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: dickwound@gmail.com

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