Vanilla with a Side of Kink
Welcome to the Vanilla with a Side of Kink.
Winner 2024 W3 Award: Podcast Lifestyle Category
Winner 2023 W3 Award: Podcast Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
2023 Webby Award Honoree Lifestyle Podcast
2023 Nominee People's Choice Podcast Awards: Society & Culture and Leisure
This podcast is one couple's journey into the world of kink and polyamory.
It's a podcast for all you normal Joe citizens who are be-bopping around the world out there, who have some questions and some curiosities about things you don’t even know that you want to know about.
Maybe you are looking to add some spice to your current romantic relationship.
Maybe you have some interests in things you fear others might judge you for.
Did you see a wacky scene in a movie that, maybe to your surprise, got some juices flowing?
Have you read some erotica that has piqued your interest in learning more about other ways to elicit sensations and stimulate your body and mind?
Then Vanilla With A Side Of Kink is for you!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 140
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
39. Learning How Not to Die
Dan and Renee get some much-needed and appreciated education from experts in the field of Shibari Rope Bondage.
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38. What You Don't Know Can Kill You
Our Dan and Renee come to some startling realizations about how much they didn't know back in 2016.
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37. Bombers and Bombshells
In this episode, our heroes attend a high-protocol play party, and Dan learns how to do fire play with Renee.
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36. There's Water Coming Out of the Mountain!
In this episode, our heroes fly to the North Pole and have an amazing trip that almost ends in disaster!
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35. Herding Kittens and Shoveling Smoke
The essence of Shibari is so much more than tying a pattern. In this episode, Renee and Dan bring a charismatic and charming instructor in to teach Shibari at a level higher than they c…
34. Danke Schoen, Wayne Newton
Much more about our vacation in Las Vegas. Renee could really have her own podcast on how to plan and execute a vacation! Plus an event completely derails that last day of our vacation.
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33. First Kinky Conference - Part 2
In this episode, our heroes share the second part of their kinky conference experience!
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32. First Kinky Conference - Part 1
In this episode our heroes share their experience at their first kinky conference in Las Vegas, NV!
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31. Flying into 2016 - Renee Joins the Rebellion!
In this episode, we complete November and December of 2015 and move into January 2016. We explored some classes we took on hypnosis, sexual health, lightning in our hands, and getting s…
30. Dan and Renee Seek the Wiseman!
In this episode, we find our heroes heading up to Los Angeles to visit friends and seek wisdom for the Wiseman of BDSM play. Plus, Renee finally reveals the big thing that happened in O…
29. Dan FINALLY Finds A Use For Peas
In this episode, Dan and Renee recount events in both the Kinkdom and Vanillaland during the month of September and October of 2023. They reflect on how much they had happening in all a…
28. Lessons Learned, Lessons Taught
Dan and Renee talk about all the many lessons they learned and the many lessons they taught back in the early days of All Tied Up San Diego. Much of their curriculum shook up the status…
27. Let's Get All Tied Up San Diego!
Did we mention that we host one of Southern California's largest Shibari Rope Bondage groups? In this episode, you will hear how that came into being amid all the other relationship str…
26. Who Let The Dogs Out? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who?
Who you asked? Take a guess . . . Ka-Thunk! In this episode, Dan's actions show his commitment as he moves himself into Renee's house. However, they both discover how different they are…
25. Deflating Mattress, Coin-Op Shower, and a Whip Circle
In this episode, Dan and Renee go Kinky Camping!
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24. Pride and Injured Pride
In this episode, Dan and Renee recount their first experience volunteering at the San Diego Leather Realm at the San Diego Pride Festival in July of 2015. Then they share life & relatio…
23. Heeere's Primal Panic!
In this episode, Renee explains her mind-blowing realizations about her struggle with polyamory. And they have yet again, another relationship change!
Book References:
The Anxious Person…
22. Holy Ethical Complications, Batman!
Dan and Renee take a deeper dive into Consensual Nonmonogamy (CNM) as they look at how their relationship works and how it wouldn't.
Book References:
The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-mon…
21. Remove Those Rose-Tinted Glasses
With Dan's change in behavior, Renee starts touring him around, including meeting the parents. They learn about anchors and knowing the reasons why.
Book References:
The Anxious Person's…
20. Dan Goes to the Dogs
In this episode, we find our hero (Dan) trying to accept many changes and not handling them as well as expected. Renee has to make a decision that might send a mixed message. And the bu…