Workshop 

Littles On Top (Friday 11:00am-12:15pm)

• • She may look sweet and innocent but is she? Really?In this class Arli will talk about topping as a little. That’s right I said TOPPING. A sweet but sadistic little lurks behind that innocent smile. Having the littles in charge is not for the faint of heart. Bring your questions, crayons and cookies!Come out and have fun and if you’re lucky there may even be an Easy Bake oven

    The playground is open!

1-on-1 Mentoring Topics

• Age Play – littles, Middles, Bigs

• Blood Play

• Canes and Rods

• Needle Play

• Negotiating Aftercare

Nexus of Desires 

(Friday 10:00pm – 11:00pm)

Impact play
Single tails
Spanking/slapping

Workshops 

~Caning in the danger zone~ (Friday 11:00am-12:15pm)

• • There is more to caning than what meets the ASS. This class is for unconventional players who want to take things to the next level. We are going to journey into territories that you may have been told were forbidden or risky. Such as: hands, underarms, lats/shoulders, chest, genitalia, feet, throat, and yes the face. All the fun places that are considered “NOT ETOTIC”. Skill Level: 301

*The Artistic Art of Suturing without Sutures* (Friday 3:30pm-4:45pm)

• • Having a past background in the medical field and 30 years experience playing and experimenting with pokey things. I will be sharing the types and sizes of needles I prefer to use for this particular activity. We will go through the cleaning and prepping of materials including the preferred size of monofilament that is the easiest to work with as the suture itself. Once you have the working knowledge of suturing without sutures you will be able to let your imaginations run wild! Skill Level: 201

1-on-1 Mentoring Topics

• Blood Play

• Cigar Play (IT’S BACK)

• Cutting

• Play Piercing

• Single Tails

(Friday & Saturday 10:00pm)

Lighting people on fire and throwing them into the pool!

Workshop

Cell Popping: Hands on Lab (Saturday 1:45pm-3:00pm)

• Cell popping, also known as pin or micro branding, is a delicious and beautiful form of body modification that is truly white hot sexy fun! Cell popping can be highly artistic, beautiful, deliberate, and just all kinds of sexy fun whether it is done from a Top or bottom perspective. Different methods of this type of branding will be discussed and demonstrated….and seriously, be prepared to have a sizzling good time!

Workshops 

Faces: Not Just for Eating (Sunday 11:00am-12:15pm)

• • “A slap in the face” has been synonymous with insult since the 1800s and so striking someone in the face has long been taboo in the United States. But faces are the mirrors of the mind and they are fertile ground on which to explore control and sensation. Kissing, touching, smothering, slapping, covering, flogging, whipping, piercing. All can be done to the face. Let’s fly in the face of danger. Skill Level: 301

Middle-Aged Kink (Discussion Group) (Friday 1:45pm-3:00pm)

• • As we grow… more experienced and seasoned, our kinky, naughty spirit may be willing but our tired, sleep and hormone deprived flesh may be weak! Somehow, we are more comfortable talking about WIITWD than we are discussing low libido, reduced stamina, lower or different pain tolerance, limited flexibility, and the need for personal lubricant. Well, no more! Join us at this discussion group where we will share experiences, strategies, encouragement, and maybe products that help us navigate the upper 48.

Nexus of Desires 

(Friday 10:00pm – 11:00pm)

Electricity

Workshops 

Shockingly Delightful: The Different Flavors of Electroplay (Sunday 11:00am-12:15pm)

• • Whether you are feeling like you are on pins and needles, getting a tattoo, being tickled repeatedly, or a surge of heat running thru you, electric play is a fun way to experience sensations. Electric play can create a variety of sensations that can go from light and fun to intense and painful. Learn how to more safely and creatively play with electricity in its many forms. This class will cover various implements used in electric play including e-stim, stun gun, cattle prod, tay zapper, shock collar, and violet wand. Maybe by the end, you’ll feel shocked by a surge of interest.

