ONLINE: The Introvert’s Toolkit: Gear Up for Kinky Adventures with Miss Mackenzee
2025-08-25 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Navigating BDSM can present unique challenges, especially for those who identify as introverts. The blend of intense desires, raw vulnerability, and the opportunity for deep bonds can be exhilarating yet intimidating. This workshop is crafted specifically for introverts looking to explore their kinks, fantasies, and relationships in a way that feels safe and empowering. Whether you’re new to the scene or an experienced kinkster who still feels shy, our time will provide valuable insights and practical techniques to help you navigate the scene comfortably. Delve into different styles of communication that work for timid folks. We aim to break down barriers, dispel myths about introverts, and ultimately cultivate an engaging environment where you can thrive. Our time together is not just about overcoming challenges but about celebrating your introverted nature as a pathway to authentic connections and profound experiences. Allow yourself to embrace your introversion in ways that enhance your journey in this exciting and diverse community.
Here’s a glimpse of what we will explore:

Creating a personal toolkit for approaching potential play partners
Techniques for finding your voice in group settings or community events
Navigating the dynamics of dominance and submission as an introvert
Building confidence to engage in vulnerable conversations about desires
The concept of social battery and how to manage it effectively
Recognizing the signs of burnout and taking proactive self care steps
Strategies for initiating conversations without feeling anxiety
Tips for gracefully exiting discussions when feeling overloaded
Engaging with extroverts that respect your limits and energy
Nonverbal communication in introverted interactions

This workshop is meant to be an inclusive environment that is accommodating for all types of people. Extroverts are welcome to join to discover ways to support and interact with apprehensive kinksters. 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 Board-Certified Sexologist, BDSM and Intimacy Educator, Qualified Hypnotist, Certified Trauma-informed Relationship and Sexual Wellness Coach, Kink Lifestyle and Professional Dominant Mentor, Owner of Elysium Dungeon, Host of Kink, Intimacy, and Cannabis Lounge Podcast, Content Creator, and Author. She is also the founder of BDSM and Intimacy University, which makes and sells beautiful one of a kind BDSM toys and furniture as well as offers online workshops, digital guides, clothing, aftercare items, and more. 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 teaching for 15+ years. She has written and been quoted in numerous publications and has been utilized as an expert for media outlets. Miss Mackenzee is highly sought after for private lessons with individuals and various relationship dynamics 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 dot 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.
She teaches a full range of subjects including but not limited to energy play, sex magick, bondage, power exchange, reveling in pleasure, hypnosis, bedroom skills, spirituality, and the art of sadism. She prides herself on creating a fostering and inclusive environment that is safe from societal judgment. One of her driving forces is to be the person she wishes she had when she first started her exploration of kink and sexuality. Miss Mackenzee has a passion for helping folks connect deeper with themselves and others to have hotter, safer, and more fulfilling intimacy.
She welcomes you to connect with her in a variety of ways:
www.MissMackenzee.com
Instagram: MissMackenzeeagain
Twitter: @MissMackenzee
TikTok: @MissMackenzee
YouTube: @officialmissmackenzee
Discord: https://discord.gg/Fk8bfBFU
TICKETING:
$20-$40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford. We offer a sliding scale, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/6b91531154

ONLINE: Cock Confidence with Sinclair Sexsmith
2025-08-26 18:00 - 20:00
Interested in strapping on a cock? Not sure where to start? Come to this interactive workshop with Sinclair Sexsmith, experienced strap-on aficionado, for tips and suggestions on what kinds of dildos and harnesses will be right for you, and how to strap it on with gusto. We’ll talk about how cocks can be played with and experienced by every gender, and how to have more cock confidence.
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; their latest book is Daddy4Daddy: Queer Kink Erotica. Find Sinclair online at http://sugarbutch.net/find-sinclair
TICKETING:
$20-$40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford. We offer a sliding scale, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/316efb4736

ONLINE: The Art of Pussy Eating with Lilith Foxx
2025-08-28 18:00 - 20:00
Unleash the secrets to unforgettable oral pleasure with The Art of Pussy Eating: Pleasure Beyond the Basics. This class is designed to help you explore advanced techniques and confidence-building strategies for giving your partner an experience that’s as enjoyable for you as it is for them.
We’ll dive into understanding anatomy in a way that enhances sensitivity and pleasure, covering everything from the basics to expert-level tips that elevate the experience. You’ll learn how to create anticipation with rhythm and pressure, combine mouth and hand movements for a full-bodied experience, and use nonverbal cues to connect with your partner’s responses. With practical advice on breathwork, communication, and playful experimentation, this class offers a wealth of knowledge to make oral intimacy more fulfilling and connected.
Join us in a relaxed, non-judgmental setting to expand your skills and discover new ways to deepen intimacy and bring pleasure to your partner.
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:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/ce499df033

ONLINE: The Archetypes of Power & Surrender: A Two Part Series with FireOnTheMtnTop / Sir Scott and Lecee
2025-08-30 11:00 - 18:00
This is a two-part class to build on your skills! We’ll meet on both 8/21 and 8/30.
🔥 BDSM isn’t just play—it’s transformation. 🔥
In this evocative and powerful two-part online series, you’ll explore the deep currents of power, submission, polarity, shadow, and ritual through the lens of archetypes. These aren’t roles you act out—they’re energies that move through you. Sacred. Primal. Mythic.
Whether you’re Dominant, submissive, Switch, or still finding your way, this class offers an unforgettable map of the 18 core archetypes that shape how we love, lead, surrender, resist, and transform in kink.
You’ll get:

