Femdom Church; 1980s

Does any else remember the “Service of Mankind” church at 367 12th Street in San Francisco? It opened around 1980. It was legally set up as Church. It advertised in B/D magazines. They conducted Femdom type rituals and theology.
Has anyone ever been there? The church was in a basement of a narrow Victorian House.

I’m not aware of anyone since who has tried setting up a Femdom Church.

No. Way. That sounds amazing and very SF. I was close to SF in the 80s but was too young to experience it. What do you know? I would love to hear more about it.

We spoke of stables, but I have a secret fantasy about starting my own cult. Please tell me more if you know anything.

It absolutely existed and I remember it well. It apparently still does in some form even if it is only virtual.
See http://www.darkside-goddess.org/

It eventually had a quirky name “Essemian”…a play on “S&M” I assume attached to it. It appeared fairly regularly in the fetish print media of the day in one form or another. That era, pre-internet, saw a lot more “not just a party per se but group types of things” going on. The Till Eulenspiegal Society in NY was an example and there were others.
As an east coaster I was more personally familiar with the Eulenspiegal society and those in that region. I only met one person who claimed to have visited it in California and he said it was a bit “weird”. I asked what he meant and he said “a bit weird like you would expect in San Francisco and a bit normal weird”.
I feel the AIDs epidemic, post 60/70s fatigue, and eventually the internet killed many, maybe even all, of these off.

Eeeeeeeeee! This is so cool. You guys are making my week. I miss SF being the beacon of weird, smart, and cool. I didn't really get to go there much until I was 18+ in the 90s, so I missed this. Can we kick out a nest of Tech Bros and bring this back?

Sort of like NYC, turning into an outdoor shopping mall.

I don't know about the laws in France, but in the U.S. setting up your own church can be financially lucrative and get you all sorts of special privileges.

i can't think of sf as weird smart or cool these days. butatlanta is pretty smart and cool in a southern gothic way. it's also home to more mega churches than anywhere else in the world. maybe MUV could be convinced to turn the Atlanta Dungeon into a mega church. it wouldn't really be that much of a stretch from what it is now. churching the place up would add the benefit of tax exempt status. the thought of a southern gothic femdom church is kind of exciting. i keep picturing Mistress Ultra Violet preaching in front of a giant stained glass window of Little Richard

thank you for posting that link. i really dig how they have kept the old geocities look on it. takes me back to that time period. geocities was one of the first places that i found kink in the 80/90s.

The is wickedly synchronistic.

Several years ago I discussed, in part on Twitter, my desire to start a BDSM church. Several said they'd join. Great, I thought. I need to do this.

It's an undertaking, so it's been postponed several times.

Well, within the past week I received an email from the Universal Life Church congratulating me on like 7 years of being an ordained minister (another thing I forget about) and that reminded me that I need to start this damn kink church.

Maybe once the dust settles after my move I'll start the process.

Ha ha. That is SO cool! :-)

I hold service by appointment in my church, Temenos! lol