Wicked Grounds

ONLINE: An Introduction to Submission: Exploring Submissive Roles with Sarah Butcher
2025-12-07 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Do you want to explore and understand your submissive desires more deeply? Do you want to feel confident in what you want and find a Dom that’s right for you? Whether you’re in a relationship or single, you’re completely new to BDSM or still don’t know if submission is your thing, this workshop is for you.
Perhaps you have a little experience but the experiences you’ve had so far don’t quite live up to your expectations, or you want some tips on how to fully embrace your submissive side with a new or existing partner…
I am welcoming subs/switches of all genders and orientations to this introduction to submission, where I’ll be talking you through some of the different elements of submission, how it works, and how to find a Dom that’s right for you. Topics we’ll cover include:
– What is a submissive?
– What are the benefits of submitting?
– Blocks to submission
– making the most of your submissive experience
– Subspace/subdrop
– Your responsibilities as a submissive
– Embracing your feminine energy
– What to look for in a Dom
– Saying “no”
This workshop will encourage you to think about what you want and feel confident in your kinks.
My workshops provide a safe space for open-minded people who are curious to learn more about BDSM practices.
Please note this online event is a seminar-style workshop and no play/nudity is involved. There will be exercises given during class/as homework but the level of participation is down to what each individual feels safe and comfortable with.
PRESENTER:
Sarah Butcher – AKA Sub in the City is an Integrative Kink Therapist, Coach & Educator with over a decade of experience in the BDSM Scene. Sarah is on a mission to bring BDSM into the 21st Century and empower curious kinksters to consciously explore what BDSM means to them. With a holistic and therapeutic approach, Sarah works with a variety of individuals and couples at different stages of their kink journey, supporting them to discover their desires, integrate their shadows, and live in their truth through 1-1 sessions, workshops, events, and retreats.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/df13e244f8
The regular ticket is $30. This is what most people should pay.
If that would be a barrier to attendance, use the $20 option. If you’re able to be generous, paying at the $40 level allows us to make tickets accessible to those who need the discount.
Choose the level you can comfortably afford.
Patreon members at the VIP+ level may get discounted tickets for $10. Just see your Patreon membership emails for this month’s discount code. Find out more at Patreon.com/WickedGrounds!
If cost is a barrier at any level, please use the “Volunteer List” to request a free scholarship ticket. We will award as many scholarship tickets as we can on a space-available basis.
ACCESS:
This will be a live, online class offered through Zoom. To participate, you may need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class! This class will be recorded.
Zoom now provides closed captioning which will be available for this event.

ONLINE: Chain Bondage for Beginners with CTW & Fischer Garrett
2025-12-08 18:00 - 20:00
Chains are a kink staple that evoke images of dungeons and being trapped, feelings of cold and hard restraint, and power and control. This class is a discussion of risks and safety using chains for bondage, a demonstration of various metal connectors, and how to maintain tension and make single columns using chain with labbing time after each demonstration. Great for self- and partnered-bondage participants and absolute beginners! Participants are welcome to bring their own chain; the presenters will have plastic chain available to borrow to practice with during the workshop.
If you wish to purchase your own starter chain kit ahead of time, the presenters recommend two 6-feet lengths of 1/4-inch proof coil zinc-plated chain and four to six 1/4-inch stainless steel screw-pin anchor shackles.
PRESENTERS:
Cecilia T. Winters (‘CTW’ – She/Her) is your typical queer Millennial. Born at the start of the internet age, she has always benefited from information at her fingertips. She identifies as bisexual and ethically non-monogamous. She has served as a dungeon and playspace monitor, a demo top for a number of local and national kink events, and as a presenter. Her non-kink interests include reading, making lists, watching early 2000s crime dramas, and learning about ancient human cultures.
Fischer Garrett (‘Mister’ – He/Him) is a bisexual, polyamorous top. His time spent in the lifestyle has led him through a journey of self discovery, from once being totally monogamous to being a relationship anarchist; from wanting nothing to do with bondage to developing a way to practice bondage in a relatively unperformed and under-documented fashion. In the past several years he has volunteered for larger kink events as a member of a consent incident response team, a dungeon/playspace monitor, and recently as a presenter. He is a huge fan of costumes and masks, and it is not unusual to know that he is around but often in clever and sometimes strange disguises.
Together they are coauthors of the first book on chain bondage, The Art of Chain: A Guide to Steel Restraint (Mystic Productions, 2022). www.theartofchain.com
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/c0b59b0eab

ONLINE: Beyond the Kitchen Table: Modes and Models of Parallel Polyamory with Laura Boyle
2025-12-09 18:00 - 20:00
Many polyamorous “authorities” present kitchen-table groups as the holy grail of polyam interactions. While these relationship styles work well for many people, structures that fall outside that framework can be equally positive and healthy. This class will focus on building parallel relationships, being intentional about your choice of how much to interact with your partners’ wider networks, and how to openly communicate about:

How to be entwined in someone’s life but not close with a meta
“Stepping off the relationship escalator”
How to negotiate wanting a different level of interaction than a meta does
Balancing D/s concerns with poly concerns
Maximizing personal responsibility and minimizing stress on hinge partners

PRESENTER:
Laura Boyle is a relationship coach, educator, and author of Monogamy? In this Economy? Finances, Childrearing, and Other Practical Concerns of Polyamory. She’s the voice behind the Ready for Polyamory blog and podcast, and has been an expert voice on polyamory in such publications as The Boston Globe and Cosmopolitan. She’s been polyamorous for nearly 20 years and has been teaching since 2018.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/b5a15df977

ONLINE: Finding Your Powers: The 10 Sides of What Gets called "D/s" with Lee Harrington
2025-12-13 11:00 - 13:00
Have you ever talked about wanting a power exchange relationship or mentioned your interest in dominant/submissive scenes, only to realize you’re on a completely different wavelength than the person you were speaking with? It’s likely because there are at least 8 distinct concepts wrapped up in those terms—each unique in its own way!
Join international sexuality author and educator Lee Harrington for an eye-opening exploration of the 10 key dimensions of power, desire, and authority. Learn how these elements shape our experiences and deepen our connections in the world of kink and beyond, and how you can help you and those you connect with line up your relationships and desires.
PRESENTER:
Lee Harrington is an internationally known spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist and award-winning author and editor on erotic and sacred experience. He’s been traveling the globe teaching and talking about sexuality, psychology, faith and desire, and believes you deserve passion and connection in your life. His books include “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Negotiating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities” (with Mollena Williams), “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond,” “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé,” and “Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities,” amongst many others. Lee has been a passion instigator, academic, adult film performer, world class sexual adventurer, outspoken philosopher, polytheist priest/ess, kink/bondage expert, and has been blogging about sex and spirit since 1998. Read more about Lee at PassionAndSoul.com.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/55002f7872
We offer several price points, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance.
So – that’s it! Choose the level you can comfortably afford.
Patreon members at the VIP+ level may get discounted tickets for $10. Just see your Patreon membership emails for this month’s discount code. Find out more at Patreon.com/WickedGrounds!
If cost is a barrier at any level, please use the “Volunteer List” to request a free scholarship ticket. We will award as many scholarship tickets as we can on a space-available basis.
ACCESS:
This will be a live, online class offered through Zoom. To participate, you may need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class! This class will be recorded.
Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.