Revolting Gender: Kink and Gender Play (Sunday 1:45pm-3:00pm)

• • LGBTIQA leather and kink communities have been spaces of exploration and revolution. This has been true in performances of gender. Many people use kink spaces as places to explore their desire to dress, perform, or embody a wide variety of gender expressions.

Small Group

(Saturday 9:00am – 10:00am) KNIFE PLAY

(Saturday 10:00am – 11:00am) MIND FUCKS

1-on-1 Mentoring Topics

• Electricity

• Fisting

• Genderflexing

• Knife Play

• Mind Fucks

Workshops 

Blood cupping-let’s get messy! (Sunday 9:30am-10:45am)

• • We will first learn the basics of fire cupping & how to apply. Then add in things like lancets, play piercings & cuttings. We will explore how you can turn a painful & strong cupping scene into a very bloody, therapeutic & artistic scene.

Contact Fire Play (Sunday 3:30pm-4:45pm)

• • The beginning of class will be a demonstration of techniques on how to safely do contact fire play in a scene. The second part of class is time for people who would like to try hands-on experience with body contact Fire play.

Small Group

(Friday 11:00am – 12:00pm) CANES & RODS

(Friday 1:00pm – 2:00pm) FIRE CUPPING

(Saturday 11:00am – 12:00pm) IMPACT PLAY

(Saturday 1:00pm – 2:00pm) VACUUM CUPPING

Burlesque Basics part 1 (Friday 1:45pm-3:00pm)

• • Learn the fundamentals of Burlesque-style striptease including classic moves, artful clothing removal, and the principles of the tease.

Burlesque Basics Part 2- Choreo! (Saturday 1:45pm-3:00pm)

• • This workshop builds on Part 1 and will include developing a short striptease choreography that will be performed Saturday night in front of all Desire attendees!

Tantric practices (Sunday 9:30am-10:45am)

• This gentle and intense workshop encourages participants to connect to their own internal energy, and to build tools to consciously & consensually exchange that energy with others. Using breath work, visualization, partner exercises (with and without touch), we will learn to circulate energy in our bodies, and explore non-contact penetrative and receptive experiences. The workshop will culminate in a conscious exchange of energy with a partner. BYO or pair up with someone new. Open to all mobility and physical capability levels, some work is done with eyesight and some work is done with hearing, so please advise instructor if you receive support around those senses.

1-on-1 Mentoring Topics

• Burlesque Skills; teasing, flirting, tassels, bump and grind

Workshop 

Pet Play (Friday 3:30pm-4:45pm)

• • An intro look at the varied world of petplay or animal human role-play for both those wanting to be bouncing pup or capable pony or other such pets and those who desire to take care of them. We’ll discuss the fantasies, practicalities, the plethora of options, and try to provide as much information as possible. Open to those just curious and those of great experience.

Nexus of Desires 

(Friday 10:00pm – 11:00pm)

Impact play
Flogging
Sensation play 

Workshop 

Overcoming Size in Physical Dominance Scenes (Friday 3:30pm-4:45pm)

• • Ever been typecast as a sub because you’re small? Or a dom because you’re tall? Are you in a relationship where a significant size difference between you and your partner feels like it keeps you from playing a dominant or submissive role you’d love to play with them? Do you just love wrestling scenes but aren’t sure how to approach opponents of significantly different sizes? This workshop is about approaching physical play (things like wrestling, pinning, physical control) in a way that reflects the size you project in your mind rather than your body, regardless of any major size disparagement that may exist between you and your partner, through a combination of body techniques and brain games.

Small Group

(Friday 10:00am – 11:00am) MIND FUCKS 

(Saturday 9:00am – 10:00am) WRESTLING

(Saturday 10:00am – 11:00am) WRESTLING

(Saturday 3:30pm – 4:30pm) WATERSPORTS

(Sunday 11:00am – 12:00pm) WATERSPORTS

Escape Tactics (Sunday 3:30pm-4:45pm)

• Oooh shhhhiiit…. 2 red flags and a locked door between you and possible psycho…. Discussions and demonstrations of how to keep safe when you’re playing with people you don’t know.

