Month: May 2026

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. Keep reading to take a look at what’s best for your next step on the path! Join us for a kink self-exploration deep dive in Phoenix this Sunday! Join us in Phoenix this Sunday for a daylong Kink Exploration Deep Dive with Miriam Green! This Week! Thursday, May 28 Online: Calling all folks in or wanting to be in relationships! Join Lilithfoxx tonight online tonight to make all your relationships a bit better in Unfuck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations. If you ever find yourself getting tripped up by assumptions and blind spots, you’ll benefit from this class! Attend live or by the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Tucson, AZ: Join us tonight at Desert Dominion in Tucson for Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam BatAsherah Green. Whether you believe in magick, want to believe in magick, or just think this is all a great metaphor for spicy psychology, you’ll learn all about how to use sexual and kinky energy to get the fuck out of your own way and improve your life. No advanced ticketing required – get your tickets at the door! Just $5 for members and $10 for non-members. Find out more at ​DesertDominion.org​. Friday, May 29 No live classes today, but you can explore our growing collection of video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, May 30 Phoenix, AZ: Dating is hard enough, to be honest. Add in being polyamorous or kinky and it suddenly gets more complex. How do we find partners who will embrace and celebrate all of who we are and get the kinds of play and relationships we want? We’ll explore all of it today from 11am – 1pm in Dating While Kinky with Wicked Grounds’ Miriam Green, live today in Phoenix! Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended, and you can get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​, where you can sign up for some or all of our weekend classes all in one spot. Phoenix, AZ: Want to start incorporating rituals, protocols and other ongoing kink dynamics into your kinky relationships? Let’s think through great strategies to figure out what you want and how to talk about it successfully in Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Relationships & Dynamics with Miriam Green today from 2-4pm at Arizona Power Exchange in Phoenix. Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended, and you can get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​, where you can sign up for some or all of our weekend classes all in one spot. San Francisco, CA: This isn’t our class, but one that we’ve hosted before that we thought you should know about. Alexandria from Click Your Heels is going to be offering a two-hour in-person class today at 2pm: Under Her Heels: Heels as a Dungeon Implement. If you missed our recent high heels intensive with Alexandria – or want to brush up – you might want to check this out. Find out more on ​Partiful​. Sunday, May 31 Phoenix, AZ: The first step in asking for what we want in relationships and the kink community at large is knowing ourselves. But in a culture that makes it hard to connect with desire, we don’t always have the tools to get real about our kinks, desires, and turn-ons. Today from 10am – 5pm, Miriam Green will take you through proven strategies for figuring out your evolving erotic roadmap in out Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive. You’ll learn the key tools we teach in our annual six-week Diving Deep intensive all in one day, and walk away with tools you’ll use for a lifetime. Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended, and you can get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​, where you can sign up for some or all of our weekend classes all in one spot. Monday, June 1 Online: Curious about exploring trance states for hypno or energy play, but not sure where to start? Join us online tonight for Trance Work 101 with Keiden Bren to learn all about trance and how to incorporate it into your play! Advanced ticketing is required to attend either live or through the recording, so get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Phoenix, AZ: Sub drop. Top drop. Con drop. “A case of the Mondays.” Whatever it is, what is this horrible feeling we often have after peak experiences, and what can we do about it? At 7:15 pm at Arizona Power Exchange, join our own Miriam Green to figure it all out in Dealing With Drop. This class is FREE for all-access members, $5 for Pay-per-event members at the door. Not a member yet? Come early at 6pm to join APEX for their New Member Orientation and sign up for lots more great kink education and events! Learn more at ​ArizonaPowerExchange.org​. Tuesday, June 2 Online: Take your bondage well beyond rope, and incorporate some new tools you probably already have! Join Lee Harrington online tonight to explore Clothing Bondage Made Easy: Encase, Rip, Wrap, and Transform. Can’t attend live? We’ll record it for all advance ticketholders. Get your tickets from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Wednesday, June 3 San Francisco, CA: If you’re in San Francisco, join us for the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night! At 7pm, join us for Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! hosted by San Francisco’s impact play power switch, Impossiblepain. We’ll start with a short discussion or demo, continue with consent discussions, and then learn impact play through peer skill share and practice. This event often