A custom Archetype Quiz to identify your dominant energetic patterns
A guided tour through each archetype’s essence, shadow, and ritual signature
A set of archetype one-pagers for self-study and scene inspiration
Frameworks for polarity pairing, energy mapping, and transformation scenes
Journaling, reflection, and optional integration rituals between sessions

✨ This is not a 101 class. This is for those ready to meet themselves in the fire. Expect laughter, tears, archetypal awakenings, and mythic-level “aha” moments.
Session One (Aug 21):

Introduction to archetypes in kink and power exchange
How to read and interpret your quiz results
Overview of the 18 archetypes and their core patterns
Exploration of polarity, projection, and sacred role resonance
Journaling + guided prompts

Session Two (Aug 30):

Deep-dive into selected archetypes based on quiz responses
Pairing dynamics: sacred matches, mirrors, challengers
How to build scenes and rituals based on archetypal energies
Integration practices, shadow work, and transformation pathing
Final collective invocation

Presented by Sacred Fire Kink — where submission is a sacrament, and Dominance is a vow.
PRESENTERS:
🔥 Scott – “FireOnTheMtnTop”
Scott is a lifestyle Dominant, Sadist, Daddy, and Primal Edge Player with over 18 years in the kink community. He’s a founding Director of G.O.D.S., creator of Colorado KNKE Kinky Camping, and a seasoned Dungeon Monitor, lifestyle event Emcee, and presenter.
As a Dominant, Scott teaches that leadership in kink is sacred work—rooted in care, emotional safety, and integrity. He’s known for creating grounded, real-world conversations about power and play that help people feel seen, strong, and turned on by their truth.
✨ Lecee
Lecee is the “yin” to Scott’s Dominant fire—his little “s.” She’s been active in the lifestyle for 8 years and brings playful insight, emotional wisdom, and lived experience as a submissive.
Together, she and Scott co-create containers that are intimate, brave, and authentic. Her presence helps others feel permission to explore new desires, embrace vulnerability, and rewrite the old stories they were told about sex, surrender, and and worthiness.
TICKETING:
$40-$80 sliding scale for the two-class series.
Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/cf7ee1759c

ONLINE: Bratting and Brat Taming with Mel and Memi
2025-08-30 14:00 - 16:00
The idea behind this workshop is to welcome everyone with an interest for mayhem, resistance, play fighting, and mischievousness to share and learn!
We will be talking about roles, care, consent and tips for a good bratting and brat taming scene!
Topics covered:

Definitions, glossary and history
Motivations behind this practice
Roles and archetypes
Risk, responsibility and care
Negotiation and scene creation
Scene Ideas

INSTRUCTORS:
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/e2c45f5ad6

ONLINE: Switchinatrix: Harnessing Your Power as a Switch with Lady V
2025-08-31 11:00 - 13:00
Switchinatrix is a class that is an exploration into authentically celebrating your “unconventional” self to enjoying kink & intimacy from every angle! Being switchy or versatile allows us to have so many different roles & experiences! Why be just a Top when you can be EVERYTHING (or whatever you want to be)?
This class helps us manifest & embody our power as switches in being able to get the most out of our relationships, dynamics, & sex lives by going into:

Switching within relationships & power exchange dynamics
Exploring different headspaces & personas
Switching simultaneously with partners
Breaking down & moving past stigma in the community & dating
& so much more!!

We will discuss how these expansive roles can work within our TPE dynamics & relationships & how we can fulfill the different needs of partners & ourselves…like switching with your Domme (scary, I know. You’ll survive & thrive!).
This class is aimed at people in all roles & dynamics, not just our switchy friends & partners.
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/122998fe9c

OAK: Leading and Following: Nonverbal D/s (by Click Your Heels) Make the most of your natural instincts with Alexandria of Click Your Heels!
2025-09-07 12:00 - 15:00 | East Bay Community Space, 507 55th Street, Oakland, CA, 94609, United States
In this interactive class, we borrow leading and following techniques from partnered dance and apply it to D/s. No dance understanding is required. No partner is required.
Using simple concentration and dance techniques, we explore the internal mind/body connection for Dominants and submissives, non-verbal communication between the leader and follower, and how this works in 24/7, scenes, and more.
Info for Students:
Be prepared to move barefoot. (No shoes are allowed in the studio space.) Please bring a bottle of water for yourself. If you would like to take notes, please bring your preferred materials for that but it’s not necessary – if you just want to move and listen, that’s ok too.
PRESENTER:
Alexandria has been teaching dance and movement since 1998, including private lessons, small group studio classes, and large public classes of 100+. Her repertoire includes pole for all bodies, ballet for real life, belly dance, floorwork, high heels dancing, lap dancing, Flexibility 4 Life, salsa, merengue, bachata, cha-cha, east coast swing, social waltz, feminine sensual movement, rhythm training, body confidence, non-verbal communication, and more. Her mantra is #whenindoubtslowdown and her rally cry is “All bodies, all genders, all ages: come home to your body”. Her teaching emphasizes reclaiming your body and self-love, strength, flexibility, improvisation, and musicality.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/09ae288b7a