ONLINE: Violet Wands 101 with Electro Girly
2025-12-13 14:00 - 16:00
Step into the charged world of violet wand play—a mesmerizing electro toy that blends sensation, sound, and light into one electrifying experience. Using high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency electricity, the violet wand can create everything from soft, teasing caresses to sharp, deliciously torturous intensity. Its touch can be wicked, seductive, and just the right kind of cruel—offering a range of sensations that are as playful as they are intense. While often known for its sting, this tool is just as capable of delivering slow, sensual waves that build and build.
In this class, we’ll explore the essentials—like how glass electrodes interact with the skin, ways to play with the body contact attachment that turns you into a human conductor, and the creative use of pervertables, everyday objects that take on a whole new spark. We’ll also dive into some more intermediate techniques, such as layering sensations to build intensity, experimenting with rhythm and pacing, and combining attachments for surprising effects. Along the way, we’ll cover the foundational practices that keep violet wand play rooted in safety, consent, and connection.
Whether you’re totally new or brushing up on the basics, this hands-on session offers a playful, curiosity-fueled space to build skills and explore the electric possibilities.
Let Electro Girly guide you into the glow—this is your invitation to plug in and play.
PRESENTER:
Electro Girly is an Educator, performer, event coordinator and Pro Dom at Sanctuary Studios in Los Angeles whose specialty and passion is electro play. She entered the kink scene in 2017 and discovered electro play in 2021, quickly dedicating herself to the craft with intensity and focus. Starting with demo and taster booths, she fell in love with introducing people to the spark of electricity—the way their curiosity turned to excitement and understanding as sensation transformed into connection. That joy now fuels her work as a teacher, where she leads classes on the violet wand with a blend of technical skill, embodied presence, and femme Dom power. Her approach balances precision and creativity with safety and care, creating space for students to explore the charged interplay of pain and pleasure, push their limits in consent-forward ways, and tap into kink as a language of empowerment and intimacy.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/0c04d7c1f0

ONLINE: From Little Princess to Rebellious Teen: An Ageplay Workshop with Mel and Memi
2025-12-14 11:00 - 13:00
The idea behind this workshop is to explore the possibilities of ageplay and everything that is yet uncharted about it. We want to offer a cared for space for everyone interested in exploring how being a baby, a child or a teen can feel, and for them to be heard and not alone in their kinks and lifestyle.
We will cover the basics for anyone interested in diving into ageplay, and show how tender, fun and sexy playing with age can be, knowing that we are doing a radical act of vulnerability with the intent of making people feel accepted and welcome them into this family (hahah) of practices.
What the workshop will cover:

What is ageplay: intro, styles, dynamics and more!
Kink shame and stigma surrounding ageplay (and how to de-pathologize)
How to negotiate for an ageplay scene
Small negotiation demo
Archetypes and scene ideas
How to explore “little” and “big” spaces
Identity, 24/7 dynamics and roles

PRESENTERS:
Mel (he/him) is an Argentinian trans masc aligned gender fluid sex and BDSM educator. He is the co-founder of Kinky Vibe Argentina, a collective based in Buenos Aires that hosts events, support groups and workshops for the kinky, queer and neurodivergent community both online and offline. Lifestyle kinkster, he has been doing kink for the last ten years, identifies as sub-leaning switch, and is a sex worker (ProDomme).
One of his greatest passions is thinking about power, risk, and self-consent in the context of kink, and spending most of his time accompanying people on their kinky journey. He has been teaching about kink, pleasure, risk, and depathologization for the last nine years.
Memi (he/him) is an Argentinian trans masc person, who is a lifestyle kinkster, a history teacher, and an early-career researcher in the history of sexualities. He has been doing kink for almost a decade in a wide variety of kinks, relationships, dynamics, and sides of the slash. He is very curious about power, oppression, and the complex history behind kink, the space where didactics and kink meet, and loves to be a kink enabler to everyone around.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/67b3f4cac6

ONLINE: Domination 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Developing Your Dominant Side with Sarah Butcher
2025-12-14 14:00 - 16:00
Do you want to explore and understand what it means to be a Dominant? Do you want to feel confident in leading your partner in the bedroom? Whether you’re in a relationship or single, you’re completely new to BDSM or have experimented with Dominance but don’t seem to be getting the results you desire, this workshop is for you!
I am welcoming Dominants/switches of all genders and orientations to The Art of Domination, where I’ll be talking you through some of the basics of Domination, how it works, and how to find and create a fulfilling D/s dynamic with a partner whose kinks align with yours. Topics we’ll cover include:

What is a Dom?
Qualities of a good Dominant
Blocks to Domination & confidence building
Stepping into your masculine energy
What type of Dominant are you?
Your Dominant responsibilities
Limits, safewords & aftercare
Finding the right submissive
Training your submissive
Taking on board feedback

This workshop will encourage you to really think about your desires and reflect on how to adapt your Dominant style to get the most out of your BDSM experiences.
Please note this online event is a seminar-style workshop and no play/nudity is involved. There will be exercises given during class/as homework but level of participation is down to what each individual feels safe and comfortable with.
PRESENTER:
Sarah Butcher – AKA Sub in the City is an Integrative Kink Therapist, Coach & Educator with over a decade of experience in the BDSM Scene. Sarah is on a mission to bring BDSM into the 21st Century and empower curious kinksters to consciously explore what BDSM means to them. With a holistic and therapeutic approach, Sarah works with a variety of individuals and couples at different stages of their kink journey, supporting them to discover their desires, integrate their shadows, and live in their truth through 1-1 sessions, workshops, events, and retreats.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/3bb72df8b1