Workshop 

Story time under the stars! (Friday & Sunday 11:00pm – 12:00am)

• • Auntie M. is reading stories under the stars, while littles color and listen. Come to story time in your favorite onesie and bring a stuffy friend. Bigs are welcome!

Nexus of Desires 

(Friday & Saturday 10:00pm – 11:00pm)

Caning
Impact play

Special Event

(Sunday 2:00pm – 5:00pm)

Hook Pull

Workshop 

Exploring Sadistic Needle Play (Friday 11:00am-12:15pm)

• • This 75-minute workshop offers an exploration of Sadistic needleplay. Focusing on safety, technique, and psychological aspects, the session also introduces advanced concepts like needle size, placement, handling unexpected scenarios, covering the basics of needle size, quantity, placement, stimulating techniques, and introductory use of hooks—guidance on transitioning to larger gauge needles and dealing with broken needles. Skill Level: 301

Small Group 

(Saturday 11:00am – 12:00pm) NEGOTIATING PLAY & SEX WITH A TRANS BODY

Ass and you shall receive (Saturday 3:30pm-4:45pm)

• Ass play is a broad term for sexual practices that focus on the butt and anus. Whether it’s external stimulation on one’s ass cheeks, to penetration via toys or various body parts, ass play in BDSM can be done as a form of foreplay, or as an entire scene unto itself.

  Cum and let’s break down the barriers around a form of play that was once taboo, and explore the joys of this underappreciated body part and underrated form of play!

Nexus of Desires 

(Friday 10:00pm – 11:00pm)

Sybian

Workshop 

OMG Yoga in the Nude! (Friday 1:45pm-3:00pm & Sunday 11:00am-12:15pm)

• • We’re naked all weekend, now let’s be naked together and move our bodies! This will be a beginner-friendly, Hatha style, clothing-optional yoga class. Hatha-style means we’ll be moving slowly, moving with our breath, and holding poses for 5-7 breaths each.Doing yoga in the nude allows for a deepening of our mind-body connection and fully inhabiting our beautiful bodies. We’ll focus on loving ourselves as we are, relaxing, stretching for flexibility, and building our internal and external strength.No experience required. Lots of cues will be given. Please bring a yoga mat (if you have one), and/or a couple towels.

Small Group 

(Friday 3:30pm – 4:30pm) AGE PLAY

(Saturday 11:00am – 12:00pm) PONY PLAY

(Saturday 2:45pm – 3:45pm) NEGOTIATING AFTERCARE

1-on-1 Mentoring Topics

• Age Play – littles, Middles, Bigs

• D/s in Poly Relationships

• Negotiating Aftercare

• Negotiating & Writing Contracts

• Pony Play

Workshops 

Definitely Not Your Parents Porn (Friday 3:30pm-4:45pm)

• • Q remembers stumbling onto his stepdad’s porn stash one day. It was the early 80s, he was young, and porn was so very different then. Flash forward to today, He’s involved in porn and it’s nothing like the stuff his stepdad had in the bottom of his dresser drawer. Join Q in a discussion of the evolution of modern women’s/queer porn, its positive effect on the newer generations of leather dykes and kinksters, and watch some of the hottest women’s/queer porn out there today!

Going the Distance: Making D/s work across the miles (Sunday 1:45pm-3:00pm)

• • Technology has helped our community flourish in ways and places not imagined by our leather forebearers. Long-distance D/s relationships are quite common in today’s leather community. In this class, we’ll discuss some ways we can use technology to enhance our connection across the miles.

