Howdy kinksters - I had a fantastic time last night in San Francisco watching dozens of brave kinksters connect and make new friends. As we head into this Pride month, I hope that you get out and have fun being yourself a LOT, no matter where you are in the world. We have a lot of great classes for you this week on the techniques, relationship styles and cultures that make the kink and BDSM world so vibrant. We have one live Lap Dancing Fundamentals workshop in Oakland this week, and all the...
about 5 hours ago • 4 min read
Happy Pride Month! Before we get into the current events roster, we’d like to encourage you to take Pride in one of your favorite kink education & community resources by becoming a supporter at Patreon.com/WickedGrounds. Each and every membership plays a critical role in our continued class development as well as our ability to keep kink education affordable through sliding-scale and scholarship seats. Thank you! The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives November - December 2026. Diving...
2 days ago • 4 min read
Howdy kinksters - Happy Pride month!!! Our team were all over the place starting the month, from the Sonoran desert of Phoenix to DomCon in Los Angeles and SpankLab in San Francisco. Greetings from a tired but satisfied Wicked Grounds crew! Want some travel of your own? I’ll be one of the presenters at this year’s Boundless Retreat in the beautiful hills of Mendocino County this summer. Get in some camping, swimming, hot tubbing, and kinky shenanigans in the outdoors July 10 - 13. Find out...
7 days ago • 4 min read
Howdy kinksters - What a week we have in store for you! Wicked Grounds is offering 15 classes in four cities over the next ten days. Whether you’re able to join us in person or remote from your living room, you’ll find a wide range of classes to take your kink and relationships to the next level. We’re offering live play labs for impact play and human animal play, technique classes on clothing bondage and sex magick, and a wide range of classes on kink and relationship theory and practice....
14 days ago • 5 min read
We have a lot of great new classes and events and are starting to push out our calendar all the way into July. Read on for details on a wide array of online classes, plus upcoming in-person events in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Tucson. (We’ll be in Tucson and Phoenix THIS WEEKEND!) Go deeper! Need personal coaching & guidance for questions around sex, kink, and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at WickedGroundsAnnex.com. If you love what...
15 days ago • 5 min read
Howdy kinksters - “You can’t go home again.” “You can’t cross the same river twice.” “I am not who I was.” I’m thinking a lot this week about erotic evolution – the evolution of communities, the evolution of my thinking over time, the changing landscape of my own erotic roadmap as I start adopting new kinds of play. I feel generally fearless about sex and kink these days, but I definitely didn’t start out this way! When I was in my twenties and lived in a college town in Arizona, my polycule...
21 days ago • 7 min read
We have a lot of great new classes and events and are starting to push out our calendar all the way into July. Read on for details on a wide array of online classes, plus upcoming in-person events in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Tucson. (We’ll be in Tucson and Phoenix in just two weeks!) Go deeper! Need personal coaching & guidance for questions around sex, kink, and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at WickedGroundsAnnex.com. If you love...
26 days ago • 5 min read
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...
28 days ago • 4 min read
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...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
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...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read