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 we do and want to help us expand our access, please contribute to our annual Scholarship Fund Drive or become a supporting member of Wicked Grounds. Both of these programs help us provide classes with the greatest access as well as provide more specialty and niche education that you won’t find anywhere else! The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives 5/31 10am – 5pm MST: Kink Self-Discovery Daylong Intensive with Miriam Green. (Phoenix, AZ) Forbidden Tickets November – December 2026. Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires (ONLINE) S/m & the physical side of play 6/3 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: Spanklab! Hosted by impossiblepain. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (San Francisco, CA) 6/8 6pm PDT: Cruising for a Bruising: Impact Play 101 with Jamie Joy. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/15 6pm PDT: Heavy Hitter: Advanced Impact Play with Jamie Joy. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/22 6pm PDT: Torture with a Twist: Fun with Tickling with Miss Mackenzee Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/1 6pm PDT: Body Modification: Sacred and Profane with Lee Harrington Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/1 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/19 11am – 4:30pm PDT: Out for Blood Sharps Play Intensive with Miss Mackenzee. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 7/20 6pm PDT: Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play with Jamie Joy. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) Bondage 6/2 6pm PDT: Clothing Bondage Made Easy: Encase, Rip, Wrap, and Transform with Lee Harrington Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/2 6pm PDT: Affirming Ties for Trans Femmes with Empress Oxblood. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) D/s, role play & the mental side of play 5/27 6pm PDT: Creating Energetic Containers for Kink with HG Wyndell. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 5/30 2pm MST: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics & Relationships with Miriam Green. Forbidden Tickets (Phoenix, AZ) 6/10 6pm PDT: Tease and Denial with Mel and Memi. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/17 6pm PDT: Intro to Dominance/submission (D/s) 3 Hour Class with Mel and Memi. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/21 11am PDT: Daddy Issues: Daddy Dynamics & You with Lady V. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/7 6pm PDT: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics & Relationships with Miriam Green. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/9 6pm PDT: Reclaiming Your Inner Villain: A Fantasy Roleplaying Workshop with Lila Hades. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 7/12 6pm PDT: Trauma Informed Caregiver/Little Dynamic, Age Play & Dark Age Play with Kare Bear. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 7/16 6pm PDT: Strategies For Switching with Lee Harrington. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 8/11 2:30 PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (San Francisco, CA) Primal & Animal Play 6/5 8pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Pets! hosted by Madam Rosie Rose. Luma or Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (Los Angeles, CA) Sexy Times 6/11 6pm PDT: Building Confidence in the Bedroom: Own Your Energy with Dolly Diatima. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/14 Noon – 3pm PDT: Lap Dancing Fundamentals with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (Oakland, CA) 6/25 6pm PDT: The Art of Pussy Eating with Lilith Foxx. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/8 6pm PDT: The Art of the Hookup with Lady V. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 7/16 6pm PDT: The Art of Dirty Talk with Marla Renee Stewart. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) Hypnosis 6/1 6pm PDT: Trance Work 101 with Keiden Bren. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) Polyamory and Nonmonogamy 5/28 6pm PDT: Unfuck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilith Foxx. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/4 6pm PDT: The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin PhD. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) Creativity and Movement 6/14 Noon – 3pm PDT: Lap Dancing Fundamentals with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (Oakland, CA) 6/23 & 6/30 6pm PDT: Writing Spicy: A Two-Week Series with Sinclair Sexsmith. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE: No Recording) 8/11 2:30pm PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (San Francisco, CA) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 5/31 10am – 5pm MST: Kink Self-Discovery Daylong Intensive with Miriam Green. (Phoenix, AZ) Forbidden Tickets 6/1 7:15pm MST: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green. For Arizona Power Exchange members only – check our Arizona Power Exchange for details. Not a member yet? There’s a new member orientation at 6pm the same night! (Phoenix, AZ) 6/9 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/24 6pm PDT: Tarot for Scene Creation with H G Wyndell. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 7/14 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation: From Awkward to Awesome with Miriam Green. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 5/30 11am MST: Dating While Kinky with Miriam Green. Forbidden Tickets (Phoenix, AZ) 5/30 2pm MST: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics & Relationships. Forbidden Tickets (Phoenix, AZ) 6/5 6pm PDT: Welcome to the LA Kink Scene with Killmeat Nick. Luma or Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (Los Angeles, CA) 6/6 6:45pm PDT: Kink and Kids: Practising Kink As Parents with Ancilla L. Forbidden Tickets or Plura. (ONLINE) 6/10 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with Psychokitty Ryan. Plura (San Francisco, CA) 6/16 6pm PDT: BDSM and Attachment Styles with Sir Panda. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/18 6pm PDT: The Future of Black Kink with Marla Renee Stewart. Forbidden Tickets or Plura (ONLINE) 6/21 2pm PDT: The Literal Servant Leader with Hannah