ONLINE: Entangled Desires: Rope for Sex and Intimacy with Jamie Joy
2025-12-15 18:00 - 20:00
Delve into the seductive art of rope bondage in this interactive class that blends technique with emotional exploration. Experience how rope can be used as a powerful tool for erotic play, trust-building, and deepening intimacy. Through live demonstration and hands-on practice, you will learn safety tips, fundamental ties, and how to use rope to heighten pleasure and connection with your partner(s). This workshop is perfect for those curious and new to rope as well as seasoned players. Come ready to explore the entangled nature of desire through the art of rope.
No partner required. If you have your own rope, please use it! This class is open to all genders, sexualities, and experience levels. Come and play!
PRESENTER:
Jamie Joy is a queer trans Jewish sex educator and hungry slut for freaky fantasies and kinky perversions. Their life and work is committed to spreading joy, pleasure, and consent through community organizing. Jamie Joy is passionate about dancing while eating, playing sadistically with flaming floggers, and teaching people about the wonders of anal fisting. They are always excited to connect with new friends; you can find them on Instagram @badjewboy or email at jamiejoyeducation@gmail.com
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/21dae9576d

ONLINE: Advanced Blowjobs: Mastering Techniques for Ultimate Pleasure with Lilithfoxx
2025-12-16 18:00 - 20:00
Take your oral skills to the next level with this deep-dive into advanced techniques designed to elevate intimacy and pleasure. In this class, we’ll explore expert-level approaches to creating unforgettable experiences for your partner while ensuring your own comfort and enjoyment.
From mastering deep-throating and creative use of erogenous zones to incorporating sensual dynamics and building deeper emotional connection, this workshop goes beyond the basics to teach you how to confidently enhance your technique. Whether you’re looking to surprise your partner with new moves or refine your existing skills, this class offers valuable insights and practical tools for ultimate oral pleasure. Join us to unlock the secrets of blowjob mastery and leave feeling empowered and inspired.
PRESENTER:
Lilithfoxx (she/her) is an accomplished Board-certified sexologist, educator, and professional speaker with a specialized focus on alternative sexuality, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion, and cultural competency in clinical, academic, and research settings. Presently, she is engaged in pursuing her AASECT Sexuality Educator certification, and is a student at The Kinsey Institute, demonstrating her commitment to the field and professional growth. Identifying as a BIPOC, Queer, and neurodivergent individual, Lilith brings a unique and valuable perspective to her work. This personal insight has been key in developing her specialty areas and contributing to a more inclusive conversation about sexuality and relationships. Lilith’s connection to alternative sexuality extends beyond her professional work. For over a decade, she has identified with kink and polyamorous communities, even stepping into the roles of community organizer and educator in these spaces for the past five years. She is also a skilled workshop facilitator, delivering sessions on relationships, sexuality, intimacy, and inclusion. Her workshops have reached global audiences through conferences around the world, ensuring a wide and diverse range of perspectives in her audience. Lilith draws on her experiences as a proud former sex worker to inform her professional approach and expertise, fostering a deeper understanding of the varied facets of sexuality. Her insights and expertise have been recognized and featured in major publications such as Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Glamour, Kinkly, Ask Men, Mashable, and many more.
Before her foray into sexuality education and consultancy, Lilith enjoyed a successful decade-long career in digital marketing. As a senior-level digital marketing director, SEO-specialist, web developer, and business consultant, she worked with businesses spanning from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. She continues to utilize these skills, providing marketing and business consulting services to sex-positive and adult-industry businesses.
Through her professional endeavors, Lilithfoxx continues to inspire, educate, and foster a more inclusive understanding of sexuality, relationships, and intimacy.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/d10515a7b2

ONLINE: Long Distance Polyamory w/ HG Wyndell
2025-12-17 18:00 - 20:00
Whether partners are 2 hours away or halfway around the world, it can take a lot more than Google Calendar to make long-distance polyamorous relationships functional, healthy, and fulfilling.
Sometimes the distance is a six-month job placement, sometimes it’s living thousands of miles apart. Distance will multiply the complexity already present in polyamorous
relationships.
We’ll discuss the challenges, additional dynamics, and helpful approaches to long-distance polyamory based on lived experience. Hopefully leaving you with more tools in your toolbox for figuring out how to make it work in healthy and fulfilling ways for you.
PRESENTER:
HG Wyndell is an activist, educator, and Spiritworker who is driven to facilitate accessible ritual spaces for folks seeking access to more deeply nourishing relationships with themselves and others. They are committed to living life through a lens of wonder, and in our experience, they don’t mess around when it comes to embracing the complex beingness of whoever is blessed to be in their presence and consideration. They weave their lived experiences with intentional relationship, genuine gender expression, ceremony, creative arts, chronic illness, and embracing pleasure seamlessly with a whole lot of love and a good bit of magic into the rich curriculum they offer.
TICKETING:
$30 suggested; $20-$40 scale. We offer multiple price points, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance. Choose the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/5c4e43aefe

ONLINE: BDSM & Attachment Styles w/ Sir Panda
2025-12-21 14:00 - 16:00
Attachments are emotional bonds formed in childhood, and whether we form secure or insecure attachments is dependent upon how our needs for attention, love, and growth are met. The patterns set in place carry forward to how we form adult attachments, including friendships, romantic partners, and the bonds of power exchange.
This presentation will examine the basics of Attachment Theory, how attachment styles are expressed, and how they are manifested in different BDSM identities and roles. The class will also touch on how to encourage secure attachment in ourselves and in our relationships with others.
PRESENTER:
Sir Panda (He/Him) is a Dominant and sadist who lives his busy polyamorous and kinky life in the Seattle area with his wife and and his collared life partner. He has been a kink educator since he originated the Passport Program at the Center for Sex Positive Culture (CSPC) in 2011, teaching consent and BDSM basics to new members. In 2015, Sir Panda founded the View From the Top dominant discussion group, now hosted online on the fourth Tuesday of the month (https://thecspc.org/event).
Sir Panda has served in a variety of roles in the kink community, including event host for Arborea Falls and the CSPC, BDSM Lead for Fantasy Forrest Events, and Program Lead for KinkFest 2023. He has been a presenter for the CSPC, Pragmatically Kinking, the Kink Center, and Leather Reign, and is currently an educator with D/s Pacific Northwest (www.dspnw.org). Sir Panda can be contacted on FetLife and Discord as SirPandaSeattle.
TICKETING:
$30 suggested; $20-$40 scale. We offer multiple price points, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance. Choose the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/c891594af4

