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 (2/28 - 3/9)
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Hello kinksters - I hope that you are doing your best to take care of yourself and your loved ones in these very weird times. I am personally so grateful for the opportunities to connect with others right now, and so I’m very excited for several events coming up live and in person starting next week. Here are some events to look forward to in the coming week: This week!Friday 2/28No live classes today, but check out our digital download classes on WickedGroundsAnnex.com! Saturday 3/1Interested in making new friends and finding safe resources in the public BDSM scene? Miriam Green is here to help! Join us today at 11am Pacific for Welcome to the Public BDSM Scene! You can get advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. If you’re in the SF Bay Area, you might also consider joining us in April for our Bay Area focused class, which is taught live in SF. Tickets for that Saturday 4/5 class are already available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday 3/2Want to keep all your leathers shiny? Lady V can help! Join us at 11am Pacific today for So Fresh & So Clean: Bootblacking & Leather Care 101. You’ll learn all the basics of leather care for yourself and others! Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday 3/3Want to connect with some new sweeties this year? Do it mindfully! Join us tonight online for Transform Your Dating Life with the 6 Pillars of Mindful Dating with Marie Thouin. You can connect with tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday 3/4If you’re an experienced kinkster looking to give back to your community, consider house topping (or house bottoming)! Miriam Green will give you some considerations for how to become a go-to community asset in Tips for House Topping online tonight. Join us! Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. If you’re interested in this class, you might want to also check out our Kink Class Incubator coming up in May 2025. Wednesday 3/5If you’re in the SF Bay Area and you want to build some hands-on impact play skills, join us tonight for Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain. Whether you’re a brand new player looking to build basic impact play skills or an experienced player wanting to collaborate for skill-sharing, join us tonight at 7pm in San Francisco! Tickets available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Thursday 3/6Self-awareness is one of our best tools for making BDSM scenes and relationships great. If you’re interested in exploring your motivations as a bottom, join BearJew tonight online for Bottom, Why?! A Conscious Discussion of Why We Bottoms Do the Things We Do. Get your tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday 3/7No live classes today, but check out our digital download classes on WickedGroundsAnnex.com! Saturday 3/8No live classes today, but check out our digital download classes on WickedGroundsAnnex.com! Sunday 3/9Don’t forget to set your manual clocks – we’re back to daylight saving time today! Join us online at 11am Pacific for Age Play through the Lens of Care and Caution with Draven. This set of age play classes can be taken as a series or individually – there is no prerequisite for today’s class. Get your advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Interested in latex and rubber play? Want to learn more about how it started, and maybe gain some inspiration for your own play? Join us at 2pm Pacific online for Latex: A History with Dolly Diatima and learn all about this unique form of fetish play! Tickets available on Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Support. Follow. Share.
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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!
Howdy kinksters - We have a lot of great classes coming for you this week. Every once in a while, I get a class pitch that gives me chills. Tonight’s class is one of those. Dr. Marie Thouin sent us a quick email back in December last year, saying she’s become intrigued at the idea of dating as a kind of shadow work psychologically, and asked if I’d be interested. My hair stood up. It was an immediate yes. Even though I wasn’t sure how much interest there would be for a wider audience, I just...
We have added several new classes and events to the roster for you, including lots of online classes and live classes in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Whether you’re looking for regular classes, daylong deep dives, or even multi-week intensives, we’ve got you! We could really use your help shoring up our scholarship fund. The Wicked Grounds scholarship fund allows us to make space- and funds-available seats to kinksters who might otherwise be priced out of kink education, while compensating...
Howdy kinksters - As of this week, I’ve been part of Wicked Grounds for a dozen years. Twelve years ago was the first week I got behind the counter and started slinging espresso for my first munches in preparation to take over at the helm. As we head toward this Valentine’s Day every year, I reflect on how much I’m in love with all the folks that make our little kink education business possible. Yes, you! We love your creativity, curiosity, engagement, and enthusiasm for all things...