quiregrrl | A matter of learning

Dear friends of the perverted and not so perverted variety,

I'm wondering things about education, partly due to my recent involvement in SLPA education subcommittee, and also just in general...

Where did/do you learn about kink, SM, and the how-to's of things that intrigue you?

Do you think formal education is important or are you more a school-of-life learner? Balance of both perhaps?

What kind of workshops would you be interested in attending? Skills based? (what skills?) Lifestyle based? (D/s? slave training?) Sex based? (how to fist? give head? sex magic? tantric sex?) Psychology? Imagine there could be a workshop for anything and everything you could want... what would they be?

What attracts you to formal workshops? and conversely, what makes you disinclined to attend them?

Would you be interested in teaching workshops? What subject(s) would you like to teach?

Do you (or have you) mentor(ed) newer kinksters in the past?

Feel free to answer one or all of teh questions... ask questions yourself... throw in suggestions and share your thoughts on the experience of learning as it pertains to this wide wonderful world of queer kinky pervertedness :)

I just posted the same bunch of questions on the badgrrls list as well, so for those of you on that feel free to answer here or there... but those of you not, I'm really interested in hearing your thoughts. I want to try and do stuff with SLPA education next year, so I'm starting the info gathering process now with friends :) And this includes overseas friends too, I know some of you can offer some good thoughts and suggestions so please feel free!!