Sexploratorium
A Denver sex-education museum that also runs in-person classes. Its calendar has included clothed, hands-on shibari sessions for beginners and a follow-up class on linking ties into sequences, with dates throughout 2026.
The Sexploratorium is a sex-education museum on South Broadway in Denver that presents itself as inclusive and sex-positive. Its exhibits are built around anatomy and history, including local Denver history, and it runs a gift shop for local artists and a daily program of classes and events. Its site shows a Westword “Best of Denver” 2025 award for best sex-positive space. Opening hours in November 2026 were Tuesday to Sunday, with Mondays closed.
Rope is one strand of the class program. The beginner class, run as “Introduction to Shibari” or “Shibari Basics”, is a clothed, hands-on workshop with no sexual activity. It covers rope handling, basic knots and simple ties to practice at home, along with safety, consent, body awareness, adapting ties to different bodies, and trust and communication between partners. Listings show dates on 17 January 2026, 9 September 2026 and 21 November 2026. The November class runs two hours, is open to people 18 and over, encourages partners but accepts solo learners, and was listed with ticket tiers from about $66 to $162.
A follow-up class, “Shibari 102: Rope Bondage Patterns, Flow & Embodied Connection” (18 April 2026), moves on to foundational harnesses, changing body positions and linking ties into sequences, with attention to transitions, rhythm and tension. It is also clothed and can be taken with a partner or alone. A suspension workshop, “Uplifted”, covered anchor points, harnesses, line management, nerve safety and progressions from partial to full suspension for oneself or a partner; one listing dates it to 13 December 2025 and says some rope familiarity helps.
The November 2026 beginner class is taught by Halliard, who according to the listing learned suspension at Studio Friction and runs that studio’s second and fourth Wednesday rope labs.