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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!

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This Week with Wicked Grounds (9/24 - 10/4)

Howdy kinksters - Happy Leather Week to all who celebrate!The San Francisco Bay Area is a flurry of activity right now as everyone prepares for this Sunday's Folsom Street Fair. The fair is an enormous street fair spanning several city blocks of San Francisco's Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District. Several hundred thousand kinksters and curious will come out for a full day of booths, performances, and some of the best kinky shopping anywhere. If you're coming to the fair, come say howdy! We'll...

Enrollment for The Kink Bundle ends tonight at 11:59pm PT. First, a huge thank you to those who have already joined. You're helping yourself, but you're also keeping Wicked Grounds strong so we can keep investing in all our programming. Haven't joined yet? When you join, you not only get access to our video class Diving Deep for support onyour kink journey, but you also get... 37+ total BDSM, kink, and D/s classes, courses, apps, and books Over $2,000 worth of content from instructors and...

This July, while in the midst of recovering from a colossal case of drop after presenting at the Boundless Retreat, I assigned myself a bit of homework. Could I distill everything I've studied about the phenomenon of drop from my half-decade of classes on the topic into one quick actionable set of strategies? I could, and I did! The twelve tips below circulated widely after I shared them online. If you're having drop today, you might want to take a peek. If not, bookmark this for the next...

When I was a baby submissive back in the early 2000s, I was eager to learn. I'd read a few books about BDSM over the previous decade, and as I entered my first serious D/s dynamic, I was starving for more. Unfortunately, I did something pretty stupid. Because I was in an ongoing dynamic (with, it turned out, an extremely inexperienced dominant), I let my dominant guide not just our relationship but my education. I read the books she wanted me to read, and she forbade me from reading others. I...

At Wicked Grounds, our goal is always to help kinksters find their next step on their journey. Sometimes that means classes with us. Often, it means that we recommend other books, classes, or resources to help people along. That's why we're so excited to be featured in this year's Kink Bundle from Dom/ Sub Dynamics. You can learn absolutely everything you’d ever want to know about the bundle over here, but as a quick overview: It includes over $2,000 worth of courses, trainings, and products...

Howdy kinksters - This is the busiest time of year at Wicked Grounds, and we're so excited for it all! First, a great way to dive into kink for kinksters everywhere to jump start your back to school season. Wicked Grounds is delighted to participate as a contributor to this year's Kink Bundle. The Kink Bundle includes over thirty kinky and BDSM education resources from Wicked Grounds and several of our favorite kink educators from around the world. You'll get 30+ education and coaching...

Read on for an assortment of classes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and online! 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. Want to go deeper? Our next kink intensive Diving Deep launches in just six weeks in early November. Find out more and register here! The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives November - December 2026. Diving Deep:...

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