Class Descriptions:

New Classes:

Second City Square Knots: Or how to use improvisation in your rope scenes. Whether a bottom brats or a Bend breaks, learn how to go with the flow and remain connected in your scene. Discover the importance of intuition and key points to read your play partner and enhance your experience.

Women and Rope: A discussion-directed class focusing on the bondage of the femaie figure and the societal norms that allow us women to both enjoy rope and be exploited. Themes from historic actions and art are included with focal point empowering women to enjoy rope bondage and learn to incorporate rope into more of their physical, mental, and spiritual lives.

Tease Me, Torment Me, Burlesque Me Please! Learn how to take the art of Tease, Denial, and Seduction to a new level.  Outline your sex play and turn it into a performance for you and your partner[s].  Even without an audience this class will spice up your sexy fun time!

Is that a Lollipop or are you just glad to see me? The art and science of Giving Head and Oral pleasure.  Or what I learned in Bartending School.  Yes there really IS a science to it to please your partner[s].  Yes you could say this is a "hands-on" class.  This class covers both Male and Female oral sexual gratification techniques.

Food & Pheromones: The Art and Science of Food Play. Food play has a glorious history and is more than smearing on food stuffs and licking it off.  The first aphrodisiac is food, learn how to use food to stimulate your sex play both sensually and chemically.  Psychology behind feeding and foodies.  Stimulate all of your senses with this fascinating, fun and full topic.

Getting a leg up-Self Suspension. Techniques for self bondage and all the way up to suspending oneself fully, for rope bottoms who have time on their hands or who want some practice.  Fun, safe, challenging things for some self ropy goodness.

Sensory and Sensory Deprivation Play: How to use all the senses in your play and how to transform your scene with sensory input and deprivation activities.  It's not just about blindfolds and bunny fir.

It's my potty and I will pry if I have to. Discussion, tips, techniques and the power behind watersports, toilet training, and scat play.  Understanding how to use these areas to enhance your scene experience, your power dynamic, and your spirituality of kink.

Second City Kink-How to use improvisation to enhance your play. Learn to think outside of the box wherever you may be and get your kink on.  No matter where you are you can get your play, and use your creative imagination to play anywhere with anyone.

Shock and Awe. Electrical play, from tens to cattle prod.  How to do it--how to accept it [and love it].  Lets play with electricity.  Discussion and hands-on demo with electrical equipment, safety issues.

Nuts & Bolts:  Recognizing & Handling Mental & Physical Challenges in the Kink, BDSM, D/s Lifestyle:Learn to recognize when you or your relationships and play partners have mental and physical challenges.  Techniques for learning to deal with these issues and suggestions for managing or adapting to them in your lifestyle to enhance your relationships and play for a happier, healthier life.  Topics include Autism, Dissociative Disorders, PTSD, Physical Handicaps, and Chronic Illness and how these relate to kink.

Model Air Plains-Learning how to be a fabulous fetish model. Learning to recognize your body, its plains and angles, and how to present yourself in front of the camera to make some fabulous art.  Beginning to Advance hands-on activities and resources for being a working camera/video model in the fetish/porn industries.

Bondage, Torture, & Rope Related:

Bondage 101. What you need to know about all types of restraints in order to enhance your sex play. From Rope, to leather to mental commands let's explore the sensual seduction of keeping one or more partners in place while you have your way with them. .

BDSM 101. Explore the physical and the psychological of pain/pleasure cycle and Dominant/submissive relationships. Basic advice for those looking to add a little more excitement and a demonstration of how utilizing the concepts of BDSM mindset and toys will take your sex life to a new level.

Did somebody call the Spanish Inquisition? A review of implements and techniques of torture throughout history and how we kinky folk have turned them into sensual/sexual, torment to erotic surrender. Learn to utilize the dungeon furniture and implements of destruction to enhance your scene and take your play to a different level.

Rope Hugs. Immobilizing your victim…I mean bottom with rope. Learn key anatomical strategies to restrain your sub/slave/bottom-especially those who like to eel and find out ways to understand their responses and mindset. Explore physically and psychologically physical restraint in rope from simplest immobilization to full mummification.

Wearable Shibari. Use decorative ties to make “clothing” or to wear under your clothing for that subtle fetishist who wants rope at work. Be able to show off your shibari and have the public consent. Or be demure and let them wonder at your simple beauty secret.

Rustic Furniture: The art of creating and becoming human furniture. Techniques for objectifying your bottom/slave through use of immobilization with rope bondage and other accessories to turn them into human furniture. [Trays, chairs, ashtrays, tables, etc.] Learn how to become human furniture and appreciate the objectification as a bottom.

Bound Balls: Utilizing Cock and Ball Bondage and Torture. Learn ways to tie up and corral that lizard to enhance play. Tips and techniques for playing with a cock and scrotum with various bondage devices and implements of torture. Bring practice cock to class. Self CBT and CBB will also be covered.

