This Week with Wicked Grounds (6/4 – 6/14)
June 4, 2026Howdy 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 more here! Are you planning to be at San Francisco Pride this year? You’ll find us in Leather Alley on Sunday, June 28th where you can ask us (almost) anything about kink and leather culture. We have a lot of great classes and events for you this week online as well as in San Francisco and Los Angeles. From polyamory to pet play, and sexy talk to sex magick, we’ve got you covered this week. Let’s take a peek! This Week! Thursday, June 4 Online: Join Dr.Marie Thouin online tonight for The Art & Science of Compersion. In this comprehensive webinar, Thouin addresses compersion using her breakthrough research and wisdom from her book, ‘What is Compersion? Understanding Positive Empathy in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships’. Advanced ticketing is required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, June 5 Los Angeles, CA: Ready to start exploring the sex-positive and kink scene in LA, but not sure where to start? We can help! Join Killmeat Nick tonight in DTLA for Welcome to the LA Scene. You’ll learn all about the culture, best practices, organizations, and venues that make the LA scene so special. Attend live in DTLA with your advanced tickets from Luma, Forbidden Tickets, or Plura. Los Angeles, CA: Calling all human animals, handlers, and folks curious about pet play! Join us in downtown Los Angeles tonight for Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Pets! Our play labs provide an opportunity to safely build BDSM and kink skills through practice. Tonight’s host Madam Rosie Rose will provide some brief tips and tricks for pet play, lead a consent discussion for the evening, and then you’ll spend the rest of the evening learning by doing (or watching, if you prefer). Advanced ticketing is required, and you must be on time for our consent discussions. Get your advanced tickets through Luma, Forbidden Tickets, or Plura. Saturday, June 6 Online: Balancing your kink life with your family life is often a challenge, but it can be done! Join Ancilla L online tonight to learn some great strategies in tonight’s class on Practising Kink As Parents. Advanced tickets are require to attend either live or through the recording later. Get yours through Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Sunday, June 7 Online: Are the answers in our stars or in ourselves? Maybe sometimes it’s both! Join Lila Hades of The Unconventional Plutonian online this afternoon for Astrology & Kink. Attend this online class life or through the recording with your advanced tickets from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Monday, June 8 Online: Ready to have fun with impact play like spanking or flogging, but not sure where to start? We’ve got you covered! Join Jamie Joy online tonight for Cruising for a Bruising: Impact Play 101 to explore all the safety, connection, and fun you can have in impact scenes. Advanced tickets will allow you to attend live online or watch the recording within one week. Get yours from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Tuesday, June 9 Online: To have more fun and intensity in BDSM play, you’ll want excellent communication with your partner(s) before, during, and after the scene. Learn all the whys, hows, and potential pitfalls of kink communication with Miriam Green tonight in BDSM Negotiation Basics. Watch live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from Plura or Forbidden Tickets. Wednesday, June 10 Online: Join Mel & Memi online tonight for a class on Tease & Denial! In this workshop we will go over the psychological impacts of teasing, discuss how to find your tease, give examples of how to use these components in scenes and demo some examples. Advanced tickets will allow you to attend live or by recording. Get yours from Forbidden Tickets or Plura. San Francisco, CA: Want to meet a lot of new kinky friends and potential play partners, fast? Join us live in San Francisco tonight for this month’s Kinky Speed Friending hosted by Psychokitty Ryan. This event is over halfway sold out, so we recommend getting tickets fast, exclusively on Plura. Thursday, June 11 Online: Join us online tonight for Building Confidence in the Bedroom: Own Your Energy with Dolly Diatima. You’ll learn how to let go of shame, tap into your desire, and step into your own erotic power! Advanced tickets are required to attend live or by recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Friday, June 12 We have no live programming today, but check our WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com for a wide range of pre-recorded classes and digital downloads. Saturday, June 13 Join us today for a special day of sex magick in theory and practice! Attend one class or spend a half-day with Miriam BatAsherah Green. Both sessions can be attended live or through the recording. Online: Join us online at 11am Pacific time to explore the theory and background of sex magick in Sex Magick for Kinksters. You’ll learn why sex magick emerged as a practice, the basics of how it works, and basics of the ethereal body and ritual theory in this two-hour session. Tickets: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Online: Then, join us online at 2pm Pacific time to explore all of the basics of how to create simple and effective sex magick spellwork in Put a Sigil On It! You’ll walk away with all the information you need to engage in solo or partnered sex magick that works! Tickets: Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Sunday, June 14 Oakland, CA: Ready to get really into
