safety of the USA.

The other community is the BDSM community. The list of his accomplishments in this community are almost as long as his acomplishments in the Intelligence community. He helped found Black Rose in DC. He served as the Chair for the Board of Directors for CARAS. He set the bar for being an educator in the kink community and has be recognized many times over for this. There are very few presenters in the scene now who have not been inspired or influenced somehow by Jack McGeorge.

You may remember back before the second Iraq war started there were weapons inspections. You may also remember that Jack was one of them and that his involvement in the BDSM scene came up as a ruse to discredit the entire search effort. Jack turned this controversy into a lesson for others, in case they ever found themselves in a similar situation. He found the teachable moment even in one of his worst professional moments.

Truly, Jack McGeorge had a teacher’s soul.

You can read more about him, and those who mourn him, at the following links:
Public Safety Group Bio Page
Lolita’s Obituary at LeatherYenta.com (NSFW ads)
Boymeat: My post about Jack
Dr. Cruel: Peace, for Jack and Me
In Memory of Jack
The Enthusiast: Death of the Week