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Why do people come for a session with Rebecca? What about workshops and retreats on sexuality? Do they really work and where does this trend come from? Can someone really train to become a better lover? Rebecca joins the Crude podcast team to take a critical approach and discuss if sex can be coached at all and...
"Forget the images of oiled and horny bacchanalia, here we will indulge in languor and engage in lazy f****. Getting involved with people with whom the chemistry is not right, and consciously losing the desire for bore-gasm ...
How is sexuality depicted and represented? Through nudity? By rubbing certain parts of the body? Through censorship? The triggering of aroused feelings? Beata is organizing a series of discussions at the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture in GIeßen on the...
Did you actually see that there was an interview with Beata in the FAZ Quarterly? "The view of sexuality in many parts of society has changed radically. We present five women who have made a profession out of it." Among them...
As a commemorative publication for the cultural scientist Prof. Dr. Iris Därmann, who works on sadism, gift theories, aesthetics and other exciting fields of research that are equally important to us, the volume "Empfangen" has just been published by DeGruyter Verlag, in which Beata was involved with other editors.
We urgently need support and are looking for a part-time assistant for production and event administration (20 - 40 %). Application deadline: May 7, 2023 LUHMEN D'ARC is a...
... made an exciting and moving contribution about your visit to our workshop (AN)OTHER ORGY. We two cuties, Beata & Matís, have cheekily taken the liberty of cutting together the absolute most important part of it exclusively for you 😁
Dive into the world of sex counseling and listen to people doing stuff with sex in Berlin. In the first season "sexual anarchy", we're interviewing rebels and misfits, asking how we can channel our sexual...
More precisely, in the conference proceedings 'Anthropology of Sex, Gender and Bodies. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Alltägliches' of the Hamburg Journal for Cultural Anthropology. Beata's article can be found >>here.
The theater project Sex Education II is a series of lecture-performances about sexual pleasure as a basic sexual right in the context of human rights. The project is a co-production...
Just in case you haven't noticed: FRESH NEWSLETTER! - Exciting things are happening in Zurich, Berlin, Karlsruhe and Andalusia - people are already starting to book. Don't miss your chance ;) Read the newsletter >> here
...fellow panelists, alert impulses and the desire to question things together in a fun way made the interview a real pleasure.
Thank you!
"Even with the greatest care and best intentions, things can go wrong in sexual interaction. [...] This necessarily complicates theories of consent that assume autonomous subjects with a transparent ego core and view sex as...
Such an apt description of how to experience a sex-positive event. 😅 But here's also a big shout out to the wonderful and clever people Clara and Alina, who actually...
"I stumble; maybe by stumbling I found you, maybe by stumbling I stumbled on happiness, a hap-full happiness; a happiness that is as fragile as the bodies we love and cherish." (S. Ahmed) - Get more info & your ticket for the next Touch&Play Germany - from 28.08.2022 - 02.09.2022 at Nature Community in Bavaria. >> Here!
... several years - this happened at Touch & Play Festival in Germany in 2021, when David facilitated a great class on THE SPACE BETWEEN. Embodied mysticism? However, very touching and mind-opening, if not -blowing! How great that...
Since 20 years Felix is doubtlessly one of the most inspiring and inventive - yet occasionally quite controversial - artists & curators when it comes to a fusion of choreography, dance & performance with bodywork, kink and experiential and immersive workshop formats. Within his...
Come with luhmen d'arc to the Andalusian mountains, to our retreat "with a pinch of salt" in the beautiful Cortijo La Casería del Mercado. Because we want the luxuriously long, deep, sensual, oily-warm caresses and the orgasmic full-body sensations...
...we intend with our work. Check it out: "[...] people indulge in projections of what makes them uncomfortable about sex: its weirdness (I was just standing up and talking and now I'm doing this?), its sloppiness, its awkwardness, its seeming disconnection from so many other 'appropriate' drives...
"I stumble; maybe by stumbling I found you, maybe by stumbling I stumbled on happiness, a hap-full happiness; a happiness that is as fragile as the bodies we love and cherish." (S. Ahmed) - Beata is co-organizing the next Touch&Play Germany and is looking for facilitators who would like to share their magic...