ONLINE: Mindful Swiping with Marie Thouin, PhD
2025-09-11 18:00 - 20:00
Mindful Swiping is Dr. Marie Thouin’s transformative framework for using dating apps with intention, authenticity, and self-love.
While dating apps aren’t designed for our well-being—they’re gamified to prey on our attention and self-worth—they’re also a powerful tool for sparking new real-life connections. Let’s outsmart the downsides and learn to use this technology with next-level integrity and skill! 😌
Instead of getting stuck in the swipe-scroll trap, we’ll learn how to use the apps as a practice—to cultivate discernment, inner peace, creativity, and loving-kindness, all while fostering real and meaningful connections with others.
💫 What You’ll Learn:
This is a high-impact, practical workshop exploring Dr. Marie’s Mindful Swiping framework in depth. You’ll learn how to:
🕯️Ritualize your Use of the Apps: Set clear goals, practice digital hygiene, and create meaningful containers around your dating practice.
📸 Build an Authentic Profile: Choose photos and write prompts that reflect who you really are—while turning profile creation into a growth experience.
🧭 Practice Discernment: Strengthen your self-trust when deciding who to match with, how to message, and when to walk away.
💞 Lead with Loving-Kindness: Stay grounded in your values, treat yourself and others with care, and transform dating into a path of connection and growth.
This isn’t another sleazy “get-them-to-like-you” class 🚫.
This is a soulful, actionable strategy for turning online dating into a practice of self-discovery, empowerment, and intimacy 🌱.
🌈 This virtual workshop is geared towards daters of all genders, orientations, ages, and relationship styles!
PRESENTER:
Marie Thouin, PhD is the author of “What is Compersion? Understanding Positive Empathy in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships,” the first-ever comprehensive scholarly book on compersion. She has been featured in several publications and podcasts, including ELLE, the Savage Lovecast, The Times of London, and HuffPost. Marie has also published seminal research studies, the first encyclopedia entry on compersion, and is the creator of www.WhatIsCompersion.com, a popular website that features her research, blogs, and resources on the topic of compersion. She is the Founder of Love InSight, a Mindful Dating & Relationship Coaching practice where she supports and guides people of all backgrounds and relational orientations to create intentional and vibrant love lives.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/a443d33e4f

ONLINE: Scene Like a Storyteller with HypnoStory and PandaPet
2025-09-14 14:00 - 16:00
Gripping. Evocative. Sensuous. Immersive. The stories we read take us on a journey and make us feel. Wherever you are in your hypnokink journey, the art of storytelling aids your scene building and sparks the creative process. Join HypnoStory and panda, informed by their theater training, as they discuss and demonstrate the process of starting from a concept and weaving a story. Topics will include fleshing out fantasies and concepts, creating a story arc and creatively utilizing the tools already at your disposal to build a multisensory, collaborative scene.
PRESENTERS:
HypnoStory (they/them) loves to share the joy and power of hypnosis with most anyone who will listen. They have been doing various forms of hypnosis for over 25 years, and have taught for Charmed!, Entranced, Beguiled, NEEHU, KinkyCon, and The Fetish Fair Fleamarket among others. In addition to erotic and recreational hypnosis, they occasionally perform as a stage hypnotist and work with clients using hypnosis for personal growth. Together with their triad partners Yoshi and Panda, they run New Hampshire Hypnokink and CONsolation (a Discord server that presents kink education).
PandaPet (it/they) is a pansexual, polyamorous pet with a penchant for the use of alliteration. It has been a longstanding member of the New England and DC/NoVa communities, and has taught for a fair number of hypnosis and kink conferences. A tireless volunteer, it has also worked behind the scenes on educational programming at a handful of kink conventions for the past ten years. It co-founded CONsolation (a Discord community that offers kink education) with it’s master HypnoStory and partner Yoshi. Unashamedly itself in all things, it is an advocate for the darklings, pets, ageplayers, neurodivergent, and queerdos of our community.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/c596a1243c

ONLINE: Blood, Sweat, & Fears: The Art and Thrill of Blood Play with Jamie Joy
2025-09-15 18:00 - 20:00
Enter into the visceral and intoxicating world of Blood Play, where sensation and surrender meet danger and transcendence. From the sharp kiss of spiked implements to the intimate precision of cutting and cupping, we’ll explore how pain, pleasure, and power bleed together. For those who crave the sting, the drip, and the rush— this space is for you. Learn safety essentials, techniques, and the dark delicious creativity of drawing blood with intention. Whether you’re a seasoned player or a curious explorer, come ready to revel in the exquisite agony of broken flesh. Each drop of blood is a story, a sacrifice, a thrill. This isn’t just play—it’s art, ritual, and raw intensity.
There will be an explicit live demo not for the faint of heart featuring needles, impact play, cutting, cupping, and playing / fucking with blood
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/2421fcf932

