Lots of polyamorous or non-monogamous folks want to have less-involved relationships, but they lack an instruction manual! Our culture fails to give us tools for arrangements other than high-involvement relationships. People discover the hard way that they are horrible at hookups and they suck at being secondaries. Come learn from Pepper how to handle and flourish lightweight relationship arrangements. He will talk about good mental models for non-monogamy, negotiating in the tricky gray areas, gender issues, and maintaining connections over the long term.

Class from 8-10pm, doors open at 7:30pm
Cost: $20 at the door, or $15 in advance

Pepper is an educator, event organizer, and social theorist int he polyamory and BDSM communities. He has held numerous workshops on polyamory and kink subjects in the Bay Area, and has been instrumental in putting on events like Poly Speed Dating, the Threshold play party, and the OpenSF non-monogamy conference (www.open-sf.org). Pepper has been non-monogamous for most of his dating life and has been into S/M for the last decade - he brings a pragmatic and skills-oriented approach to his workshops.