Welcome to 2026, it’s already been a ride but we can get through this together! Opening with an evolution, @sacredprimalarts.com will be merging into the ASS, so you’ll find all our workshops, educational offerings and journeys right here! Read more below at our Substack 💖

FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV | @australianschoolofsexuality.com | 29 Aug 2025 Kidskin in a wall of sound & rushing beats; a witch of the dance floor, calling out an ethereal invitation to writhe and move the flesh upon bones, shaking off the calcification of what we become. 📸 Rayveness Studios

And we’re BACK after a little post-ASSFEST R&R, with a bountiful schedule for the rest of 2025, kicking off with an old fave! Let @saijaidenlillith.com guide you through the arts & joys of tormenting that most delicate of flesh… THE WONDERFUL ART OF GENITORTURE 18.10 | Naarm tinyurl.com/2p65wtaa

We’re absolutely stoked to have been nominated for the inaugural @swcrawards.bsky.social! 🥰 ✨ Educator of the Year ✨ Inclusivity Supporting Community Initiative ✨ Leading SW Run Business of the Year Voting closes 06.10 at beacons.ai/swcra 😘

Deeply honoured that our collaborative works @australianschoolofsexuality.com, @sacredprimalarts.com & @canto5films.com have been nominated for FOUR categories at the Sex Worker Community Recognition Awards! I’ve written more about it on my substack - saijaidenlillith.substack.com/p/well-that-...

On tomorrow curious ones… This is truly a once in a lifetime convergence… We can’t wait. Let the magic flow ✨ Join us…

Ripe flesh, pale light… Devour Me. A dirty & delicious shadow orgy of feasting and flesh… 🍑 MOONDARK 🍑 Thousands Faces An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection 🔥

Tomorrow is our Immersion Opening Night! A chill opportunity to meet the educators, crew & community before we dive deep together. With performances by @mzdanielle.bsky.social, Bettie Bandit & Isla View, & prizes from Leather by Hadrian, Claws & Clamps, Happie Holl & Embodiman!

A visually stunning experiment of entwined hearts overlaying entangled bodies… 🍑 PULSE PORN 🍑 Almond An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection 🔥

Ooh, look who’s joining us last minute for our S25 Immersion Opening Night? SURPRISE! It’s Isla View with a CHEEKY lil burlesque number! 🍑💖

The fabulous MISTRESS LOTUS EROS is flying back from her European adventures to come play with us! Her workshop EMBODYING DOMINANCE was a huge hit at M25, and Sydney you can get it on The Rim… 05.09 | @aspaceinsydney.com tinyurl.com/ywj9xd76

PHYTOPHILIA is playing in the city I grew up in.

We are utterly delighted & honoured to host the Australian premiere of this film by one of the work’s most iconic dominatrix, whose films regularly post the question: what is art and what is porn? 🍑 THE WEAVER 🍑 Mistress Iris & Paul Fle ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival 🔥

One of the most visually stunning, mesmerising transmissions of ritual shibari we’ve seen on film… 🍑 HOWL 🍑 Hannah Wang ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival 🔥

Ok I'm coming to this. I don't know if I can make it on time or stay for the whole 4 hours but I'll be popping my head in at least. If you want to come too and have me sit in your lap shoot me a text about a social package x

Ooh it’s a second room!!! Filled with sextech, genderfuckery, weird & hilarious shorts & medfet… AND it’s the CHATROOM, so we’ll be joined by some of our filmmakers in person & on screen, as well as sharing some special clips they’ve made for us sharing their perspectives on porn!

Yes we’re screening 2 of our own at the ASSFEST Erotic Arts Festival Public Screening - it’s our festival! First witness a deep & intimate ritual journey into blindness in a multimedia entanglement with @infernaldesiremachine.com Then finish the night with pure sapphic vampire horniness…

We simply must joke about the horizontal tango BUT this film is deeply incredible & utterly horny making… the build of heat, interplay of connection, dynamism of entangled cavorting bodies…. 🍑 DANCE | DESTROY | CREATE 🍑 Thousand Faces ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival 🔥

Tomorrow! We’re wildly proud of this lineup of over 40 local & international films featuring cult faves & new, glistening emergences… infernaldesiremachine.com are performing our final Sydney public show before hiatus, an interactive multimedia piece entangled with @canto5films.com ❤️

Speak of the devils... This is a deeply personal piece by ASS founders Eve & Sai, exploring disability & blindness, screened in tandem with a live performance powered by @infernaldesiremachine.com ✨ 🍑 THE SUMMONING | BLIND DEVOTIONS 🍑 @canto5films.com ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival 🔥

Nourish, nurture, Thou bosom swells… The sap, the nectar Of life. 🍑 MAMAN 🍑 @fourchambers.bsky.social ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival 🔥

Tomorrow night!!! This is gonna be epic, with over 40 local & international erotic films, live performance & live calls & clips from our artists! And pizza! Because being horny is hungry work.

Burn. Blaze gloriously, that the sun & stars may witness your splendour. 🍑 TRIMMING THE WICK 🍑 Jo Pollux ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival 🔥

An Elemental, rising from the waves, dripping fire & ferocity, formed of earth & glittering stone, yet soft as summer cloud… Will you dance divinely with @diaspice.bsky.social? COVEN | ALTAR 05.09 | Sydney tinyurl.com/vnjd4jeu

We actually can't come up with a caption magnificent enough. 🍑 RONALD MCBOTTOMS FOR SOME MCDICKEN 🍑 Finn Darrell ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival 🔥

Had some experience in these realms & wanna try something a little… different? Join Tamica Wilder & Jordan Hackett for a new experience of exploratory group play with SXXLAB… on the Rim! 03.09 | @aspaceinsydney.com tinyurl.com/44dcy2xv

On tomorrow, friends!

