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Job Opening: Production & Event Administration Assistant
We urgently need support and are currently seeking a part-time (20–30%) assistant for production and event administration. Application deadline: December 4, 2024. LUHMEN D’ARC is a…
What can people expect from our orgy workshop?
We wanted to know what people thought about our workshop (AN)THER ORGY. Here are a few short interviews recorded after the last event in April in Berlin.
Enjoy listening!
Rebecca Frances on the Crude podcast discussing “Coaching Pleasure”
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 look at the issue and discuss whether sex can even be taught—and…
A commemorative volume on sadism and a thank you for saying no
The volume *Empfangen*, recently published by DeGruyter in honor of cultural studies scholar Prof. Dr. Iris Därmann—whose work focuses on sadism, theories of gift-giving, aesthetics, and other fascinating fields of research that also engage us—features contributions from Beata and other editors.
Job Opening: Production & Event Administration Assistant
We urgently need support and are currently seeking a part-time (20–40%) assistant for production and event administration. Application deadline: May 7, 2023. LUHMEN D’ARC is a…
Self-congratulatory praise – The two cuties from Liebelei have created their podcast Fucketlist…
… wrote an exciting and lively post about your visit to our workshop (AN)OTHER ORGY. We two cuties, Beata & Matís, took the liberty of editing together the absolute highlights of it—exclusively for you 😁
Absurd Sex with Beate Absalon – Sex Punk Podcast by Uta Rothermel
Dive into the world of sex counseling and hear from people exploring their sexuality in Berlin. In the first season, “Sexual Anarchy,” we’re interviewing rebels and misfits, asking how we can channel our sexual…
Consensus-building: A Conversation with Beate Absalon – Interview by Tjaša Črnigoj for “Sex Education II”
The theater project “Sex Education II” is a series of lecture-performances on sexual pleasure as a fundamental sexual right within the framework of human rights. The project is a co-production…
New website now live & registration open for touch & play Germany 2022!
“I stumble; maybe by stumbling I found you, maybe by stumbling I stumbled upon happiness—a happiness brimming with joy; a happiness as fragile as the bodies we love and cherish.” (S. Ahmed) – Get more info and your ticket for the next Touch&Play Germany—August 28, 2022, through September 2, 2022, at Nature Community in Bavaria. >> Here!
Beata found a nice piece by Lauren Berlant that sums up very well what….
…what we aim to achieve with our work. Check it out: "[...] people give in to projections of what makes them uncomfortable about sex: its strangeness (I was just standing there talking, and now I'm doing this?), its messiness, its awkwardness, its apparent disconnect from so many other 'appropriate' drives…
Call for Proposals for touch & play Germany 2022!
“I stumble; maybe by stumbling I found you, maybe by stumbling I stumbled upon happiness, a happiness brimming with joy; a happiness 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…
“The Virgin and the Kinkster” – more news from abcde Flash! She just released the first episode…
… about her new project—a podcast with Mo! And what’s this project about? Mo and abcde Flash met on Feeld on December 26, 2021. On January 1, they met in person. On February 13, Mo had a brainwave: to do a podcast together called “The Virgin and…”
Check out the brand-new "abcde Flash section"…
… featuring the #makeprofessionalnudeprofilepicsathing photo from a shoot with Anaïs Steiner – Aaaaaaaand just in case you’ve never had the chance to see @abcde_flash’s film *WALKING A FINE LINE* —starring Matís d’Arc—you can now…
The mountains are calling us! – To discover new, wonderfully strange ways to explore…
… how to be close to one another. Join us on our journey—a noble quest to demystify so-called tantric massages: TANTRA – WITH A PINCH OF SALT – RETREAT FROM JULY 9–17, 2022, at the beautiful Cortijo Caseria del Mercado in Andalusia, Spain.
How do we teach HOW TO BECOME A BETTER LOVER*** and why it's an ANTI-SELF-HELP GUIDE
A friend asked me about our new workshop, “HOW TO BECOME A BETTER LOVER,” which will take place February 5–6 at the IKSK in Berlin. We recorded the answer for anyone who’s curious to get a glimpse of our format. The best and most engaging way to find out, though, is to join us 🤝
Calling a Sex-Positive Community, Group, or Event a “Family”—and Why It’s a Red Flag—New Zine by Beata 📖
"We are family!" or "Come and be part of our XYZ family" and similar phrases are something we often hear in the s+scene. Now Beata has created a zine about this peculiar term. Read and download it at >>THE PILLOW BLOG
Wow, the wonderful podcast "Mit Zunge" has an episode about our orgy workshop at the IKSK…
…done. Here you can listen to us munching away insatiably as we discuss the event.
🍜 yum yum yum…
"An earthy, dense, and archaic feminine space" – some thoughts on THE HOUSE OF NEUROTIC WOMXN…
…by one of the participants, recorded on audio. – Winter has traditionally always been the time to observe shadows. A time for daemons, ghosts, and the un/dead. Winter within. It’s a good time for retreats and rituals. We wanted to create a ritualistic space for transitioning between…
“Taking the Piss, I’m not kidding” – abcde Flash in a Radio Bern interview about her new experimental documentary short film
The fabulous abcde Flash, an exploratory artist, producer, and mindfucker, has—following her successful porn short debut, *Walking A Fine Line*, with Matís d’Arc—produced her second film, which documents her daring and raunchy attempt to overcome her “shame bladder” and…
What I Learned from the Sex-Positive Community. Part 3: Incorporating Practices into an Art Context.
We are honored that Eva Neklyaeva interviewed us for her articles on the connections between sex-positive spaces and art spaces for the online magazine *Various Artists*, an initiative of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Eva is a curator working at the intersection of…