BDSM and Sex Education for GrownUps
Tina got started in kink education in 2005 by skill sharing with her fellow pro-dommes in Oakland. Since then, she’s made queer-affirming, sex worker inclusive, slut-centric, BDSM-focused, anti-racist adult sex education a crucial element of her career. From the Kink.com Armory in San Francisco to Toronto’s Good For Her sex shop to the Lesbian Sex Mafia at the LGBTQ Center in Manhattan, Tina has facilitated space for hundreds of grown-ups to deepen their erotic understanding, ethics, and style.
Since 2020, she’s been hosting more workshops online, so you can attend from anywhere in the world.
Tina’s private coaching practice for individuals and couples focuses on deepening our relationships to fantasy, power, and pleasure! She’s also available for development editing creative projects like books, theater, tv, and film.
Get in touch for availability and rates here!
People are saying:
"Tina Horn was great! It was a lot of material to cover, and she managed to do it in the span of two hours."
"Very smooth with all the technical things and clear and concise with the opening/exit!
"You Are So Needed Right Now"
"She makes sense of the wildest desires--liberating to have a safe space to swim in these waters. “
Tina has also guest lectured on sex politics at such colleges as University of Nevada Las Vegas, Swarthmore, and the New School, and on comic book writing craft at Columbus College of Art and Design, Otis College, and California College of the Arts. Get in touch to book her for panels and class visits.
Find out where Tina is teaching next on her news page here, by subscribing to her newsletter, or following her on IG. And it’s always the right time to book a private coaching session!
Click the sections below to read class descriptions and see links to recordings.
Relationship Communication Workshops
Use Your Words: Dirty Talk for Everyone
Queering Dirty Talk
Getting Dirty Digitally
DIY Porn: naked selfies to naughty sex tapes
Kink, BDSM, Fetish Play Workshops
Bottoms Up: The Art of Spanking
Kiss My Sass: Sensual & Kinky Ass Worship
Monster Smash! Fear Play, Supernatural Ethics, & Dark Fantasies
Knuckle Up: A Fisting Workshop
Overpowered and loving it! Consensual Nonconsent
Anal Pleasure & Health Workshops
Getting Clean to Get Dirty: Enema Play and Anal Hygiene
Politics and Culture Lectures
Why Sex Work Decriminalization is a Feminist Issue
The Whore Singularity
The Whorearchy
Polyamory Beyond Non-Monogamy: Self Love, Friendship, Flirtation
Writing Craft
Writing Sex
Sexuality is a vital aspect of human life, from desire to pleasure, romance to tragedy, politics to power. Yet sex in literature is often treated as an inappropriate obscenity, or worse: cringe!
In defiance of this, join Tina Horn for a combination lecture & workshop on how to use sex to be joyful, horny, and heartbreaking in your writing, whether you’re working on creative fiction, journalism, memoir, entertainment, or simply journaling and letter writing in your personal life.
Learn to enjoy the juicy dramatic potential of bodies, methods for illustrating the symbolic potential of fetishes, and how to develop an erotic prose style all your own. Mystery, world building, concrete detail, abstraction, aesthetics, story structure, character arcs and archetypes, tease and denial, irony, and yup, even penetrating puns are all in play for this one-of-a-kind craft class.
The workshop will include a craft lecture from Tina, followed by collaborative exercises where attendees will have a chance to write from a prompt and workshop one another’s work. You’ll learn techniques to bring to future projects, get recommendations of great sex writing, and have a chance to participate in a live Q&A. We’ll discuss how to draw from your own experiences, how to use your imagination to experiment, and how to value the erotic elements of your creative life.
Tina’s background ranges from BDSM porn to a Masters in Creative Nonfiction, from zine-making to mainstream political journalism, from university lectures to podcasts and sci-fi comics. Join AORTA films and Tina for this unique opportunity to gush all over that blank page!
Rising Action: imagining narrative structure, fetish symbolism, and character archetypes to satisfy our desires and experience better fantasies
Most of us have imaginations alive with erotic fantasies; and, we could all use some practical creative methods for experiencing these abstract dreams with others. In this workshop, we’ll synthesize craft techniques of unforgettable genre storytelling — melodrama, action-adventure, horror-thriller, romantic comedy, and more — with the fundamentals of the erotic experiences you want to have, and to share. From the Three Act Structure of BDSM communication, to consensual nonconsent as the dramatic catharsis of pity and fear, character archetypes, fetish symbolism, and emotional metaphor in kinky role play, narrative arcs and the sexual response cycle, and much more, let educatrix Tina Horn guide you to developing your own creative kinky style.
Tina Horn combines 20 years of experience in professional BDSM and pornography with her career in literature, journalism, performance, and podcasting about queerness, fetishes, dirty talk, and erotic fantasies to bring you a workshop as pragmatic as it is fanciful, always with an eye towards de-mechanizing oppression through community and making the world a better place with hedonism.