Mistress Yin
Yin is a New York City-based bondage enthusiast and sado-masochist. She has studied with some of the top educators in the country to acquire her expertise in edge play and extreme bondage. Her practice of BDSM embraces the art as psycho-sexual, as well as spiritually progressive. As a professional domina, she works with women, men, and couples with the intention of guiding them through an honest exploration of themselves. Her articles can be found on www.smithmag.net and www.MistressYin.livejournal.com.
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Barbara Carrellas
Barbara Carrellas is the author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty First Century and Luxurious Loving: Tantric Inspirations for Passion and Pleasure. She is the founder of Urban Tantra®, an approach to sacred sexuality that adapts and blends conscious sexuality practices from Tantra to S/M, and the co-founder of Erotic Awakening, a pioneering series of workshops focusing on the physical, spiritual and healing powers of sex. Barbara was named Best Tantric Sex Seminar Leader in New York City by Time Out/NY Magazine for her Urban Tantra® workshops. Barbara has been featured in the videos Selfloving, The Sluts & Goddesses Video Workshop, Zen Pussy, Annie Sprinkle’s Amazing World Of Orgasm, in the film Sacred Sex, and in several episodes of the HBO television special Real Sex. Barbara frequently lectures, performs and facilitates workshops with her partner, author and gender outlaw, Kate Bornstein. Find out more by visiting her websites www.barbaracarrellas.com and www.urbantantra.org.
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Ms. Cynthia (aka CM Hurt)
Ms. Cynthia has been involved in BDSM activity and education for 20 years. Before that she was just kinky. She has presented educational programs for many BDSM/leather organizations all across the country on a variety of subjects. Known to be an extremely kinky woman, she loves to share her knowledge with others. Cynthia currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Leather Leadership Conference, Inc. and is based with Threshold in Los Angeles. Some of her not-so-fictional short stories are published in a collection of short erotic pieces written by women, named CLITERATURE. As the Body Modification Practitioner “CM Hurt,” she has written a series of articles for BME online. Her studio practice in Orange County, California includes piercing, branding, scarification, tattooing and temporary and permanent genital modifications.
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Domina Z
Domina Z is a classic dominant, a fetish fem fatale, a sexy supremacist and an insatiable sadist, among her many talents and interests.  She is an expert in intelligent, creative play with those who can comprehend that BDSM is more than mere whips & chains. She offers couples education, lifestyle consultations, feminization and role plays.
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Felice Shays
A performer, a sex and BDSM educator, sex advisor and an American Sign Language Interpreter, Felice is busy. She travels around the country teaching the masses about all things sex and many things SM and has been active in the BDSM world for seven years and having sex for a lot more than that. She has presented to numerous groups including: Black Rose, Pacific Friction, Babeland, Dark Odyssey, LSM, TES and Desire, and has been on television and in press nationally and internationally.
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Glenda Rider
Glenda has been active in the leather community since 1991. She was a co-founder and current co-coordinator of FIST (Females Investigating Sexual Terrain) and is an associate member of COMMAND, MC. She has the distinction of being the first female Eagle titleholder, as Ms. Baltimore Eagle 1992. Glenda has presented educational workshops for BR98 & 99, Black Rose, FIST, LSM, TES and Dungeon 401. Glenda owns Play House Studios in Baltimore, 4500 square feet of play space (including many different fantasy spaces) decorated with her large fetish art collection. She has taught more workshops on BDSM topics, judged & emceed more contests and volunteered for more community organizations than she can remember.
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Lady Kayla
Lady Kayla believes the art of S&M is in the sadistic sensuality of the hunt. She is a lifestyle Domina as well as being a professional Dominant. She offers educational workshops for men, woman and couples via email, phone or discreet sessions. She has given many workshops and discussions at many educational institutions and organizations such as: NYU, the Learning Annex, LSM, TES, Dom/sub friends, as well as have been featured in documentaries, articles, books and on TV/radio stations. Classical Dominance is what she offers.
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Laura Antoniou
Laura Antoniou has been writing erotica for over 20 years, when her day job permits her the time. She lives in Queens with her wife Karen, and happily serves as boy to Kim Attica. Laura is best known these days for her Marketplace series of novels, but back in the beginning, when pickings for good and readable porn were slim, Laura created the groundbreaking Leatherwomen anthologies, and edited several others. Some of the work she created for those anthologies are reprinted in The Catalyst and Other Tales. Laura’s work has been published in the United States, Germany, Japan and Korea, to international acclaim.
