Kuldrin's Krypt A BDSM 101 Podcast

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Blunt BDSM education with community memory.

The gist

Kuldrin's Krypt treats BDSM as a lived culture with rules, risks, humor, and responsibility. Master Cauldron and Mayfair move between practical guidance, listener questions, mental health topics, and conversations with people from inside the scene.

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About Kuldrin's Krypt A BDSM 101 Podcast

Kuldrin's Krypt is an adult education show about BDSM, kink communities, consent, and the psychology around alternative sexuality. It is plainspoken and often irreverent. Master Cauldron frames many episodes through BDSM experience and work in the psychology field, using that background to challenge stereotypes and answer practical questions. Mayfair adds conversational friction, lived examples, and a more personal rhythm. The show spends a lot of time on the situations that happen before anyone reaches a scene: fear, jealousy, poor communication, misunderstanding, and the pressure to look experienced. Episodes about joining or avoiding a local community treat kink as social terrain, not just private fantasy. There is advice on munches, local politics, playing with a friend, and the awkwardness of being new. Consent is a recurring backbone. A conversation with Susan Wright centers federal consent laws and decriminalizing BDSM, showing the show's interest in policy as well as practice. Other episodes get more intimate. A guide to edging discusses pleasure, compulsive patterns, sensitivity, and when a person may need professional support. The New Predator series brings personality disorders into the room, including borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder. Those episodes mix informal talk, personal stories, listener comments, and clinical vocabulary, sometimes moving quickly between seriousness and irreverent humor. The show can be messy in the way live community conversation is messy. It also tends to correct itself, acknowledge reactions from listeners, and circle back when a title or framing needs explanation. Guests broaden the range. Mistress Mia Dark brings the perspective of professional domination, while Fetish Artist, also called Jay, appears in the same conversation around kink, art, clients, and expectations. The appeal is not pristine production or detached scholarship. It is the feeling of sitting near experienced people who are willing to say the uncomfortable part out loud, then connect it back to safety, consent, and self-knowledge.

Made for: Best for adults who want practical BDSM literacy, especially newcomers, curious partners, and kink-community participants who want clearer expectations around consent, safety, and etiquette.

What sets it apart: The show combines BDSM experience, psychology-informed framing, listener interaction, and local-scene realism. It treats kink as behavior, relationship practice, law, and community culture rather than only fantasy or technique.

In their own words

With over 25 years in the BDSM community and the mental health field, I have gained a unique understanding and respect for the alternative lifestyle. As BDSM has become more mainstream it is important that people become informed and educated about truth of the BDSM community instead of letting inaccurate books and movies shape minds, opinions, and lifestyles in a way that is both incorrect and unhealthy. Myself and guests, from porn stars to pastors, will dive deep into all sides of the lifestyle to paint an accurate, informed, and unbiased picture of BDSM and the surprising truth behind the psychology of participants.

Why you'd press play

Master Cauldron brings psychology-field experience to BDSM questions, so your curiosity gets more than movie mythology.

Press play if you want

  • frank guidance on consent, boundaries, and entering a local scene without detonating your relationship
  • professional perspectives that separate real domination from expensive confusion and wishful thinking
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Episodes

  1. 1

    Top 10 Reasons NOT to Join Your Local Community-S05E23

    Hidden gem

    Cauldron's Crypt episode 23, 'Top 10 Reasons NOT to Join Your Local Community,' opens with Master Cauldron and Mayfair laying out a skeptical case against local BDSM scenes.

    Mar 24, 2024·1h 49m·2 clips
  2. 2

    The New Predator Part 3 Histrionic Personality Disorder-S05E22

    Mayfair recalls showing self-harm injuries to a friend who responded, "If you were serious, you would have cut here."

    Mar 19, 2024·1h 37m·2 clips
  3. 3

    Professional BDSM Domination Mistress Mia Darque-S05E21

    Hidden gem

    Mistress Mia Dark says dominants owe their partners preparation, empathy, and respect rather than mere physical control.

    Mar 10, 2024·1h 56m·2 clips
  4. 4

    The New Predator Part 2: Borderline Personality DIsorder-S05E20

    Hidden gem

    Cauldron explains why dialectical behavioral therapy combines emotional regulation, mindfulness, and multiple perspectives.

    Feb 25, 2024·1h 34m·2 clips
  5. 5

    Drama Queens The New Predator Part 1-S05E19

    Feb 17, 2024·1h 41m
  6. 6

    Human Furniture What, Why, and How-S05E18

    Feb 4, 2024·1h 14m
  7. 7

    BDSM Saved my Marriage and Life-S05E17

    Jan 15, 2024·1h 38m
  8. 8

    Study Reveals 68% Abuse Rate in BDSM-S05E16

    Dec 31, 2023·1h 23m
  9. 9

    Sex Fantasies by Your Zodiac Sign-S05E15

    Dec 20, 2023·1h 3m
  10. 10

    How to Navigate BDSM and Trauma-S05E14

    Dec 10, 2023·1h 32m
  11. 11

    What is BDSM Depth Play-S05E13

    Nov 30, 2023·1h 18m
  12. 12

    I'm Ashamed of My Kink-S05E12

    Nov 16, 2023·1h 49m
  13. 13

    So, You're Not Kinky, Now What-S05E11

    Oct 18, 2023·1h 18m
  14. 14

    Kinks Don't Match End It!-S05E10

    Oct 4, 2023·1h 22m
  15. 15

    A Guide to Edging-S05E08

    Hidden gem

    Kuldrin's Krypt A BDSM 101 Podcast's July 2, 2023 episode "A Guide to Edging-S05E08" centers on edging, peeking, and surfing as a way to hold arousal without climax.

