Berlin has long been a haven for free expression, and its festival scene is no exception. From playful, hedonistic gatherings to thought-provoking explorations of intimacy, the city and its surroundings offer a range of sex-positive festivals where consent, creativity, and connection are priorities. Here’s your guide to the must-attend events this year.
Taboo Festival
Born in 2024, Taboo Festival: The Mystic Sacred Sex Picnic of Wonders offers a variety of creative and immersive experiences, giving you the opportunity to explore, express, and empower your deepest taboos. Through workshops and ateliers, the festival delves into themes of shadow work, intimacy, kink exploration, sacred sexuality, consent, and boundaries… all approached with playfulness and creativity.
A full immersion into lifting the veil on taboos and stigmas surrounding sexuality, human connection, and the ways we relate to one another.
Berlin: July 15–19th 2026
UK: August 5–9th 2026
Whole Festival
Whole Festival is a global celebration that brings together the queer community from around the world, creating a space of its own.
Exploring queer politics and culture from a global perspective, the festival invites LGBTQ+ collectives from diverse countries, merging them with Berlin’s iconic queer electronic music scene.
It offers a deep immersion into a multi-dimensional landscape of queer joy, liberation, and togetherness.
Location: Berlin region
July 17–20th 2026
Xplore Festival
Xplore is a three-day experience featuring workshops, happenings, performances, and lectures at the intersection of art and sexuality, along with curated play spaces. The festival seeks to expand sexuality beyond stereotypes, heteronormativity, and conventions, blending conscious kink, rituals, unconventional artistic experiments, and courageous spaces for exploration.
This year introduces a new experiment, “When the Time is Right,” letting go of structure and program to embrace what is meant to happen in the present moment.
Held annually in Berlin since 2004, Xplore takes place during the day and evening but does not provide on-site accommodation.
Location: Berlin city
July 31 – Aug 2
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House of Lunacy – The Village Festival
House of Lunacy is an adult playground for the senses, a warren of art, theatre, and performances from Berlin’s most creative souls.
For the first time, the iconic costumed party leaves the grounds of the mythical Berlin club Wilde Renate and brings together musicians, performers, and sensual curiosities in a space outside the city for a one-day-only festival on the theme “Harvest.”
August 22
Ticket sale TBA
https://www.lunacyberlin.com/
The Intimate Revolution
The Intimate Revolution is a sex-positive festival centered on consent, empathy, and connection. Its core principles include consent, sexual health, sobriety, sustainability, diversity, and revolution.
Since 2018, the festival has been held in Berlin and Vienna, offering a unique blend of workshops, performances, rituals, and play spaces — creating a transformative and inclusive space for exploration.
Location: Berlin region
August 26–29
Fluidity Festival
Each community creates its own space through music, performances, play areas, workshops, and decoration.
The first edition of Fluidity brings together the famous KitKatClub, Insomnia, and iconic parties such as FourPlay, Naked Tea Party, and Disco Paradise.
Location: Berlin region August 28–30th 2026
Pauline Marie-Antoinette
Pauline is a poetry writer, performer, experience creator, and intimacy and kinks workshop facilitator. She believes in the power of arts and creativity to be profound vehicles for change and loves to empower people to free their inner artist and turn sensuality into a real art form. Her solo-show, "An Erotic Poetry Odyssey" is an invitation to deepen intimacy, explore conscious kinks while challenging societal taboos. Pauline designs experiences for couples, retreats and workshops in Berlin and around the world!
