HeyJaredThe Kink Compass
Navigate your desires with confidence, curiosity, and consent. Hosted by Chris, The Kink Compass is your weekly guide to BDSM and kink — from negotiation and safety to play ideas and power dynamics.
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- Sep 13, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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The Journey: Your First Scene (opens the original)
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You've talked. You've negotiated. And now... You're actually doing this. In this episode of The Journey, we step into your first BDSM scene: excitement, nerves, safewords, checking in, things going wrong, aftercare, and the discovery that reality rarely looks quite like fantasy. Because your first scene doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to give you something fantasy never could. Experience.
The Journey: Your First Negotiation (opens the original)
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You've met someone. You know what you're curious about. Now comes the terrifying part... Actually telling them. In this episode of The Journey, we explore the first negotiation: wants, boundaries, curiosity, saying no, saying “I don't know,” and why awkward conversations can be some of the most important ones you'll have. Because negotiation isn't about having all the right answers. It's about making it easier for two people to tell each other the truth.
The Journey: Finding Your Compass (opens the original)
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You don’t have to like everything. You don’t have to collect labels, tick boxes, or somehow become “kinky enough.” In this episode of The Journey, we turn inward and start asking a different question: What do you actually want? We talk about exploration, curiosity, changing preferences, fantasy versus reality, and why “I don’t know yet” can be one of the most useful answers you have. Because finding your compass isn’t about knowing exactly where you’re going. It’s about learning which direction
The Journey: Your First Event (opens the original)
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Walking into your first kink event can feel like stepping into another world. There’s equipment you’ve only seen in pictures. People actually playing. Sounds you weren’t expecting. Rules you’re trying desperately to remember. And then someone offers you cake. In this episode of The Journey , we step through another door and discover what a real kink event actually feels like. The scenes, the etiquette, the quiet negotiations, the people watching, talking, laughing and drinking coffee. Because so
The Kink Compass is one year old! (opens the original)
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One year. Fifty-one Sundays out of fifty-two. More conversations about kink, relationships, community, consent, pain, pleasure, mistakes, growth and occasionally sheep than I ever imagined when I pressed publish for the first time. So this bonus episode isn't about teaching anything. It's about looking back. At the episodes, the conversations, the unexpected moments, and especially all of you who listened, commented, questioned, shared, supported, laughed, disagreed and came along for the ride.
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