BDSM Beyond Binary
A Queer Campaign by LUX
There are only a few queer, kinky, and inclusive spaces in Berlin. BDSM Beyond Binary exists to change exactly that.
We are a queer, trans* sex worker–led collective that understands BDSM as a resistant practice: a space for pleasure, transformation, self-empowerment, and political action. We create spaces that are still far too rare in Berlin—queer, kinky, inclusive spaces where we are not merely tolerated, but able to unfold, grow, and support one another. Spaces where sexuality is not moralized, but celebrated. Spaces that protect rather than restrict—and that we define ourselves.
We invite queer people to come together, learn, share knowledge, and experiment—with skills, perspectives, and forms of desire. Our event series offers room for exchange, community, skill sharing, reflection, and simply being. These formats are not consumption-based offerings, but lived collective practice: community care, cultural work, and movement building.
BDSM Beyond Binary regularly invites queer, kinky, and sex-positive collectives and individuals to share their expertise in collaborative formats. Look forward to monthly changing events featuring workshops, BDSM knowledge, performances, erotic and political art, poetry, dance, touch, play, and bodywork. This is where knowledge about BDSM, power, bodies, and pleasure is shared—and where new ways of thinking ourselves and each other become possible.
BDSM Studio Lux provides the space and infrastructure for this series free of charge as part of a solidaristic collaboration. We work transparently, fairly, and with a clear focus on redistribution. Most of the income goes directly to the people creating the content; smaller portions support organization, labor costs, and outreach. Money is a means of strengthening inclusion—not an end in itself. We redistribute resources instead of accumulating them, and we build structures rather than hierarchies.
Desire Is Political – Who We Are
BDSM Beyond Binary emerged from the context of BDSM Studio Lux—the first brothel in Europe to explicitly open its doors to trans*, inter*, non-binary, and agender people. Our collective moves between studio and participants, making visible what is often marginalized or erased:
Desire is political.
Sex work is work.
BDSM can be a tool for transformation.
We position ourselves against cis-dominated ideas of sexuality and against the devaluation of queer bodies. Our work stands for safer spaces, consent, inclusivity, and a political engagement with pleasure beyond binary gender logics. Our events are aimed at queer, trans*, non-binary, gender-fluid, gender-queer, and cis-allied people who understand—or want to explore—BDSM as a practice of care, self-empowerment, and the negotiation of boundaries.
Our guiding principles are clear:
We create access.
We share knowledge.
We live consent.
We organize beyond shame and stigma.
We refuse to make kink dependent on financial means.
We turn pleasure into a site of resistance and community.
