YKF: Your Kinky Friends w/ Nicholas Tanek

Also known as "Community Connections, Kinky Celebrations"

Whores of Babylon Reveal How They Built a Traveling BDSM Dungeon in the Bible Belt — and Why Corpus Christi Will Never Be the Same. Lady Red and Nicholas Tanek sit down with the powerhouse throuple behind Whores of Babylon — Lady Vanovia Serpentine, Absinthe Nevermore, and Sylhouette — for a raw, unfiltered conversation about turning religious backlash into their brand name, running the only kink-safe traveling dungeon in South Texas, creating inclusive spaces for LGBTQ+, disabled, and Deaf communities, and building real community through education, consent, and kinky celebration at Coastal Bend Kink Weekend. From Facebook Marketplace dungeon hacks and fire cupping classes to 10 years of poly life, intense aftercare, and reclaiming the word “whore,” this episode is a masterclass in what happens when three women decide the dungeon is about so much more than play.
Your Kinky Friends podcast & Interview My Kink Podcast team up to interview THE WHORES OF BABYLON
Whores of Babylon — Coastal Bend’s Kink Community Hub
Whores of Babylon is a Coastal Bend–based kink organization that brings people together through Community Connections and Kinky Celebrations, with a focus on inclusivity, education, and safe, consensual experiences
Whores of Babylon is run by a throuple — Viktoria “Absinthe” Janosek, Clara “Lady Vanovia Serpentine” Janosek, and Sarah “Sylhouette” Janosek — who also produce Coastal Bend Kink Weekend
This annual three‑day convention in Corpus Christi offers:
Educational lectures and demonstrations on kink practices
A Play Space (dungeon) for consensual kink activities under strict rules (no under‑21s, no cell phones, no intercourse)
Community contests and cultural events
Community Impact
According to Absinthe, the group was inspired by a lack of local education and support in the kink scene, leading to injuries and unsafe experiences. Their events aim to fill that gap by providing a safe, informed, and welcoming environment where men can be vulnerable, women can feel powerful, non‑binaries and trans people can exist, and everyone can belong
http://www.foghornnews.com
https://fetlife.com/Lady_Vanovia

https://fetlife.com/Sylhouette

How to Get InvolvedEvents: Attend Coastal Bend Kink Weekend or other
Learning: Participate in educational sessions, observe, or join activities at your comfort level
Networking: Connect with the broader kink community through their events and online platforms
Support: Volunteer, assist with education, or help create inclusive spaces
In short: Whores of Babylon is both a community connector and a kink celebration organizer, dedicated to building a safe, educated, and inclusive kink culture in the Coastal Bend region.
Nicholas Tanek
⁠http://yourkinkyfriends.com⁠
YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@yourkinkyfriends⁠
IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/nicktanek/⁠X: ⁠https://twitter.com/NicholasTanek⁠⁠http://twitter.com/FriendsKinky⁠

Rebecca Blanton (aka Auntie Vice)

is a writer and kink educator. Their work focuses on gender, power, and kink//BDSM. She runs the award-winning blog LoveLettersToAUnicorn.com and has published several books, including The Big Workbook for Submissives, a finalist for the 2018 Golden Flogger Award. In 2026, Jennifer Kingsley Publishing will release their fourth book, Kinky Minds: Navigating BDSM Relationships with Mental Illness or Neurodivergence. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Psychology. Prior to turning her attention to kink education and writing, she served as the Executive Director for the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls and worked as a Senior Policy Analyst for the California Research Bureau (CRB). While at the CRB, her work on the needs of women veterans gained national attention and is the basis for more than two dozen state and federal laws.
They identify as a queer, gender nonconforming, disabled kinkster.

Instagram, Fetlife, Facebook, Bluesky, Redditt, TikTok all under @AuntieVice
Instagram @AuntieViceNSFW
Podcast under @FatChicksOnTop on Instagram and Tiktok

http://www.yourkinkyfriends.com Nicholas Tanekhttp://yourkinkyfriends.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@yourkinkyfriendsIG: https://www.instagram.com/nicktanek/X: https://twitter.com/NicholasTanekhttp://twitter.com/FriendsKinky

"The whisper network depends on us."

Anna Valentina and Mistress Sophie reunite on YKF WEEKENDS to discuss the importance of kinksters checking in on each other. Kinky friends should check in on each other. We've lost too many this year. Don't you wish you kept the connection with some people? While catching up, we talk about Isla Moon, pegging, and also how R.C. Horsch is a scumbag who does not represent the BDSM/kink community.