ONLINE: Determining Your Risk Profile with Lee Harrington
2025-09-17 18:00 - 20:00
The world is full of risks, but each of us have different levels of willingness, capacity, and interest in taking the risks we might come across in our life. The same is true in our kinky pursuits.
In this class we will look at what a risk profile is and how to decide what choices we might feel comfortable with around physical risks, legal repercussions, emotional fallout, potential psychological damage, (mis)communication possibilities, and the effects some play can have on our relationships. From Gambler’s Fallacy and trauma bonding to altered states and disproportionate effects risks can have on some populations, this will be a wild ride.
Though open to all attendees, buckle in as we will be discussing a variety of “edge play” activities as well as things people might consider immoral, illegal, inappropriate, dubious, or dangerous.
INSTRUCTOR:
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:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/593267f7e3

ONLINE: Fine, I’ll Do It Myself: Rope 101 For the Aspiring Self-Suspender with SuspendDisbelief
2025-09-18 18:00 - 20:00
This 101-level course is aimed toward anybody interested in self-tying who has barely touched rope but wants to, who would like a refresher, or who was repeatedly betrayed by their neurodivergence while trying to learn rope and would benefit from novel ways to look at the basics. It provides opportunities to learn basic risk awareness specific to tying yourself, pros and cons of rope materials, and building blocks such as single column knots and connecting rope.
This class in particular aims to provide a “grab-bag” of several ways to achieve each step, allowing students to pick what works for them. With a focus on load-bearing structures over decoration, we will work under the philosophy that there is no “one true way” you must perfectly carry out, but a few tips can help keep beginners safer.
PRESENTER:
SuspendDisbelief (she/her) is a queer, non-monogamous power exchange and sadomasochism nerd. Her hobby of choice has been getting hurt in public since 2017, but she has been fantasizing about powerlessness and crushing on former boy scouts exclusively for their knowledge of knots for far longer than that. On top of bottoming for power exchange and physical+emotional sadism, she started tying herself in 2019 and swiftly snowballed down the pipeline toward rope topping. She uses the chaos goblin energy bestowed upon her by her ADHD to enhance her teaching and help people like her “get it”. She currently helps facilitate and teaches monthly for Hitchin’ Bitches DC.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/e60f66e29a

ONLINE: So Fresh & So Clean: Bootblacking & Leather Care 101 with Lady V
2025-09-21 11:00 - 13:00
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:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/25f190e2c8

ONLINE: Negotiation Skills for Subs & Bottoms with Faun
2025-09-21 14:00 - 16:00
Whether you’re brand-spanking new to the scene, or you’ve been involved for years, negotiating a new scene or with a new partner can be a daunting concept for kinky submissives and anyone on the lower side of the D/s slash.
In this workshop led by a sub with extensive experience Domming, we’ll examine the do’s and don’ts of effective negotiating communication, how to navigate the scene, ways to identify important traits in compatible play partners, and guide kinksters of all levels and experiences to co-creating the scenes they’ve always wanted to have!
There will also be a live demonstration of pick-up play negotiation and an open Q&A at the end.
PRESENTER:
Faun (he/him) is a smut writer and kink educator from the Pacific Northwest. Despite knowing he was firmly on the ace spectrum in his teenage years, he always felt that something was missing. One day, he stumbled upon a website chock full of hypnokinky stories, and the rest is history. Now, he hopes to help others find their own niche in the kink community by sharing what he’s learned through study and experience. You can find him on AO3 and tumblr as spiraledfaun, and on Fet as deerfaun.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/ed38d3f81e

ONLINE: Passionate Entanglement: The Dynamics of Rough Body Play with Miss Mackenzee
2025-09-22 18:00 - 20:00
Enter a realm where primal instincts meet exploration and the human body’s resilience is both celebrated and respected. This comprehensive class is designed to guide participants through the nuanced layers of rough body play, emphasizing consent, communication, and technique.
Learn advanced safety protocols including how to identify and mitigate risks, enabling you to engage in play with confidence and security. Discover ways to play that emphasize leverage and balance rather than brute force suitable for different body types and strength levels. Did you know that there are environmental aids to use to diversify physical engagement which enhances the sensory experience while maintaining control? Don’t worry because we will cover that as well as a detailed discussion on impact zones, pressure points, and vulnerable areas.
Enjoy demonstrations of various rough body play tactics, including primal wrestling, pinning, and body manipulation. Explore the excitement of emphasizing the power exchange element to your relationship through body-to-body experiences. Understand the psychological and physical aspect of this type of play and learn how to use that against your partner.
Dive even deeper:

Understand the anatomy and physiology to ensure a safe environment
Explore the appeal and potential risks of RBP
Learn negotiation practices specific to rough play
Build aftercare strategies to reconnect and attend to physical and emotional needs
Learn the skills for modulating intensity and reading your partner’s responses
Discover how catharsis can play a role

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:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/4d0d104196

ONLINE: Writing Spicy: A Two Part Series with Sinclair Sexsmith
2025-09-23 18:00 - 20:00
This is a two-part class to build on your skills! We’ll meet on both 9/23 and 9/30.
Come join Sinclair Sexsmith, an award-winning kinky queer butch erotica writer, for some of the basics of writing erotica. We’ll talk about questions like, How do you make sure it’s hot? And what if I want to get published? We’ll do some writing prompts, and folks will be invited to share their work (optional!) and offer positive feedback. Bring a notebook and a pen, or something equivalent.
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; their latest book is Daddy4Daddy: Queer Kink Erotica. Find Sinclair online at http://sugarbutch.net/find-sinclair
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/43f470eed2
$40-$80 for the two-class series. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
We offer a sliding scale, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance. Choose the level you can comfortably afford. $60 is the suggested price.
Patreon members at the VIP+ level may get discounted tickets for $20. 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 an on a space-available basis.
ACCESS:
This will be a live, online class offered through Zoom. To participate, you will need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class! This class will not be recorded and is not available for later viewing.
Zoom now provides closed captioning which will be available for this event.

