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| Ayem_Willing is a switchy rope slut from the Washington DC area. He has been around the scene for five years, increasing and honing his skills at every event he's attended. Rope bondage has been his passion for years; top or bottom doesn't matter because he likes it from both sides of the rope. His name refers to his helpful nature, volunteering at most events he attends, co-teaching and assisting with many rope bondage classes around the country. He is a high-spirited player, and believes that laughter in the dungeon is just as sexy as screams. Also identifying as a "Furry", he will occasionally suit up and let his fursona run free. |
| Bendyogagirl is the Director of Community Outreach for NELA and has been teaching and training groups and individuals for almost 30 years. When she's not hanging out somewhere, she can be found teaching on a wide variety of subjects, from Yoga for Kinksters, to The Tao of D/s, in venues as varied as Shibaricon and the Unity Church in Somerville. She has extensive experience with body/mind disciplines including several forms of meditation and yoga, as well as cognitive therapeutic techniques, all of which she has studied for decades. Bendy has been actively exploring D/s and authority exchange for over 25 years, and has a long history with BDSM. While her proclivities predominantly tend toward authority exchange and spiritual awakening through kink, she is also a lover of rope, deep impact, sensation, takedowns, and having fun! Currently based in Boston, Bendy co-founded MAsTMass, runs The Submissives' Round Table, is the Speaker Liaison for NELA's programming team, volunteers with the NCSF, and is an activist for personal freedom. Bendy's Site! |
Cameryn Moore is the sex-work alias for an award-winning producer, director, choreographer, and writer who has been creating and performing since 2000, first in San Francisco, then in Boston. In addition to her live performance work, Ms. Moore is a full-time phone sex operator, dirty-talk educator, and creator of a forthcoming line of custom and off-the-rack audio smut (heh heh, she said "rack"). Little Black Book Productions is the umbrella company for these endeavors. http://www.camerynmoore.com |
Carnivorous is a polyamorous, queerish switch with a penchant for creative sadism and genderfucking. She has been actively kinky and in the public scene for three years. She has presented at TES and TOF Con, and has demo-bottomed more times than she can remember. You can find her causing trouble in New York, New Jersey, and Boston with her cohorts the Other Fuckers. |
| Coral is a force of nature! As a result, interesting things frequently occur in her general vicinity. She is a believer in Love, Fortune, Pleasure, and Change. She finds the world completely fascinating, from kisses to flesh hooks, boots to hats, arguments to introspection, women to men, and chocolate to... things that are not chocolate. Always in pursuit of knowledge and a good story, she can be found talking to just about anyone. You might be next! Coral is currently pursuing her degree in Jewelry/Metals and Weaving with a scholastic focus on sacred tools. Coral is proud to have served her communities as Ms. Oregon State Leather 2007 and as Co-producer/Host of Portland Oregon's 2009 A.I.D.S. vigil, The Living Vigil, with her Sash Husband Ben Brown, Jr. She is an educator, artist, Owner, Ordeal Path Worker, Blue Lady, cult leader in training, body pride advocate, model, gamer/comic geek, and mentor. She appears in "Ropes, Bondage and Power," a Robert Rubel book edited by Lee Harrington |
| Courtney Jane is a 25 year old lifestyle, sub-heavy switch, active in the Northeastern BDSM community. She organizes and runs the NH Seacoast Kinky Con, an annual BDSM educational conference with classes, vendors, raffles, and a laid back energy in southern NH, the 6th of which is occurring in October of 2012. Additionally, she has joined the programming board for this years Fetish Flea Market and is honored to be part of a growing community that educates and appreciates many perspectives in the lifestyle and scene. Kink on! |
Dan is a lifelong kinkster. He finds his work on education and local community building very rewarding, not to mention exciting! In addition to co-founding and helping to run VASE (Vermont Alternative Sexuality Education) in late 2010, he hosts meetings of the Innovative Fiber Arts local rope group. When he's not organizing kink events or slaving away at work, Dan reads, plays games (board games & RPGs) and tries to keep his cat from eating the house. |
