Marla Renee Stewart, MA, CSE / Miss Marla

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Marla Renee Stewart, MA, CSE (she/her) is a 3x award-winning sexologist, author, and sexual strategist behind Velvet Lips Sex Education. A devoted kinkster of over 25 years, Marla thrives as a professional top and identifies as a sensual sadist who delights in the erotic interplay of dominance, intensity, and deep connection. Her workshops—ranging from kink fundamentals to impact play, breath play, dirty talk, and sensual genital torment—are known for blending technique with intentional seduction.

A fierce advocate for Black sexual liberation and pleasure-centered education, Marla also teaches Black kink and queer history, helping professionals decolonize their understanding of erotic expression. As Co-Founder of the Sex Down South Conference, she established the largest BIPOC-centered dungeon space in the world. Today, she trains educators, counselors, and therapists on how to affirm and support Black queer and kinky relationships with nuance, empathy, and radical sex-positivity.

Are you ready to explore the pleasure in tormenting the vulva and vagina? This workshop aims at helping you to identify the ways in which pleasure is reached with all persons involved. This includes identifying the tools that you can use to torment externally, internally, and as well as invoking your psychological sadism. And of course, we’ll go over anatomy, too!

Are you thinking about roleplay choking during play? Are you great at breath play, but would like to learn some nuance to it? Whether you are a novice or a professional, this class is going to help you become a breath play expert. This workshop aims to educate you on different roleplay choking techniques, as well as combining them with dirty talk to make sure that you entice your target properly and seductively. This is your chance to master the choke and charm your person into sensual submission.