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 (7/30 - 8/9)
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Hello kinksters - In the SF Bay Area -- and honestly throughout California -- many kinksters are off at Dark Odyssey: Thornwood, the latest long-weekend campout from the Dark Odyssey Extended Universe. (If any of you folks are on email, hello!) But we at Wicked Grounds are already busy planning for next week's return, including lots of SF Bay Area classes to give our Thornwood returnees some hair of the leather-pup. We also have some great online classes this week for kinksters everywhere! If you're ready to check it all out, let's dive in: This Week!Thursday, July 30Online: Looking for a gateway to everything shiny, leathery, and laced up? Join us online tonight for Intro to Fetish Wear: Dressing for Pleasure with Dolly Diatima. Advance tickets allow you to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Friday, July 31 through Monday, August 3With many of our Bay Area friends and some of our staff away at Dark Odyssey: Thornwood, we're taking the weekend off! But that doesn't mean you have to. You can find our video classes, multi-week intensives and ways to book with our coaching programs 24/7 online through WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com Tuesday, August 4Online: Awesome scenes! Frenzy! New relationship energy! DROP! What do all of these experiences have in common, and why do they make us feel so . . . weird?! Join Miriam Green online tonight to explore it all in This is Your Brain on Kink. Any Questions?! If you simply can't attend live because you're dropping too hard, no worries -- you can catch it online for seven days with your advance tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Wednesday, August 5San Francisco, CA: Get out, see some friends, and maybe hit one another! The formula for an excellent Wednesday night for five years now!!! Join us tonight in San Francisco, CA for the 5th Anniversary of SpankLab with impossiblepain! Check out San Francisco's original impact play lab and see why we've built a strong culture of friendship and collaboration for half a decade! Advance tickets strongly recommended through Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Thursday, August 6 and Friday, August 7No live programming on these days to prepare for the weekend and lots more the following week! You can find our video classes, multi-week intensives and ways to book with our coaching programs 24/7 online through WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com Saturday, August 8We have two back-to-back classes with Atlanta's Marla Renee Stewart today! And we haven't forgotten about our national attendees -- we've got electro play fun for you, too! San Francisco, CA: We get asked a lot about face slapping in our impact play classes. Face play is very nuanced and there are some important safety considerations with all those precious bits up in our faces and heads. Today, Marla Renee Stewart is here to tell you all about it and get you having fun, safe play in Face Slapping Mastery live from noon - 2pm. Space is limited and advance tickets are recommended from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. San Francisco, CA: Then, stick around for our 3pm class on Sensual Pussy Torture, also with Marla Renee Stewart! We'll identify tools you can use to torment externally, internally, and through psychological sadism. What fun! Advance tickets are available from Plura and Forbidden Tickets. Online: Join us online today for Electro Play 101 with LA-based educator Electro Girly! You'll learn all about e-stim, violet wands, zappers and much more in this online class. And we'll be recording it for all ticketholders to watch within seven days, which means you can get all this great information even if you're at our in-person classes today or otherwise tied up. Get your tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, August 9San Francisco, CA: Join us in person in San Francisco today for our three-hour Erotic Movement workshop with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. Get our of your mind and into your body! No previous experience necessary! Whether or not you consider yourself a "movement person," this class will help you get more deeply in touch with your kinky and erotic nature. Space is limited and advance tickets are strongly recommended from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Online: In relationships and scenes, one thing is guaranteed: despite your best intentions, you will mess up sometimes. How we recover is extremely important to keeping and growing trust. Join us online today for Turning Mistakes Into Mastery with Karebear to explore it all. If you can't attend live, we'll record for you as long as you have advance tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Online: Ready to start clowning around? Curious about what the heck is going on with clown play? Join our own Killmeat Nick today for Honk! An Intro to Clown Kink. If you can't attend live, we'll record this for all advance ticketholders. Get yours from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. 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!
Fresh out of the oven, it’s another batch of fresh-baked classes! Can’t attend live? Many of our online classes are recorded for viewing within seven days of the class. Just check the “ACCESS” section at the bottom of each listing to see if the class is recorded. Read on for an assortment of classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and online! (Psst: if you’re in San Francisco and want to get in on our Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive this Saturday, we’re down to the last four seats!) The...
It's so easy to get caught up in perfectionism, self-consciousness, or people pleasing in kink. I'd like to say I'm immune to it. I am not. I just have tools and allies to help me pull out of it more quickly that I used to. A few weeks ago, I was asked to give the keynote presentation at a gathering that means a lot to me. When I last attended, the keynote speaker was Midori, one of my absolute heroes in kink when I was coming up. I was in a group chat with some trusted friends absolutely...
Hey there - The summer season can feel so busy! There were a variety of kinky campouts and conferences last weekend, and it’s been wild to keep up with everyone’s afterglow, even as the folks from Dark Odyssey are ramping up for their next two big campouts! If you’re go-go-going the way we have been, be sure to take breaks to rest, breathe, reflect, and relax. While it’s wonderful to have lots of play and connection, it’s equally important in kink to take breaks to integrate all of those peak...