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 used to host an ongoing coffeehouse which was full of local artists, geeks, pagans, polyamorous folks, and people who just thought our DJ played great music. I was partnered with about six people at the time and was focused on healing my own trauma and building sex-positivity. I read voraciously: Annie Sprinkle, Susie Bright, the earliest books of Carol Queen. I had some toys and was experimenting with kinky play, and had started exploring the local nudist scene. But I was still scared to death to explore BDSM classes or the public kink scene. Two of the folks who regularly came to our coffeehouse were a sweet polyamorous couple who were members of ​Arizona Power Exchange​, a lifestyle club in neighboring Phoenix. Every month, they invited us to be their guests at a play party, and they were kind and gentle in explaining what one was. I think some other members of my polycule went, but I didn’t. At that time, I was terrified of going to a play party. (I know, I know!) It took me several more years before I was brave enough to get involved in the Austin and Houston scenes. If you’ve attended my 101 classes, you’ve probably heard me say: If I had one thing to do over, I’d have gotten involved in the public kink scene sooner. The scene has improved my safety, my courage, and my ability to reclaim my own erotic authenticity. So: guess who I’m teaching for next weekend? Yep, that’s the good folks of Arizona Power Exchange (as well as Desert Dominion in Tucson). I’m especially looking forward to facilitating my ​Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive​ on Sunday 5/31 – it will be particularly resonant to explain my early fear in the room where it (should have) happened. If you’re in a reasonable drive of the Phoenix area, I hope you’ll join us for a full weekend of classes. ​You can find out more here!​ Bonus points if you’re scared and you come anyway. 😉 Now, let’s take a look at a very full schedule of online and live classes this week! This Week! Thursday, May 21 Online: Want to go much deeper with your play and really get into your partner’s head? Join Keiden Bren online tonight for Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene. Attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (This class was rescheduled from last Thursday, so you still have just a smidge of time to get tickets!) Friday, May 22 No live classes today, but you can explore our growing collection of video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, May 23 Mendocino, CA: It’s not technically a Wicked Grounds event, but our own Miriam Green hosts monthly events for kinksters in coastal Mendocino county. If that’s you, you’re warmly welcome to join this month’s The Mendocino Munch + our maiden voyage of the monthly Mendocino Rope Lab! To attend either or both, join us at the Good Life Bakery back picnic benches for the munch from noon – 2pm. (The location for the rope lab will be provided at the munch, and the rope lab will continue from 2:30 – 4:30pm!) Online: Curious about incorporating verbal humiliation into your kinky scenes, but want to do it in a way that’s hot (and not harmful or just awkward)? Join Dolly Diatima online today for Intro to Verbal Humiliation: Off the Cuff, On Your Knees. Can’t attend live? We’ll record it for viewing within one week as long as you have advance tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, May 24 Online: What is a risk profile, and why do you need one for kinky play? A well thought-out risk profile can radically simplify your approach to consent and communication, and can help us better respond to what works for our own needs in kink. But how do you go about creating yours? Join Mel & Memi online today to explore it all in Creating Your Risk Profile and learn a simple but comprehensive method for crafting yours. Advanced ticketing required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Monday, May 25 Online: Tonight we wrap up this year’s annual Kink Class Incubator. What a great time we’ve had this year! Thanks so much to all the instructors and aspiring instructors who attended. This year’s cohort is closed to new members, but mark your calendars for next spring. Tuesday, May 26 Online: Ready to take your kink protocols to the next level, but not sure where to start? Sinclair Sexsmith has a creative solution to get you unstuck, and it’s called The Protocol Game. Learn all about it and add new spark to your D/s dynamics in tonight’s class! Sinclair’s classes are not recorded, so you need to get your tickets and plan to attend live. Tickets are available through ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Wednesday, May 27 Online: We raise a lot of energy in kink scenes, whether we think of that as a metaphor or more palpably. But how to we keep all that energy moving toward our goals? H G Wyndell has practical techniques to keep your scenes on track. Join them tonight for Creating Energetic Containers for Kink and learn new ways to make your scenes stronger and hotter. Advanced tickets will allow you to attend live or by recording. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Thursday,