Small Group 

(Friday 11:00am – 12:00pm) BOOTBLACKING

(Friday 1:15pm – 2:15pm) VAGINAL FISTING

(Sunday 11:00am – 12:00pm) PLAY & SEXUALITY AT 50+

1-on-1 Mentoring Topics

• Bootblack

• D/s

• Play & sexuality at 50+

• Vaginal Fisting

 Workshops 

So you wanna …Be a Piercer ???
(Friday 1:45pm-3:00pm)

• • SO you have the basics of play piercing down and are interested in taking it to the next level. This class is all about how you go from play piercing to permanent piercing . The health, safety and an intro to all the tools needed to make it a more permanent hole. Please have a basic knowledge of play piercing technique to attend.
    Skill Level: 201

Grap some gloves and lets makes some holes.
(Friday 3:30pm-4:45pm)

• • This is the hands on / bring a body part or person/ and do a permanent piercing or 2 depending on time and number of attendees / part of this class. Please have attended the 201 section of the class or clear it with Sharrin. We will cover placement , tools , jewelry type and material . This is a unique opportunity to learn the craft from a master piercer Sharrin Spector … You can take advantage of your new found knowledge and take home the tools and jewelry you need to make this a new passion .
    Skill Level: 401

Small Group 

(Saturday 11:00am – 12:00pm) PIERCING (MUST HAVE ATTENDED BOTH CLASSES AS WELL)

(Saturday 1:00pm – 2:00pm) PIERCING (MUST HAVE ATTENDED BOTH CLASSES AS WELL)

(Saturday 2:45pm – 3:45pm) PIERCING (MUST HAVE ATTENDED BOTH CLASSES AS WELL)

(Sunday 9:30am – 10:30am) PIERCING (MUST HAVE ATTENDED BOTH CLASSES AS WELL)

(Sunday 10:45am – 11:45am) PIERCING (MUST HAVE ATTENDED BOTH CLASSES AS WELL)

Workshop 

Pet Play (Friday 3:30pm-4:45pm)

• • An intro look at the varied world of petplay or animal human role-play for both those wanting to be bouncing pup or capable pony or other such pets and those who desire to take care of them. We’ll discuss the fantasies, practicalities, the plethora of options, and try to provide as much information as possible. Open to those just curious and those of great experience.

Nexus of Desires 

(Friday & Saturday 10:00pm – 11:00pm)

shibari / rope

Workshops 

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Friday 11:00am-12:15pm)

• • Welcome to a rope workshop that explores the range of sensation and why different ends of the spectrum pair together powerfully. We’ll explore and discuss the juxtaposition of pleasure and pain – highlighting what occurs in the brain through these experiences. Marrying together theory/science and rope practices that showcase these principles: this workshop will focus on creating a balance in your scenes and practice that deepens and elevates the sensations you are incorporating.

Rope Botanica (Saturday 11:00am-12:15pm)

• • A rope exploration and workshop with botanical elements – from flowers, to ferns, to herbs, and leafs: this luscious rope workshop is focused on adornment with flora.
    We will have two options available: one for those new to rope where we will cover foundational rope knowledge and demo some simple yet decorative ties. The other option will be set up for those who are ready to dive into their own creation and use botanics to ornament ties. We will also have a photo area set up where you can capture your creation. This is an all levels class – with partnered and self tying options.

Small Group 

(Saturday 1:30pm – 2:30pm) POWER EXCHANGE

(Saturday 2:30pm – 3:30pm) ROPE

1-on-1 Mentoring Topics

• D/s

• Impact Play

• Negotiating Aftercare

• Negotiating & Writing Contracts

• Power Exchange

Workshop 

GenderQueer Caucus (Friday 1:45pm-3:00pm)

• • This is a safer space for folx who are trans, non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid,gender non-conforming, agender, and any and all non-cis-gender gender identities. We will hold informal conversation and small and bigger group discussions and brainstorming. Racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, misogyny, fat-phobia, body-shaming will not be tolerated.