    Sep 10, 2023·1h 4m·2 clips
  16. 16

    Most Things to Know About BDSM Brats-S05E07

    Sep 2, 2023·1h 15m
  17. 17

    New Consent Laws for BDSM-S05E06

    Aug 19, 2023·58m
  18. 18

    Let’s Talk about Rough Sex-S05E05

    Aug 12, 2023·1h 31m
  19. 19

    BDSM Blood Play-S05E04

    Aug 5, 2023·1h 1m
  20. 20

    "Red and Black" Movie Interview w Bueller-S05E09

    Jul 21, 2023·1h 33m
  21. 21

    Primal Play Roundtable with AcroDag-S05E03

    Jul 3, 2023·1h 40m
  22. 22

    Kinky isn’t just Normal it’s Typical-S05E02

    Jun 27, 2023·1h 24m
  23. 23

    Things Only submissives Know-S05E01

    Jun 21, 2023·1h 12m
  24. 24

    Submissive's Roundtable #2-S04E52

    Jun 16, 2023·1h 36m
  25. 25

    Catching the Feels for a Playpartner-S04E51

    Jun 10, 2023·1h 23m
  26. 26

    Contracts, Kink Tok, & More with Master Gabriel-S04E50

    Jun 2, 2023·1h 48m
  27. 27

    Dark Communities, Yucking Yums, & Sensualists-S04E49

    May 28, 2023·1h 24m
  28. 28

    Coercive Control with Shadow Weavers EDU-S04E48

    May 20, 2023·1h 38m
  29. 29

    Two Doms One sub: Serving Multiple Doms-S04E47

    May 17, 2023·1h 35m
  30. 30

    Eight Things Every Kinkster Needs to Know w JunicornsAngel-S04E46

    May 4, 2023·1h 8m
  31. 31

    How to not embarrass yourself when trying BDSM-S04E45

    Master Kuldrin answers a newcomer's fear of embarrassment in BDSM, using his psychology background to provide guidance.

    Apr 21, 2023·1h 4m
  32. 32

    Split Peaches and The Dungeon Stores Brittany-S04E43

    Apr 6, 2023·47m
  33. 33

    Dom and Top Guilt-S04E44

    Mar 26, 2023·1h 25m
  34. 34

    Your Erotic Blueprint-S04E42

    Feb 18, 2023·1h 2m
  35. 35

    BDSM Rituals with Erotic Awakening Podcast-S04E40

    Feb 13, 2023·1h 40m
  36. 36

    The Nasty Parts of Sex-S04E39

    Feb 3, 2023·1h 28m
  37. 37

    Praise Kinks and Breeding Fetishes-S04E38

    Jan 25, 2023·1h 23m
  38. 38

    New Relationship Energy-S04E37

    Jan 19, 2023·1h 12m
  39. 39

    Moving to a New Community? Playing with a Friend?-S04E36

    Master Kuldrin discusses navigating kink politics in a new BDSM community and how to safely play with friends.

    Jan 10, 2023·1h 16m
  40. 40

    What is Relationship Anarchy-S04E35

    Jan 3, 2023·52m
  41. 41

    Chronic Pain Management thru BDSM-S04E34

    Dec 11, 2022·47m
  42. 42

    BDSM Humiliation Play-S04E33

    Nov 30, 2022·1h 13m
  43. 43

    Ecofetishism: Blending Nature and BDSM-S04E32

    Nov 24, 2022·58m
  44. 44

    Submissive Roundtable on Sensations of Play-S04E31

    Nov 16, 2022·1h 46m
  45. 45

    Orgasm Control, Forced Orgasm, and On Demand-S04E30

    Nov 7, 2022·1h 24m
  46. 46

    Body Mods and Bimbofication as BDSM and Kink Fetishes-S04E29

    Nov 2, 2022·1h 11m
  47. 47

    Dominant submissive Power Exchange with Erotic Awakening Podcast-S04E28

    Oct 24, 2022·1h 32m
  48. 48

    New Federal Consent Laws with Susan Wright-S04E27

    This episode educates listeners about federal laws defining consent and decriminalizing BDSM, featuring an interview with the executive director of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom.

    Oct 14, 2022·1h 10m
  49. 49

    Taxes for Cam Models and Kink Businesses-S04E26

    Oct 1, 2022·1h 18m