ONLINE: Invisible Toybox: The Energy of Kink with HG Wyndell
2025-09-24 18:00 - 20:00
There are several ways to approach what we call “power” or “energy” in kink. Some of us are drawn to words like Magic, chi, ki, woo, vibes, and similar terms to describe the quality called “energy.” Whether or not we love those terms, we are often playing with qualities that feel somewhat beyond our day-to-day experience as we enter into a state of flow.
In this class, we will learn techniques for sensing and manipulating power and energy, whatever we choose to call it. We will briefly discuss the ethics of energy play, and explore ways to incorporate energy into BDSM, for connection, play, and intimacy.
We will learn to:

Get present with our partners
Align with our partners on shared goals
Incorporate all our physical senses with intention
Sense energy
Practice good energetic hygiene and boundaries
Align our senses and energy to reinforce power dynamics & sensory play
Learn to incorporate different types of energy to reinforce specific moods

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:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/5ee36c1e83

ONLINE: Backdoor Basics: A Guide to Anal Play with Lilith Foxx
2025-09-24 18:00 - 20:00
Explore new avenues of pleasure with Backdoor Basics: A Guide to Anal Play. This class is designed to help you navigate anal play with confidence, knowledge, and comfort, whether you’re a curious beginner or looking to enhance your current experience. We’ll cover essential techniques for safe and pleasurable exploration, from preparation and relaxation tips to choosing the right tools and lubrication.
You’ll learn about anatomy and sensation, communication tips to discuss boundaries and comfort levels, and ways to ease into anal play with confidence. Emphasizing consent, hygiene, and relaxation, this class provides a judgment-free space to learn how to make anal play a fun, enjoyable part of your intimate life. Join us to expand your understanding and discover the potential for pleasure beyond the basics.
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:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/1eef4001f7

ONLINE: Gasp & Glow: Breathwork as Sensation Play with M'kali-Hashiki
2025-10-01 18:00 - 20:00
Breath is the quiet implement that changes everything. Intentional breathing becomes a sensation dial—turning intensity up, easing panic, and deepening connection. Bottoms learn to ride impact longer with less overwhelm; Tops learn to read breath, pace scenes, and co-regulate without buying a single new toy.
Expect nerdy-meets-sacred vibes, plenty of guided practice, and an easy aftercare exhale you can use anywhere.
For all genders, bodies, roles, and experience levels—perfect for kinksters who crave fresh tools without extra gear.
Learning Objectives

Use three bottom-friendly breath patterns to expand capacity and stay present.
Read breath cues as a Top to adjust rhythm, force, and pacing.
Negotiate breath-based safety signals when words are wobbly.
Down-regulate both partners with an after-scene exhale sequence.

PRESENTER:
About M’kali-Hashiki (she/her/hers): I was given the name Mkali Hashiki by a Priest of Oshun in the Ifa tradition (I added the hyphen & apostrophe to help with pronounciation). It means “fierce passion” in Swahili. I believe that we are all entitled to have passion in our lives, and to understand how being connected to our passion & creativity enhances our lives & the lives of those around us. It is my fierce passion for a happy, healthy, world that motivates everything I do.
I’m a Certified Sexological Bodyworker; a Certified Sound, Voice, & Music Healer; and a Certified Tantric Sacred Intimate. I’m also a former Gynecological Teaching Associate (teaching medical students how to perform painless, patient-centered pelvic & breast exams using my body as the demo model), a published essayist; a former professional social justice organizer; and an Ifa devoteé. I’m a fat, Black, queer, womanist, polyamorous, kinky, first generation Northern-born, middle-aged dyke Burn Survivor with moderate to severe PTSD. My cultural upbringing & lived experiences of struggling to love myself in a world that hates all of my identities (some more than others) informs every aspect of my work.
I have a complex sexuality & sexual history. I have personal experience with polyamory, nonmonogamy, BDSM, and achieving mystical states during sex. I am—and have always been—a “sexual outlaw”, as well as being a “triple minority” (Black, female, and queer); this has allowed me to view society’s standards on sexuality with a critical eye. As a Scorpio, I have always been curious and intrigued by sexuality, and feel that my erotic sense is the most calibrated of all my senses, and is the filter through which I experience the world.
I am currently addressing 30 plus years of undiagnosed & untreated PTSD. I understand the ways in which our triggers hide from us, popping up when we least expect it; the ways trauma can influence even the most mundane actions in our day-to-day lives; the ways minor triggers substitute for the major ones. Even though my traumatic incident was not sexual trauma, it still had an impact on my erotic growth & sexual development.
I have been deeply influenced personally, professionally, and politically by Audre Lorde’s essay “The Uses Of The Erotic: The Erotic As Power” (if you haven’t read it, you need to!). I believe her point that in order to maintain itself, oppression requires the repression of the erotic. Because of my politics, spirituality, and lived experiences; because of the lies we are constantly told about what sex should be, about what is normal and acceptable; and because of the sexual truths that are vilified; I view my work in FiercePassions as a form of political rebellion.
FiercePassions.com
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/31b56b623a

