We're slipping into the holidays quickly. Don't you want to "get your kink on" before you have to go deal with turkeys?

Come to a Janus orientation and become a member.

Have you been wondering about SOJ? Wishing you could be paying JUST five dollars (Yes, $5) for our absolutely fabulous classes? Our next orientation is coming up! Join us Sunday November 6th from 4-6pm.

Please RSVP, if possible, to orientation (at) soj.org.

The presenter at the Janus Folsom booth this year

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
8:00 PM to 10:00 PM (Doors open at 7:30 pm)
SF Citadel
1277 Mission Street, San Francisco

$5 Janus members and reciprocal organizations, $15 all others

Please note: you do not need to be a member to attend. Janus programs are open to all attendees 18 years of age and older who have a personal, positive interest in BDSM.

Alas--Wicked Grounds just closed. And here we are, all ready for the October Newbie Only Coffee Social, all dressed up and nowhere to go. So, with this last minute change of plans, we're going to have to find someplace else to get together.

We're going to meet on Monday evening at Harvest Urban Market. It's at 191 8th Street in San Francisco. That's only a block up 8th from Wicked Grounds, on the corner of 8th and Howard, same side of the street as WG.

“Wow. Would you look at what I started?” About one in the afternoon those words came out of the mouth of Mistress Muffie who, as a Janus officer in the 1990s, managed to persuade a recalcitrant officer group that doing some floggings and spankings for charity at the Janus booth would be a good thing. The first year some floggings were simply done in front of the 10x10 space Janus rented. The following year, we had two spaces (one Outreach/Member space, one spanking space) and collected a couple of hundred dollars for charity. Over the years we kept adding spaces and collecting more money.

Last year 2010 Folsom Street Events decided to give us our own space off of Folsom Street; mostly because we were blocking traffic so badly folks could not move at 11th and Folsom, our longtime spot.

That’s history. Here’s the present:

On Sunday September 25th, 2011, a crew of about ten Janus folks arrived as early at 7am to start setting up the booth. It was raining. The enthusiastic and slightly damp crew setup 12 play stations, an Outreach booth, a Member booth, and a new area for long whip cracking.