"Connections live in the doing."

"Just because you chop up people and turn them into food, that does not make you part of the chef industry."

"Their eyes are bigger than their holes."

ANNA VALENTINA

Website: https://annavalentina.com

Instagram: / msannavalentina

Cashapp: $AnnaValentina

MISTRESS SOPHIE:

https://www.mistresssophieofhertfordshire.co.uk/

NICHOLAS TANEK

http://www.yourkinkyfriends.com

https://x.com/NicholasTanek

https://www.instagram.com/nicktanek/

Your Kinky Friends by Nicholas Tanek (the book that started it all)

https://a.co/d/eyW5oYY

Forbidden Frostland https://forbiddenfrostland.com/

Rest in Power Kate West.

June 2, 2022

"I’m an equal opportunity sadist.”
The glorious Mistress Kate West is a professional Dominatrix from Phoenix, AZ. We discuss feminization, feet, chastity, BDSM culture, gender fluidity, CBT, bastinado, knives, her love of GORE, needles, and blood. She also shows us her dirty feet.
“I love blood”
Twitter and Insta - @JezabelQueen
To book and bio  - MistressKateWest.com
http://www.yourkinkyfriends.com
http://www.youtube.com/ykfcinema

https://x.com/NicholasTanek

August 18, 2026 Show

Tonight on Mischief Matters Radio Mistress Schari and Catnip will be discussing two very different types of kink with two of the upcoming Presenters at Forbidden Frostland

Rebecca Blanton (aka Auntie Vice)

is a writer and kink educator. Their work focuses on gender, power, and kink//BDSM. She runs the award-winning blog LoveLettersToAUnicorn.com and has published several books, including The Big Workbook for Submissives, a finalist for the 2018 Golden Flogger Award. In 2026, Jennifer Kingsley Publishing will release their fourth book, Kinky Minds: Navigating BDSM Relationships with Mental Illness or Neurodivergence. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Psychology. Prior to turning her attention to kink education and writing, she served as the Executive Director for the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls and worked as a Senior Policy Analyst for the California Research Bureau (CRB). While at the CRB, her work on the needs of women veterans gained national attention and is the basis for more than two dozen state and federal laws.
They identify as a queer, gender nonconforming, disabled kinkster.

Instagram, Fetlife, Facebook, Bluesky, Redditt, TikTok all under @AuntieVice
Instagram Podcast under @FatChicksOnTop on Instagram and Tiktok

Jonnyace (They/Them)

is a queer, non-binary transfemme polyamorous kinkster. They are a certified life coach focusing on gender, sexual, and romantic minorities. Jon leads the Hudson Valley Polyamory Society, as well as being a member of the Ascend Incident Response Team, and the Head DM of Ascend Hudson Valley. They have been in the public kink scene for over a decade, and have been sharing their knowledge with kink communities across the east coast holding classes, demos, and discussion groups on topics including medical play, D/s dynamics, polyamory, and more.

 www.gsrmcoaching.com

@YourKinkyFriendshttps://www.instagram.com/nicktanek/

YOUR KINKY FRIENDS: http://www.YourKinkyFriends.com

"The spring breakers are the scum."

Nicholas Tanek sits down with high-protocol dominatrix and one-woman haunted house Griselda Venum to break down Harmony Korine’s cult classic Spring Breakers. We dive deep into the film’s dark underbelly — exploring the BDSM and kink elements, the infamous gun fellatio scene, grooming dynamics, power exchange, and the seductive corruption of youth. Griselda unpacks the twisted masculine/feminine themes, class and race dynamics, poverty vs. hedonistic excess, drugs, crime, and how innocence spirals into chaos. From psychological domination and fear play to real-life parallels with dangerous romance and moral erosion, this is a raw, unfiltered conversation you won’t find anywhere else. If you love Training Day and Pulp Fiction episodes with Griselda, this one goes even harder.

"Spring Breakers is a comment on how we live in delusions."

Visit: http://www.yourkinkyfriends.com

https://www.instagram.com/nicktanek/⁠⁠https://x.com/NicholasTanek⁠

Film Acquisition Consultant: EdWood27

https://fetlife.com/Edwood27

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Everything discussed is between consenting adults. Kink is culture. Film is culture. This is where they collide.Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | James Franco | Kink Analysis | BDSM Movies | Crime Fetish | Psychological Domination

“Who hasn’t had a threesome that started like this?"