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 what we do and want to help us expand our access, please contribute to our annual ​Scholarship Fund Drive​ or ​become a supporting member of Wicked Grounds​. Both of these programs help us provide classes with the greatest access as well as provide more specialty and niche education that you won’t find anywhere else! The Roundup! Daylong & Multi-week Intensives 5/31 10am – 5pm MST: Kink Self-Discovery Daylong Intensive with Miriam Green (Phoenix, AZ) ​Forbidden Tickets​ November – December 2026. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires​ (ONLINE) S/m & the physical side of play 5/19 6pm PDT: Simplest Toybag: Creative Uses for One Rope with Lee Harrington.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/20 6pm PDT: Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play with Jamie Joy​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/3 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: Spanklab! Hosted by impossiblepain.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (San Francisco, CA) 6/8 6pm PDT: Cruising for a Bruising: Impact Play 101 with Jamie Joy​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/15 6pm PDT: Heavy Hitter: Advanced Impact Play with Jamie Joy​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/22 6pm PDT: Torture with a Twist: Fun with Tickling with Miss Mackenzee​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE)** 7/1 6pm PDT: Body Modification: Sacred and Profane with Lee Harrington​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE)** 7/1 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab! with impossiblepain​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE)** Bondage 5/18 6pm PDT: Channeling the Energy: Tantra and Rope with Miss Mackenzee​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/19 6pm PDT: Simplest Toybag: Creative Uses for One Rope with Lee Harrington.​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/2 6pm PDT: Clothing Bondage Made Easy: Encase, Rip, Wrap, and Transform with Lee Harrington​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) D/s, role play & the mental side of play TBD: Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene with Keiden Bren​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Please note that we are rescheduling this class and are awaiting a new date from our instructor. 5/16 2pm PDT: Stealth D/s Protocols with Marilyn and Rio​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/23 2pm PDT: Intro to Verbal Humiliation: Off the Cuff, On Your Knees with Dolly Diatima​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/26 6pm PDT: The Protocol Game with Sinclair Sexsmith​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/27 6pm PDT: Creating Energetic Containers for Kink with HG Wyndell​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/30 2pm MST: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics & Relationships with Miriam Green. ​Forbidden Tickets​ (Phoenix, AZ) 6/10 6pm PDT: Tease and Denial with Mel and Memi​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/17 6pm PDT: Intro to Dominance/submission (D/s) 3 Hour Class with Mel and Memi​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/21 11am PDT: Daddy Issues: Daddy Dynamics & You with Lady V​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 7/7 6pm PDT: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics & Relationships with Miriam Green. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 8/11 2:30 PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) Primal & Animal Play 6/5 8pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Pets! hosted by Madam Rosie Rose. ​Luma​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) Sexy Times 5/17 11am PDT: Strangers in the Night: Fray Sexuality, Relationships & YOU! with Lady V​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/11 6pm PDT: Building Confidence in the Bedroom: Own Your Energy with Dolly Diatima​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/14 Noon – 3pm PDT: Lap Dancing Fundamentals with Alexandria from Click Your Heels​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (Oakland, CA) 6/25 6pm PDT: The Art of Pussy Eating with Lilith Foxx​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Hypnosis 5/16 11am PDT: Mindful Brainwashing with Aidan​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/1 6pm PDT: Trance Work 101 with Keiden Bren​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) Polyamory and Nonmonogamy 5/21 6pm PDT: The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin PhD​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/28 6pm PDT: Unfuck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilith Foxx​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/4 6pm PDT: The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin PhD​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Creativity and Movement 6/14 Noon – 3pm PDT: Lap Dancing Fundamentals with Alexandria from Click Your Heels​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (Oakland, CA) 6/23 & 6/30 6pm PDT: Writing Spicy: A Two-Week Series with Sinclair Sexsmith​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE: No Recording) 8/11 2:30pm PDT: Improv for Kinksters with Psychokitty Ryan​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (San Francisco, CA) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 5/24 11am PDT: Creating Your Risk Profile with Mel & Memi​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/31 10am – 5pm MST: Kink Self-Discovery Daylong Intensive with Miriam Green (Phoenix, AZ) ​Forbidden Tickets​ 6/1 7:15pm MST: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green. For Arizona Power Exchange members only – check our ​Arizona Power Exchange​ for details. Not a member yet? There’s a new member orientation at 6pm the same night! (Phoenix, AZ) 6/9 6pm PDT: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 6/24 6pm PDT: Tarot for Scene Creation with H G Wyndell​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 5/17 11am PDT: Strangers in the Night: Fray Sexuality, Relationships & YOU! with Lady V​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ (ONLINE) 5/30 11am MST: Dating While Kinky with Miriam Green. ​Forbidden Tickets​ (Phoenix, AZ) 5/30 2pm MST: Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Dynamics & Relationships. ​Forbidden Tickets​ (Phoenix, AZ) 6/5 6pm PDT: Welcome to the LA Kink Scene with Killmeat Nick. ​Luma​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (Los Angeles, CA) 6/6 6:45pm PDT: Kink and Kids: Practising Kink As Parents with Ancilla L. ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. (ONLINE) 6/10 7pm PDT: Kinky Speed Friending with

