Month: August 2025

Hello kinksters – Here in the Bay Area, we are in a definite season: right in the middle of Burning Man week and heading directly into Leather Month! We’ve decided to form a ​Wicked Grounds Team​ for LeatherWalk 2025! If you are able to walk with us, we’d love to see you at City Hall for the ​kickoff​ on September 21st. Even if you can’t walk with us, we invite you to support the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District through our team by making a ​tax deductible donation​ to the District. We are actively preparing for Folsom Street Fair, where we will have a booth to talk all about kink education! Come meet our instructors, get some kink advice, and perhaps you might win a little something – we’ll be giving away everything from digital downloads to free classes, class passes, and even one grand prize of a free coaching session. We could use a couple of volunteers to help us give out fabulous prizes at the fair! Ping us if you’re interested! We have a lot of both online and in-person events featured today! Let’s take a look at this coming week: This Week! Thursday, August 28 Want to up your oral game? Join Lilithfoxx online tonight for The Art of Pussy Eating! You’ll want advanced tickets to watch the class whether online or recorded. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, August 29 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ Saturday, August 30 At 11am Pacific, we’ll host part 2 of The Archetypes of Power & Surrender: A Two Part Series. We’ve set this one up so that you can get tickets until the start of today’s session; if you missed Part 1, we’ll get you the recording alongside the Part 2 recording on August 31. Get tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Join us online at 2pm Pacific for Bratting and Brat Taming with Mel and Memi – a live and recorded online class. You’ll need advanced tickets whether to watch live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, August 31 Top? Bottom? Why not enjoy it all? Join Lady V today at 11am Pacific for Switchinatrix: Harnessing Your Power as a Switch. You’ll learn lots of ways to deepen your satisfaction on all sides of the slash. Advanced ticketing required to either attend live or get the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, September 1 and Tuesday, September 2 No live classes today due to the holiday. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ Wednesday, September 3 Join us online at 6pm Pacific for Boundless Creativity: Innovative Ways to Use Rope in Play with Miss Mackenzee, or you can sign up to get the recording to watch this week. Advanced ticketing is required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Are you in the SF Bay Area? Join us in person at 7pm for SpankLab – San Francisco’s original impact play peer skill share! You’ll get a quick topical demo, we’ll create a safe space for play and consent, and then you’ll have a full 90 minutes to practice your own skills. This is a great way to learn for beginners and experienced impact players alike – and to meet new friends who share your interests. Advanced ticketing strongly recommended – this event often sells out! Get advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Want something to do after SpankLab? We recommend heading up Folsom to check out PlayXLand at the Cat Club, and make it an afterparty! Thursday, September 4 and Friday, September 5 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ Saturday, September 6 Are you in the SF Bay Area? Want to understand more about how to engage with and interact with the local scene? Perhaps you’re planning for your first Folsom Street Fair or kink conference and you want to make the most out of it? Join us today at noon in San Francisco for Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene with Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green. We’ll get you ready for that first class, munch, fair, or play party in no time! Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Then stick around for an in-person edition of Miriam Green’s beginner’s class BDSM Negotiation Basics at 2:30 pm. We’ll help you build all the skills you need to have successful BDSM scenes, while building the foundation for success in kinky relationships, dynamics, and communities. Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, September 7 Join us in Oakland for a special movement class with a somatic focus on deepening communication for D/s scenes and relationships: Leading & Following: Non-Verbal D/s Skills with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended: we have an attendance cap for Alexandria’s classes, and they often do sell out! Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. Here are a few that have just been opened for registration that you might want to check out. ​The Pentacle Path: A Six-Week Intensive Tarot Training​: August 10 – September 20, 2025. Late registration available! Lap Dancing Daylong Intensive (by Click Your Heels): In Person, Oakland, California, Saturday, September 13 10:30 am – 5pm. Ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Kink Desires​: Registration now open for November 2 – December 13, 2025 Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! 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First, a quick note: If you’re not in the Bay Area, you can still support our efforts, so I’ve decided to send this letter out to everyone! First, a quick introduction to the District In 2018, after many years of effort (that many Wicked Grounds customers, staff, and ownership were part of), San Francisco established the worlds first ​Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District​. Seven years later, the District has started to make a big difference not only in its SOMA area of San Francisco but well beyond, through its support of local kink, queer, and Leather businesses — but by extension helping kinksters well beyond the Bay Area. I consider the existence of the District to have had a huge impact on Wicked Grounds’ ability to survive and thrive over the past several years. And: as someone who had a close a beloved brick-and-mortar space in the District’s footprint, I feel very strongly about their mission in helping remaining brick-and-mortar businesses survive. What is LeatherWalk? LeatherWalk has existed in a few forms over the years. These days, it is being managed by the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District. For those who walk in person, it is a very fun afternoon of being proud and visible, and getting a great tour of some of the venues and businesses that make the District so fun. We’ll start at City Hall and meander through several leather bars and kinky stores on our way to Leather Pride at Eagle Plaza. (If you’re coming live, wear good shoes or boots!) If you are able to donate, awesome! Please do! Your funds support the kinky businesses and organizations in the District — and by extension help us have spaces to keep doing classes in SF! If you cannot make a financial donation, you are still warmly encouraged to walk with us! If you can’t walk in person, you can still support the District by being part of the ​Wicked Grounds team​! Join Team Wicked Grounds for LeatherWalk 2025! LeatherWalk 2025 Support the Wicked Grounds contingent! A walk from City Hall to Eagle Plaza in SOMA, San Francisco Sunday, 9/21 10:30 am – 3:00 pm ​Support Wicked Grounds team by walking and/ or donating to LeatherWalk 2025​. ​RSVP on FetLife to let friends know you’re coming!​ How to join the virtual team Clicky clicky ​this link​! Click on “Support Your Favorite Kinkster” Select Team: Wicked Grounds Donate what you can You are always welcome to walk in our contingent whether or not you are in a position to donate. But if you can: do! The fact that the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District exists is a big factor in our ability to provide kink education not only in the Bay Area but worldwide. If you’ve ever done anything with Wicked Grounds, you have benefited from the District’s existence. If you can throw them a few bucks in our name, we’d sure appreciate it! How to walk with us We meet at City Hall in San Francisco about 10:30am. Mir runs chronically early for everything, so you’ll probably see them a bit before that! Look for folks wearing Wicked Grounds shirts. If you have a Wicked Grounds shirt, wear yours! ​If you want a Wicked Grounds shirt, there’s an app for that!​ About the walk Bring Your Kink. Step Out. Give Back. OUR STREETS. OUR STORY. OUR STRENGTH. STAND TOGETHER – GEAR ON Unity protects us. Walk with us from City Hall to Eagle Plaza to protect our leather, kink, and queer spaces. Enjoy entertainment, music, and refreshment stops along the way. CELEBRATE COMMUNITY – STEP OUT Join fellow leather, kink, & queer community members in our joyful celebration ending with a Leather Pride Flag raising: a symbol of visibility and resistance. SUPPORT THE DISTRICT – GIVE BACK Walkers are encouraged to fundraise or make a meaningful donation supporting the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District — We exist to ensure there is a lively and vibrant home for our community of events, businesses, bars & organizations in SOMA. WALK YOUR WAY Registration is free and open to all — fundraising is welcome, not required. Walk solo or with a team, and know that every step you take helps preserve the spaces, stories, and culture that keep our community thriving. The day’s agenda LeatherWalk 2025 kicks off San Francisco’s Leather Week on Sunday, September 21. We gather at City Hall at 10:30 AM before a couple rousing speakers at 10:45 AM when we’ll make some noise and step off at 11:00 AM for a fun and powerful walk through SOMA — stopping for entertainment and refreshments