ONLINE: The Ultimate Guide for Teasing and Orgasm Control with Miss Mackenzee
2025-12-22 18:00 - 20:00
Within sensuality and intimacy, there’s a profound art to the delicate dance of teasing and orgasm control. Welcome to a transformative exploration dedicated to elevating connective pleasure. This guide is designed to be your compass, steering you through the mysterious and exhilarating waters of orgasm control. Whether you’re relishing a quiet dinner date or merely spending a relaxed evening at home, you’ll learn how to subtly entice your partner until every shared glance and whispered word simmers with latent passion. You’ll master edging and how to keep desire teetering on the brink, building a tantalizing tension that makes the eventual release all the more cathartic.
Explore the sensory spectrum, playing with different stimuli to bring your partner to the brink of ecstasy, heightening sensitivity and anticipation with each controlled tease. Within our time lies the secret to how even the smallest detail can play a part in more intense and powerful orgasms. Discover how to use denial as a pleasure tool or utter torment for your partner. Learn how to adapt to your partner’s unique preferences and anatomy, ensuring that the pleasure you build is as personalized as it is exhilarating. Before engaging with this type of intimacy with your partner, it’s essential to gain an understanding of consent, boundaries, and the importance of connecting afterwards. Think you can learn just by searching on Google? Think again. By the time this workshop is over, you’ll gain practical skills that can’t be learned by hitting a search engine.
More topics to be discussed:

Tantalizing techniques for all genders and body types
Understanding timing, rhythm and pacing and how it affects the mood
Knowing when enough is enough and considerations for neurodivergent folks
The dynamics of power exchange to enhance mutual satisfaction and deep connection
How to incorporate a range of toys and devices, from subtle to adventurous
The fine line between encouragement and humiliation, and learning how to skillfully navigate both to amplify arousal
Developing your vocabulary and tone to tantalize and ignite your partner’s imagination and desire
Exciting demonstrations to see practical skills put into action

This workshop is meant to be an inclusive environment that is accommodating for all types of people. You can participate in a way that feels comfortable for you, whether that’s having your camera on, joining in the chat, or remaining anonymous while taking in all the information. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any accessibility needs.
PRESENTER:
Miss Mackenzee is a trauma-informed International BDSM and Intimacy Educator, Certified Hypnotist, Kink Lifestyle & Professional Dominant Coach, Relationship & Sexual Wellness Coach, Owner of Elysium Dungeon, Host of Kink, Intimacy, and Cannabis Lounge Podcast, Content Creator, and Writer. She is also the founder of BDSM and Intimacy University. She has taken over 10,000 hours of continued education at universities and other organizations to become a better educator and mentor. She has been involved in the kink lifestyle, professionally and personally, for over 20 years and has been teaching for 15+ years. Miss Mackenzee is the founder of Crafty Goddess Gallery, which makes and sells beautiful, one-of-a-kind BDSM toys and furniture created from resin and wood.
Miss Mackenzee is highly sought after for private lessons with individuals and couples, as well as presenting at conventions and graduate programs at major universities. She has brought her experiences and skills to various organizations such as Kink.com, Widener University, TES, SF Citadel, Dark Odyssey, VoxBody Studio, Filthy FemDom, Wicked Grounds, Black Thorn/Sacred Muse, Kinky Kollege, Bound In Boston, SheBop, SADE, Adventures in Sexuality, Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, EXXXotica, and many others.
Mindfulness is a practice that she incorporates into her everyday life, and enjoys helping others become more in tune with themselves and their partner(s). She teaches a full range of subjects, including but not limited to energy play, Tantra, bondage, power exchange, reveling in pleasure, hypnosis, sexuality, spirituality, and the art of sadism. She prides herself on creating a fostering environment that is safe from societal judgments for people to explore their kinks, sexuality, and individuality.. Every workshop is taught with passion and includes intentional energy. She welcomes people to be free and honest with themselves and their desires. Miss Mackenzee aims to be a guide for those exploring various forms of intimacy including BDSM play. One of her driving forces is to be the person she wishes she had when she first started her exploration of kink and sexuality. All her workshops are taught from a place of understanding that we all come from various walks of life that have informed how we engage with others. Miss Mackenzee aims to make a space for people to explore in ways that feel comfortable and authentic to them and their process.
She welcomes you to connect with her in a variety of ways:
www.MissMackenzee.com
Instagram: MissMackenzeeagain
Twitter: @MissMackenzee
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/f074e64153

ONLINE: Your Year In Kink with Sinclair Sexsmith
2025-12-23 18:00 - 20:00
So — what’d you do this year to move your kink journey forward? Join Sinclair in this workshop and do some reflection about where you have been, who you met, what scenes you had, what you learned, and how you engaged with community.
Looking back at this past year in your kink life can point you toward what you want to change or focus on for this next year — so we’ll use our reflections to make some goals, ideas, bucket list, or bingo card for next year. Sinclair will bring plenty of ideas and worksheets for you to reflect on your year, and plan the one ahead.
PRESENTER:
SINCLAIR SEXSMITH (they/them) is a queer trans butch, a leather dominant, and a writer, focusing on individual, interpersonal, and institutional systems of power. They study dominance and submission, social & restorative justice, the energetic body, trauma, and transformation. They have been in the kink communities since 1999, and orchestrate transformative kink scenes through written erotica and ritual practice. They actively explore the philosophies of power exchange and the practicalities of sustainable, long term D/s. As a leather community member, titleholder, and organizer, Sinclair has presented and performed 200+ times at 75+ venues, including International Ms. Leather, Dark Odyssey, SXSW, Harvard, and Oz Kink Fest. Their short story collection, Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica, was a 2016 finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and they have edited 7 queer erotica anthologies. Find Sinclair online at http://sugarbutch.net/find-sinclair
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/8e134f7b41

ONLINE: Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green
2025-12-28 14:00 - 16:00
The traditional definition of magick is “the art and science of changing consciousness in conformity with Will.” We could also say it’s a way of moving and transforming energy and perception. In terms of our life work, magick is a set of tools that allows us to get out of our own way to more effectively do our work in the world.
The magickian’s tool kit includes techniques such as ecstatic trance, symbolic ritual, polarity work, breathing techniques, sensual immersion, and more. The sex magickian specifically works with the energies raised in solo or partnered play as fuel for their spellwork or life Work.
Those tools should seem very familiar to us kinksters. You may not be a magickian, but most of us are playing around in the magickian’s tool kit.
This class will explore some basic information on how to understand the potent energies invoked in D/s and S/m. We’ll talk about the nature of the soul, how to engage the deeper mind, creating a safe container for a scene, and what one can do with the energies we raise in BDSM play. Whether you believe in magick, want to believe in magick, or think this is all just a fun metaphor for how the mind works, you are sure to gain new tools and perspectives on BDSM play by attending this
PRESENTER:
Miriam Green has been in the public kink scene for twenty years in the Austin, Houston, and San Francisco scenes. They teach a series of kink classes online and in person throughout the Southwestern US. They also are the owner of Wicked Grounds.
TICKETING:
Please note: This class is available for free to Wicked Grounds Patreon members who are subscribed at the VIP level ($30/month or higher). If you are a current Patreon member at that level, please reach out to Events@WickedGrounds.com to be put on the guest list. You may select one Kink 101 class per month for this benefit. Want to join? Go to Patreon.com/WickedGrounds to sign up!
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/557a8e28a8

