The Subspace Exploration Project

This week Clay, Ronen, and Todd had a chance to sit down with the fabulous, wonderfully caring and insightful Win! Win is an NDN sex educator and queer leather freak who likes to facilitate joy and get blood on its hands.As You Like It: https://asyoulikeitshop.com/Blood Play Safety 101 – AYLI Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct68L1vhlpp/Episode Page: https://www.subspaceexploration.com/subspacepod/shame-sharps-win

Come with us as we take a deep dive into Kink, Polyamory and Ethical Non-Monogamy, Sex Education, Deconstructing the Gender Binary, Queer Culture, and building Healthy Communities.Lee Harrington Episode: www.subspaceexploration.com/subspacepod/lee-harrington-affirmation-healingJanet Hardy Episode: https://www.subspaceexploration.com/subspacepod/janet-hardy-communityJessica Fern Episode: https://www.subspaceexploration.com/subspacepod/jessica-fern-parts-workTammyJo Eckhart Episode: https://www.subspaceexploration.com/subspacepod/tammyjo-eckhart-authorityThis is The Subspace Exploration Project.Join us for a deep dive into kink, non-monogamy, mental and emotional health, gender expression, and community building.In each episode, we're deconstructing the gender binary, celebrating queer culture, and creating a safe space for sex education. All while learning from authors, educators, mental health professionals, and folks like you and me.Do you have personal stories and observations you would like to share about kink, BDSM, non-monogamy, and where neurodivergence, mental health, gender expression, community, and politics all intersect? Maybe you have a request for a topic or a guest.We welcome people in these communities to reach out, to let us know how we're doing, to share their stories and interests, and help us to shape how we contribute to healthy, informative conversations on sex, kink, non-monogamy, and queer culture.We would love for our fellow kinksters, ENM, and queer people to ask questions, make content requests, and share your stories.You can remain anonymous, or if you'd like to be a guest on the podcast, shoot us an email and let us know a little bit about you.To get in touch with us, go to subspaceexploration.com/contact.Please comment, like, share, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Acast, and RSS feat.Goodbye.

In this episode Ronen, Clay, & Todd get personal and talk about how to navigate kink play when things don’t go as planned. Have a plan, have multiple ways of communicating, don’t be afraid to hit pause, and make sure everyone feels safe and grounded before picking back up again.Episode Page: https://www.subspaceexploration.com/subspacepod/scenes-go-sideways

In this episode Todd has a quick talk with Lee Harrington about what makes for safe kink spaces. Pouring over examples of red and green flags in clubs and dungeons, Lee provided helpful insights. What kinds of policies & rules does a venue have? More importantly, what kind of behavior do you see being modeled by those that run the venue and it’s regular patrons?Episode Page: https://www.subspaceexploration.com/subspacepod/lee-harrington-safe-venues 

In this episode Ronen, Clay, & Todd talk about our experience at Dex Ranch and how it ranks as a kink venue. What makes for a good Dungeon? It turns out that a good Dom is needed to run and maintain a good Dungeon. After some reflection we can’t give Dex more than 2 out of 5 Ball Gags. With concerns about drinking, no Dungeon Monitors, and very poor attitudes and practices around consent, we don’t consider Dex Ranch a very safe space unless you are experienced and attend with a lot of trusted people.Episode Page: https://www.subspaceexploration.com/subspacepod/the-dex-ranch-experience

In this episode Ronen, Clay, & Todd get personal and talk about their kink and BDSM inclinations centered around shame and degradation. From group play and gang bangs, to piss play and shitting in front of other people, the vulnerability of exploring and conquering shame with a partner is far more intimate than anything found in the vanilla world.Episode Page: www.subspaceexploration.com/subspacepod/shame-and-degradation  

In this episode Ronen, Clay, & Todd sit down with Kyssandra Myrind to talk art, kink, mental health, and healing. Kyssandra is a multifaceted life adventurer specializing in identity development, facilitating creative expression, and planting the seeds of love along the way. In our talk Kyss explains how she got started in Kink, Polyamory, and how that led to teaching various Art Therapy classes in the Eugene area.Fetlife: Kyss_n_Tell https://fetlife.com/users/8454073 FB: Kyssandra MyrindEpisode Page: www.subspaceexploration.com/subspacepod/kyssandra-art-therapy

This episode is a bit of an introduction to our co-host Ronen. In it Ronen, Clay, & Todd discuss how neurodivergence, kink, and non-monogamy overlap in our lives. And, when we embrace how these things intersect we find that it can immensely improve our communication.Episode Page: https://www.subspaceexploration.com/subspacepod/ronen-neurodivergence