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 (5/14 - 24)
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Howdy kinksters - This week is bursting with opportunities to learn, play, and connect! From the deep psychological currents of Crafting a Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene to the grounding intimacy of Tantra and Rope, this week’s lineup offers a little something for every flavor of kink. If you’re craving connection, creativity, safety, or a new way to deepen your power exchange, you’ll find inspiration from a seasoned group of kink educators this week. We’re also hitting the road! Catch us in Los Angeles for our Rope & Restraint Play Lab this Friday, and later this month as we make our way through Arizona for a weekend of immersive classes with Desert Dominion and Arizona Power Exchange. And if you’re local to coastal Mendocino County, don’t miss The Mendocino Munch and our brand-new Rope Lab. Let’s dive into all of it! This Week!Thursday, May 14Online: Want to go much deeper with your play and really get into your partner’s head? Join Keiden Bren online tonight for Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene. Attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, May 15Los Angeles, CA: Calling all SoCal rope lovers! Join us in DTLA tonight at 7pm Pacific for Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Rope & Restraint! More information and advanced ticketing is available through Luma, Forbidden Tickets, or Plura. Saturday, May 16Online: If you explore erotic hypnosis play, you’ll want to join us today for Mindful Brainwashing with Aiden Sunassee. Advanced ticketing is required to attend live or through the class recording. Get yours from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Online: Want to keep your D/s protocols and dynamics hot and strong no matter where you are, while also being respectful of your environment? Join longtime leather power couple Marilyn & Rio today online for Stealth D/s Protocols to learn a variety of philosophies and strategies! Advanced ticketing required to attend live or by recording. Get yours: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, May 17Online: What is fray sexuality, and how might it inform how you think about relationships, sexuality, and new relationship energy? Join Lady V online to learn all about it today in Strangers in the Night: Fray Sexuality, Relationships & YOU! Advanced ticketing required to attend through the recording or live, so don’t be a stranger! Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, May 18Online: Want to bring more intention, intensity and energy to your rope play? Join us online tonight for Channeling the Energy: Tantra and Rope with Miss Mackenzee. This online class will explore how to use the ancient practices of tantra to take your connection with your rope partners to the next level. You may attend live or through the recording with advance tickets from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Tuesday, May 19Online: We often think of rope as just for bondage, and imagine scenes with lots and lots of rope. But rope can be useful for a range of kinky play! In tonight’s class, we’ll explore how one piece of rope can become a leash, an improvised whip, a gag, a blindfold, a makeshift vibrator, a tool for intense sensation play, and more. Bring an entire party with just one rope in Simplest Toybag: Creative Uses for One Rope with Lee Harrington. Can’t attend live? We’ll record for you with your advance tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, May 20Online: In tonight’s online class with Jamie Joy, we’ll enter into the visceral and intoxicating world of Blood Play, where sensation and surrender meet danger and transcendence. If you’re curious about blood play, or want to take yours to the next level, please join us for Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play. Learn safety essentials, techniques, and the dark delicious creativity of drawing blood with intention. Join live or through the recording with advance tickets from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Thursday, May 21 and Friday, May 22No live classes today, but you can explore our growing collection of video classes and other digital downloads at WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com. Saturday, May 23Mendocino, CA: It’s not technically a Wicked Grounds event, but our own Miriam Green hosts monthly events for kinksters in coastal Mendocino county. If that’s you, you’re warmly welcome to join this month’s The Mendocino Munch + our maiden voyage of the monthly Mendocino Rope Lab! To attend either or both, join us at the Good Life Bakery back picnic benches for the munch from noon - 2pm. (The location for the rope lab will be provided at the munch, and the rope lab will continue from 2:30 - 4:30pm!) Online: Curious about incorporating verbal humiliation into your kinky scenes, but want to do it in a way that’s hot (and not harmful or just awkward)? Join Dolly Diatima online today for Intro to Verbal Humiliation: Off the Cuff, On Your Knees. Can’t attend live? We’ll record it for viewing within one week as long as you have advance tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, May 24Online: What is a risk profile, and why do you need one for kinky play? A well thought-out risk profile can radically simplify your approach to consent and communication, and can help us better respond to what works for our own needs in kink. But how do you go about creating yours? Join Mel & Memi online today to explore it all in Creating Your Risk Profile and learn a simple but comprehensive method for crafting yours. Advanced ticketing required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Wicked Grounds on the Road!
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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 - Wicked Grounds is a hub of activity this month, with a wide variety of classes both online and all over the southwest. You’ll catch us in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Tucson in the coming weeks. If you’re in those areas – or have friends in those areas – help us get the word out! This week we have a LOT of great subjects going on, from a rope peer skillshare in downtown Los Angeles to online classes on communication, D/s protocols, erotic hypnosis, the asexuality...
Howdy kinksters - We have some fun stuff coming up this week in San Francisco and online! I’ve also added a special section to this week’s newsletter: Wicked Grounds on the Road. If you’re in the Los Angeles, Phoenix, or Tucson area – or have friends there! – take a look at what we have planned next month. (If you have friends in those areas, do them a favor and send them a copy of this newsletter!) Interested in diving deep into your kink education? As we head into a new month, it’s the...
We have a lot of new classes ready for you for this May and June! And expect another update soon – there are a few classes still in the works for May & June! In particular, we have a few classes in Arizona in the works for May 27 - June 2, but don’t have all the ticket links yet. We’ve put these in as a “save the date” for now, and we’ll get the ticket links out as soon as we can! If you love what we do and want to help us expand our access, please contribute to our annual Scholarship Fund...