ONLINE: When No Doesn't Mean No: Negotiation and Communication for Consensual Nonconsent with vahavta
2025-12-29 18:00 - 20:00
How do you keep yourself safe when you want to feel you’re in real danger? How do you push someone past their breaking point and still leave room to repair the damage? Is there a way to forego hard limits and safewords and stay ethical in play? When you start to play on the edges of consent, everything becomes a little bit trickier.
In this class, vahavta draws on her experiences and stories from a decade years in a 24/7 consensual non-consent (“CNC”) relationship, sharing tips and strategies for developing and staying within a personal risk profile, playing with triggers, communicating in-scene without “breaking character,” and dealing with cognitive dissonance (“did I really want that?”) in drop. We will explore the mental and physical considerations and contingency plans needed to enter a CNC environment, based on the desires and boundaries expressed by both bottoms and tops.
PRESENTER:
vahavta began her kink journey eight years ago and has been grateful to get to teach, play, and learn in communities in North Carolina, Chicago, St. Louis, and Israel along the way. Today, she serves her husband in a 24/7 CNC-based Total Power Exchange with heavy elements of emotional play and service and is often found sporting large bruises, writing, or enjoying a good beer. vahavta is disabled, Jewish, and femme, and believes in approaching kink with a firm understanding of intersectional context. As an educator, she aims to give honest and risk-aware information that applies to the realities of human behavior, focusing largely on the “how” and asking people to consider their personal capabilities, interests, and readiness. Passionate about community collaboration, vahavta is proud to run the Risk Evaluation Database (RED) and contribute regularly to kink blogs and her own Fetlife writing index. In all aspects of her life, she strives to be a work in progress.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/34419a147c

ONLINE: Get This Party Started: Event Organizing & Hosting with Lady V
2025-12-30 18:00 - 20:00
Community building is a vital part of keeping our various sex-positive, kink, and queer communities connected and help them to heal and stay hopeful! Your voice and actions can create a unique, moving experience.
YOU can create the space you want in your community. Holding space for others is a joy and a gift like no other.
Learn the ins & outs of event organizing!

Identify your target demographic and how to serve them best
Manage personal and community conflict pragmatically
Promotion, advertising, & cross-collaboration
Ticketing systems & event pricing
Outlining expectations between you, the venue, volunteers, and performers
Plan for accessibility and how to handle inaccessible spaces
Establish your boundaries around personal life and power imbalances
Identifying IF organizing is your cup of tea or how you can better support organizers
Harm reduction & mitigation
Burnout and how to recover & find grace in making mistakes

Whether you’re an experienced munch organizer or a fresh face wanting to throw their first kinky house party, this workshop will be helpful for YOU!
Why get into organizing?!
THOUSANDS OF REASONS, including creating long-lasting communal bonds, mutual aid, or wanting to have a fun, sexy party (your way)! Organizing is a fun way to bring people together, create fun events, and occasionally pay your bills doing it!
Why learn from Lady V?!
Lady V has been directly coordinating or been involved with almost 200+ days of in-person & remote event & workshop programming from the sunny shores of the Pacific Ocean to the humid heat of the South China Sea.
Lady V has organized workshops, demos, intensives, play parties, munches, community health events, skill shares, and more!
Her experience as an organizer and educator makes this class easy to engage with and utilize the tips & tools given to you!
A Recording will be sent via email 24 – 48 hours after the workshop & will be available for 7 days.
PRESENTER:
Lady V (she/her) is a spiritually & socioculturally driven sex-positive educator, community organizer & Professional Switchinatrix.
Using her background in film, Lady V is able to use the power of improv to switch on a dime.Prior, she served as the Program Manager for one of the few agencies in the world specializing in navigating sexuality & gender for people navigating intellectual/developmental disabilities.
Lady V has taught for conferences & sex positive venues across the US. She serves as an Advocacy Board Member for Sex Positive World & proudly helps facilitate their education as the Remote Education Coordinator. Lady V has also served the community by facilitating public health events.
She is an out, proud, & fierce-as-fire transwoman with a passion for empowering others. While hailing from Detroit, Michigan, she has settled in Salem, Oregon, with her Mistress in a 24/7 TPE where she serves as the majordomo for her leather family, the Atomic Army. Lady V considers herself both a lifestyle & professional switch. Any way the wind blows, it doesn’t really matter to her.
She hopes to inspire others to enjoy sex positivity from an authentic place, as well as embrace their spiritual place within sex positivity & find healing within it.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/2f8d058ed3

INTENSIVE: Month of Mindfulness (for Kinksters) 2026
2026-01-01 - 2026-01-31
Month of Mindfulness 2026
(for who we really are)

Building simple, sustainable daily practice to support ourselves in our kink and queer explorations, relationships and everyday lives. We’ll have daily work throughout January 2026.

Daily practice is for everyone

What’s the most important part of a daily practice? The daily part.
We’ll spend a month together exploring daily practices that tend to help most folks lead lives with deeper meaning, more resilience, and greater focus.
Spoiler: Not every technique out there will work for you, and that’s okay! We’ll explore together several practices that tend to help most people, most of the time. By the end of the month, you’ll be ready to launch your own personal practice that suits your needs!

What we’ll do
Throughout the full month of January 2026, you’ll receive and explore:

Written & video instruction to understand the psychology of daily habits
Written & video instruction to explore the application of our habits to a sex-positive life
Live guided meditation sessions at least five days each week
Pre-recorded meditation sessions with Miriam Green that you can use during the program and beyond
Daily writing prompts
Weekly suggestions for mindfulness field trips
Support in establishing and maintaining your personal New Year’s resolutions
And more!

