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WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTERS

Tristan and colten, our programming directors, have pulled together an amazing educational team for Dark Odyssey: Summer Camp. Top notch educators rarely seen outside of their home communities have been brought together to lead you on your sexual journey. With 50+ classes presented over the course of the weekend we ensure that class size will be small and intimate and you will have plenty of one on one attention from instructors.

Our sex educators, relationship experts, spiritual teachers, and BDSM masters will share their experience and wisdom in a safe, interactive environment on a range of topics, including the following workshops:

The ABC’s of BDSM - Lolita Wolf
A Re-Introduction To The Only-Mostly-Dead Art Of Chivalry - Bear
Altering Your State: From the Inside Out - Lady Hilary & Marine
Basic SM Health and Safety - Phoenix B.
Border Crossing: Challenging Boundaries, Connecting Bodies - Tristan Taormino
Buried Alive! - NotThatDon
Co-Topping: When You’re Having More Than One - NotThatDon
Cock and Ball Torture (CBT) - Mark Frazier
Cocksucking Tips & Techniques - Nina Hartley
Curing Color Blindness - Ignacio Rivera
Decorative Cutting - Phoenix B.
Deep Tissue Bruising - Mark Frazier
Dynamic Relationships - Lady Hilary & Marine
Embrace Your Inner Serial Killer - Bobby
Fantasies for the Shy - Dr. Ruthie
The Fine Art of Dirty Talk - Amy Jo Goddard
The Fine Art of Prostate Massage: Give and Receive It! - SwitchMe
Fisting 601: Fisting For Perverts - Felice Shays
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Creating a Great Predicament Scene - Bear
How to Host A Gangbang - Lady Hilary & Marine
The Ins and Outs of Anal Play - Sarah Sloane
The Ins and Outs of Hand Sex - Reid Mihalko and Amy Jo Goddard
Interrogation - NotThatDon
Introduction to Tantra - Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson
Kinky Twisted Tantra - Barbara Carrellas
The Kiss of Fire - Sharrin Spector
Knife Play - Mark Frazier
Making Your Move: A Flirting Class - Bobby and Bear
Men and Power - SwitchMe and Marcia Baczynski
The Mommy Edge - Felice Shays and Tristan Taormino
Negotiating Successful Threesomes - Reid Mihalko
The Object of My Desire - Sharrin Spector
Pair-Bonded Alternatives to Conventional Monogamy - Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson
Playing in Dangerous Neighborhoods: Rough Sex for Everybody - Felice Shays
Polyamory First Aid Clinic - Anita Wagner
Preparing for Fire - Elkor and Margo Eve
Predicament Bondage - Sir C
Principles of Sex Magic: Autoerotic Mysticism - Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson
Pussy Whispering - Nina Hartley
The Ritual of Sex - Amy Jo Goddard
Role Playing: Developing Your Characters and Your Play - Ignacio Rivera
Rope You Can Use Tonight - Sir C
Sex Magic for Couples - Barbara Carrellas
Slut and Slut-Lite: Negotiating Healthy Relationships with Disparate Sexual Self-Expressions - Reid Mihalko and Allie Moon
The Spirituality of Kinky Sex - Wintersong Tashlin
Stripping for Your Lover - Nina Hartley
Switch Dynamic: How to Maintain your Dominance and Give into your Submission - Ignacio Rivera
Take It To the Limit - Barbara Carrellas
Tantric Sexual Ritual Class - Barbara Carrellas and Mark & Patricia
The Tiniest Athame: Using Needles for Energy Work and Magic - Wintersong Tashlin
The Tradition: A Spiritual Manual for the Submissive - Ignacio Rivera
Urethral Insertion Play 101 - Wintersong Tashlin
Wrestling and Grappling - Mark Frazier
Your Leather Paradigm: Scene and Play Personas - Lady Hilary & Marine

We are proud to announce the Summer Camp educational staff:

  • Amy Jo Goddard – Sexuality educator & trainer, writer, performing artist and activist
  • Anita Wagner – Polyamory advocate, writer, spokesperson and educator
  • Barbara Carrellas – Author of Urban Tantra & Luxurious Loving, co-founder of Erotic Awakening
  • Bear – writer, activist, performer, and whimsy enthusiast
  • Bobby – Polyamorous Dominant, speaker, trainer, and transgender healthcare advocate
  • Dr. Ruthie - sexuality and relationship expert specializing in relational intimacy
  • Elkor and Margo Eve - Poi and Fireplay aficionados
  • Felice Shays - Performance artist & Educator
  • Ignacio Rivera – Queer Trans-Entity Black Boricua performance artist, lecturer, activist, new filmmaker & sex educator
  • Lady Hilary and Her Marine – Producers of Vanguard Leather personal growth retreats
  • Lolita Wolf – Infamous BDSM presenter and "Leather Yenta"
  • Marcia Baczynski – Relationship counselor and co-founder of Cuddle Party
  • Mark Frazier – co-owner/executive producer of the International Leather Sir/boy and Community bootblack contests
  • Mark A. Michaels & Patricia Johnson – Tantra devotees, authors, and co-founders of Pleasure Salon NYC
  • Nina Hartley – Porn actress, free speech & sexuality advocate, and author of sex ed videos & books
  • Not That Don – Army veteran, PQLF pervert
  • Phoenix B – Gender Queer Top and leather community activist 
  • Reid Mihalko – Sex and Relationship expert, and co-founder of Cuddle Party
  • Sarah Sloane – Service oriented queer poly sadomasochist, writer, editor, and networker
  • Sharrin Spector – Body modification artist, teacher and owner of the body modification studio Pierce Ink
  • Sir C – Bondage expert, polyamorous Master and BDSM educator
  • SwitchMe – Speaker on body image & proponent of uninhibited sexuality
  • Tristan Taormino - author, sex educator, feminist pornographer
  • Wintersong Tashlin – Shaman, magician, writer, and polyamorist

 

 

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