ONLINE: KINK 201: Advanced BDSM Negotiations - Relationships & Dynamics with Miriam Green
2025-10-07 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 – $40 sliding scale, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance. Choose the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/db21735532

ONLINE: Energy Persona Mastery: A 2 Part Series with Sir Scott
2025-10-09 08:00 - 17:00
This is a two-part class! We’ll meet on both 11/9 and 11/15.
Shape your presence. Command the room. Radiate what you choose.
Every time you walk into a dungeon, a bar, or a bedroom, you’re already broadcasting an energy signature. The question is: are you shaping it — or is it shaping you?
Energy Persona Mastery is a 2-part online series that teaches you how to consciously shift your energetic presence for play, ritual, or everyday life. Across two live sessions, you’ll learn practical tools, practice exercises, and leave with a personal Energy Persona Map you can use immediately.
Session 1: Foundations
– Discover your default chakra broadcast (what people feel first about you)
– Practice shifting dominance between energy centers for different effects
– Learn Scene Pre-Loading — how to prime your body language, eye contact, and micro-expressions to charge the air before you touch anyone
Session 2: Expansion
– Explore Elemental Alignment (Fire, Water, Earth, Air) to flavor your energy persona
– Experiment with Archetypal Masks from the Sacred Fire Kink system to temporarily borrow new energies
– Build your personalized Energy Persona Map and integration ritual
PRESENTER:
🔥 Scott – “FireOnTheMtnTop”
Scott is a lifestyle Dominant, Sadist, Daddy, and Primal Edge Player with over 18 years in the kink community. He’s a founding Director of G.O.D.S., creator of Colorado KNKE Kinky Camping, and a seasoned Dungeon Monitor, lifestyle event Emcee, and presenter.
As a Dominant, Scott teaches that leadership in kink is sacred work—rooted in care, emotional safety, and integrity. He’s known for creating grounded, real-world conversations about power and play that help people feel seen, strong, and turned on by their truth.
✨ Lecee
Lecee is the “yin” to Scott’s Dominant fire—his little “s.” She’s been active in the lifestyle for 8 years and brings playful insight, emotional wisdom, and lived experience as a submissive.
Together, she and Scott co-create containers that are intimate, brave, and authentic. Her presence helps others feel permission to explore new desires, embrace vulnerability, and rewrite the old stories they were told about sex, surrender, and and worthiness.
TICKETING:
$50 suggested; $40-$60 sliding scale available. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/c9c242e5d3
We offer multiple 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 $20. 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 for later viewing.
Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.

ONLINE: Forbidden Fruit: Stepping into Kink Positivity with Dolly Diatima
2025-10-09 08:00 - 17:00
Once condemned as madness, now simply tolerated as a “preference,” kink has long existed at the edges of medicine and morality. But what if your desires aren’t problems to be solved? What if they aren’t just something to be tolerated? What if instead they are something far more radical, a different way of touching the world…and being touched by the world.
This class invites you to step into the dungeon, not as punishment but as a possibility, a site of transformation. Here we will trace kink’s origins as 19th century medical madness and discuss how the urge to diagnose desire gave way to the concept of perversion. We’ll watch how this old way of thinking still haunts our society today and elaborate on how kink has survived, adapted, and seduced its way into the present. Then we’ll turn the whip around, because sometimes theory likes to bottom.
Using easy to understand philosophical frameworks like virtue and care ethics, we’ll explore how the erotic dance of dominance and submission can rewrite morality itself. Because the moment you embrace pain as pleasure, control as connection, and power as a way to play, your desire becomes the blueprint for a better world.
So come ready to think, to ache, to unlearn, we’re about to make philosophy beg for more. Think of it as intellectual aftercare, for you and for the world.
INSTRUCTOR:
Dolly Diatima is a Persian American professional dominatrix, writer, fetish model, and lifestyle kinkster. As a nonbinary and neurodivergent sex worker on the ace spectrum, they offer a unique perspective into kink and sexuality which they work to bring into their sessions as a domme as well as into their writings and classes. They recently earned a BA in Philosophy and can often be found discussing the intersection of kink and philosophical concepts on their blog. In their spare time they enjoy drawing in the pop surrealism style, watching extreme horror films, and collecting vintage fashion. They reside in the San Francisco Bay Area with their big beautiful tuxedo cat, Ligeia.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/a4966bef35
We offer a sliding scale, 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 and distributed for later viewing.
Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.

