Sydney Festival of Loving Kink 2020

Fluid Program

Embracing Your Kink (Come Out of Your Kinky Closet. In what ways are you really kinky? In what ways would you like to be? Come share with us what rocks your boat.) (Kim)

How to Have an Insanely Sane Kinky Love Relationship (How to reconcile normal day-to-day demands of a relationship with a kinky subtext? How to stay mad? How to stay sane when you’re really kinky?) (Peter, Sarah and Natalia)

Kinky Bodywork (a development on Kinky Massage from Festival of Loving Kink 2019) (Natalia)

Rough Body Play (explore how you can overcome your partner’s resistances, based on the workshop of the same name by Frank and Sheila from SFORGS 2017) (Ira)

Wax and Ice (discover how these two opposing extreme sensations of hot and cold can work together erotically) (Elisa)

Sensory Deprivation 1 (tools and skills to deprive your partner of their senses and to control their ability to breathe, as a means for them to altered mental states and find an inner stillness) (Elisa)

Sensory Deprivation 2 (mummification as utter immobilization, an opportunity to be utterly helpless) (Elisa)

Foot Worship and Shoe Fetish (To Be confirmed)

Face-slapping (explore how the psychological this most intimate for ) (Natalia)

Erotic Murder and Suicide (an advanced workshop that explores erotic fantasies around murder and suicide and how one can play with them without causing harm) (Peter, Sarah and Natalia)

Helpless Men Who Come (a very sexy performance installation by Natalia Je)

Pegging (Pegging is a sexual practice where one person penetrates another person in the ass with a strap-on dildo. While pegging usually refers to a woman performing anal sex on a man, in this workshop all genders may participate in all roles. Advice columnist Dan Savage wrote that he believes all men should try pegging at least once, as it may introduce them to a new enjoyable sexual activity and illuminate them to the receiver's perspective in sex.) (Phil and Christine)

Age Play (In age play, we sexualize familiar structures and roles. We play with taboo fantasies, such as mummy, daddy, little girl, little boy, teacher, student and so on. It can be very healing to create your own family, a family that you choose, where you feel at home and where you feel loved. If we approach these needs consciously, then age-play can be very healing. It may also help us to deal with old traumas.) (Zoe)

Ritual Suspension with Hooks (Performance with Hebari David and Yvette)

Insecurity (Ritual constellation where people can explore their difficulties and challenges around kink) (part of the Opening Ceremony)

Erotic Abstinence (how can the refusal of sex be itself sexy) (Natalia)

Penitence Play - Atonement Through Pain (Bringing to consciousness our unconscious mechanisms of punishment and symbolic acting out can have therapeutic effects in helping us deal with traumatic "guilt and atonement" experiences instead of torturing our bodies with diseases. Based on the workshop of the same name by Delta from Into the Wild 2018)