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 Angeles for our Rope & Restraint Play Lab this Friday, and later this month as we make our way through Arizona for a weekend of immersive classes with Desert Dominion and Arizona Power Exchange. And if you’re local to coastal Mendocino County, don’t miss The Mendocino Munch and our brand-new Rope Lab. Let’s dive into all of it! This Week! Thursday, May 14 Online: Want to go much deeper with your play and really get into your partner’s head? Join Keiden Bren online tonight for Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene. Attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, May 15 Los Angeles, CA: Calling all SoCal rope lovers! Join us in DTLA tonight at 7pm Pacific for Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Rope & Restraint! More information and advanced ticketing is available through ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. Saturday, May 16 Online: If you explore erotic hypnosis play, you’ll want to join us today for Mindful Brainwashing with Aiden Sunassee. Advanced ticketing is required to attend live or through the class recording. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: Want to keep your D/s protocols and dynamics hot and strong no matter where you are, while also being respectful of your environment? Join longtime leather power couple Marilyn & Rio today online for Stealth D/s Protocols to learn a variety of philosophies and strategies! Advanced ticketing required to attend live or by recording. Get yours: ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, May 17 Online: What is fray sexuality, and how might it inform how you think about relationships, sexuality, and new relationship energy? Join Lady V online to learn all about it today in Strangers in the Night: Fray Sexuality, Relationships & YOU! Advanced ticketing required to attend through the recording or live, so don’t be a stranger! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, May 18 Online: Want to bring more intention, intensity and energy to your rope play? Join us online tonight for Channeling the Energy: Tantra and Rope with Miss Mackenzee. This online class will explore how to use the ancient practices of tantra to take your connection with your rope partners to the next level. You may attend live or through the recording with advance tickets from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Tuesday, May 19 Online: We often think of rope as just for bondage, and imagine scenes with lots and lots of rope. But rope can be useful for a range of kinky play! In tonight’s class, we’ll explore how one piece of rope can become a leash, an improvised whip, a gag, a blindfold, a makeshift vibrator, a tool for intense sensation play, and more. Bring an entire party with just one rope in Simplest Toybag: Creative Uses for One Rope with Lee Harrington. Can’t attend live? We’ll record for you with your advance tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday, May 20 Online: In tonight’s online class with Jamie Joy, we’ll enter into the visceral and intoxicating world of Blood Play, where sensation and surrender meet danger and transcendence. If you’re curious about blood play, or want to take yours to the next level, please join us for Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play. Learn safety essentials, techniques, and the dark delicious creativity of drawing blood with intention. Join live or through the recording with advance tickets from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Thursday, May 21 and Friday, May 22 No live classes today, but you can explore our growing collection of video classes and other digital downloads at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​. Saturday, May 23 Mendocino, CA: It’s not technically a Wicked Grounds event, but our own Miriam Green hosts monthly events for kinksters in coastal Mendocino county. If that’s you, you’re warmly welcome to join this month’s The Mendocino Munch + our maiden voyage of the monthly Mendocino Rope Lab! To attend either or both, join us at the Good Life Bakery back picnic benches for the munch from noon – 2pm. (The location for the rope lab will be provided at the munch, and the rope lab will continue from 2:30 – 4:30pm!) Online: Curious about incorporating verbal humiliation into your kinky scenes, but want to do it in a way that’s hot (and not harmful or just awkward)? Join Dolly Diatima online today for Intro to Verbal Humiliation: Off the Cuff, On Your Knees. Can’t attend live? We’ll record it for viewing within one week as long as you have advance tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, May 24 Online: What is a risk profile, and why do you need one for kinky play? A well thought-out risk profile can radically simplify your approach to consent and communication, and can help us better respond to what works for our own needs in kink. But how do you go about creating yours? Join Mel & Memi online today to explore it all in Creating Your Risk Profile and learn a simple but comprehensive method for crafting yours. Advanced ticketing required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours from ​Plura​ or ​Forbidden Tickets​. Wicked Grounds on the Road! Los Angeles, CA: Join us in DTLA 5/15 for Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Rope & Restraint! More information and advanced ticketing is available through ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. Tucson, AZ: Join us at Desert Dominion on 5/28 for Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green. This event is door ticketed only. Find out more at ​DesertDominion.org​. Phoenix, AZ: We

