Past Workshops & Events
Want to learn about some sexy things, new techniques, and things to try?
Want to learn about some sexy things, new techniques, and things to try?
Nervous? Shy? Introverted? First, kudos for putting yourself out there and coming to Desire – to help make your first day easier, Bradford & Angela from The By the Bi Podcast host a relaxed and informal discussion/pep-talk on what you can expect from The Swingset's takeover week, and how to get the most out of this trip!
Tristan Taormino, Cooper, and Ophilia, will be your guides to an anal discussion, live demonstrations of anal sex on both those with prostates and without. While demonstrating, they will discuss the act, preparation, and the elusive prostate orgasm. You’re encouraged to bring your own dildos and harnesses and participate alongside. In the past, it has happened, that this turns into a pegging train on Cooper, so that’s always possible.
Join Ginger and Ryan for an experiential circle exploring energy play and multisensory erotic connection. Experiment with tuning deeper into yourself and a partner as you play with accessing altered states through mindfulness and shamanic practices. Bring a partner and an open mind. We will be connecting erotically, but not being physically sexual during this circle. (But take your new found frequencies with you and have at it when we wrap up!)
A workshop covering mostly rope bondage and impact play like flogging and spanking. Demos will include bedroom bondage and impact play, and who knows what might happen once people start making requests! You’re encouraged to bring your own toys if you have them, and there will be time set aside for mentoring and open play. It will also be an opportunity to meet the Dungeon Night service tops as most/all will be there.
Bring your toys to share and discuss with you fellow travelers, especially things that others may not have seen before.
Includes parties, dancing, singing, and flogging. (All events from 2018 trip, most will carry over to 2019.)
The Swingset crew will be on hand to welcome you to the resort, raise some glasses, and welcome you to the resort in spectacular fashion.
One of the surprisingly most popular events last year was Courtyard Karaoke, making a triumphant return with Dylan as your KJ and a collection of nearly 100,000 songs, your request is his Desire.
The kinkiest of Swingsetters invite you to an evening takeover of the disco and playroom that will fulfill your deepest BDSM desires. Everyone is welcome, and you can get much more info from the first part of this guidebook. Monday’s kinky toy show/tell and workshop are highly recommended for anyone new to or curious about kink. – Click here for more info on this event.
Twice during our week, the resort fills the pool with foam from a massive foam machine. Dance and play to your heart’s content. Cooper recommends you indulge your steampunk know-how with goggles and a mask. Because Cooper…is weird.
Multiple times during the week, after midnight, we’ll be dimming the lights at the hot tub to get some stargazing in. The Leonid meteor shower is, after all, the following week, and meteors are often spottable. The hot tub will still be host to its regular shenanigans. Just darker. So be careful.
Come nerd out on spiked grape juice with your unofficial LOTS Desire wine soms as they provide a fun and educational oenological tour (i.e., sips not gulps) through the 6 major wine varietals accompanied with small bite food pairings!
Wine and beer aficionados among us gather in the rotunda to sip wine, and discuss whatever is on our minds (which may be a lot by Friday!) You are encouraged to bring spirits from home, from the Airport duty free, or from the resort.
Workouts on the beach consisting of mobility work, body-weight exercise circuits, and high-intensity interval training. Each session should last between 40 and 50 minutes.
Every night of our trip, a play theme will be facilitated up by the hot tub.
Mutual Masturbation • Women Only Orgy • Gang Bangs/Trains
Oral Pleasure • Butt Stuff • Bistravaganza
A daily discussion group at the breakfast buffet will have a facilitator and different discussion topic every day.
Polyamory & Relationships • Risk Aware Sex & STI Stigma • Communication Tools
Insecurity & Fear in the Lifestyle • Privilege • Attraction Spectrums
Podcasts from our hosts recorded live in the courtyard.
Cooper, Ginger, and Dylan podcast live and welcome you to be part of the audience and participate in the show.
JV and Shara host a live version of their kink themed podcast and welcome you to be part of the audience and participate in the show.
Bradford and Angela host a live version of their By the Bi podcast, focusing on the interactions of bisexuality on resort.
“Our first trip was amazing! The Swingset group is hands down the gold standard.”
“An absolutely transformative event - thoughtful, sex-positive, body-positive, bi-positive community, great education, & tons of sex. What more could you ask for?”
"The only place we've ever found where you can have a two hour conversation about horror movies, as well as a two hour gang bang going on within a few yards of you."
“The warmth and love present throughout the group changed my perception of ‘swingers.’ I wouldn't consider doing a trip like this with anyone else.”
"SSDesire is the highlight of our year!"
“SSDesire is a never fail week of hedonism and growth. An amazing combination of people, place, pleasure, and learning. We wouldn't miss it!”
“It was amazing to have many welcoming, open minded, intelligent, and sexy people all gathered in the same place at the same time!”
“Come for the experience, the discovery, the companionship, or just a really thorough fuck. Make it what you want, and leave your expectations at the door. You'll not be disappointed.”
“This is the most diverse, passionate, compassionate, sexy, & wonderfully geeky group of people we have ever met. We can't imagine life without the Swingset trip to look forward to.”
"Whether you're swinger, poly, or kinky, you'll find like-minded people to explore and connect with in a safe, sane, consent-focused environment."
“These people are our tribe! Having found them, we'd move heaven and earth to join them in paradise every November.”
“This was hands down the best vacation of my life! A whole resort reverberating with the energy of love and affection!”
"We met amazing people, had wonderful new experiences, and relaxed more fully than we had in years. We signed up for the next year before we left the resort!"
"We have yet to find a group of people as diverse, welcoming, open, nerdy, kinky, thoughtful, self aware, and sexually fun anywhere but SSDesire."
“Being in paradise with my love, surrounding by sexy nerds in various states of undress, is as close to perfect an experience as I can imagine. (Plus tacos & pizza at 2 am.)”
"In 10 years of going to Desire, we've never experienced the resort with the incredible amount of inclusiveness and kindness that this trip and group has."
“This trip was absolutely amazing! It was an environment where we could be 100% ourselves, uncensored, & still be loved & accepted by a community.”
"SSDesire for us was an awakening that this type of inclusive community we've been looking for does actually exist."