Berlin has long been a haven for free expression, and its festival scene is no exception. From playful, hedonistic gatherings to thought-provoking explorations of intimacy, the city and its surroundings offer a range of sex-positive festivals where consent, creativity, and connection are priorities. Here’s your guide to the must-attend events this year.
Taboo Festival
Born in 2024, Taboo Festival: The Mystic Sacred Sex Picnic of Wonders offers a variety of creative and immersive experiences, giving you the opportunity to explore, express, and empower your deepest taboos. Through workshops and ateliers, the festival delves into themes of shadow work, intimacy, kink exploration, sacred sexuality, consent, and boundaries, all approached with playfulness and creativity.
A full immersion into lifting the veil on taboos and stigmas surrounding sexuality, human connection, and the ways we relate to one another.
Location: Berlin
Dates: June 11th to 15th, 2025
UK: August 13th to 17th
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Pinky Promise Festival
Pinky Promise is a collective of sensual deviants who create live-action hedonistic extravaganzas with a heart. From pleasure parties & intimate workshops to cabaret shows and festival stages, they continuously strive to create beautiful sensual experiences for people to explore & heal their sexuality in playful ways.
This first Festival brings together 300 curious & playful dreamers who believe that pleasure is a portal to discovering more about each other and ourselves, and who wish to detach from convention to embrace who they truly are. Combining workshops, performances, celebration and play spaces, Pinky Promise invites you to celebrate life and love in its greatest diversity!
Location: Berlin region
Dates: 4-7th July, 2025
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Hedoné Convention – Paris
Born in Berlin, Hedoné is an art movement and trans-local community celebrating the joys and pleasures of the body, spirit and mind. Their vision is to create a global network of conscious individuals and intentional spaces liberated to experience and enjoy pleasure consciously.
The theme of this edition “Liquid Fantasia” invites you to reimagine love as a boundless, ever-shifting force, where traditional roles dissolve and diverse identities merge in a harmonious celebration of connection and infinite possibilities.
Hosted in a castle outside of Paris, the first days are dedicated to educational workshops and followed by a weekend of sensual celebration!
Location: Paris Region
Dates: May 14-19th, 2025
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Whole Festival
Whole Festival is a global celebration that brings together the queer community from around the world, creating a space of its own.
Exploring queer politics and culture from a global perspective, the festival invites LGBTQ+ collectives from diverse countries, merging them with Berlin’s iconic queer electronic music scene.
It offers a deep immersion into a multi-dimensional landscape of queer joy, liberation, and togetherness.
Location: Berlin regionDates: 18-21st July, 2025
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Xplore Festival
Xplore is a three-day immersive event featuring over 60 workshops, happenings, performances, and lectures at the intersection of art and sexuality, along with curated play spaces. The festival seeks to expand sexuality beyond stereotypes, heteronormativity, and conventions, blending conscious kink, rituals, unconventional artistic experiments, and courageous spaces for exploration.
Its foundation lies in playfulness, communication, and creativity, embracing and celebrating diversity in all its forms. Held annually in Berlin since 2004, Xplore takes place during the day and evening but does not provide on-site accommodation.
Theme and program: to be announced
Location: Berlin
Dates: 25-27th July, 2025
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The Intimate Revolution
The Intimate Revolution is a sex-positive festival centered on consent, empathy, and connection. Its core principles include consent, sexual health, sobriety, sustainability, diversity, and revolution.Since 2018, the festival has been held in Berlin and Vienna, offering a unique blend of workshops, performances, rituals, and play spaces, creating a transformative and inclusive space for exploration.
Location: Berlin region
Pauline Marie-Antoinette
Pauline is a poetry writer, performer, experience creator, and intimacy and kinks workshop facilitator. She believes in the power of arts and creativity to be profound vehicles for change and loves to empower people to free their inner artist and turn sensuality into a real art form. Her solo-show, "An Erotic Poetry Odyssey" is an invitation to deepen intimacy, explore conscious kinks while challenging societal taboos. Pauline designs experiences for couples, retreats and workshops in Berlin and around the world!
