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Melbourne Really Good Sex Festival


The Really Good Sex Festival is a three day journey into discovering more about what Really Good Sex is for you uniquely. It is a play ground to have new experiences and to face your fears and blockages when it comes to sexuality. The festival is an amazing opportunity to learn more about yourself. All workshops are learner-centred and for every-body, whether you are young or old, single or in a couple, monogamous or in an open relationship. The festival creates a safe container for embodied, experiential learning, where all activity is based on informed consent. 

The Melbourne 2018 edition will take place on 1-3 June @ Pulse, 1 Pitt Street, Brunswick. It offers an array of participatory workshops, talks and ceremonies over 2 days and 3 nights. 

Our Workshops and Ceremonies

Featured
Opening Sensorium
Opening Sensorium

Focussing on the senses, being blindfolded radically alters the notion of time and space, leading to the source of art: the intelligence of the body. If you are nervous, this is the ideal way to gently dip into the festival. 

Loving Your Body with Caitlyn Cook
Loving Your Body with Caitlyn Cook

In this workshop, we use a variety of practices to heal shame, fear and anxiety about your body. Deeply embody and connect with your inner lover, enjoy new realms of pleasure in your body.

Sensual Tying with Mynx and Kintamar
Sensual Tying with Mynx and Kintamar

Many people think rope is just something you use to tie someone to a bedpost, but it can be much more. The process of tying and being tied can provide you with exquisite sensual and erotic experiences.

Foot Pampering and Foot Fetish with Mynx and Kintamar
Foot Pampering and Foot Fetish with Mynx and Kintamar

In this workshop, Mynx and Kintamar we will explore the eroticism of the feet. They will begin with a foot washing ritual and then participants will be free to explore with their chosen partners.

Liquid Love: Body Gliding with Nuru Nuru
Liquid Love: Body Gliding with Nuru Nuru

In this clothing optional workshop we will experience what it is to slide over each other with nuru massage oil. 

EroticART: Life Drawing Salon
EroticART: Life Drawing Salon

Life drawing often propounds a notion that the model is an object of art, void of sexuality. At EroticART we want to celebrate sexuality, see the body in its full sexual power and allow this energy exchange to enhance a creative experience as the artists and as the models. The atmosphere will be sexy, with sensual music, erotica readings and some mulled wine to share. 

Ethical Sluthood: Foundations of Non-traditional Lifestyles with Janet Hardy
Ethical Sluthood: Foundations of Non-traditional Lifestyles with Janet Hardy

Geared to those who are new to polyamorous and open relationships, or who are considering opening their lives to a multiplicity of relationships, this lecture/discussion will cover some of the basic tenets of sluthood — with special attention to the always-challenging issue of boundaries.

Switching with Peter Banki, Ph.D
Switching with Peter Banki, Ph.D

Many people within the kink world believe that you must choose a given role on one side or the other: top or bottom; dominant or submissive. If you don’t, you are considered not to know what you really want. There is, however, another school of thought that argues that one should cultivate the ability to enjoy all sides. From this point of view, growth consists not so much in going ever more deeply into a role that would somehow represent one’s true self, but in one’s openness to all the possibilities one can dream of.

Fighting Fairly in Love and Relationships with Todd McGill
Fighting Fairly in Love and Relationships with Todd McGill

Going to festivals and workshops to enliven your sex life is a fun and valuable experience, but it can also bring up your stuff! As a couple, how do you navigate this sensitive terrain? This workshop will teach you how to effectively handle it when either one of you gets very triggered.
Wrapped Up in Sensory Surrender with Charlotte Sway

Heavy restraint is the ultimate surrender.  Nothing to do, nowhere to go, but venture into one's own consciousness via sensory deprivation contrasting with the inventiveness of layered and dynamic sensory stimulation. 

Earlier Event: April 29
Expansion: Workshop and Play Party
Later Event: October 27
Bedtime Stories - Sex-Positive Stories From the Fringe

What We Believe In

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EMBODIMENT

Partner with your body and your breath every day!

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RESPECT

Make requests, never demands! Resist all forms of coercion - especially self-coercion.

DIVERSITY

Vive la différence! Celebrate the differences in people and their tastes.

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COURAGE

Partner with your fears! Let them teach you courage and strength.

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AESTHETICS & PHILOSOPHY

Cultivate the erotic artist in you! And dare to reflect on what you are doing and why!

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PLAY AND MISCHIEF

Add some spice to it! Stay true to who and what turns you on! And be free!