Maeve McBride

Educator, Erotic Coach & Sexological Herbalist

Meet Maeve

Maeve McBride (she/they) is an educator, erotic and BDSM coach, sexological herbalist, event producer, and community organizer, who has been exploring the intersections of kink, sacred sex, plants, and personal alchemy for more than 20 years.

A fun, sensual and compassionate switch-witch, Maeve enjoys empowering folx of all persuasions to work towards their unique health, erotic and sexual goals. She teaches classes and consults with clients who are looking to explore and break down their barriers to sexual, sensual, and kinky pleasure. Her process involves combining evidence-based teaching methods, anatomy geekery, goal setting, mind-body-spirit trauma healing techniques, communication tools, the use of plant preparations, a sense of playfulness, experimentation and exploration, in a non-judgmental environment.

Maeve works with individuals, couples, groups and presents classes in-person, online, and at conferences. Her goal is always to help clients and students to assemble a toolkit of things that work for their own unique needs. She provide guidance and presents tangible tools and information that can be used over and over to help folx connect more deeply with themselves, with their desires and with their partners, heal trauma and shame, and empower individuals to live more embodied and pleasure-filled lives.

About

Services

Maeve teaches a wide variety of public classes and hosts several community events.

She sees clients in person and via teleconference for coaching sessions, classes and readings.

Group Classes & Workshops

Group Classes are taught at various locations in Portland, Oregon.

Maeve teaches primarily at Studio 201 and teaches classes and hosts a meet & greet quiz show, Popping Questions, at Sanctuary Club (also in Portland), she also hosts munches and presents at in-person and online conferences. If you are interested in having Maeve present a class at your conference or public event, check out her class list and shoot her an email to get in touch.

Private Sessions & Coaching

Group classes are great, but sometimes folx are in need of a more personalized approach to assist them in their journey. If this is what you are looking for, Maeve offers private coaching sessions, private "tasting" experiences in impact & energetic sensation play, and private classes in a variety of subjects. These are offered to individuals and small groups at a rate of $200 an hour for 1 hour, and $160 per hour for bookings of 2 hours or more.

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Erotic & Kinky Tarot Sessions

Maeve has been studying tarot since childhood and reading professionally for more than 10 years. Her favorite readings are ones that help folx explore their blocks to pleasure and desires in and providing insight as to how you can move forward and manifest your kinky best life.

If you would like to book a tarot reading with Maeve, her rate is $120 per hour with a half hour minimum. In person sessions in Portland, Oregon as well as virtual sessions are available.

Custom Events, Workshops, & Quizzes

Custom kink and fetish event production services, creating custom workshops, and writing custom sexy and fun pub quizzes for your private events are available, please contact Maeve for custom rates and quotes on these services.

Spaces

Classes

Maeve teaches classes throughout the Pacific Northwest and also presents at conferences internationally. She loves to travel and teach. So if you are out of the Pacific Northwest area, feel free to reach out and see if she can make it to your area of the world.

She has presented at:

Kink Between the Lines 2023
KinkFest 2023 and 2024
Westcoast Bound 2023 and 2024
Polytopia 2024 Conference

For more information about current class offerings view her class list here.

Events

On the first Saturday of each month, Maeve hosts Popping Questions: A kinky team pub quiz and social event at Sanctuary in Portland. This event is perfect for folx who are new to exploring the kink scene and experienced members of the scene alike. Teams compete in a modified British-style pub quiz for sexy fun prizes, but most importantly, fun and bragging rights! Each month has a themed quiz with a wide variety of round styles from general trivia, to puzzle rounds, name that tune and more. After the quiz Sanctuary hosts The Missing Kink, a newbie-friendly party for mingling, dancing, receiving a tasting from vetted tops, as well as the option to play and scene using the numerous play spaces in the club.

Resources

Maeve teaches a variety of classes and will periodically post resources to things she likes and links to handouts she creates. Creating class handouts is her primary kink and brings her much joy to share them.

If you attended a class Maeve has taught and need to get a copy of the handout, please email her.

Community

Maeve hosts and is involved with many events in the Portland, OR area, including:

Co-organizer of the Dungeon Monitors Resource Group, please visit their site to get a free pdf copy of Introduction to Dungeon Monitoring Manual.
Host of Popping Questions- Portland's kinky pub quiz trivia night at Sanctuary
Co-Lead DM of Cirque de Sade- Portland's bi-monthly edge play theater event and play party at Sanctuary
Executive Director KinkFest 2025
Co-Host of the PDX Kinky Parents Munch- A munch for kinksters who happen to be parents, coparents, or guardians, (so we can talk about parent stuff and kink stuff, and not feel weird about it)
Secretary of the Portland Leather Alliance
Co-Host and lead DM of 50 Shades of STFU at Sanctuary with Mistress Viola at Sanctuary 2021-2024
Co-organizer of the Kink Educators Code of Conduct Study Group

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