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 (10/15 - 10/26)
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Howdy kinksters - Happy spooky season, and for those of you in California it might be happy Dark Odyssey: Surrender time! This annual Bay Area conference brings together over one thousand kinksters and educators from all over the Bay Area and beyond. We'll be offering several classes and events there, which you'll find in this week's roundup below. Day passes have just become available, so if you see something of ours you'd really like to attend, sign up for that day or the weekend! (These events are not open to the general public.) We also have a lot of great programming for you kinksters all over the place and online. And don't forget: our annual Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic and Kink Desires six-week intensive launches at the start of November. Now is the time to mark your calendars and reserve your spot! Now, let's look at all the cool things going on this week: This Week!Thursday, October 15Online: Join us online tonight for Ethical Self Harm with The Lady V. This class aims to instead redirect real physical self harm into using our tools of BDSM for temporary playful pain. Join former "cutter" turned self sadomasochist, Lady V, in redirecting that negative energy into something cathartic, fun, & potentially healing. Join us live or through the recording with your advance tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, October 16No live programming today, but check out all of our digital downloads and other resources at WickedGroundsAnnex.Teacahble.com. Saturday, October 17Online: Whether you're new to kink or fairly experienced, you're going to see some things as you navigate the kink world that are off-putting, not your style, or perhaps even disturbing. How do you make the distinction between what's not your thing and what to actually worry about? Join Sir Panda online with us today to explore it all in Your Kink Is Not My Kink - But Is Your Kink OK?. Attend live online or through the recording within seven days with your advance tickets from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Online: If you're a kinkster and also interested in astrology, we have a couple of very interesting classes on kink archetypes for you today and tomorrow. This afternoon, join Lila Hades of The Unconventional Plutonian online for Astrokink 101: Discovering Your Erotic Archetypes. This isn't a one-size-fits-all archetype class, but one that fits you in several aspects of your life. Attend live or by recording with your advance tickets from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Sunday, October 18Online: Join us online today for a second class with Lila Hades of The Unconventional Plutonian as we explore Astrokink 201: Mapping Your Erotic Ecosystem. This class invites you to explore your birth chart as an interconnected erotic ecosystem. We will examine how your planetary placements, houses, and aspects interact to create layers of desire, conflict, curiosity, power, and possibility. Attend live or through the recording with your advance tickets from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Online: The irony of orgasm: the more you delay and deny it, the harder it can get. Join us online today to explore all the arts of tease and denial with Jamie Joy in Pleasure on the Edge: Tease, Denial, & Orgasm Control. Attend the class live online or through the recording within seven days with your advance tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, October 19Online: Join us online tonight for Grief and Kink with pangressive. We'll examine the many ways that grief and loss (including breakups and other losses transitions) can impact our relationships and kinks. Join us live online or through the recording within seven days with your advance tickets from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Tuesday, October 20Online: Creating a personal risk profile is one of the best ways to be prepared for BDSM & kink negotiations. Taking some time to think about risks and boundaries in advance actually allows you to have better negotiations in the moment. But what is a risk profile and how do you create one? Join us online tonight as Mel & Memi lead a three-hour online workshop Are You Sure You Want To Do That? Risk Profile: An Introduction! Attend live with us online or watch the recording within seven days as long as you have advance tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, October 21Online: Want to suck someone's fluids, or perhaps take energy exchange to a different new level? Join The Lady V online tonight for an introduction to Energetic & Fluid Vampirism. Advance tickets will allow you to attend the class live with all your questions, or sip on its goodness all week through the class recording. Get your advance tickets from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Thursday, October 22Online: Want to start exploring anal in your play? Let's find all the ways to incorporate pleasure from a variety of positions with Lilithfoxx. You may attend Backdoor Basics: A Guide to Anal Play live online or within seven days through the recording with your advance tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, October 23San Jose, CA: Join us live this weekend at the Dark Odyssey: Surrender conference in San Jose, CA! At 4:30 pm, join Miriam Green for their brand new class Ecstasy for Asexuals. We've conducted extensive research on how to get the most of of non-sexual BDSM play, whether you're on the ace spectrum, want to play with ace partners, or you just don't want to include sex in this particular scene or scenes. This workshop is currently scheduled for 4:30 pm, but the DO schedule is always subject to change, so double-check your schedule and conference updates! Saturday, October 24San Jose, CA: Join us live this weekend at the Dark Odyssey: Surrender conference in San Jose, CA! At 8:30am this morning, join Miriam Green for our daily Morning Meditation. The time is unlikely to change, but double-check your schedule for the location. More information here. At 4:30pm, join us for a special edition of SpankLab! on the road at Dark Odyssey hosted by founding hosts impossiblepain and Miriam Green. You'll have a great experience learning impact play by observing and trying techniques. We also intentionally bring this workshop to Surrender so that folks can take this open-source model for labs back to their home communities! Sunday, October 25San Jose, CA: Join us live this weekend at the Dark Odyssey: Surrender conference in San Jose, CA! This morning is packed with activities! At 8:30am, join Miriam Green for our daily Morning Meditation. The time is unlikely to change, but double-check your schedule for the location. More information here. At 9:30am, our Miriam Green will be one of the members of Midori's panel "Glory or Gone? We Need to Talk About Age. Find out more here. At 11:30am, join impossiblepain for their new class "Bottoming for Pain and Pleasure in Impact Play, with demo topping by Miriam Green. Find out more here. Monday, October 26Online: Make an impact that positively spatters! Join Miss Mackenzee online with us tonight for Safe and Sexy Impact Play with Blood. You may attend this online class with us live, or watch the recording within seven days with your advance tickets from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Intensives!We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and online.
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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!
Welcome to our latest listing of all the events we have coming up (about 44 right now, not event counting the five events we're offering at the upcoming Dark Odyssey: Surrender conference October 23-26). Can't attend a class you're interested in live? The vast majority of our online classes are recorded for viewing within seven days of the class. Except where noted on this list, all our online classes are recorded. Or, just check the "ACCESS" section at the bottom of each ticket or event...
Howdy kinksters - A reminder that elections are coming up in the US, and we are in critical times to make decisions about the directions of this country. Think that has nothing to do with the sexy things we do? Think again! Politics has a direct impact on the ability to freely express sexuality and especially outside-the-lines forms of sexual expression. We know it's overwhelming, particularly for our West coast people who tend to face a wall of referenda and initiatives. But please, check...
Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires with Miriam Green a six-week online intensive via Teachable and Zoom November 1 - December 14, 2026 Advance ticketing required. Get yours here! Please note: these workshops sell out in advance, and space is limited. To ensure your seat, please sign up as soon as you feel committed to this work. We typically close the four-session premium seating before general seating, so if you feel called to the advanced premium seating, you will want...