Are You Sure You Want To Do That? Risk Profile: An Introduction!

with Mel and Memi

a live and recorded online class from Wicked Grounds

10/20 6pm - 9pm Pacific

Ever heard the expression ‘risk aware’ and wondered what it means and why we use it so much these days?

This workshop explores pleasure, risk and harm and ways we can navigate decisions to lessen unwanted impact and enjoy wanted risks.

Our idea is that everyone leaves with a better sense of where they are on the risk spectrum and how they can use the idea of “harm and pleasure management” as well as reflect on how they relate to the possibility of harming/hurting others and/or ourselves.

What the workshop will cover:

-Introduction to harm, risk, and pleasure from different points of view

-Introduction to the history of harm reduction and why it applies to kink

-Risk aversion, risk seeking, risk acceptance

-Self consent: why it matters and how we can practice accountability

-Introduction to risk profiles: What are those? Why do I want one?

-How to make your own risk profile

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, available for 7 days after sent out.

Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.