Midori
Acclaimed writer and lecturer on a wide range of sexual topics, Midori has a degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and vast indispensable experience as a pioneering San Francisco sex educator.
Midori is known for her humanistic, humorous and warm classes that help people to spice up people’s sex lives and encourage self discovery and personal growth.
A regular advice columnist for Men’s Health, she has appeared on HBO and BBC, and has been featured in Vogue, Playboy, Der Spiegel, Cosmo and more. Multifaceted, she is a skilled photographer, artist in Japanese rope, presenting to art institutions such as Tanzquartier, Vienna and Das Arts in Amsterdam. She’s the author of bestselling books “The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage” and “Wild Side Sex”.
Born in Japan and raised in a feminist intellectual Tokyo household, she served in the US Army while earning her psychology degree from University of California, Berkeley.
Numerous years as a sex educator with San Francisco Sex Information combines with her curiosity and explorations into the sex-positivity movement to complete the dynamic blend of experiences that give her breadth and depth of knowledge in human erotic expression.
Rope:
She is deeply passionate about rope pleasures. She’s been playing with rope for over 20 years now. In her twenties she apprenticed and learned from many including Kaye Buckley, Lou Duff, Mr. Nagaike, etc. She continues to learn from and exchange ideas with fellow enthusiasts. She’s considered an expert rigger in the sensual and arts realm. Along with designing and performing challenging rope stage shows to to huge crowds at clubs such as Torture Garden and Skin Two Rubber Ball in London, North Bound Leather Ball in Toronto and L’Erotica in Melbourne, Australia, she’s styled rope for fashion photographers Nick Knight for Vogue, Tiziano Magni for WestEast magazine. Like so many accomplished artists, she’s mastered various forms of rope play, including complex suspensions, Shibari (Japanese rope bondage) and more to create what has become recognized as her unique blend of aesthetics and function, a dynamic art of erotic rope. She delights in teaching the art as well as the practical realities of rope for great sex.
Rope skills have been distilled into her non-erotic artwork of installations, photography and performance art pieces as well.
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DeLano
DeLano is dedicated to using his years of experience in the bondage scene to help others enjoy their time in rope more safely and more fully. He has presented on bondage bottoming at Shibaricon in Chicago and at TESFest in New York. He has presented with Michele Serchuk for Sexy Spirits in New York, on their photographic collaborations on bondage imagery. DeLano co-moderates the Japanese RopeArt and the Shibari Enthusiasts Yahoo groups. The former is a group specifically set up for rope bondage bottoms to share experiences with, and get advice and encouragement from, other rope bottoms. As a member of The Eulenspiegal Society in New York, he has been involved with several presentations to their Bondage SIG. He is thrilled to be assisting Midori with Rope DojoSM classes and is eager to bring the “bottom’s point of view” on various aspects of scene dynamics and psychology to the class.
DeLano’s love affair with bondage began at a very early age (you wouldn’t believe what his “action figures” had to endure when he was a kid) but he only consummated that affair seven years ago. Since then he’s been a frequent fixture (sometimes literally) in the New York fetish scene as a bondage bottom, performer, model, and most recently, teacher. A true rope slut, DeLano is always ravenous for bondage. His new Website, www.delanobound.com, is a personal exploration of his spiritual journeys in rope bondage through the connections he shares with his rope tops.