at beloved leather, kink, and queer venues along the way. The walk ends at Eagle Plaza with the raising of the Leather Pride Flag during the SF Eagle’s Leather Pride Fest. Funds raised go directly to support the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District, ensuring a vibrant, visible future for our community in SOMA. We walk to celebrate, to resist, and to protect the spaces that hold our history and our joy. Gather at 10:30 AM — Program at 10:45 AM — Step Off at 11:00 AM Starting Location — City Hall, Polk Street Steps Stop 1 — Oasis Stop 2 — Powerhouse, Azucar Lounge, Hole in the Wall, Stop 3 — Leather Etc, Driftwood Stop 4 — Decant SF, Nosh Box Stop 5 — Mr S Leather/Ringold Alley Stop 6 — Lone Star Saloon Final Stop 7 — SF Eagle Plaza for the Leather Pride Fest Ending Time — Approximately 3:00 PM

Hello kinksters – The summer is winding down, and Leather season is just around the corner! If you’re in the Bay Area, we encourage you to check out ​Leatherwalk​ on September 21st. Leatherwalk provides critical visibility for the kink, sex-positive and Leather communities in these weird times, and also serves as a fundraiser for San Francisco’s ​Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District​. We are strongly considering putting together a Wicked Grounds contingent for the walk this year. Who wants to walk with us if we do that? Let us know! And of course, there’s a ​little street fair​ coming to San Francisco the last Sunday of September. Yes, we will have a booth there! If you’re at Folsom Street Fair, come meet our instructors and perhaps you might win a little something – we’ll be giving away everything from digital downloads to free classes, class passes, and even one grand prize of a free coaching session. We could use a couple of volunteers to help us give out fabulous prizes at the fair! Ping us if you’re interested. Let’s take a look at this coming week: This Week! Thursday, August 21 There is no one size fits all in D/s or BDSM. Instead, there are many dynamics and paradigms that might work for you – and many others that simply aren’t going to be your style. Explore these deeply in our two-part online workshop starting tonight, The Archetypes of Power & Surrender: A Two Part Series with FireOnTheMtnTop / Sir Scott and Lecee. You’ll need advanced ticketing to participate, whether you plan to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, August 22 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ And don’t forget to use code ELVIS to get 20% off all purchases through our Wicked Grounds Annex site through Sunday, August 24. Saturday, August 23 Are you in very northern California? Our Miriam Green hosts the Mendocino Munch in coastal Mendocino county every month. This month, we’ll be hanging out in Fort Bragg from 1-3 (often longer – we like each other!). It’s not technically a Wicked Grounds event, but it’s not not a Wicked Grounds event. You can find out more and ​RSVP here on FetLife​. Sunday, August 24 Want to get deeply into your creative sense of bondage? Join Miss Mackenzee online today at 2pm Pacific for Boundless Creativity: Innovative Ways to Use Rope in Play. Can’t attend live? No worries – we’ll provide a recording to all attendees with advanced tickets. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Today is the last day to use code ELVIS to get 20% off all purchases – coaching, intensives, or digital downloads – through our ​Wicked Grounds Annex site​. Monday, August 25 Kink play, community, and connection is here for all of us. You don’t need to be an extrovert to benefit from kink community, but you might want some unique tools to rest, set boundaries, and recharge if you’re an introvert! Learn all about it in tonight’s online class, The Introvert’s Toolkit: Gear Up for Kinky Adventures with Miss Mackenzee. We’ll get you resourced so that you can get out there in the ways that suit you best! Advanced ticketing required to either watch live or get the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Tuesday, August 26 Interested in strap-on play? You’ll want ways to stay completely connected with your strap-on, your partner, and your confidence! Want some tips? Join Sinclair Sexsmith online tonight for Cock Confidence! You’ll need to make time to attend this class live; it will not be recorded. Get your tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday, August 27 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ Thursday, August 28 Want to up your oral game? Join Lilithfoxx online tonight for The Art of Pussy Eating! You’ll want advanced tickets to watch the class whether online or recorded. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, August 29 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ Saturday, August 30 At 11am Pacific, we’ll host part 2 of The Archetypes of Power & Surrender: A Two Part Series. We’ve set this one up so that you can get tickets until the start of today’s session; if you missed Part 1, we’ll get you the recording alongside the Part 2 recording on August 31. Get tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Join us online at 2pm Pacific for Bratting and Brat Taming with Mel and Memi – a live and recorded online class. You’ll need advanced tickets whether to watch live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, August 31 Top? Bottom? Why not enjoy it all? Join Lady V today at 11am Pacific for Switchinatrix: Harnessing Your Power as a Switch. You’ll learn lots of ways to deepen your satisfaction on all sides of the slash. Advanced ticketing required to either attend live or get the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. Here are a few that have just been opened for registration that you might want to check out. ​The Pentacle Path: A Six-Week Intensive Tarot Training​: August 10 – September 20, 2025. Late registration available! Lap Dancing Daylong Intensive (by Click Your Heels): In Person, Oakland, California, Saturday, September 13 10:30 am – 5pm. Ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Kink Desires​: Registration now open for November 2 – December 13, 2025 Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team Support. Follow. Share. Join our ​Patreon​ for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Book ​with us​ for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Do you find this weekly roundup helpful? If this newsletter has saved you time, or given

Howdy kinksters! Spooky season is coming up, and our fall lineup does not disappoint! We have classes for complete beginners all the way up to advanced players, on topics ranging from consent and scene structure to technique classes for fire, emotional sadism, service, intense physical sadism, and more! Links below are to our primary ticketing via ​Forbidden Tickets​. If you’re a Plura member, check the ​Plura​ app for ticketing there as well. We usually have Plura ticketing available 2-4 weeks before each event. Would you like to indulge in personal coaching & guidance for those sticky issues around sex, kink, and relationships? Reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.com​. Not sure if coaching is the right fit for you? We now offer ​10-15 minute exploration sessions​ to learn more or answer the quickest of questions. A huge thank-you to our Patreon supporters!!! We <3 you and salute your efforts to keep us going and growing. If you value what we do, please make a ​monthly membership contribution​. (VIPs get some particularly sweet benefits, like discounts and even some free classes!) The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives ​The Pentacle Path: A Six-Week Online Tarot Intensive with Miriam Batasherah Green​. This course has started and will not run live again until 2027. However, you may join to attend at your own pace through the recorded material! NEW 9/13 10:30 am – 5pm PDT: ​Lap Dancing Daylong Intensive (by Click Your Heels)​ (Oakland, CA) 11/2/2025 – 12/13/25: ​Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Erotic Desires – November – December 2025​ 1/1/26 – 1/31/26: ​Month of Mindfulness for Kinksters 2026​ S/m & the physical side of play 9/3 7pm PDT: ​Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 9/15 6pm PDT: ​Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 9/22 6pm PDT: ​Passionate Entanglement: The Dynamics of Rough Body Play with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/1 6pm PDT: ​Gasp & Glow: Breathwork as Sensation Play with M’kali-Hashiki​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/3 6pm PST: ​Burn Baby Burn: Sensual and Sadistic Fire Play with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) Gear 9/21 11am PDT: ​So Fresh & So Clean: Bootblacking & Leather Care 101 with Lady V​ (ONLINE) Bondage & Fetish NEW DATE 8/24 2pm PDT: ​Boundless Creativity: Innovative Ways to Use Rope in Play with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) NEW 9/18 6pm PDT: ​Fine, I’ll Do It Myself: Rope 101 For the Aspiring Self-Suspender with SuspendDisbelief​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/30 6pm PDT: ​Tied and True: Introduction to Rope Bondage with SuspendDisbelief​ (ONLINE) D/s, role play & the mental side of play 8/20 6pm PDT: ​Creating Containers for Kink with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) 8/30 2pm PDT: ​Bratting and Brat Taming with Mel and Memi​ (ONLINE) 8/31 11am PDT: ​Switchinatrix: Harnessing Your Power as a Switch with Lady V​ (ONLINE) 9/7 Noon – 3pm PDT: ​Leading & Following: Embodied D/s (by Click Your Heels)​ (Oakland, CA) 9/24 6pm PDT: ​Invisible Toybox: The Energy of Kink with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/19 2pm PDT: ​Baring Your Emotional Jugular: Active Bottoming For Emotional Sadism Play with SuspendDisbelief​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/29 