Previous students say . . .
“Knowing why you do kink is the most valuable asset any kinkster can have, moreso than any technique or toy on the market. Mir’s inclusive framework and expansive knowledge base create an amazing sandbox for players to explore what makes them tick and how to better pursue it.” – Ari Can-Do
“Developing a regular practice of mindfulness, self-reflection, and intentionality is a powerful tool for self-discovery and personal growth. They can also be hard skills to build and maintain. The Month of Mindfulness program helped me to refresh my own practice. Mir’s insights and guidance provided new perspectives and approaches that I was able to apply to my own pursuits. Plus working in a group setting really helped to add a deeper level of collaboration and accountability.” – Brian C aka The Sacred Dom

ONLINE: Fun with Wax! with Laura Boyle
2026-01-03 14:00 - 16:00
The basics of wax play!
In this class we cover:

Wax play-specific safety and negotiations
Questions to ask and what to keep in mind when creating your wax play scene
The difference between candles and flameless wax, temperatures, and type of safe wax for play
A demonstration of both candle and flameless wax on a bottom on various body parts as different sensations are created
Ways to combine wax with other types of play
Cleanup, and aftercare

PRESENTER:
Laura Boyle is a relationship coach, educator, and author of Monogamy? In this Economy? Finances, Childrearing, and Other Practical Concerns of Polyamory. She’s the voice behind the Ready for Polyamory blog and podcast, and has been an expert voice on polyamory in such publications as The Boston Globe and Cosmopolitan. She’s been polyamorous for nearly 20 years and has been teaching since 2018.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/eb6c5d471d

ONLINE: Violet Wands 102: Beyond the First Spark with Electro Girly
2026-01-04 14:00 - 16:00
The first spark was only the beginning. In Violet Wand 102, we’ll journey deeper into the electric arts—where tingles become teases, and teases become torment, seduction, and surrender.
This class is about unlocking new ways to play, including:
– How to safely play at higher intensities with confidence
– Turning your own body into a conductor—electrified caresses, fingertip shocks, kisses, and full-body connection play
– Using pervertables and toys with the body contact cable—transforming everyday objects (chains, silverware, brushes, jewelry) into conduits for current
– Blending electro with floggers, knives, fire, and sensation toys for layered play
– Playing with rhythm, pacing, and psychological build-up to heighten anticipation
– Using rhythmic pulses to build suspense—then shattering it with sudden lightning strikes
– Blending soft, sensual strokes with sharp, shocking surprises for delicious contrast
– Branding with a violet wand—creating temporary or permanent marks and symbols with precision and safety
You’ll learn how to transform your wand into an instrument of suspense and desire—arcing between playful caresses and scenes that leave your partner trembling, laughing, moaning, or begging for more.
PRESENTER:
Electro Girly is an educator, performer, event coordinator, and Pro Dom at Sanctuary Studios in Los Angeles. She specializes in electro play, but her teaching sparks far beyond the electrical thrill. She entered the kink scene in 2017 and began professionally working in the community this year, guiding students through a wide range of sensation and edge play, including electro play, impact, wax, knife, sharps, and fire play—all explored with intense, intertwined sensuality that awakens the senses, heightens presence, and deepens connection.
Her classes blend technical skill, embodied awareness, and fearless curiosity, while cultivating a safe, consent-based, and comfortable space where students are free to push boundaries and explore intensity at their own pace. Questions are welcomed, curiosity is celebrated, and every participant is supported as they discover new edges of sensation, pleasure, and connection. Students leave inspired, empowered, and equipped with practical skills to bring artistry, passion, and transformative energy into their own play.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/753442d5af
Patreon members at the VIP+ level may get discounted tickets for $10. Just see your Patreon membership emails for this month’s discount code. Find out more at Patreon.com/WickedGrounds!
If cost is a barrier at any level, please use the “Volunteer List” to request a free scholarship ticket. We will award as many scholarship tickets as we can on a space-available basis.
ACCESS:
This will be a live, online class offered through Zoom. To participate, you may need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class!
This class will be recorded and distributed after.
Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.

ONLINE: Chain Bondage for Beginners: In-Line Single Columns with CTW & Fischer Garrett
2026-01-05 18:00 - 20:00
In-line columns are so called because they are built in the middle of the line after assembling a single column. This class builds on the content taught in Chain Bondage for Beginners demonstrating building in-line single columns and good practices using them. This presentation is great for self- and partnered-bondage participants and beginners!
As a virtual presentation, the presenters are not able to give live feedback, but viewers are still welcome to follow along with their own materials. If you wish to purchase your own starter kit ahead of time, we recommend two 6-feet lengths of grade 30, 1/4-inch proof coil zinc-plated chain and six 1/4-inch stainless steel screw-pin anchor shackles.
PRESENTERS:
Cecilia T. Winters (‘CTW’ – She/Her) is your typical queer Millennial. Born at the start of the internet age, she has always benefited from information at her fingertips. She identifies as bisexual and ethically non-monogamous. She has served as a dungeon and playspace monitor, a demo top for a number of local and national kink events, and as a presenter. Her non-kink interests include reading, making lists, watching early 2000s crime dramas, and learning about ancient human cultures.
Fischer Garrett (‘Mister’ – He/Him) is a bisexual, polyamorous top. His time spent in the lifestyle has led him through a journey of self discovery, from once being totally monogamous to being a relationship anarchist; from wanting nothing to do with bondage to developing a way to practice bondage in a relatively unperformed and under-documented fashion. In the past several years he has volunteered for larger kink events as a member of a consent incident response team, a dungeon/playspace monitor, and recently as a presenter. He is a huge fan of costumes and masks, and it is not unusual to know that he is around but often in clever and sometimes strange disguises.
Together they are coauthors of the first book on chain bondage, The Art of Chain: A Guide to Steel Restraint (Mystic Productions, 2022). www.theartofchain.com
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/422734ac33

ONLINE: KINK 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations - Relationships, Dynamics, and Contracts with Miriam Green
2026-01-06 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for a Kink 201 session exploring negotiating how to think about and create long-term D/s dynamics and kinky relationships that work! We’ll talk about:

Setting your own must-haves and red flags
Negotiating for play partner relationships
D/s relationships & contracts
How to maintain relationships over time
And more!

Building on our negotiation basics, we’ll learn how to negotiate as partners toward a BDSM style that is hotter, more fun, and more powerful for all partners in a dynamic.
This workshop is designed for kinksters with some experience and knowledge of how to negotiate for BDSM play and scenes but is open to anyone who wants new tools to improve their BDSM communications in ongoing relationships. This series welcomes all genders, orientations, and dynamic styles.
PRESENTER:
Miriam Green (they/ them) is the owner of Wicked Grounds and has been teaching in BDSM for over one dozen years for Wicked Grounds, Society of Janus, Foundations, Dark Odyssey, and other local and national BDSM organizations. Mir has been in the public BDSM scene for nearly 20 years in Austin, Houston, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
TICKETING:
$20, $30, and $40 price points, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance. Choose the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/86f4d4654a

