D/s Playground is a course for dominants, switches, submissives, folks who are curious, folks who aren’t sure where they fall, and anyone in between.
You only have to want to study consensual authority exchange — dominance and submission — in depth from a trauma-informed, queer, nonbinary, intersectional perspective.
Here are the details!
What is D/s Playground?
D/s Playground is an online course. It doesn’t teach you how to be a dominant or a submissive, but rather offers tools, resources, texts, and experiments to explore your own relationship to dominance, submission, and authority exchange, so you can articulate your interests and explore your edges. After these explorations you will be able to better communicate what you’re looking for and desire — which greatly increases your chances of having it!
There is an introduction video & article for the basic agreements and concepts of the course, and then there are four units — Bondage, Discipline, Service, and SadoMasochism (that spells the acronym BDSM).
Each unit has some or all of the following:
- How-to videos by sex & BDSM educators
- Dirty stories to read
- Nonfiction how-to articles to read
- Additional fun, like quizzes & checklists
- Journal prompts to reflect on each of the materials
- An experiment — something for you to do, in person, alone or with someone else, to try out the concepts of the unit
When is this happening?
Each unit will be available LIVE and included with $5+ patrons benefits through Patreon:
- May 25, 2019 – Unit 1: Bondage
- July 20, 2019 – Unit 2: Discipline
- September 20, 2019 – Unit 3: Service
- November 25, 2019 – Unit 4: SadoMasochism
The units on Patreon will be recorded, but only the parts with rife and myself will be made public; none of the parts from other participants will be included later.
Yes, it will be available for everyone — not just through Patreon!
Each unit will be available for everybody the following month. (This will give us some time to edit videos, set up the payment systems, etc.)
- June 30, 2019 – Unit 1: Bondage
- August 30, 2019 – Unit 2: Discipline
- October 30, 2019 – Unit 3: Service
- December 30, 2019 – Unit 4: SadoMasochism
How much will it be?
Each unit will be $69, and all four units can be downloaded for $200. You can preorder them this summer, or wait until the end of the year when they are all available.
A few more questions … ?
Do I have to be in a partnership? Can I do this solo?
Absolutely, you can do this solo, in partnership, with play partners, long distance — in any kind of structure of a relationship. The experiments are all built to be adapted to any scenario.
I’ve taken Submissive Playground before, should I do this one too?
Sure! You will recognize some of the materials, but some of them are new. We had many people take Submissive Playground more than once, and because we are always growing and changing, our relationship to D/s is always growing and changing, so they found new things in the activities. Plus, there are many ways to adapt the experiments and do it differently the next time.
What’s the difference between doing it through Patreon or paying for it later? Is it the same material?
Yes — mostly. All the materials are the same. The difference is that through the Patreon, you will have a community of folks going through it with you, and downloading it later will be more of a solo experience.
Signing up through Patreon also gives you access to a private Discord server, which is like a chatroom. The only people in there are signed up through Patreon, so it’s a small, intimate group of people I trust. There are ongoing conversations in there about dominance and submission, and we’ll have a dedicated space to talk about the materials in the course, have accountability buddies, and share the homework.
How do I sign up?
Go over to patreon.com/mrsexsmith and sign up as a $5+ patron, and you’ll automatically get access to the live webinars starting in May.
If you want to download them after and not through Patreon, sign up for the mailing list and you’ll get notifications when they are available. (Keep an eye on my social media, too!)
