Our New Workshop: Delicious Deprivation
Sensory deprivation is hot and powerful! This hands-on workshop is an excursion into using deprivation of sight, hearing, speech, and touch to create deep, intense experiences. We’ll go from beginning to advanced level with tools and techniques that Integrate into all aspects of kink. There are lots of opportunities throughout the workshop to get actual experience. No partner required to attend.
We — Touchdeep and HeartBound — are always keen to explore deeper fun and spice in our own play, and that sometimes leads to new workshops like Delicious Deprivation!
Some of our hottest scenes happen spontaneously and far from the toy closet, when we dip into the ever-present power-toolbox of sensory deprivation.
Some of the power of BDSM play comes from a temporary, limited, risk-aware experience of something that might be dangerous or traumatic under other circumstances.
What makes sensory deprivation so powerful?
We treasure sight, sound, speech, and touch. These are the primary ways we know our world and ourselves in it. They help us appreciate, give, and receive pleasure and anticipate, avoid — or experience — danger and pain.
Sudden, permanent loss of one or more sensory faculties is traumatic. Temporary, loss of sensation — controlled or uncontrolled — leaves the receiver off balance.
In loss, we either struggle to compensate for what we are missing or relinquish control and try to adapt to our new world of deficit. When we are in that unbalanced state we are more vulnerable. We receive new inputs out of context. Any new sensory input has additional power while we’re missing one or more of our senses.
A giver of sensory deprivation has new power on two levels: 1. she has the power to deprive or return the receiver’s access to sensation. 2. The impact of what she gives is amplified for the receiver who’s in a state of sensory deprivation. More fun, less work! What’s not to like?
Changes in power also call for changes in responsibility and skill. That’s why education in sensory deprivation is important before you grab for the gag or make a beeline for the blindfold.
We have a lot of fun with the added heat of sensory deprivation, both on its own and as an element of surprise to other play. When something’s fun, we often get curious: why does this work well? What are we doing right? If we decide to develop whatever we’re doing into a workshop and share the joy of something that works well, we also unpack the assumptions and routine practices around that thing so everyone learns how to have a safe, fun, and powerful experience.
We thing you’ll love learning how to fully tap into the erotic power and heat of sensory deprivation in Delicious Deprivation!
Watch for it at a BDSM event near you!