Join us on Thursday, August 21st at 9pm EST for our discussion with Arkady the Sadist.

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🔍 What We’re Talking About

In this episode, Arkady the Sadist invites listeners into the paradoxical elegance of brutality, where pain becomes both art form and philosophy. With over two decades of experience in leather, rope, and edge play, Arkady dismantles common misconceptions of sadism as cruelty, reframing it instead as a practice rooted in consent, precision, and care. His journey through impact, needles, degradation, and electro reveals a sadism that is not reckless violence but intentional intensity, crafted to evoke vulnerability, catharsis, and even transformation.

The conversation traces his evolution since 2001, interrogating the moral discomfort that surrounds sadism while highlighting its potential for healing—for both sadist and masochist alike. With unflinching honesty, Arkady explores how aftercare sustains partners through the brutality of play, and how sadists themselves navigate the emotional aftermath of wielding power so ferociously. Beneath the rope and blood lies a philosophy of beauty: that the deliberate exchange of pain can uncover truth, trust, and radical intimacy.

What does it mean to find tenderness on the far edge of violence?

🎙️ Meet Our Guest

Arkady is a skilled Sadist, Rigger, Leatherman, and Dominant with over two decades of experience. Since 2001, he’s honed his craft through impact play, torturous shibari, needles, degradation, and electro. He is the founder of Kinbaku Miami and the mind behind Guerrilla Shibari, Sunday Bound, Shibari Sunday School, and Club Kult, and formerly led the Miami Munch.

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