6pm PDT: ​Dark Roleplaying with Lee Harrington​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/16 11am PST: ​Service Styles with Lady V​ (ONLINE) Hypnokink NEW 9/14 2pm PDT: ​Scene Like a Storyteller with HypnoStory and PandaPet​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/13 6pm PDT: ​Hypnokink on the Ace Spectrum with Faun​ (ONLINE) Movement & Creativity 9/7 Noon – 3pm PDT: ​Leading & Following: Embodied D/s (by Click Your Heels)​ (Oakland, CA) NEW 9/13 10:30 am – 5pm PDT: ​Lap Dancing Daylong Intensive (by Click Your Heels)​ (Oakland, CA) 9/23 and 9/30 6pm PDT: ​Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/28 6pm PDT: ​Beyond Spicy: Writing the Taboo with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) Sexy Times 8/26 6pm PDT: ​Cock Confidence with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) 8/28 6pm PDT: ​The Art of Pussy Eating with Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 9/13 10:30 am – 5pm PDT: ​Lap Dancing Daylong Intensive (by Click Your Heels)​ (Oakland, CA) 9/18 6pm PDT: ​Bedroom Bondage for Beginners with Jamie Joy​ (ONLINE) 9/23 and 9/30 6pm PDT: ​Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) 9/25 6pm PDT: ​Backdoor Basics: A Guide to Anal Play with Lilith Foxx​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/19 11am PDT: Edge of Glory: P-Spot & Cock Edging with Lady V (ONLINE) NEW 10/28 6pm PDT: ​Beyond Spicy: Writing the Taboo with Sinclair Sexsmith​ (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 8/21 6pm PDT and 8/30 11am: ​The Archetypes of Power & Surrender: A Two Part Series with FireOnTheMtnTop / Sir Scott and Lecee​ (ONLINE) 8/25 6pm PDT: ​The Introvert’s Toolkit: Gear Up for Kinky Adventures with Miss Mackenzee​ (ONLINE) 9/6 2:30 PDT: ​Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics Pre Folsom Edition with Miriam Green​ (San Francisco, CA) 9/17 6pm PDT: ​Determining Your Risk Profile with Lee Harrington​ (ONLINE) NEW 9/21 2pm PDT: ​Negotiation Skills for Subs & Bottoms with Faun​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/9 6pm PDT: ​Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/15 6pm PDT: ​From ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ to Boundaries: Healing Consent Culture in BDSM with Buzz Stingyear​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/19 2pm PDT: ​Baring Your Emotional Jugular: Active Bottoming For Emotional Sadism Play with SuspendDisbelief​ (ONLINE) NEW 11/19 6pm PST: ​Close the Doors You Open: Rituals for Endings and Transitions with HG Wyndell​ (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 9/6 Noon PDT: ​Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene – Folsom Street Fair Edition with Miriam Green​ (San Francisco, CA) 9/10 7pm PDT: ​Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan​ (San Francisco, CA) 9/11 6pm PDT: ​Mindful Swiping with Marie Thouin​ (ONLINE) NEW 9/22 7pm PDT: ​Kinky Queer Speed Friending/ Dating/ Whatever – FOLSOM EDITION – with Miriam Green and impossiblepain​ (San Francisco, CA) NEW 10/7 6pm PDT: ​KINK 201: Advanced Negotiation for Relationship & Dynamics with Miriam Green​ (ONLINE) NEW 10/16 6pm PDT: ​Dungeons Demystified: Navigating Etiquette, Attire, and Atmosphere in BDSM Spaces with Princess Rara​ (ONLINE) NEW ​Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan​ (San Francisco, CA)

Hello kinksters – Happy back to school season from your friendly kink educators at Wicked Grounds! It’s also Mir’s birthday week, and we have a present for you! Now through midnight on Sunday, August 24th, you can get 20% off all digital downloads, video classes, multi-week intensives, and coaching sessions from ​Wicked Grounds Annex​! Just use code ELVIS at checkout. (The last time I offered a sale like this, one clever person booked monthly coaching sessions and locked in that discount indefinitely. We have smart customers!) For some of you, it’s camp season, too! We’re sending wishes for a great camp to our friends headed to ​Dark Odyssey: Thornwood​ this weekend! Whether you’re one of our friends around the world, or one of our Bay Area locals having a bit of FOMO this week, we’ve got you covered. We have three live classes in San Francisco this weekend, and lots of fun stuff coming up online too! Let’s take a look at this coming week: This Week! Thursday, August 14 In the kink community, your reputation is everything! But how do you manage that? Join Princess Rara online tonight to learn all the basics (and some not-so-basics!) in Navigating Your Reputation in BDSM. Whether you plan to attend live or through the recording, you’ll need a ticket! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, August 15 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ And don’t forget to use code ELVIS to get 20% off all purchases through our Wicked Grounds Annex site this week. And hey, it’s Mir’s birthday tomorrow! They are turning :: mumble mumble :: You know what would make an excellent gift? Pay it forward to some other kinksters by donating to our ​scholarship fund​! Saturday, August 16 We have some great classes in San Francisco and online this weekend! Online, join UK kink educator Sarah Butcher for a class on Consensual Non-Consent. We’ve timed this one to run live at 11am Pacific and 7pm in the UK so that folks (almost) everywhere can watch live, but we’ll also record this for later watching – so long as you have an advanced ticket. You can get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Are you in the San Francisco Bay Area? Have you been meaning to learn the basics of shibari & rope bondage? Join us in SOMA from noon – 2pm for Let’s Get Knotty: Rope Bondage for Beginners with Jaime Joy! Space is limited, so it’s a good idea to get tickets in advanced (although we’re happy to sell space-available tickets at the door). Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, August 17 Join Lee Harrington online today for Getting Freaky & Spicy: BDSM & Kink Basics. This legendary teacher will help you get your bearings in the world of kink play! We’ll launch at 11am Pacific / 7pm UK time, so most folks can attend live, but everyone will also have the option to watch a recorded version later. Get your tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. In the SF Bay Area? We have two classes for you today. Join us from noon – 2pm for our in-person class Rope for Sex and Intimacy with Jamie Joy. If your goals for rope bondage include sexual play, you’re going to want this class. Learn all the positions and ties that work best for your goals! Space is limited, so we recommend ticketing in advance through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Door tickets will be available on a space-available basis. Then at 4pm, join Psychokitty Ryan for Improv for Naughty Play live in San Francisco. Learn basic techniques for improv, and how to leverage them to innovate creative and connective BDSM scenes in real time. Space for this one is very limited – we can only accommodate up to 22 people. We strongly recommend advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, August 18 and Tuesday, August 19 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ And don’t forget to use code ELVIS to get 20% off all purchases through our Wicked Grounds Annex site this week. Wednesday, August 20 BDSM scenes can raise a lot of energy! But to stay closely connected and make the most of that energy, our scenes need a container formed from our intentions, actions, and consistency throughout the scene. Want to learn more? Join us online this evening for Creating Containers for Kink with H G Wyndell. You’ll need advanced ticketing whether you plan to attend live or through the recording later. Get your tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday, August 21 There is no one size fits all in D/s or BDSM. Instead, there are many dynamics and paradigms that might work for you – and many others that simply aren’t going to be your style. Explore these deeply in our two-part online workshop starting tonight, The Archetypes of Power & Surrender: A Two Part Series with FireOnTheMtnTop / Sir Scott and Lecee. You’ll need advanced ticketing to participate, whether you plan to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, August 22 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ And don’t forget to use code ELVIS to get 20% off all purchases through our Wicked Grounds Annex site this week. Saturday, August 23 Are you in very northern California? Our Miriam Green hosts the Mendocino Munch in coastal Mendocino county every month. This month, we’ll be hanging out in Fort Bragg from 1-3 (often longer – we like each other!). It’s not technically a Wicked Grounds event, but it’s not not a Wicked Grounds event. You can find out more and ​RSVP here on FetLife​. Sunday, August 24 Want to get deeply into your creative sense of bondage? Join Miss Mackenzee online today at 2pm Pacific for Boundless Creativity: Innovative Ways to

Hello kinksters – We have a lot going on this week, both in San Francisco and online! I’ll tell you all about it in a moment. One quick request first. We’ve been shaking the trees this week to try to get our ​scholarship fund replenished​ going into this fall. We know that a lot of people are going through it right now, but if you are able to sustainably give a few bucks (or several) to help other kinksters have financial accessibility, we’d sure appreciate your help! My goal is to stop actively shaking the trees by Sunday, but we are very far behind our targets. Everything helps! Our ​six-week tarot intensive​ launches on August 10th. We’ll have our first live online class on Monday, August 11th. It’s a great time to grab your spot! This weekend, Wicked Grounds is proud to be part of the Saturday, August 9th ​Camp Unity: Fireside