Tristan Taormino - The Ultimate Guide to Kink - BDSM, Role Play, and the Erotic Edge

Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond, by Lee Harrington ( Lulu.com, 2010).

Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism, by Philip Miller and Molly Devon (Fairfield, CT: Mystic Rose Books, 1995).

The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage, by Midori (Eugene, OR: Greenery Press, 2002).

Sensuous Magic: A Guide for Adventurous Couples, by Patrick Califia (Berkeley: Cleis Press, 2002).

Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé, by Lee Harrington (Brooklyn, NY: Mystic Productions Press, 2007).

The Slave (3rd ed.), by Laura Antoniou (Cambridge, MA: Circlet Press, 2011).

SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, by Jay Wiseman (Eugene, OR: Greenery Press, 1998).

The Toybag Guide to Age Play, by Lee Harrington (Eugene, OR: Greenery Press, 2008).

The Toybag Guide to Clips and Clamps, by Jack Rinella (Eugene, OR: Greenery Press, 2004).

The Toybag Guide to Foot and Shoe Worship, by Midori (Eugene, OR: Greenery Press, 2004).

The Toybag Guide to Playing with Taboo, by Mollena Williams (Eugene, OR: Greenery Press, 2004).

Two Knotty Boys Showing You the Ropes: A Step-by-Step, Illustrated Guide for Tying Sensual and Decorative Rope Bondage, by Two Knotty Boys (San Francisco: Green Candy Press, 2006).

Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century, by Barbara Carrellas (Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press, 2007).

When Someone You Love Is Kinky, by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt (Eugene, OR: Greenery Press, 2000).

Midori’s Expert Guide to Sensual Bondage, directed by Tristan Taormino (Vivid-Ed, 2009).

Nina Hartley’s Guide Series. Nina Hartley hosts and Ernest Greene directs this DVD series covering domination, submission, bondage sex, spanking, and more (Adam and Eve, 2002–2008).

Penny Flame’s Expert Guide to Rough Sex, directed by Tristan Taormino (Vivid-Ed, 2009).

The S/M Arts Collection: The Pain Game & Tie Me Up, hosted by Cleo Dubois (Academy of S/M Arts, 2002).

The SM Tech Educational Series. DVDs with accompanying short books, covering topics like flogging, spanking, bondage, and CBT and featuring educators Lolita Wolf, Joseph Bean, and Scott Smith (Nazca Plains Corporation, thenazcaplainscorp.com).

Carter-Johnson Library, leatherlibrary.org

Leather Archives & Museum, leatherarchives.org

Masters and slaves Together International (MAsT), mast.net

National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, ncsfreedom.org

National Leather Association-International, nla-i.com

Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance, woodhullalliance.org

Note: Many of these organizations also hold annual events; see their websites for more information.

Adventures in Sexuality, Columbus, OH, adventuresinsexu-ality.org

Arizona Power Exchange, Phoenix, AZ, arizonapowerex-change.org

Black Rose, Washington, DC, br.org

The Center for Sex Positive Culture, Seattle, WA, sexpositive-culture.org

Charlotte Area Power Exchange (CAPEX), Charlotte, NC, capex.info

Chicago Hellfire Club, Chicago, IL, hellfire13.org

The Exiles, San Francisco, CA, theexiles.org

The Group With No Name, Austin, TX, gwnn.net

LA-RAWW, Los Angeles, CA, laraww.com

Lesbian Sex Mafia, New York, NY, lesbiansexmafia.org

LRA, Chicago, IL, lra-chicago.org

MOB, Boston, MA, mobnewengland.org

National Leather Association (has local chapters in Arkansas, Atlanta, Colorado, Columbus, Central Florida, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, Northern Nevada, and Philadelphia), nla-i.com

New England Leather Alliance, Boston, MA, nelaonline.org

Portland Leather Alliance, Portland, OR, portlandleather.org

Society of Janus, San Francisco, CA, soj.org

TES, New York, NY, tes.org

Beat Me in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, beatmeinstl.com

Beyond Leather, Fort Lauderdale, FL, beyondleather.net

Beyond Vanilla, Dallas TX, beyondvanilla.org

Black Beat, Baltimore, MD, blackbeatinc.org

Desire, Palm Springs, CA, desireleatherwomen.com

Fetish Fair Fleamarket, Boston, MA, fetishfairfleamarket.com

Folsom Fringe, San Jose, CA, folsomfringe.com

Great Lakes Leather Alliance Weekend, Indianapolis, IN, greatlakesleather.org

International Ms. Leather, San Francisco, CA, imsl.org

International Mr. Leather, Chicago, IL, imrl.com

Kinkfest, Portland, OR, kinkfest.org

Kinky Kollege, Chicago, IL, kinkycollege.com

Leather Leadership Conference, leatherleader.org

Master/slave Conference, Washington, DC, masterslavecon-ference.org

South Plains Leatherfest, Dallas, TX, southplainsleatherfest.com

Southeast Leatherfest, Atlanta, GA, seleatherfest.com

Shibaricon, Chicago, IL, shibaricon.com

Thunder in the Mountains, Denver, CO, thunderinthemoun-tains.com

Tribal Fire, Oklahoma City, OK, tribalfireokc.com

Twisted Tryst, various locations, twistedtryst.com

BDSM Event Page, thebdsmeventspage.com

FetLife, fetlife.com

Hanky Code, leathernjonline.com/hanky.htm

Kink Academy, kinkacademy.com

Kink Aware Professionals, https://ncsfreedom.org/resources/kink-aware-professionals-directory/kap-directory-homepage.html

LAURA ANTONIOU( lantoniou.com) is the author of the well-known Marketplace series of erotic novels, now being published by Circlet Press; they are all being converted to e-books as well. She has also edited the groundbreaking Leath-erwomen anthologies and several other collections of fiction and nonfiction. Her first book, The Catalyst , now renamed Cinema Erotica , is now available as an e-book through Ravenous Romance; the fiction she has written under her gay male pseudonym, Christopher Morgan, is being released under her real name as well. She travels around the world leading workshops for the alt-sex community, ranging from gentle introductions to role playing to weekend-long intensives on BDSM protocols. Follow her at her website or find her on Facebook, Fetlife, and other online communities.

PATRICK CALIFIA(née Pat Califia, prior to a gender transition from female to male) has been writing about sex practically since this activity was invented. SRSLY. He is the author of a dozen or so nonfiction and fiction books that explore the issue of sexual variation, the parameters of gender, and confronting the repression and social control of pleasure. He currently lives with his cute boy (six years and counting) and three fluffy, vogueing, caption-worthy kittehs, and hopes to welcome an Empowered Femme of Color to the household once everybody has moved from California to Florida. Patrick is currently doing research on FTM sexuality and working on a sex manual to accompany publication of the questionnaire data. But if you see him at a party, please don’t ask him how the new book is coming!

BARBARA CARRELLAS( barbaracarrellas.com) 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 BDSM, and the cofounder 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 New York for her Urban Tantra ®workshops. Barbara delights in blurring the lines between sacred and profane, enlightened and perverted, mystical and scientific, pleasure and pain. Barbara’s most recent endeavors are her Urban Tantra® Professional Training Program (which, in its first year, graduated participants from 12 countries) and her new book, Ecstasy Is Necessary , a practical guidebook for ecstatic explorers (Hay House, 2012). Barbara is a proud graduate of the Coney Island Sideshow School with a double major in fire eating and snake handling.