Kink, BDSM, Fetish Play Workshops
Why Are People Into That?!
So much of sex ed is about the how. But Tina Horn has always been preoccupied with the Why?! Come enjoy a live lightning round version of Tina's popular podcast Why Are People Into That?! For the curious newbie to BDSM, we'll explain some popular interests. For the seasoned scenester, this class may shed some new light on everything you thought you knew about kink! No matter what your experience, you're sure to be entertained by this funny and thought-provoking class!
Some topics we will discuss: Bondage, Spanking, Fisting, Pegging, Genitorture, role play. leather, latex, feet, boots, electricity, pubic sex...
You'll see that fundamental human desire is not all that difficult to relate to.
If there's a fetish you've always want explained, feel free to ask Tina ahead of time or bring your questions to class. The workshop can be customized to focus on any topic or theme.
Knuckle Up! A Fisting Workshop
Calling all size queens, all lovers of hands, those that love to gape and those who love to gush. The time has come to learn about the filthy art of fisting with Tina Horn, longtime educatrix and author of the new fetish book Why Are People Into That?! Let’s talk about how to fit your entire hand inside any hole, how to take a fist, and why people love to do this so damn much. This class will cover technique for tops and bottoms, including specifics for different holes, as well as positions, equipment, safety, and fantasy role play ideas. We’ll also fill you up with some cultural history about why fisting is such a significant symbol of queer and kink sexuality that anyone can enjoy. From poppers to slings, from squirting to enemas, this workshop will turn you inside out!
Monster Smash! Fear Play, Supernatural Ethics, & Dark Fantasies
Come celebrate goth season with a spooky-ooky exploration of our darkest fantasies! Tina Horn, dominatrix, horror writer, and fetish expert will corrupt you with her underworld of depraved pleasure. We’ll undercover the erotic appeal of many monstrous entities, from vampire glamour to rough and tumble werewolves to horny ghosts, sirens, shape-shifters, zombies, aliens, and many more. We’ll have fun with some supernatural ethics such as: would you bone your clone, and is it wrong to use time travel as a seduction technique? And yeah, we’ll talk tentacles.
This will be a fun pop culture discussion, and we’ll also discuss the fundamentals of talking to partners about darker fantasies and how to incorporate them into kinky scenes. Tina’s classes are always sex work positive, anti-racist, and open to people of all relationship styles and gender identities.
Overpowered and loving it! Consensual nonconsent
Consensual nonconsent (CNC) — any kind of play or fantasy involving force and control — is one of the most taboo topics in sexuality discourse, and with good reason. The painful reality of abuse, assault, and oppression affect our lives every day. This topic itself is a seeming contradiction: how and why do we desire something we don’t want?
In her fifteen year career as a professional dominatrix, pornographer, podcaster, sex culture reporter, and comic book writer, Tina Horn has come to believe that those paradoxes are at the center of human desire. She wants us to confront taboos head on together in order to deepen our respect for ourselves and one another, to share the arousal and to experience the satisfaction we crave.
This workshop will take a VERY intersectional approach. We will be discussing what it means to fantasize and/or role play about overpowering and/or being overpowered by another person while living in white supremacist cis-heteronormative ableist cultures.
We'll cover scene ideas, offer negotiation, safe word, and aftercare guidance, and explore the idea of BDSM as healing.
We will explore fear, rough, and edge play as well as emphasizing how many playful and romantic scenes can incorporate CNC elements in surprising ways. Some other topics: coercion, blackmail, inappropriateness, exploitation, overwhelm, stimulation overload, extreme catharsis, absolute presence in the moment.
This workshop is for anyone who has ever had a kidnapping fantasy, who has ever gotten steamy at the sight of harlequin romance novel covers, or wants to learn more ways to use erotic force, control, and pain in the bedroom. It’s for tops, bottoms, sadists, masochists, dominants, submissives, vers switches, partnered, solo, and non-monogamists of all kinds.
Role Play
Bad girls get punished. Good puppies get scritches. Corrupt bosses get blackmailed. These are just some of the many dynamics at play in classic erotic scenarios. So you may have enjoyed those scenes in porn or erotica, but how do you embody those characters in your own bedroom or local dungeon? Writer Tina Horn brings a theater and literature background to her passion for role plays, so get ready to get into character! Whether you want to tap into your primal nature with some animal play, explore the power dynamics of an office or domestic scenario, or let your imagination run wild with over-the-top camp, you’ll learn where to start and how to develop the hottest scenes. In this dynamic workshop, we’ll discuss dirty talk, costumes, props, and positions to create immersive scenes that are sure to keep you cumming back for more! Just as stories are central to culture, erotic narratives and archetypical dynamics are central to enjoyment of sexuality. In this class we’ll examine some of the classic sexual situations and characters in their many incarnations – including domestic discipline, master/slave, age play, animal play, and consensual non-consent. We’ll also discuss sexual iconography and symbolism. You’ll have the chance for individualized coaching on how to find the role play that’s right for your own kinky personality. We’ll also discuss common questions like: “When is a scene self-contained, and when does it become a 24/7 relationship?” and “How do you keep from giggling?!” (spoiler alert: you don’t!). Come learn how to get what you want by being someone you’re not!