Edition​ party at Stopgap, along with Dark Odyssey, AfterDark Events, Society of Janus, Nocturnal Events, and more. Wicked Grounds will present a SpankLab demo on bottoming skills from impossiblepain, and offer an Ask Us Anything coaching booth. Fun! And the ​San Francisco Fetish Flea​ is coming up on Sunday, August 10th! This is a great way to get new, handcrafted, and upcycled kink gear. We hosted the event for years and always recommend it! Let’s take a look at this coming week: This Week! Thursday, August 7 – Friday, August 8 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ Saturday, August 9 Join Sarah Butcher online today for Rules and Rituals for Power Play. This D/s class will be offered live, or you can watch through the recording later. Either way, you’ll need advanced tickets. You may get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Join Wicked Grounds and several other Bay Area kink organizations for Camp Unity: Fireside Edition, hosted by Kink Community, starting at 8pm. Wicked Grounds will be hosting a K.I.N.K. Ranger Station for Kinky Info, Navigation & Knowledge! The knowledgeable rangers from Wicked Grounds are ready to help guide your journey! And our SpankLab host impossiblepain will be hosting a bottoming skills class with the assistance of Miriam Green. Advanced ticketing required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​. Sunday, August 10 Join us online today for The Spark Between Us: Energy, Presence & Power in BDSM from Fire on the Mountain. You’ll learn new ways to show up completely for your scenes and engage fully with your partners. This online class will be recorded but you’ll need advanced tickets to either attend live or through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Today is also the official launch day of our six-week tarot intensive The Pentacle Path with Miriam Green, with our first live Zoom session on Monday, 8/11. ​Reserve your spot here on Teachable!​ If you’re in the SF Bay Area, head over to the ​SF Fetish Flea​ today from 11am – 5pm to see the best in handcrafted and upcycled kink gear. Admission is only $5 and you’re sure to find great new toys. Monday, August 11 Tonight is our first live online class for The Pentacle Path with Miriam Green. If you’d like the ability to attend all of our Zoom sessions live rather than through the recording, this is also your last day to register for the course. ​Reserve your spot here on Teachable!​ Tuesday, August 12 Dating is already hard enough! Add being kinky into the mix, and it gets even more complicated. If you’re facing challenges, you are not alone – and we can offer you some tips, tricks, and considerations to make it a little easier. Join Miriam Green online tonight for Dating While Kinky, and we’ll do our best to help! Advanced ticketing required whether you plan to attend live or watch through the recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday, August 13 Want some new friends, lovers, play partners, maybe something more? You’ll need to get out and meet some people! If you are in the San Francisco area, join us in SF tonight for Wicked Grounds + Plura Present: Kinky Speed Friending and let’s help you meet a lot of very cool people, fast! ​Learn more about the event and reserve your spot here!​ Thursday, August 14 In the kink community, your reputation is everything! But how do you manage that? Join Princess Rara online tonight to learn all the basics (and some not-so-basics!) in Navigating Your Reputation in BDSM. Whether you plan to attend live or through the recording, you’ll need a ticket! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, August 15 No live classes today. But check out our video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​ And hey, it’s Mir’s birthday tomorrow! They are turning :: mumble mumble :: You know what would make an excellent gift? Pay it forward to some other kinksters by donating to our ​scholarship fund​! Saturday, August 16 We have some great classes in San Francisco and online this weekend! Online, join UK kink educator Sarah Butcher for a class on Consensual Non-Consent. We’ve timed this one to run live at 11am Pacific and 7pm in the UK so that folks (almost) everywhere can watch live, but we’ll also record this for later watching – so long as you have an advanced ticket. You can get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Are you in the San Francisco Bay Area? Have you been meaning to learn the basics of shibari & rope bondage? Join us in SOMA from noon – 2pm for Let’s Get Knotty: Rope Bondage for Beginners with Jaime Joy! Space is limited, so it’s a good idea to get tickets in advanced (although we’re happy to sell space-available tickets at the door). Get your advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, August 17 Join Lee Harrington online today for Getting Freaky & Spicy: BDSM & Kink Basics. This legendary teacher