ONLINE: Tarot for Real Life: A Legacy Perspective with Alexandria
2025-10-09 08:00 - 17:00
Alexandria has a personal, family tradition of tarot and she is making herself and her unique perspective available to the public for the first time, exclusively through Wicked Grounds. She brings her family’s formally closed, secreted tarot tradition of creativity, spirituality, faith, community, and feminism to the discussion. This will be a fairly wide ranging, open discussion. She welcomes newbies and experienced practitioners alike. You do NOT need a working knowledge of the standard deck to participate and learn from this conversation. This class welcomes folks from any/ all tarot backgrounds.
Some things she’s excited to discuss include:
– Basic Do’s and Don’t’s
– Being respectful/cultural sensitivity
– Colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy – how to clean slate your tarot
– Venn diagrams – Faith, spirituality, tarot
– Irreverence vs reverence
– Guidance/Messages via the cards – Who/what are we in communication with? Who/What is the source of the message?
– Tarot as an interpersonal building tool, a group activity, a community/familial experience
– Incorporating tarot into your day to day life
– Spicy tarot/tarot for kink/BDSM
– Q&A! bring your questions!
PRESENTER:
Alexandria has been teaching dance and movement since 1998, including private lessons, small group studio classes, and large public classes of 100+. Her repertoire includes pole for all bodies, ballet for real life, belly dance, floorwork, high heels dancing, lap dancing, Flexibility 4 Life, salsa, merengue, bachata, cha-cha, east coast swing, social waltz, feminine sensual movement, rhythm training, body confidence, non-verbal communication, and more. Her mantra is #whenindoubtslowdown and her rally cry is “All bodies, all genders, all ages: come home to your body”. Her teaching emphasizes reclaiming your body and self-love, strength, flexibility, improvisation, and musicality.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/248d732a4c
We offer a sliding scale, 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 and distributed for later viewing.
Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.

ONLINE: Dealing with Drop with Miriam Green
2025-10-09 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/2937ff63af

ONLINE: Violet Wand 101 with Electrogirly
2025-10-12 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/af66cac512
We 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 and available to watch after.
Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.

ONLINE: Hypnokink on the Ace Spectrum with Faun
2025-10-13 18:00 - 20:00
Even in this day and age, it can still be incredibly difficult for kinksters on the ace spectrum to feel like they belong in kinky spaces. Knowing that kink isn’t inherently sexual is one thing, and figuring out how to get our needs met without making ourselves uncomfortable is another. If this sounds like you, allow me to introduce you to the beauty that is hypnokink!
In this class, we’ll discuss the ways in which kink itself can be validating and cozy for acespec people, and explore specifics about how we can interact with hypnokink from any position or role without compromising boundaries or comfort levels. The class is open to all, so if you or a loved one is on the ace spectrum, or you’re just curious, please come join us!
PRESENTER:
Faun (he/him) is a smut writer and kink educator from the Pacific Northwest. Despite knowing he was firmly on the ace spectrum in his teenage years, he always felt that something was missing. One day, he stumbled upon a website chock full of hypnokinky stories, and the rest is history. Now, he hopes to help others find their own niche in the kink community by sharing what he’s learned through study and experience. You can find him on AO3 and tumblr as spiraledfaun, and on Fet as deerfaun.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/9bf51a9b8f

ONLINE: Tune In to Your Menopause Experience with Lasara Firefox Allen
2025-10-14 18:00 - 20:00
This workshop is a practical and affirming guide to navigating the menopause transition. Learn the physiology of the stages—perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause—and discover tools to support your body, mind, and spirit along the way. We’ll explore how nutrition, exercise, sleep, mindfulness, and self-advocacy can support wellness during this time. You’ll also create your own Menopause Manifesto, a personal roadmap to help you claim an empowered relationship with this potent transformation.
PRESENTER:
Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW (they/them), is The Genderqueer Menopause Coach, founder of a trauma-informed, gender-expansive menopause care practice serving trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer individuals. Not finding needed resources when they hit perimenopause, Lasara began self-educating to advocate for their own care. That journey ignited their commitment to change the landscape of menopause care for queer and trans communities.
Lasara is a certified Menopause Doula through The Menopause School and a menopause coach with a thriving practice. They are the author of Genderqueer Menopause (forthcoming from North Atlantic Books, 2025), and Magickal Menopause (forthcoming from Llewellyn, 2026).
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/fcfbb4c7a5

ONLINE: From ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ to Boundaries: Healing Consent Culture in BDSM with Buzz Stingyear
2025-10-15 18:00 - 20:00
Have you ever felt that kink community wasn’t there for you? Are you confronting unhelpful worldviews around consent that you’ve struggled to shift? Would you like to learn how to be less reactive or annoyed and more open to your [potential] partners’ perspectives? If so, this class is for you!
This course explores the emotional, social, and psychological dimensions of consent beyond the basics. Participants will unpack common resistance to consent culture and deepen their understanding through reflection, dialogue, and experiential practice. Learn when “boys will be boys” or “it’s just my way” is applicable to consent culture. Even those of us who are profoundly dedicated to the ideas of consent sometimes resist the culture and practices of consent. Or we are not even aware that what we are doing is related to kink and therefore think it is not under the purview of consent.
In this workshop, you will learn to:

Understand what “nuance” in consent means and why it matters
Explore how context and assumptions impact BDSM consent
Determine whether you can be a badass or a Dominant/Top and still be religious about consent
Examine the conflict that arises when your authentic self conflicts with another’s authentic self in relation to consent
Unpack personal resistance to consent practices and replace resistance with enthusiasm
Identify personal experiences with clear vs. unclear consent

PRESENTER:
Buzz_Stingyear is a late-blooming kinkster who grew up in a money-driven, Trump-aligned household. He internalized a rigid worldview that took years of effort to unravel. With a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, he strives to align his personal growth with his training. Entering the public kink community exposed him to the transformative power of feedback, accountability, and consent culture. Behaviors once normalized in his vanilla world were challenged and reexamined. Buzz remains committed to self growth, becoming less reactive and more compassionate, and supporting others in finding connection, safety, and self-awareness within the kink community.
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/a332d6e3c3

ONLINE: Dungeons Demystified: Navigating Etiquette, Attire, and Atmosphere in BDSM Spaces with Princess Rara
2025-10-16 18:00 - 20:00
Exploring a BDSM dungeon for the first time can be exciting yet a bit overwhelming. This class is designed to help you feel comfortable and confident by explaining what to expect and how to behave in these unique spaces. Whether you’re going to a public dungeon or a private play party, this session will give you the tools you need to navigate these environments with ease.
Key Topics Covered: Understanding the Dungeon Environment:
– Public vs. Private Dungeons: Learn the differences between public and private dungeons and what you can expect from each.
– Typical Layout and Equipment: Get familiar with common features and equipment you might find in a dungeon.
Dungeon Etiquette: General Conduct: Discover how to behave respectfully and responsibly while in a dungeon.
– Consent and Boundaries: Understand the importance of respecting personal and scene boundaries.
– Communication Protocols: Learn how to communicate effectively, including the use of safe words and signals.
Attire and Appearance: Dress Codes: Find out what to wear, from casual kink outfits to more formal fetish attire, to fit in and feel comfortable.
– Personal Grooming: Get tips on grooming to match dungeon norms and maintain a presentable appearance.
Participating and Observing:
– Active Participation: Learn how to engage in scenes safely and respectfully.
– Respectful Observation: Understand the dos and don’ts of observing others without intruding on their experience.
Safety and Hygiene:
– Cleanliness Standards: Ensure both personal and equipment hygiene are up to standard.
– Emergency Protocols: Know what to do in case of an emergency and understand the role of dungeon monitors.
Building Confidence: Overcoming Nerves: Get strategies to manage anxiety and enjoy your experience.
Community and Support: Learn how to find and connect with supportive kink communities and mentors.
By the end of this class, you’ll have a clear understanding of dungeon etiquette, how to dress appropriately, and how to conduct yourself with confidence and respect. Join us to gain the knowledge you need to become a knowledgeable and respectful participant in the BDSM community.
PRESENTER:
Princess Rara (she/her) is a sadomasochist, kink educator, and the founder of Pink Kink—a platform that includes a podcast, boutique, and educational institute dedicated to helping kinksters build confident, ethical kink lives. With ten years in the BDSM community, she brings a blend of experience, honesty, and humor to everything she teaches.
Her classes cover both foundational and advanced topics, always with a focus on real-world application, consent, and personal growth. Known for her warm, inclusive, and engaging teaching style, Rara doesn’t talk at her students—she creates space for discussion, story-sharing, and connection. Her goal is to meet people where they are, help them feel seen and validated, and support their journey toward more intentional and empowered kink.
Rara has taught for organizations including Dark Odyssey, Studio 58, and Wicked Grounds. In the DC area, she’s also a munch host, Demo/House Top, occasional Pro Domme, and party host in her private dungeon. No matter the setting, she is committed to creating spaces where kinksters of all kinds feel respected, supported, and safe to explore who they are.
TICKETING:
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/2c8b9ee91e
We offer a sliding scale, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance.
The regular ticket is $30. This is what most people should pay. 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: Sex-Positive Menopause for Genderqueer Folx with Lasara Firefox Allen
2025-10-18 11:00 - 13:00
This workshop offers a grounded, embodied, and celebratory approach to sexuality through and beyond menopause. We’ll explore desire shifts, identity transitions, and the physiological and emotional changes that may affect intimacy. Expect frank talk about genitourinary syndrome of menopause, changes in sensation, dysphoria and euphoria, and ways to stay connected to pleasure, consent, and self-affirmation. This space is sex-positive, kink-aware, and rooted in liberation.
PRESENTER:
Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW (they/them), is The Genderqueer Menopause Coach, founder of a trauma-informed, gender-expansive menopause care practice serving trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer individuals. Not finding needed resources when they hit perimenopause, Lasara began self-educating to advocate for their own care. That journey ignited their commitment to change the landscape of menopause care for queer and trans communities.
Lasara is a certified Menopause Doula through The Menopause School and a menopause coach with a thriving practice. They are the author of Genderqueer Menopause (forthcoming from North Atlantic Books, 2025), and Magickal Menopause (forthcoming from Llewellyn, 2026).
TICKETING:
$20 – $40 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.
https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/167aea94d0
We offer a sliding scale, 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 may be recorded for instructor use but is not guaranteed available for later viewing.
Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.
