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This week Woody chats with old friends about the upcoming Georgia Dark Ages Festival. Dates: March 24 - 26, 2017! The Georgia Dark Ages Festival is a 21 and up adults only Renaissance Festival! Located in a private, pansexual, kink, and nudist friendly campground. There will be camping available (cabins, RVs and tents) with well appointed bathrooms, showers, and many other amenities on the premises. You will find vendors, demos, contests, and lots of day and nighttime debauchery. All lifestyles are welcome…Leather, Gorean, ponies, firebugs, burners, kinksters, rope tops, rope bunnies, furries, pro's, and everyone else in between!

This week Woody & the Beast welcome Dr. Patty Evans, a therapist who is Kink Aware and recognizes that BDSM, Polyamory, Swinging and other alternative sexual and lifestyle practices are part of the normal sexual spectrum, and is able to distinguish healthy sexual play from non-consensual abuse. Kink Aware Therapists (KAT) have additional post graduate training about alternative sexual expression via, books, articles, continuing education, seminars, websites, etc. KATs are aware what constitutes safe and unsafe play (acknowledging of course that different people have different standards for that). KATs are aware of the roles and role expectations of those who participate in alternative sexual expression lifestyles. Patsy Evans has been an active advocate and Kink Aware Professional for the alternative lifestyle communities for more than a decade. She is also a public speaker and activist for the sexual positive culture and freedom movement.

This week Woody & the Beast welcome, Laura LeMoon, a sex work advocate in the Seattle area. Laura earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Women’s studies at Mills College in California and began her career in research authoring a pilot study on violence in the lives of Sex Workers of all genders at a nonprofit peer-based medical clinic for Sex Workers in San Francisco. Laura has worked as an ethnographer for the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance run nationally via the Centers for Disease Control, which is focused around HIV and high risk populations. Currently she is working as a Disease Research & Intervention Specialist on the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS), which this year focuses on HIV risk and women who exchange sex. She is also the co-founder of a Sex Workers’ collective in Seattle that works to provide harm reduction services to street-based Sex Workers on one of Seattle’s last remaining “strolls.”

*Mentor Series* So, you have read Fifty Shades, maybe you have read BDSM 101, now what? The jump from reading to reality is often seen as one of the hardest things you might do. After all, fantasies are in your head and no one else has to see them… unless you want to throw the doors open to your darkest thoughts! OK, come on it’s not nearly that dramatic. Put on you street clothes and go to a munch. You will meet ‘normal’ people that have common interests as you. Some will be experienced and some will be there for the first time, like you. Join us as we welcome back D20 Domme and Lucky Puppy as they take us through a step-by-step process to get your kink on!

So you think your Poly? Maybe you have had a couple poly experiences and now you want to refine who you and your partners are to you and the other members of your polycule. Join Woody as he speaks with Sarah Olivia, a well known educator and practitioner of the poly lifestyle. This show is the first of our ‘Mentor Series’, created for kinksters looking to know more about one of the building blocks of lifestyle.

Mr. Michael shares what to expect when visiting a kink club like Louisville, Kentucky's ReMiX events put on by the LouisvilleMunch. A long time supporter of the community Mr. Michael gives listeners a tutorial on how to get along at a play and have a great adventure. Commonsense etiquette goes a long ways at ReMiX. Listen to his tips on getting along in a play space… any play space.

Happy New Year! What’s new on the web? Dive into the KinkyJungle.com! This week Woody & the Beast chat with the creator of a kinky social media web site. Think of it as Facebook for kinksters. Create a profile and cruise the hood for new buds and events. This is a worldwide site with localization for the various geography.

It’s been an interesting year. A lot of us have worked hard to make sure we and our friends fit safely into society. Well, it’s a new day and the group of correspondents ring in on what they think about what is going on around us. Warning: This episode is politically charged and may offend some people. Keep in mind we all have our own opinions of what has taken place and as we individually predict will happen to kink and LGBT rights. Nothing heard in the next hour and a quarter in new information, it has been seen on TV from the far left to the far right. We are discussing what we have heard, fact-checked the info and given our opinion. Since we still have a first amendment, we speak our mind.

#151 - December 23, 2016 - Susan Wright (NCSF) - Sex & Politics This week Woody & the Beast chat with Susan Wright, on the topic of our kinky freedoms in the upcoming political climate. Susan founded the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom in 1997, and currently serves as spokesperson. Susan has presented over a hundred seminars for professional organizations, Universities and community groups on discrimination against kinky people, BDSM vs. Abuse, and the media influence on the persecution of alternative sexuality. Susan has also conducted several surveys documenting discrimination and violence against BDSM practitioners as well as consent practices and attitudes. She directed the successful DSM-5 Revision Project that helped convince the American Psychiatric Association to depathologize consensual BDSM behaviors in 2013, and she coordinated the SM Policy Reform Project for the National Organization for Women (NOW) which resulted in rescinding their anti-SM policy at their national conference in

This week Woody and Leigh dive into the deep end and welcome Sarah Avraham, an attorney from Atlanta. Sarah is a lifestyle attorney and is on the NCSF list of Kinky Aware Professionals. Poly families often form with little regard to potential legal problems the future may bring. Sarah covers a wide swath of issues that face all couples, triads and more. Take notes, there are a lot of gems in this show that could keep you out of trouble. Also known as Attorney Lady Steele, she is a wealth of knowledge.

General talk about many subjects to start the discussion. Hosts Woody & the Beast wander the path of Kinky and BDSM. https://www.kinkycast.com/archive/2014-archive/1---february-3-2014---intro.html