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 spectrum, and more! Let’s take a look at our upcoming events! Wicked Grounds on the Road! Los Angeles, CA: Join us in DTLA 5/15 for Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Rope & Restraint! More information and advanced ticketing is available through ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. Tucson, AZ: Join us at Desert Dominion on 5/28 for Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green. This event is door ticketed only. Find out more at ​DesertDominion.org​. Phoenix, AZ: We will be offering a full weekend of classes 5/30 – 6/1 with our friends at Arizona Power Exchange. Join Miriam Green for Dating While Kinky,Advanced BDSM Negotiations for Relationships & Dynamics, and our Kink Self-Exploration Deep Dive Intensive on Saturday and Sunday. (​Tickets here through Forbidden Tickets​.) Then on Monday evening we’ll offer Dealing With Drop because we might need it by then! 😉 Tickets available soon for the Monday class. Los Angeles, CA: Our monthly Play Lab is back with Pets! Join us in DTLA 6/5 for a fun exploration of all things human animal and handler with guest host Madam Rosie Rose! More information and advanced ticketing is available through ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, and ​Plura​. This Week! Saturday, May 9 Online: Getting to be a kinkster of a certain age? Perhaps you’re coming to accept your kinky ways later in life and you’re ready to finally embrace the sex, play, and relationships you’ve always wanted? Join Miriam Green today online for Cellaring: Refining Your Skills as an Older Kinkster. We only offer this class about once per year, so attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​ to get in on it! Online: Are you between partners? Are your partners long-distance? Or maybe you just want to introduce more kink to your solo play. You don’t need a local partner to engage in the thrills and pleasure of S/M, but you might find that some techniques and strategies work better than others. Join us online today for Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play with Miriam Green, or watch later through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, May 10 Online: You don’t always need an elaborate set of toys to make the most of BDSM play. You can get their attention – or cause a sensation – just by getting them by the hair! Join Lady V online tonight to learn all about how in Hair Pulling 101: Head, Body, & Pubic Hair Play. Can’t attend live? We’ll record to watch within one week! You just need advanced ticketing from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: One of the most common traits among failed scenes, negotiations, and contract discussions is misunderstanding the intent behind a verbal statement. The best way to prevent these miscommunications or repair when one has happened? Building the core skill of Listening with Empathy. Join kink educator and leather titleholder Master Retro Bella tonight to build these core skills! Attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Monday, May 11 Online: Our annual Kink Class Incubator continues tonight. This year’s session is closed for new registration, but we’ll see you registered attendees there! Tuesday, May 12 Online: Whether you’re new to kink or just having challenges in your scenes, the best way to improve your play is improve your planning and communication! Learn all about how in tonight’s BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green. Advanced tickets required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Wednesday, May 13 No live classes today, but you can always check out our digital downloads – including video classes – at ​WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com​! Thursday, May 14 Online: Want to go much deeper with your play and really get into your partner’s head? Join Keiden Bren online tonight for Crafting A Psycho-Emotive Ritual Scene. Attend live or through the recording with your advanced tickets from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Friday, May 15 Los Angeles, CA: Calling all SoCal rope lovers! Join us in DTLA tonight at 7pm Pacific for Wicked Grounds Play Lab: Rope & Restraint! More information and advanced ticketing is available through ​Luma​, ​Forbidden Tickets​, or ​Plura​. Saturday, May 16 Online: If you explore erotic hypnosis play, you’ll want to join us today for Mindful Brainwashing with Aiden Sunassee. Advanced ticketing is required to attend live or through the class recording. Get yours from ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Online: Want to keep your D/s protocols and dynamics hot and strong no matter where you are, while also being respectful of your environment? Join longtime leather power couple Marilyn & Rio today online for Stealth D/s Protocols to learn a variety of philosophies and strategies! Advanced ticketing required to attend live or by recording. Get yours: ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Sunday, May 17 Online: What is fray sexuality, and how might it inform how you think about relationships, sexuality, and new relationship energy? Join Lady V online to learn all about it today in Strangers in the Night: Fray Sexuality, Relationships & YOU! Advanced ticketing required to attend through the recording or live, so don’t be a stranger! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​. Intensives! We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. ​Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires​. Registration now open for November 2 – December 14. (ONLINE) Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team Support. Follow. Share.