... of her new project - a podcast together with Mo! And what's this project about? Mo and abcde Flash met on Feeld on December 26th, 2021. January 1st they met in person. 13th of February Mo had a shower thought: to do a podcast together called 'The Virgin and...
... featuring the #makeprofessionalnudeprofilepicsathing photo from shoot with Anaïs Steiner - Aaaaaaaand just in case you have never had the chance to see @abcde_flash's film WALKING A FINE LINE - with Matís d'Arc in the cast - you can now...
... how to be close to each other. Join us for our trip - on a noble quest to declutter so called tantric massages: TANTRA - WITH A PINCH OF SALT - RETREAT FROM 9-17 JULY 2022 at beautiful Cortijo Caseria der Mercado in Andalucia, Spain.
A friend asked me about our new workshop HOW TO BECOME A BETTER LOVER that will take place 5th-6th of February at the IKSK in Berlin. We recorded the answer for everybody who is curious to peek into our format. Best and most alive way to find out is to join us, though 🤝
"We are family!" or "Come and be part of our the XYZ-family" and the like is something we often hear in the s+scene. Now Beata made a Zine about this peculiar term. Read and download it in >>THE PILLOW BLOG
...made. Here you can listen to us smacking our lips during the follow-up conversation.
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...by one of the participants, caught on audio. - Winter time traditionally always was the time to look at the shadows. Time for daemons, ghosts, the un/dead. Winter within. It's a good time for retreats and rituals. We wanted to create a ritualistic space for transitioning between...
The fabulous abcde Flash, sexploratory artist, producer & mindfucker has - after her successful porn short debut Walking A Fine Line with Matís d'Arc - produced her second film, that documents her venturous and dirty attempt to overcome her "shame bladder" and...
We are honored that Eva Neklyaeva interviewed us for her articles about the connections between sexpositive and art spaces for the Various Artists online magazine, an initiative by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Eva is a curator working at the intersection as...
"...we let ourselves be inspired by the many facets of the orgiastic, the images of nobly lascivious and at the same time filled and lazy lolling and grape-covered magnificent bodies of antiquity. From the excited pajama party bottle-spinning and pillow-fighting states of exception full of...
"Trains pulled by steam locomotives ran incessantly in and out of the main hall, which was like a vessel for these powerful machines - a kind of mechanical coitus," says Eva Fàbregas in an interview about the exhibition. In this industrial monument called Hamburger Bahnhof, which the artist can imagine as a "giant mouth" or "womb", she has put something organic, something amorphous, which is a contradiction in terms, because nothing here is shapeless and without form. The preoccupation with the corporeal forces itself upon us: Tubers, spherical tubes and balloon chains everywhere, writhing forms in elastic fabric. Construction foam? Flower pollen? Marshmallows? The mustard-yellow, pink and lilac lycra bags hang from the ceiling like snot and slime, winding around steel beams and reaching for me with nubby tentacles. A museum employee says that one visitor is eaten and digested every day.
Jade carefully picks up a pink silicone cake mold, which is modeled on a cerebral hemisphere. Jade carefully scrapes out a thin white layer and collects it in a small bottle. Then we turn on the microphone and ask what Jade is doing and why :) With this audio series, we'd like to introduce you to people who can take a leaf out of our book when it comes to the question: What do you actually do in a Playspace? Because they come with many challenges. How do I get in touch with people? What should I pack for this? Should I plan something or spontaneously see what works? We were lucky enough with Jade...
Partnered sexuality works differently to casual hook-up sexuality. It's a distinction that can help you tackle relationship problems and save yourself frustration if you think that things should be just as fiery in bed with your spouse after a visit to Ikea as they are with a mysterious guy you drag out of a jazz bar. Similarly, adolescent sexuality works differently to adult sexuality. A distinction that helps you to adapt your sex education knowledge to the new phase of life and save yourself stress if you think that body parts should erect and lubricate just as easily as they do when you're...
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