Dirty Talking Instead of Dirty Dancing: A Playtalk Workshop

with Mel & Memi

a live and recorded online class from Wicked Grounds

2/14 11am Pacific

Does hearing someone else say ‘on your knees’ turn you on? Do you want to order people around and say hot and sexy things but don’t know how?

Then we are coming to help! Come hear two dirty talkers explain how to think things through beforehand to find the right words in the moment. We are going to be exploring everything from negotiation and care to orders and commands.

What this workshop will offer:

1. What is ‘Play Talk’?
2. What we can do with words and not actions
3. Dan Savage structure on dirty talk
4. Play talk vs. humiliation
5. How roleplay can be made out of words
6. Play talk for bottoms and tops
7. How to give orders without dying
8. Negotiation demo and tips

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.

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.