ONLINE: So Fresh & So Clean: Bootblacking & Leather Care 101 with Lady V
2026-01-07 18:00 - 20:00
Who doesn’t love the look of a well-polished boot that catches the light and catches your eye?
Leather pieces have the ability to outlast many of their original owners…with care. In this class, we’ll teach you the basics of making your leathers look nice and last, as well as cleaning and caring for your leathers.
Bootblacking can be a service to the community or dynamic, a form of worship, an art form, a practice of technique, a side hustle, a spiritual practice, or all of the above!
Learn how to easily clean and care for your favorite boots, whip, or vest! We’ll also show you how to discern between oil tan and polished leather and how to treat them appropriately.
After the class portion, there will be a brief workshop where you will work on your leather with guidance from the instructor. It is BYOL (Bring Your Own Leather). Synthetic leathers are welcome!
PRESENTER:
Lady V (she/her) is a spiritually & socioculturally driven sex-positive educator, community organizer, Bootblack & Professional Dominatrix. She formerly served as a resident bootblack for the Portland Eagle, as well as 50 Shades of STFU & Jiffy Kink play parties. Lady V has also Bootblacked at various conferences, flea markets, cigar parties, & play parties across the US.
Lady V became a believer in leather the first time she saw The Arnold’s ass in leather pants watching Terminator 2. Since then she has become an enthusiastic leather fetishist & has touched enough leather to make a dairy farmer blush. Lady V, who is also a hucow, is quite literally “leather”.
Lady V has taught for conferences & sex positive venues across the US. She serves as an Advocacy Board Member for Sex Positive World & proudly helps facilitate their education as the Remote Education Coordinator. Lady V has also served the community by facilitating public health events.
She is an out, proud, & fierce-as-fire transwoman with a passion for empowering others. While hailing from Detroit, Michigan, she has settled in Salem, Oregon, where she lives with her Mistress in a 24/7 TPE dynamic. She serves as the majordomo for her leather family, the Atomic Army.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/9df620d5eb

ONLINE: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green
2026-01-08 18:00 - 20:00
Sub drop. Top drop. “A case of the Mondays.”
Whatever we call it, post-scene drop is frustrating, irritating, and isolating. It often makes us question — at least in the moment — what was otherwise an awesome scene.
What is this awful mood we fall into after a scene, and what the heck can we do about it?
In this class, Miriam Green will draw on what we know about the neuropsychology of BDSM to help us better understand drop, and build strategies for resilience when we face it. We’ll talk about:

Common misconceptions about drop
What’s going on in the mind, brain and body
Mind-body strategies for before, during and after the scene to help us bounce back
How to change our narrative to avoid making drop worse
The best ways to effectively communicate after a scene — for good scenes and bad

You’ll come away with better self-understanding and a self-care toolkit to draw on when drop comes calling. Join us!
PRESENTER:
Miriam Green has been in the public kink scene for over twenty years in the Austin, Houston, and San Francisco scenes. They teach a series of KINK 101 classes on the SF kink community, BDSM negotiations, and dating while kinky. They also are the owner of Wicked Grounds.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/81e7134fd0

ONLINE: Old Guard Protocols and Why You Don’t Need Them with Hardy Haberman
2026-01-10 11:00 - 13:00
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
A frank and honest discussion of what is being called “old Guard” protocols and the myths and reality surrounding them. Provocative and entertaining, this interactive program brings years of experience and a grasp of the true history of Gay Leather Culture into focus.
PRESENTER:
Hardy Haberman is from Dallas, Texas. He has been active in the leather community since the mid-70’s, and a member of many BDSM and Fetish organizations including Dallas Motorcycle Club, NLA-Dallas and a founding member of Inquisition-Dallas.
Considering himself a “Pain Technologist,” he specializes in CBT and has an unusual fondness for clips clamps and clothespins, as well as more esoteric SM play. Professionally he is a semi-retired marketing specialist and filmmaker. His documentary on the leather lifestyle “LEATHER” has won numerous awards and appeared in festivals around the world, and his latest film, “Out of the Darkness, The Reality of SM” is currently being used by healthcare professionals around the world.
Outside work, he is a gay activist, author & speaker on aspects of the SM/Leather scene. His books “The Family Jewels, A guide to male genital play and torment” published by Greenery Press and “More Family Jewels”, Playing With Pain” And “Soul of a Second Skin” published by Nazca Plain. His latest book “Shouts in the WIlderness, Daily Meditations for Leatherfolk” is currently available on amazon.com. He also writes a regular column in the Dallas Voice newspaper.
He was awarded NLAI’s Man of the Year award in 1999 and the NLA-I Lifetime Achievement award in 2007. He received the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Leather Leadership award.He has also been honored to be a Judge at both IML and ILSb.
He previously served as co-chair of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation in Washington, DC.
He and his boy Patrick have lived together in Dallas for the past 30 years with numerous cats.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/0572b8546a

ONLINE: Vaginal Fisting with Mel and Memi
2026-01-10 14:00 - 17:00
The idea behind this class is to explore the glorious queer practice of vaginal fisting, dispelling any fears or misconceptions about it. We will help and guide you through all the key elements and techniques to make this practice as safe and enjoyable as possible.
What you will get in this three-hour workshop:
– Fisting history and theory of practice
– Vulvovaginal anatomy
– Preparation, risks, and risk mitigation
– Self-reflection questions around desires and body awareness
– Ideas and prompts on how to do practice or incorporate it into a scene
– Live demo of vaginal fisting followed by Q&A
PRESENTERS:
Mel (he/him) is an Argentinian trans masc aligned gender fluid sex and BDSM educator. He is the co-founder of Kinky Vibe Argentina, a collective based in Buenos Aires that hosts events, support groups and workshops for the kinky, queer and neurodivergent community both online and offline. Lifestyle kinkster, he has been doing kink for the last ten years, identifies as sub-leaning switch, and is a sex worker (ProDomme).
One of his greatest passions is thinking about power, risk, and self-consent in the context of kink, and spending most of his time accompanying people on their kinky journey. He has been teaching about kink, pleasure, risk, and depathologization for the last nine years.
Memi (he/him) is an Argentinian trans masc person, who is a lifestyle kinkster, a history teacher, and an early-career researcher in the history of sexualities. He has been doing kink for almost a decade in a wide variety of kinks, relationships, dynamics, and sides of the slash. He is very curious about power, oppression, and the complex history behind kink, the space where didactics and kink meet, and loves to be a kink enabler to everyone around.
TICKETING:
$30 – $60 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/7691bc53ef

ONLINE: Discipline & Punishment with Sarah Butcher
2026-01-11 11:00 - 13:00
Discipline – the other D in BDSM that rarely gets spoken about. Discipline is an important part of creating a successful power exchange dynamic, and if you’re looking for some inspiration when it comes to training, disciplining, and punishing your submissive partner, then this workshop is for you.
We will be covering topics such as:

What is discipline and punishment?
What is power exchange?
How, when and why to punish your submissive
Creating rules and consequences
Punishment vs Funishment
Top tips, tricks and ideas for punishments
Do’s and don’ts of discipline and punishment
Aftercare

This workshop is open to all, whether you’re single or in a relationship, and will leave you feeling confident in disciplining and punishing your partner as well as inspiring and empowering you to deepen your power exchange experiences.
Please note this online event is a seminar-style workshop and no play/nudity is involved. There will be exercises given during class/as homework, but the level of participation is down to what each individual feels safe and comfortable with.
PRESENTER:
Sarah Butcher – AKA Sub in the City is an Integrative Kink Therapist, Coach & Educator with over a decade of experience on the BDSM Scene. Sarah is on a mission to bring BDSM into the 21st Century and empower curious kinksters to consciously explore what BDSM means to them. With a holistic and therapeutic approach, Sarah works with a variety of individuals and couples at different stages of their kink journey, supporting them to discover their desires, integrate their shadows, and live in their truth through 1-1 sessions, workshops, events and retreats.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/b103532ec5

ONLINE: Make Me a Masochist: Changing Your Relationship With Pain with vahavta
2026-01-11 14:00 - 16:00
“How are you enduring that? Is that safe for your body? How do I get better bruises? Wait, did you just come?” For many bottoms, how much they can suffer through – and how much they enjoy it – become points of insecurity. The bad news is that masochism can not be taught; pain management, however, can. This class will discuss mental and physical processing/conditioning techniques regarding multiple forms of pain.
We will move through the anatomy of a scene, discussing techniques for preparing emotionally, strategies to process pain, ways to take care of your body when not playing (including why we do or don’t get bruises (and what to do about them if we don’t want them), and best practices in communicating with partners after the fact. While this class is geared towards bottoms, tops are encouraged to attend in order to learn how they can best help their partners through difficult scenes.
PRESENTER:
vahavta began her kink journey about a decade ago and has been grateful to get to teach, play, and learn in communities in North Carolina, Chicago, St. Louis, and internationally. Today, she serves her husband in a 24/7 CNC-based Total Power Exchange with heavy elements of emotional play and service. vahavta is disabled, Jewish, and femme, and believes in approaching kink with a firm understanding of intersectional context. As an educator, she aims to give honest and risk-aware information that applies to the realities of human behavior, focusing largely on the “how” and asking people to consider their personal capabilities, interests, and readiness. Passionate about community collaboration, vahavta is proud to run the Risk Evaluation Database (RED) and contribute regularly to kink blogs and her own Fetlife writing index. In all aspects of her life, she strives to be a work in progress.
TICKETING
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/383afb4177

ONLINE: Twisted Ties: Sadistic Rope Play with Jamie Joy
2026-01-12 18:00 - 20:00
Step into the darker side of rope in this interactive workshop exploring the erotic intersection of pain, power, and bondage. Discover how rope can be used not just to restrain, but to provoke — transforming each knot into a tool of delicious tension and control to make your partner(s) squirm.
Through guided demonstration and hands-on practice, learn techniques that incorporate the mouth, chest, legs, and feet, all while using pressure, positioning, predicament, and psychological play to heighten sensation and suffering. With a focus on safety tips and communication skills, this space is perfect for both beginners and seasoned players looking to twist their ties into exquisite torture.
No partner required. If you have your own rope, please use it! This class is open to all genders, sexualities, and experience levels. Come and play!
Expect equal parts laughter and whimpers as we explore how to turn rope into a beautiful kind of torture.
PRESENTER:
Jamie Joy is a queer trans Jewish sex educator and hungry slut for freaky fantasies and kinky perversions. Their life and work is committed to spreading joy, pleasure, and consent through community organizing. Jamie Joy is passionate about dancing while eating, playing sadistically with flaming floggers, and teaching people about the wonders of anal fisting. They are always excited to connect with new friends; you can find them on Instagram @badjewboy or email at jamiejoyeducation@gmail.com
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/f98802a2f5

ONLINE: KINK 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green
2026-01-13 18:00 - 20:00
Negotiating is a critical skill for building BDSM scenes, dynamics and relationships that work. But negotiating doesn’t necessarily come naturally — especially for those of us who are just entering the kink scene.
Join us for a Kink 101 session on how to negotiate for exactly what you want in the BDSM scene and relationships. We’ll talk about:

Negotiation styles
Pre-scene negotiations
How to negotiate without killing the mood
Checking in during and after the scene
Negotiating and check-ins for ongoing BDSM dynamics

Drawing on what we know about the psychology of a scene, we’ll learn how to negotiate as partners toward a BDSM style that is hotter, more fun, and more powerful for all partners in a dynamic. This series welcomes all genders, orientations, and dynamic styles. This workshop is designed for newcomers to BDSM but is open to anyone who wants new tools to improve their BDSM communications.
PRESENTER:
Miriam Green has been in the public kink scene for over one dozen years in the Austin, Houston and San Francisco scenes. They teach a series of KINK 101 classes on the SF kink community, BDSM negotiations, and dating while kinky. They also are the owner of Wicked Grounds.
You may also book personal consulting and coaching sessions with them at WickedGroundsAnnex.Teachable.com
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/8117fb8e89

ONLINE: WTF is Relationship Anarchy? with Laura Boyle
2026-01-15 18:00 - 20:00
Relationship Anarchy has gained in public awareness in recent years – but not without the generation of myths and misunderstandings about this philosophy of engaging in relationships.
Join Laura Boyle for a 90-minute workshop wherein she will:

Bust some of those myths
Define and give the history of relationship anarchy, including contextualizing it with political anarchist movements
Briefly look at the RA Manifesto
Discuss the practicalities of relating from the basis of this philosophical framework, using her own experiences as well as those of others who have given permission to share their stories during this workshop. (what does it really mean to individually build your relationships from an RA lens? Do we get a smorgasbord worksheet out every time we make a new acquaintance? What about when we want commitments and stability with partners? Hasn’t Laura been with one of her partners for nearly a decade?)
Consider whether Relationship Anarchy is a kind of polyamory, or even rightly a kind of non-monogamy, and how we contextualize that question
Look at the positives to an RA approach to relating
and answer audience questions.

PRESENTER:
Laura Boyle is a relationship coach, educator, and author of Monogamy? In this Economy? Finances, Childrearing, and Other Practical Concerns of Polyamory. She’s the voice behind the Ready for Polyamory blog and podcast, and has been an expert voice on polyamory in such publications as The Boston Globe and Cosmopolitan. She’s been polyamorous for nearly 20 years and has been teaching since 2018.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/02c6d3f3b3
