This Week with Wicked Grounds (6/12 – 6/22)

Hello kinksters –

We talk about Pride Month, but I’m really getting into it this year!

Last weekend, I attended Pride celebrations in my very rural northern California town. There were several bands, lots of helpful support and information, and my town’s first ever – totally packed!!! – drag celebration in our downtown movie theater. It was a very long day (and night), and I left feeling very grateful for it. I love the huge celebrations we have in San Francisco, but there is something very tender and precious about seeing LGBTQIA+ folks of all ages making a party together in a zero-stoplight town.

I do it all again in a couple of weeks! Wicked Grounds will be hosting a small information booth at the ​first ever Pride celebrations in Fort Bragg​, one of the largest towns in coastal Mendocino county. If you’re in northern California (or just like taking long scenic drives), come up and support the event!

And yes, of course, you’ll see us at SF Pride on June 28th and 29th. You’ll find us in The Root of Pride area, run by Folsom Street Events. We wouldn’t miss it for the world.

But I’m getting ahead of myself! First, let’s take a look at what’s on the calendar for you.

This Week!

Thursday, June 12 through Sunday, June 22

Thursday, June 12 and Friday, June 13

No live classes on these days, but check out our video classes, workbooks, and more at ​Wicked Grounds Annex​

Saturday, June 14

We offer three classes today – one online and two in person!

Join UK sex educator Sarah Butcher online at 11am Pacific for Wax Play 101, and learn all of the sensual, pleasurable, and sadomasochistic ways you can incorporate safe wax and candle play into your scenes. This class will be offered live, or you can watch the recording later, but you need advanced tickets for either. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

If you’re in the SF Bay Area, join us for two in-person classes at our home in downtown San Francisco!

At Noon Pacific, join us for Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires. This is the original two-hour class that launched the core ideas behind our annual six-week intensive. You’ll learn a variety of strategies for uncovering your own unique erotic roadmap and how to build your voice to ask for what you want from partners and lovers. Advanced ticketing is recommended. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

And then at 2:30pm, join us from our bimonthly class Welcome to the SF Bay Area Kink Scene! Miriam Green will help you understand the culture, organizations, venues, and other resources that make the SF Bay Area scene so remarkable, and let you know everything you need to make the most of it safely and enjoyably. Advanced ticketing is recommended! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Sunday, June 15

Join us online at 11am today for Daddy Issues: Daddy Dynamics & You with Lady V. This class is for all genders, all roles, and all orientations of people who are interested in any type of Daddy-oriented play! This class will be recorded for later viewing, but it’s so much more fun live! Either way, you’ll need advanced ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Monday, June 16

We have two classes tonight!

Join us online tonight for Erotic Humiliation, a three-hour online class with Mel and Memi from 6pm – 9pm Pacific. In this workshop we will offer guidance, ideas, and tips on how to start playing with shame, humiliation, embarrassment and degradation/ objectification. We will cover several kinks through the lens of trauma-informed practices and queer politics, looking into the complexities of the intersection between the sexual politics of shame and pleasure. Advanced ticketing required! Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Brand new to kink and need to build some foundations? Or perhaps you’ve had some challenges with communication and negotiation? Join Miriam Green online from 6pm – 8pm Pacific for our core Kink 101 class BDSM Negotiation Basics. Attending live is the best way to engage, but you can also sign up in advance to watch the recording later. Ticketing available through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Tuesday, June 17

Join us online tonight for the first session in a two-part Writing Spicy workshop from erotica writer and editor Sinclair Sexsmith. Whether you’re writing for your own enjoyment or for publication, go deeper into your spicy writing skills with this two-part class, from 6-8pm Pacific both 6/17 and 6/24. Advanced ticketing is required, and this class will not be recorded. Get your ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Wednesday, June 18

Looking for some new ways to explore impact and sensation play? Join us online tonight for Pedi Pain: Impact and Pressure Points for Feet with HG Wyndell. We’ll help you tread carefully into this new kind of play, whether topping or bottoming! Advanced ticketing required. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Thursday, June 19 and Friday, June 20

No live classes on these days, but check out our video classes, workbooks, and more at ​Wicked Grounds Annex​

Saturday, June 21

Join UK kink educator Sarah Butcher online today at 11am Pacific today for Feel the Impact, an online class to explore all the nuances of impact play! This class is available live, or you may watch the recording later. Either way, you’ll need advanced ticketing through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Sunday, June 22

We have two online classes today!

Join us online at 11am Pacific for Dungeon Disasters with John Pendal. No matter how skilled you are as a BDSM player things can and will always go wrong. This class examines both emotional and physical pitfalls of kinky scenes with tips for warning signs you should look out for, ways to avoid a disaster, and coping strategies when the worst situations seem to occur. Advanced ticketing required, whether you plan to attend live or watch the recording later. Get yours through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Whether you believe in magick, want to believe in magick, or think it’s all just a big metaphor for how the brain works, join us at 2pm Pacific for Sex Magick for Kinksters with Miriam Green. You’ll learn the basics of sex magick: what it is, where it comes from, and some underpinning ideas of how to engage with it from our own kinky witch Miriam BatAsherah Green. Whether you plan to watch live or attend using the recording later, you’ll need to invoke advanced tickets through ​Forbidden Tickets​ or ​Plura​.

Upcoming Intensives!

We offer several intensives throughout the year, both in person and ​online​. Here are a few that have just been opened for registration that you might want to check out.

• ​Stepping Into Pride​: A five week workshop to discover your own pride in your LGBTQ+ identity. Live and self-directed coursework from July 1 – August 5, 2025.

• ​Increasing Your Impact! A Daylong Impact Play Intensive with Miriam Green and impossiblepain​: Saturday, July 12 10am – 6pm.

• ​Erotic Movement Daylong Intensive with Alexandria​: Sunday, July 13 10:30 am – 5pm.

• ​The Pentacle Path: A Six-Week Intensive Tarot Training​: August 10 – September 20, 2025.

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Warmly, Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team

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