A mythic journey into ancestral feminine power… rage, grief, desire… Archetypal power, embodied… 🍑 LILITH RISING 🍑 @mariabeatty.bsky.social An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection 🔥

FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV - SET TIMES 29 Aug, Darling Nikki’s 7pm: Doors 7:20-8pm: MYXI BUN 8:20-8:30pm: BETTIE BANDIT 8:30-9:10pm: CHEAP COFFINS / INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINE 9:30-10:10pm: KIDSKIN / EM JADE 10:30-11pm: INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINE 11:10-12:10pm: ZCLUSTER / MISTRESS TOKYO 1am: Close

ASS founders @theevex.bsky.social & @saijaidenlillith.com also make smut… peep their work-in-progress erotic feature Homage in an interactive performance piece via @infernaldesiremachine.com! 🍑 HOMAGE | WRAPPED IN PLASTIC 🍑 @canto5films.com An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection 🔥

A re-union of TSM soul brethren @infernaldesiremachine.com & Cheap Coffins, in an invocation of primal chaos and dissolution. TLDR Rope stuff loud dark feels FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV - 29 August at Darling Nikki’s, Sydney thesoftmachineproductions.com/frss4

Fleshy, visceral, blood & milk… True ritual, deep & cathartic. 🍑 ALCHEMY OF THE MEAT 🍑 @mahxcapacity.bsky.social / @aortafilms.bsky.social An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection 🔥

An unholy union for the Rituals and Songs - Aerial dervish Em Jade joins sonic seamstress Kidskin on the stage for beautiful madness and mayhem. FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV | 29 August | Darling Nikki’s, Sydney thesoftmachineproductions.com/frss4

Oh we have lined up something super special for y’all! ⭐️ In person appearances by filmmakers & stars ⭐️ Live video calls with local & international artists ⭐️ Commissioned clips by our artists on the philosophy & politics of porn ASSFEST S25 Erotic Arts Festival Public Screening 01.09 | Studio Kink

Ominous, an unsettling fall through the mythic layers of the collective sexual unconscious… the narration stimulating an undeniably erotic aural frisson… 🍑 FEAR FALL STORYTELLING | REENCHANTMENT #5 🍑 BlowYourMind Productions An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection 🔥

Join us on the Rim for a two hour workshop on Sex Positive Parenting with Tamica Wilder & Jordan Hackett, followed by guest speakers @theevex.bsky.social & Trey Emery offering a range of perspectives & experiences. 03.09 | Sydney tinyurl.com/2eds48cs

This cutesy cyberpunk gamer girl adventure is a sexy little glimmer in the black mirror… 🍑 Y2KAGE 🍑 @jazzyboho.bsky.social An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection 🔥

ON TOMORROW, FRIENDS!!! 🍑💖🍑💖🍑

SYDNEY! The fabulous @mzdanielle.bsky.social is bringing her hit ETHICAL FEMINIZATION IN BDSM workshop to the ASSFest S25 Rim! 🍑💖 04.09 | @aspaceinsydney.com tinyurl.com/yjhmuccu

A loving ode to the Australian bush, her cruel beauty & detached benevolence, set amidst cicada & swamp… 🍑 PHYTOPHILIA 🍑 @friedrichkreuz.bsky.social An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection 🔥

A quirky, surreal & intimate journey into genderfvckery, social shame & reclamation of self through pleasure ✨ 🍑 IF I WERE YOU (I ACTUALLY AM) 🍑 Animae Noctis An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection 🔥

Artifice as a gateway to truth… Welcome to the Illusion. Let @nayanyxx.bsky.social turn reality to delirium, obliterating the mundane, offering radical paths to new realities… COVEN | ALTAR 05.09 | Sydney tinyurl.com/vnjd4jeu

I was on the BBC World Service's Tech Life programme yesterday, discussing what happens to users when they lose their social media account and what needs to change to prevent the increasingly unaccountable and AI-driven cases of mismoderation on Meta platforms. open.spotify.com/episode/3LXl...

The adorable true story of one man and his fetish. 🍑 CAR LOVE 🍑 Kollektiv 14 An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection! 🔥

Offering training for consent angels & dungeon monitors, Naarm based Trey Emery (Inanna Academy) is bringing CHERUBIM to the ASSFest S25 Rim schedule! She’s also our Temple of ASS ArchAngel 👼 💖 02.09 | @aspaceinsydney.com tinyurl.com/2eds48cs

The latest installment of a timeless love story… 🍑 BEAT IT 🍑 Rachel Britton An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection! 🔥

Aw lookit, we found our OG map for the 10 day festivus! One knows one is doing sacred sexuality right when one’s business plan is a vulva ✨

How can we celebrate pleasure when our bodies - individual & collective - carry such grief? A community Grief Ritual. All proceeds to Medicins Sans Frontiers. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 THANATOS 30.08 | Sydney tinyurl.com/32ybpprc

With their last public Sydney @infernaldesiremachine.com show of the year before a well earned holiday, ASS founders @theevex.bsky.social & @saijaidenlillith.com are bringing interactive multimedia goblin chaos to the Erotic Arts Festival Public Screening! tinyurl.com/j5hzux2d

A beautifully shot invitation into intimacy in rope, lingering on all those fleeting, ephemeral moments… 🍑 TEAPOT SUSPENSION 🍑 Robarsh & Ali An ASSFest S25 Erotic Arts Festival Selection 🔥