Bondage for Boys. Bondage for Boys will teach you how to tie up the male form. Yes it is different from the female form and not just because it has a penis. Learn some tips and techniques for tying pretty, immobilizing, and bondage for sex and suspension on the male body. CBB may be covered but this is primarily covering tying the entire male body. Discover differences as well as similarities to tying the female form.

Fancy Feet-utilizing foot bondage for nefarious and decorative purposes. An overview of variety of types of foot bondage and hands-on techniques with emphasis on enhancing your scenes. Primarily consisting of form vs. function [utilizing foot bondage to create beauty as well as provide a platform for sadism.]

Bottom's Up-learning to tie from being tied. How do you know as a bottom whether the rope artist you are about to be bound or suspended by knows what he/she is doing? Learn some basic safe and supportive rope techniques to recognize before you become and instructional video [or PSA]. Learn to recognize and how you can gently suggest that perhaps running that tail end through the loop would prevent catastrophe so you can play longer. Learn to recognize your body signals and adjust in the ropes and to know how to ask for assistance to make your play last longer and allow you and your partner to enjoy the scene more.

Dancing in the Ropes; Adding dynamics to your scene. How to help take your rope experience to diverse levels. Whether you share in the spiritual energy of the rope or are trying to run away from that really bad stingy thing-adding movement and creativity to make your scene more interesting for you and your partner.

All tied up: Knowing how to communicate in a scene as a rope bottom. Whether you play with a regular partner or fresh meat each time being able to recognize what is happening with your brain and body and communicate that to your partner will enhance the enjoyment of the scene. Know when “ow” really means “oh f...” and how to tell the difference before you get there. Learn how to process the stimulus before, during and after to avoid the pitfalls of being in rope.

Fetish Related:

Latex is a live animal. This class covers the history of latex, how to wear and care for latex clothing and fetishwear. Will cover making repairs and provide resource material for latex manufacturers and materials for construction of latex garments.

Making latex clothing. This is a hands-on class to demonstrate the construction of latex and rubber clothing. Materials for practice seams provided. If you are allergic to latex please feel free to audit class but do not touch.

So Shoe Me: All about shoe, boot, foot worship and fetishism.  An overview of history of this fetish, hands-on demo, and exploration of the psychological needs and reactions for both Tops and Bottoms in the art and explorations of the foot and shoe fetishes.

Absolutely Fabulous. This class will help you find a style or look that defines your scene/fetish personality. Resource materials and advice for looking decked out for recession-touched budgets provided. And will utilize your creativity to get that internal and external validation out of your current wardrobe.

Aural Erotica: In this class learn how to enhance your play with your mouth and ears. Lure your prey in with the promise of fucking with their imagination. Talk your toy into arousal and maybe even let them come without touching them. Learn how to use the power of your voice for intimate play in person and for LDR's.

Fetishism or fashion statement? Defining fetishism through the eyes of a multi-fetishist with emphasis on exploring what makes the thing that makes you gooey become a fetish. How to live with your fetish or even know if you have one or more of them. Resource materials provided and audience participation and discussion expected.

Miscellaneous Mindset:

Women in Kink: Find your feminine strength in the BDSM, M/s, D/s lifestyle.  Whether you are a top, bottom, slave, submissive, Queer, Transgender, Mistress, Leather Mommy or Leather Daddy.  Explore women and their identities and roles in the kink world and learn how to enhance your inner woman no matter who that turns out to be.  Historical examples, inspirational inner identification and spiritual resources.  Yes there is some of that "woo woo" stuff in here.  Lecture/Discussion style.

The Economics of BDSM: So we have this hobby/lifestyle/relationship...what are the costs?  Not just the financial but the emotional, the physical.  A discussion and group response based class on how to enjoy the scene and be able to "afford" all the psychological and fiscal repercussions about getting our kink on.

Sex and Perversion in History. An exploration of sex throughout history and how society allowed and approved perversions to include rape gangs and prostitution and full on kinky ideals. Utilize this knowledge to increase personal playtime and improve scenes.

I'm a Barbie Girl: Doll fetishes and mindset. Explore the concept of becoming a doll. Learn how to enhance detachment for mental and physical fulfillment. Learn how to create your own living doll and utilize in D/s and bdsm play. Recognize detached mental states and be able to understand and utilize them in your scene.

Sexing it up: Bring out your inner sexy. This class helps us define what is sexy to us and to others. How we can utilize that to promote positive self image and walk the walk and talk the talk. Hands-on workshop and roundtable discussion suitable for all gender identities.

Switches Roundtable. Discussion group designed for those who identify as a Switch in the community and for those who play with Switch personalities in order to better understand the unique perspective of being dual-roled.