After experiencing a heart attack at the age of 30, Dick Wound’s recovery was rife with lengthy bouts of depression and sexual inactivity, resulting from complex and extensive heart damage. Eventually provoking a journey of self exploration and revisiting some of his earliest fantasies, a sexual awakening occurred and Dick found himself diving deep into the world of kink and BDSM. Instead of suppressing the fears surrounding his near death experience, Dick turned them into role-play style fantasies, and has since lived a more connected and fulfilled lifestyle through his own brand of sexuality.

Dick explores darker and more unusual kinks and fetishes on his podcast, Off the Cuffs, including fantasies of his own death, being dominated by robots, and seductive alien encounters. The podcast was established to document his journey into the kink community, but little time passed before Dick began receiving feedback from listeners and it quickly became evident that many needed guidance to begin their journey. The platform Dick has created brings together both newbies and long time kinksters, and enables them to share their stories and experiences with a worldwide audience. This has led to guest appearances on other podcasts including RISK!, This is Actually Happening, The Dildorks and dozens of others. Dick also operates and produces a second podcast, Being There, where the extraordinary aspects of everyday people’s lives are explored in a free form interview/story-telling format.

Dick’s personal journey is an interesting one, and he is available to speak on the subjects of kink and BDSM with an open mind and devious sense of humor.

Email Dick: dick@offthecuffs.org 

minimus maximus is a BDSM educator, an activist, and a cult survivor, who has been active in the public kink community, off and on, for over 20 years. He brings a combination of Old Guard and new flesh to the podcast while sharing stories of his own explorations in masculine submission. max is an intense humiliation and degradation bottom whose interests include chastity, female domination, CFNM events, and cuckolding. He also provides information about the benefits of exploring BDSM while on the autism spectrum and teaches classes on various topics including emotional BDSM and taboo play.

max was raised communally in the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in Oregon in the 1980’s and continues to explore how his upbringing may have impacted his current desires. As a child growing up in a cult, he moved around the world frequently with his family and didn’t have much structure in life, which may have influenced his desire for authority. max first became aware of BDSM as a teenager when he found pornographic videos and magazines containing 90’s Femdom content. He sought out like-minded individuals through chat rooms in the early years of the internet and found that there was much more to BDSM beyond the realm of fantasy. He began to dabble in kink/BDSM while in college before stepping away from the community while in a vanilla monogamous relationship, only to return years later as a lifestyle submissive.

A guest on many other podcasts, max is always happy to speak on BDSM topics that he is passionate about, but don’t put it past him to slip in a pop culture or wrestling reference. He has shared his story on episodes of American Sex, Being There, The Bed Post, Disability After Dark, and others.

Email max: max@offthecuffs.org 

Lexi was born and raised in New England and pursued visual arts for much of her youth. Due to persistent anxiety and depression she was relatively unadvernterous with her sex life up until coming out of a long term relationship in her mid-twenties. Very early into her kink career she had some negative experiences with high profile consent offenders which prompted her to seek out more in-depth learning about the kink and BDSM world, which brought her to OCP. 

Since becoming involved with the show, Lexi has learned a lot about safe and healthy kink and has found a passion for helping others find the same. She is constantly exploring her kinks for power play, humiliation and sadism (as well as many many others) on the show. Lexi takes great joy in co-hosting, running the Off the Cuffs blog and their weekly munch as well as talking to anyone who will listen about sex toys. She has been pursuing online domination in her spare time and enjoys torturing men for money. 

Lexi has begun mixing her passion for visual arts and kink through her pottery practice and making subtly kinky ceramic arts. She hopes to one day use her passion for handmade craft and sex toys to step into the sex toy making world, whether it be in clay or silicone. She is available for sex toy consulting, custom content or pottery sale anytime.

Email Lexi: lexi@offthecuffs.org

After growing up in a conservative Christian community, Gwen suffered from a myriad of mental health issues, mainly stemming from suppressing her authentic self. After escaping her hometown and moving away for college, she began a journey of re-discovering her interests and becoming the person she wanted to be. When she realized that kink and BDSM were a major part of her personality that she had been suppressing, it helped her realize that she could work through internalized shame and disgust in a healthy way. This inspired her to dive headfirst into learning everything there is to know about kink, and how others experience, practice, and grow within the lifestyle.

Gwen talks about her own wide variety of kinks and fetishes on Off the Cuffs, such as disgust/gross play, D/s dynamics, alien creature roleplays, bodily fluids, and ASMR fetishes. Despite her personal interests, Gwen is hungry to understand any and all facets included in the world of kink. 

Gwen’s work with marketing, social media, booking, co-hosting, blogging, content creation, and occasionally sound engineering for Off the Cuffs has led to many new experiences and opportunities, as well as a more free and genuine lifestyle. Gwen’s journey has shown her that it’s never too late to change, and has inspired her to pursue more avenues of sharing knowledge with others. 

Email Gwen: booking@offthecuffs.org