KinkyCast

Today we have two red hot sirens. Sybil Holiday and Selina Minx. Thirty years apart and so together. This intimate conversation between professional dominants was magic as they took over the conversation telling stories of the trade. With Sybil’s 50 years in professional BDSM, she has seen it all. She is very close to workers in San Francisco and current on how the kinkster wants BDSM delivered to them today. Selina Minx is an accomplished Pro in the Los Angeles area and trying to deal with a very personal business that has stopped due to the Coronavirus She and Sybil talk about how to make a living in these tumultuous times. Sit back and see how Woody was a voyeur to this conversation.

This week we caught a missed connection. What? A month ago, we invited Reiver Scott to join our European social club recording to have a look out the window all around Europe. Reiver is in Scotland and they think very differently than the English. Reiver couldn’t make the show due to a family emergency. All is well now so we visited her to see what's going with this busy author in Scotland. At the beginning of her career, she was a contributor of short stories with a kink, to other anthologies, now she has her first book our with her name on it, Corinthian and Other Stories. The book starts off with six “Shameful Short Stories” that builds up to 16 chapters of “Corinthian”. Join us for a ride to Scottland’s largest city for a visit with Reiver Scott!

Have you ever wondered if you were the only one that ____________? Fill in the blank with your very own personal affliction that falls into the area called mental health. How do I know what would go in the blank? Check out our two shows this week and our guests will guide along a path of help groups and observations of what is going on in the minds of other Kinksters. Some that come to mind are, PTSD, dyslexia, ADHD, anxiety, depression, panic, phobias, OCD, bipolar, dysthymia, eating disorders and many more. Some Kinksters realized some of these disorders after an intense play session. We have seen PTSD after a consent violation.

In episode #328 AlphaKat says "More Than Just A Fantasy (MTJAF) is a nationwide movement aimed at raising awareness of mental illnesses and associated stigmas, and eradicating barriers to mental health within the Leather and BDSM Communities. MTJAF provides intensives, community building opportunities, consultations, monthly discussion groups, and resources through trigger sensitive lenses.”

https://www.kinkycast.com/archive/2020-archive/327-328---mental-health.html

Have you ever wondered if you were the only one that ____________? Fill in the blank with your very own personal affliction that falls into the area called mental health. How do I know what would go in the blank? Check out our two shows this week and our guests will guide along a path of help groups and observations of what is going on in the minds of other Kinksters. Some that come to mind are, PTSD, dyslexia, ADHD, anxiety, depression, panic, phobias, OCD, bipolar, dysthymia, eating disorders and many more. Some Kinksters realized some of these disorders after an intense play session. We have seen PTSD after a consent violation.

In episode #327 “Silkys_kitten is a 40-something non-binary slave collared to Mama_silky. They find relief in kink from the responsibilities of their vanilla career as a mental health clinician. They became involved in kink a few years ago, in middle age. They’re into impact play, fire cupping, needle play, erotic hypnosis, and enthusiastically discovering more kinks and types of play.”

https://www.kinkycast.com/archive/2020-archive/327-328---mental-health.html

Rachel Kramer Bussel, “arguably one of the most influential names in erotica” (Bellesa.com) has edited a new anthology released on March 10, 2020, through Cleis Press: BEST BONDAGE EROTICA OF THE YEAR, VOLUME 1. Rachel holds a BA in women's studies and political science from UC Berkeley and teaches erotica writing workshops around the country. She writes widely about feminism and sex and she has contributed articles to Time, Dame, and many others.

This week we moved our focus to what’s happening in the USA. From California, to Texas, to Denver, to Chicago, to Detroit, to Kentucky, and back home to Tennessee, we spoke with ministers on the front lines and those affected by Covid19. Are we stir crazy yet? Some of us are getting a bit shack wacky, while others are working double shifts. Hospitals and going bankrupt, first responders are getting sick and now the administration is opening up the country. Hear some new ideas about what can happen in the economy and how new players to get scans can get their kink on. Poly families are separated and we are not sure when we can play as couples, let alone party in groups, like we used to. Adjusting our expectations to the new normal. Does consent now mean “May I come in the room?” Let alone asking for a hug or more. This episode gets real when we talk to nurses on the front line and watching bodies pile up. There are tearful moments and there are true connections between touch-deprived souls they just need to think beyond their front door. Join us for the next hour to hear how a group we like us can get onto the next level in life.

Recorded as the Coronavirus was just getting major coverage in the USA. Our guest, Travis Wilson has seen most all of the kinky lifestyle. Travis had a long professional career as an attorney. Beginning in 1972, Travis has been in the Leather/BDSM lifestyle. He was one of the founders of Houston’s PEP, and was Chairman of that organization for many years. He was a founder of the Houston S&M Ball, and was Chairman or Co-Chair of that BDSM/Leather event for the first eight Balls, helping to make it an internationally known and respected Fetish event. Travis has been a presenter at Leather/BDSM events for many years, presenting at such events (many of them multiple times) as Washington D.C.’s Black Rose, Beat me in St. Louis, Oklahoma’s Tribal Fire, Oklahoma’s Leather and Lace, Chicago’s Sinsations in Leather and Kinky Kollege, and many more, on the show page.

The KinkyCast Social Club takes a look around Europe. We have panelists in England, Switzerland, Italy and Hungry. We are learning that people are feeling social shut-in as the norm across the world. What surprised us was the different ways the governments are stepping up, or not to take care of their citizenry. We are seeing civil rights are being trampled in the name of a national emergency. Are we going a bit stir crazy? Shackwacky? We hear from a newbie that was just starting her kinky journey when we all got locked down. Join us for the nest hour and hear a European view on coping in a time of social disruption.

You have heard about Rainbow Kitten before. She was the top listened show on the KinkyCast back in early 2019, Episode #260. Then in late 2019, we had Rainbow Kitten’s hubby and philosopher, Unicorn Husbandry, Episode #302. Today we have them together, talking about being slutty, poly and raising a family in the great midwest of the United States. We do a deep dive into the lives of two very busy people with jobs and homeschooling. This show was recorded before the Coronavirus was a pandemic and social distancing was not required, please give it a pass in the different world it was in back then. They were part of our “Being Social in a Time of Social Distancing” panel where we heard from 10 friends around the world. To hear an update on the couple listen to last week’s show #321 and hear what has changed.