This is a community archive. The classes below ran at 1763 between 2003 and 2022. The club is closed; this page is preserved as a reference for what a healthy in-person kink-education program looked like.

Classes & Education

Education was the foundation of 1763. Most weeks the calendar opened with a class - rope, negotiation, impact, or a guest-led specialty - hours before any play party began.

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Why Classes Came First

Many BDSM venues are play-first; 1763 was education-first. The reasoning was practical. A play space full of newer practitioners, without solid technique or negotiation skills, becomes a venue full of avoidable injuries and misread signals. A play space whose members have all sat through twenty hours of rope, negotiation, and aftercare instruction is a different kind of room.

The club kept that bias intact through three ownership eras. Education was almost always free or near-free for members; instructors were drawn from the local community and from the touring circuit of major regional events.

Recurring Classes

Rope Bite @Nite A long-running rope education class, offered on a regular cadence, that often transitioned into an open rope jam or play party once instruction wrapped. Beginners welcome; experienced riggers used it as practice time.
Rope 101 / Beginner's Bondage A first-timer's introduction to safety, single-column ties, double-column ties, and basic chest harnesses. Required gear was minimal; rope was often available to borrow.
Negotiation Workshops Hands-off, fully-clothed sessions on how to talk to a partner before a scene: limits, triggers, aftercare needs, safewords, what "yes" and "no" actually mean in practice.
Impact Play Fundamentals Anatomy, target zones, building intensity, reading a bottom's response. Floggers, paddles, canes, and hands.
Scene Safety & First Aid Recognizing distress, handling drop, basic injury response, when to stop a scene. A prerequisite for becoming a dungeon monitor.
Dominant / Submissive Roundtables Discussion-based sessions on power-exchange dynamics, structure, protocols, and the long arc of D/s relationships.
Guest Presenter Nights Touring instructors from the larger BDSM education circuit - rope specialists, fire-play presenters, electrical-play teachers, professional dominants - rotated through 1763 several times a year.

Convention Education

1763 hosted education tracks for two of the Southeast's largest annual kink events:

DomCon Atlanta

The professional-domination convention chose Atlanta for more than a decade specifically because 1763 could host the dungeon component. Education tracks and demo nights ran throughout the convention week.

Frolicon

The annual Atlanta-area alternative-lifestyles convention used 1763 as its dungeon venue. Frolicon's dungeon page still references the partnership.

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Continuing Your Education

1763's classroom is gone, but the community is not. If you were planning to take a class here, consider:

Reaching out to the local munch groups that used 1763 as a venue - many continue to host classes elsewhere.
Attending Frolicon and the regional events that 1763 anchored. Their education programming did not move with the venue.
Looking into the successor venue, Decadent Desires, which inherited much of 1763's furniture and is continuing the educational mission.

If you are practicing D/s outside of a club setting and want a structured way to track tasks, agreements, and growth between you and a partner, the SubTasks app (subtasksapp.com) was designed for exactly that use case.