Rope goddess, proud fem daddy, and poly household leader Briska returns to The YKF Cinema Show for a raw, joyful, and explicit deep dive into John Cameron Mitchell’s cult classic SHORTBUS — the 2006 NYC erotic masterpiece packed with unsimulated sex, chaotic orgies, queer healing, and post-9/11 messiness. Briska reveals how this film literally changed her life as a young sexual health advocate, why it still hits different 20 years later, and how it mirrors real kink community vibes — the good, the messy, the patriotic ass-singing, and everything in between. Consent is sexy. Trauma dumping at sex parties. Dominatrix real talk. Poly negotiations. Vibrating eggs gone wrong. And why this unapologetically raw indie film remains a gateway AND provocation for the kink & queer community.

“Short Bus fundamentally changed my life.”

"Most people, especially when they’re in this kind of scene, they want to be their best selves."

BRISKA on FETLIFE:  https://fetlife.com/Briska

Your Kinky Friends

(the book that started it all)

https://a.co/d/eyW5oYY

YKF Your Kinky Friends on

http://www.YourKinkyFriends.com
@YourKinkyFriends
https://www.instagram.com/nicktanek/

Videodrome: The Ultimate Kinky Mindf()ck | YKF CINEMA SHOW - In this special panel episode of the YKF Cinema Show, host Nicholas Tanek dives deep into David Cronenberg’s 1982 masterpiece Videodrome with two incredible guests: professional dominatrix and dark cinema lover Mistress Genevieve and BDSM historian/author Peter Tupper (A Lover’s Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism). From body horror and media as a virus to masochistic surrender, erotic transformation, and the seductive power of the signal, this conversation explores how Videodrome fuses sex, pain, control, and technology in one of the most transgressive films ever made. The panel breaks down the film’s dominant/submissive dynamics, the “New Flesh” philosophy, and why Cronenberg’s twisted vision still feels dangerously relevant to kink, desire, and modern media.

Everything discussed is between consenting adults.

Watch now and Long Live the New Flesh.

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Produced by Nicholas Tanek & Sunshine Music
Theme song by Dan Kilian & The Million Man Band
Film Aquisition Consultant: Edwood27

http://www.YourKinkyFriends.com

May 19, 2026 Show

Mistress Schari explores how alternative lifestyles, BDSM, and fetishes intersect with modern dating. What's it like to be dating someone who is also selling a product, THEMSELF. Is your partner always "on"? How do you navigate their desire to be the center of attention with your desire for ANY attention. Do you work with them, support them, promote them, ignore them? As a kink personality myself, I am sure catnip has plenty to contribute to this discussion. Joining our discussion tonight will be Sunshine, who dates our very good friend Nick Tanek, author and the host of "Your Kinky Friends" podcast. Tonight's episode demystifies "kink personalities," why we are drawn to them, how we can assist them, and what you're really signing up for when you do.

http://www. mischiefmatters.com

NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL:

THE YKF CINEMA SHOW

"Kinky people talking about films."

https://www.youtube.com/@ykfcinema

http://www.yourkinkyfriends.com

The Coolest Way to... by Nicholas Tanek (book)

https://a.co/d/0iAaASpM

Your Kinky Friends (the book) https://a.co/d/00SQTGAb

https://www.instagram.com/nicktanek/

This week on Mischief Matters Radio, we explore a brand-new convention that's bringing together educators, creators, and curious minds from across the spectrum, including yours truly as one of the Chairs. Forbidden Frostland 2027 is a brand new con bringing together workshops and community building to break down stigma and celebrating self-expression. This episode goes beyond the surface and into what these spaces really mean for the people who attend them. Whether you're experienced, curious, or just interested in understanding more about this often-misunderstood world, this conversation is open, thoughtful, and judgment-free. Tune-in and join Mistress Schari, Catnip, and Co-Chairs Mistress Raina and Raina's Slave for a candid and eye-opening discussion of this very exciting and new venture.

https://www.mischiefmatters.com/⁠

The Coolest Way to... by Nicholas Tanek (book)

https://a.co/d/0iAaASpM

Your Kinky Friends (the book)

https://a.co/d/00SQTGAb

http://www.YourKinkyFriends.com

@YourKinkyFriends

https://www.instagram.com/nicktanek/