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Lee Harrington
Lee Harrington is an eclectic artist, spiritual and erotic educator, gender radical and published author on human sexuality and spiritual experience, including Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé and the Toybag Guide to Age Play. Well known for his fun and informative approach to education, ze approaches sexuality as yet another art to master, or simply an art to enjoy to its fullest! Ze has been an active part of the international kink and sex positive communities for more than 11 years, and his stories make people laugh while showing you that eroticism can be as serious, sexy, or silly as you make it. Lee’s writings and photography have appeared in numerous anthologies including Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path (also under his previous pen name, Bridgett Harrington), and his image has been seen everywhere from PlayBoy TV to the pages of Skin Two Magazine. To learn more about Lee, visit www.PassionAndSoul.com. Photo Credit: © 2007 RopeLover.com and FetishBliss.net
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Lolita Wolf
Lolita Wolf loves to play, play, play but is also an activist and an educator who has shared her knowledge at groups and events around the country. She is an Emeritus Board Member of both TES and Leather Leadership Conference, former chair of LSM, Honorary Member of GMSMA, and active with NCSF and Leather Pride Night. Lolita has received numerous awards including two Pantheon of Leather Community Service Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Leather Association, the Vaughn Keith National Education Award from Black Rose, the DefendersNY Founders Award and the 2000 Centurion Award from the Leather Archives & Museum. See her website at www.leatheryenta.com. A six-year-old Princess who lies about her age, Lolita manages to stir up shit and get her own way (most of the time).
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Midori
Author of The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage and Wild Side Sex, and her latest — erotic science fiction — Master Han’s Daughter, educator and columnist on adventurous sexuality, Midori has traveled the world presenting to universities, groups and media. Midori is known for her humanistic, humorous and warm classes that help people to spice up their sex lives and encourage self-discovery and personal growth. Her weekend intensives called Women’s Sensual Dominance Weekend Intensive and Rope Bondage Dojo™ have been sell-out hits for years. Numerous years as a sex educator with San Francisco Sex Information, combined with her curiosity and explorations into the sex-positivity movement, complete the dynamic blend of experiences that give her such breadth and depth of knowledge in human erotic expression.
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Ray Aims
Ray Aims is the alter-ego of a Boston, MA USA-based artist/designer/producer/performer who has been piercing in public and private since 2003. The fight between beauty and pain is what draws Ray to temporary piercing. Ray learned temporary piercing from Fetish Diva Midori and consultations with Aimee Ross/The Bearded Lady and is always practicing and learning. Ray’s work can be seen at www.truthserum.org/rayaims and www.truthserum.org/rayaims_photos. Photo by Blacklight Studio.
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Tristan Taormino
Tristan Taormino is too busy for her own good. She is the author of three books: , Down and Dirty Sex Secrets, and The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women. She just completed editing the fourteenth volume of the Best Lesbian Erotica anthology series. She is a contract director for Vivid Entertainment, where she directs a reality series called Chemistry and helms the new sex ed imprint Vivid-Ed. She wrote, produced and directed the first title for Vivid-Ed, Tristan Taormino's Expert Guide to Anal Sex and is hard at work on several more instructional videos. She is the sex columnist for the Village Voice and writes the Anal Advisor column for Taboo. She teaches workshops at colleges and universities, sex and leather conferences, and other places around the country. She is also the co-producer of Dark Odyssey, a bi-annual sex, BDSM, and spiritual event.
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Rainbow Law
Rainbow Law has been providing legal protections and Estate Planning information to and for the LGBTQ community since 1993. Rainbow Law is an LGBTQ advocacy, information and education service, founded by lesbian partners Carrie Ross-Stone, J.D., & Elisia Ross-Stone, R.N. Rainbow Law provides information on issues regarding LGBTQ legal rights, including wills and trusts, legal benefits, partner rights, estate planning, living trust, advance directives and durable power of attorney.
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Viola Johnson
Viola Johnson is a beloved figure in the Leather Community. A forty-something year old leatherwoman and vampire, she has been out of the closet and active for over two decades as an activist, writer and educator. She lives in the northeast as a member of a triad and is devoted to her family. She is slave and wife of Jill Carter, 1996 International Ms. Leather, 2000 Pantheon of Leather’s Woman of the Year, and husband to Queen Cougar. Her mates are also remarkable women celebrated in the community. Her extended leather family is enormous. She has been dubbed “mother” by a whole generation of leather men and women. Vi describes herself as a “...lifestyle slave. I have spent twenty years as the property of a few very special women. I have loved them, laughed with them, learned from them and served them. My slavery is a total commitment based on love.”
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