Advanced Role Play
Your favorite theater queer is back with a camp classic workshop: Advanced Role Play! The author of Why Are People Into That? A Cultural Investigation of Kink goes deeper on negotiation, collaboration, and aftercare, discussing the blurring of lines between scenes and 24/7 identity, and guides you through some inspirational close readings of taboo fantasy scenarios. Supernatural ethics, dirty talk technique, fetish understanding, consent comprehension, authority figure dynamics, primal play, and special occasion party ideas are all in the script of this fun and dynamic workshop! Come learn how to get what you want by being someone you’re not! For folks looking to deepen their fantasy lives in relationships, playing with friends at parties, or wowing their clients. Bring your favorite role plays and personas to expand upon, and be ready to start the year with a head full of thrilling new scene ideas! Tina's classes are always queer inclusive, s^x work positive, sl^t-centric, and anti-racist.
Erotic Fluids
Come get wet and messy with kinky podcaster Tina Horn as we explore playing with all kinds of body fluids. From golden showers to saliva, from milk to blood, from squirting to underarm sweating, we'll explore the taboos nature of human secretions and some inventive ways to make them even filthier.
Animal Play
Get in touch with your primal urges! For some, animal play might be about furry culture, elaborate costumes, or full immersion into a pet identity. For others, it may simply be about tapping into an archetype, from the sensual cat to the obedient pup. Join professional fetishist and kink podcaster Tina Horn for a workshop where we'll learn to play with our inner erotic animals. (To be clear, this is about humans role playing as animals; no actual bestiality talk will be tolerated).
Kiss My Sass: Sensual & Kinky Ass Worship
Rear ends are the great human equalizer: just about everybody’s got one! There’s so many great workshops on how to play with the inside of the ass, or how to enjoy a nice rough spanking. But what about those of us who love to caress a fine posterior, or bury our faces in the booty of someone we adore? Join Tina Horn, a pro-domme and sex writer who specializes in ass worship, for a class that will cover everything from smothering, to tease and denial, to massage. For folks who love butts and those who feel like their own could use more attention.
Bottoms Up! The Art of Spanking
Spanking fantasies are as varied as the people who enjoy them, but often stigmas keep us from safely exploring this fun, cost-free erotic activity. Some of us daydream of strict discipline, while others just enjoy any way we can get our hands on a nice ass.
Join Tina Horn as she leads an upbeat seminar that will empower you to live out and take pride in your fantasies. Tops will empower themselves with the skills necessary to administer the most delicious spanks, and bottoms will learn how they can help facilitate the treatment they’ve always deserved.
This class will also touch on other types of impact play such as flogging and caning, as well as basic role play and Dominant/Submissive techniques.
Novices, old hands, tops, bottoms, couples, men, women, and queers of all identities and orientations are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Hit Me Baby! Impact Play & Rough Handling
Erotic impact play – everything from spanking to face slapping to tit torture – holds arousing potential for many lovers. Impact play can be a sensual tease, fantastic foreplay, a reward, a punishment, and much, much more. Let sexy switch Tina Horn be your guide to the anatomy, safety, technique, and erotic power of using physical force in the bedroom or dungeon. She’ll discuss a broad range of activities and fantasies, how to use toys like floggers, paddles, canes, and your hands, useful tactics, as well as how to talk with your partner to make sure you both get what you want. Anatomy and technique will be demonstrated on a hot demo submissive.
Is a Threesome Right for You?
Most of us begin our sex lives solo; if we’re lucky, we graduate to sex with one other person. So is sex with two other people at the same time — the fabled threesome — the next step in YOUR sexual evolution? Maybe you’re in a committed couple and you’re looking to find a guest star for one special occasion. Maybe you’re looking to be someone else’s unicorn. Maybe you’re in that couple looking for the perfect long-term third. Maybe you simply want to know how to incorporate the possibility of multiples into your dirty talk or roleplay life.
In this workshop, we’ll discuss how to tell if you’re ready to open your relationship, how to go about finding the right people to welcome into your bedroom, and how to negotiate all the pleasures and complications that can arise. We’ll also have some fun discussing threesome ergonomics, and even some kinky threesome fantasies.
Join Tina Horn —host of the Why Are People Into That?! podcast, who has seen her fair share of ménage à trois — for an upbeat, frank discussion of open relationships, group sex dynamics, and how to make yours’ and your partners’ fantasies come to healthy, mind-blowing life!
Naughty Nurses & Good Puppies: costumes, fetish gear, & lingerie
We’ll discuss fetish uniforms, including the appeal of leather, latex, rubber, and more. We’ll discuss finding the lingerie that’s right for you and/or your partner, including exploring the sex appeal of stockings. We’ll also take a dive into wearable fetish gear, including ball gags, nipple clamps, and chest harnesses, as well as wearable sex toys from remote-controlled panty vibes to comfy long-wear buttplugs. Come get some dress-up ideas while learning how erotic outfits can transform you into the sexy persona you’ve always wanted to be!