We are a queer-centered educational and community building space for sex-positive adult education, including relationships, dating, BDSM, kinky, polyamory and more. Posts mostly written by Mir (that dude in the chair) on behalf of the Wicked Grounds team. Welcome aboard!
This Week with Wicked Grounds (1/9 - 1/18)
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Howdy kinksters - I hope that this week is finding you as much as possible in your full power: resilient, fierce, and fully here for yourself and those you love. I have a firmly held life-long belief that being true to our creative and erotic selves brings power and presence to everything we do, and I’m committed to keep showing up for the ways that Wicked Grounds and I can help in your own erotic and creative journeys. We have a large and growing calendar of events. I’ll get out a new full roster of classes in the next few days, but let’s start by taking a look at the week ahead. This Week!Friday, Jan 9Online: Our Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters continues, and is our only live programming today. Late registration will be available all month. Saturday, Jan 10Online: Curious about the old leather guard and its impact on how we connect with Leather, kink, and BDSM today? You should hear all about it from one of the original OG: Hardy Haberman. Join Hardy online tonight for Old Guard Protocols and Why You Don’t Need Them. We’ll hear about the history of the D/s subculture and demystify some ideas about The One True Way of kink. Whether or not you identify as Leather, you’re certain to get some great new perspectives in a warm and engaging session. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura and you can attend live (recommended!) or through the recording within one week. Online: Open wide! Mel & Memi are back with a class on Vaginal Fisting! You don’t want to miss this. Get your advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, Jan 11Online: Interested in integrating punishments into your BDSM dynamics? Join Sarah Butcher online today for Discipline and Punishment! You’ll need advanced tickets to attend live or through the recording, so get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Online: Join the amazing vahavta online this afternoon for Make Me a Masochist: Changing Your Relationship With Pain. All the ins and outs of basic pain management and mindset shift from a truly excellent bottoms-skills educator. Join us online – and this one is live only, so mark your calendars! Ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, Jan 12Online: Think rope always needs to be quiet, artful, meditative? Think again! Join professional pervert Jamie Joy online tonight to learn all about Twisted Ties: Sadistic Rope Play. Advanced ticketing required whether you plan to attend live or catch up later with the recording. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, Jan 13Online: The best way to improve your play is to improve your planning and communication. Negotiation and consent are skills we can learn, and they’re just as important as how to tie bondage knots or throw a flogger. Join Miriam Green online tonight for BDSM Negotiation Basics to learn best practices for awesome scenes. Advanced ticketing will allow you to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, Jan 14Online: A tarot class from an excellent kink educator? Yes, please! Join Lee Harrington online tonight as he shares his other love with you in Choosing and Connecting with Tarot and Oracle Decks. Find a great new deck for the new year! Advanced ticketing allows you to attend live or at your convenience all week. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday, Jan 15Online: Nonmonogamy has several different styles, and they’re not one size fits all. Perhaps you’ve heard of relationship anarchy but don’t know that much about it. Perhaps someone you’re flirting with or friends with practices relationship anarchy and you’d like to understand more. Let’s sort it all out tonight in WTF is Relationship Anarchy? with Laura Boyle of Ready For Polyamory. What’s not anarchic? Ticketing! Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura and you can watch live or anytime in the next week through the recording. Friday, Jan 16Online: Our Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters continues, and is our only live programming today. Late registration will be available all month. Saturday, Jan 17Online: Looking for some new protocols for D/s? Maybe it’s time for some new year/ new you? Join us today to explore Ass to Grass: Fitness as a Tool of Domination with MF Dom. You can watch live or through the recording all week with your advanced tickets. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Online: There are a lot of ways to explore energetic polarity, but sometimes we need to get beyond conventional models. Join us online today for Busting the Binary In Your Energy Play with Keiden Bren to explore other modes! Advanced ticketing required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, Jan 18Online: Join UK kink educator Sarah Butcher online today to explore Rules and Rituals for Power Play. Advanced ticketing required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Online: Want to go really deep into understanding your own and others’ motivations and styles in kink? Join Sir Scott online today for the first in a two-part series The Archetypes of Power & Surrender. We’ll meet both this afternoon and again on Thursday, Jan 29th, and both sessions will be recorded if you can’t attend live. Get your advanced tickets before the first session through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Intensives!We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and online.
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Wicked Musings
We are a queer-centered educational and community building space for sex-positive adult education, including relationships, dating, BDSM, kinky, polyamory and more. Posts mostly written by Mir (that dude in the chair) on behalf of the Wicked Grounds team. Welcome aboard!
Howdy kinksters - It's always back to school season at Wicked Grounds! Whether you're brand new or want to deepen your kinky skills, we've got you covered. This week's class lineup has a big focus on various aspects of power-exchange and D/s, and we also have a lot of gear and skills based classes for you. If you're in the Los Angeles area, check out our newcomer's orientation and impact play lab tomorrow in DTLA! And if you've been meaning to join our sex magick intensive Pentacles of Power,...
Hello kinksters - Given the upcoming last big holiday weekend of the summer, you're getting this week's newsletter slightly early! There are a few things we're excited about this week. First is the launch of Rebecca Blanton's new book Kinky & Complicated: Navigating BDSM with Mental Illness or Neurodivergence coming up on September 8th. Rebecca (aka Auntie Vice) has taught for us for several years, including some excellent classes about BDSM and mental health based on her years of research....
Howdy kinksters - September, Quarterly, and Annual event passes are now available! Sept 2026 Quarterly 202609 to 202611 Annual 202609 to 202708 It’s like binge watching, but for kink! Quarterly event passes also include the option to add discounted coaching with Miriam Green and annual event passes also include the ability to add our Diving Deep intensive at a significant discount. Thank you for your continued support! Warmly Mir