The purpose of this workshop is that everyone leaves with a better sense of where they are on the risk spectrum and how they can use harm and pleasure management to minimize unwanted risks.

We will have a hands-on approach and go through reflection questions as well as exercises, while holding space so that everyone can share their own experiences and thoughts.

We will also offer extra material so everyone can repeat the process at their own pace and as many times as they need!

First part:

1. Introduction to harm, risk, and pleasure from different points of view
2. Introduction to the history of harm reduction and why it applies to kink
3. Politics of harm and risk
4. Risk aversion, risk seeking, risk acceptance
5. Some questions to start thinking about how we relate to harm, risk, pleasure, and loss
6. Self-consent: why it matters and how we can practice accountability

Second part:

1. Introduction to risk profiles: What are those? Why do I want one?
2. How to make your own risk profile
3. Questions to explore how risk feels in our body/mind
4. Exercises to map our own profile
5. Group discussion and sharing

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/53b2187727

We offer a sliding scale, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance.

The regular ticket is $30 for this class. This is what most people should pay. Choose the level you can comfortably afford on our $20-$40 sliding scale.

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.