| Danielle dv8 is a safer sex positive presenter. Many of her classes are structured to be just within the boundaries determined by the rules of the event and the consent of the participants. Danielle has been active in the BDSM/Leather commUnity for 15 years and is known as a dynamic, authentic, and informed presenter for pan-sexual events of all types across the nation. She has been a public speaker on various aspects of fitness and wellness for more than a decade. She is a certified personal trainer, yoga, Pilates, kick-boxing, and aerobics instructor. She practices homeopathy and energy medicine professionally, and is listed as a Kink Aware Professional (KAP) with the NCSF. Visit Danielle. |
| David Wraith is a Saint Louis native, writer, filmmaker, activist, and a co-founder of Sex Positive St. Louis. He's a polyamorous, sado-masochistic exhibitionist who has spent much of his adult life advocating for women's reproductive freedom, people living with HIV, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights. He occasionally rants about movies, sex, and politics on his blog. David Wraith |
| De Lano is dedicated to using his years of experience in the bondage scene to help others enjoy their time in rope more safely and fully. He has presented locally in NYC and for events around the country on rope bondage and on other SM scene related topics. DeLano is the Assistant Instructor for Midori's Rope Bondage Dojo(R) weekend intensives, and he co-moderates the Japanese RopeArt and the Shibari Enthusiasts Yahoo groups. He has also co-presented with Michele Serchuk on photographic collaborations in bondage imagery. |
| DJ Pet runs A Curious Production, a Boston area event planning and production company. ACP has been producing the New Designers' Fetish Fashion Show since it's inception and has newly taken on the Saturday Night Ball. In addition to producing he also DJs under the name DJ Pet and mixes + setlists are available. DJ Pet currently is a resident DJ at Resurrection and Impulse!, two bi-weekly dance events in Manchester NH. He is also the resident sound and lighting engineer, and flyer designer for Darq Salem and Gothic Maine. A Curious Production |
Domino: From tying up his high school cheerleader girlfriend, to having his Dominant spirit awakened by a spankophile in the early 90's, Domino has pursued his interests in the BDSM lifestyle for almost three decades. After working with Robert Dante, Sebastian, and Bob Deegan, Domino's interest in the single tail was heightened with a particular interest in longer whips for both scene and sport cracking. His whip bag holds more than 50 examples of whip craftsmanship from all over the world. He enjoys cracking them on a regular basis in the backyard or at a local dungeon. He is a true "crack" addict. |
| Dov is a NYC based artist, photographer, sculptor, educator, computer geek, Shibari and single tail whip fanatic with too many hobbies. He has been in the NYC scene for about eight years, and served four years on the TES board. He has been involved for years both politically and artistically in creating works at Burning Man and other venues. His work varies from installations to performance art, both vanilla and fetish. Most recently his work was featured at Diesel Denim Gallery in SoHo NYC, where he created a Shibari rope window to highlight a photo series of their jeans by erotic photographer Araki. As an educator, he has given many presentations on everything from rope bondage and Japanese rope bondage to canes and whips at TES, Bondage SIG at TES GMSMA, Black Rose, Shibaricon, Leather Leadership Conference 7, Leather Retreat, The Tannery, Passional, TES2000, Purple Passion, Silk at Bard College, Conversio Virium at Columbia, and WHAP at NYU. |
| Dr. Robert J. Rubel (Dr. Bob), is an educational sociologist and researcher by training. He has ten books currently in print (four on Master/slave topics, two on advanced sex techniques, one on fire play, and three erotic art photo books). Recipient of the 2008 Pantheon of Leather's Community Choice Award, Robert (Bob) Rubel has been involved in the BDSM scene since the summer of 2001, throwing himself into the literature of the field as though it were an academic study. He frequently attends weekend Leather conferences. Dr. Bob is the series editor of Power Exchange Books' Resource Series (the successor to Power Exchange Magazine). This is a series of books that are collections of highly focused essays that cover a wide range of special topics within the larger field of BDSM. He presents, judges, and sells his books widely throughout the year. In 2007 and 2008, he participated in over 31 events. |
| Dr. SlashBlight has been a kinky nerd his entire life. In Feburary 2009, he jumped into the public scene spreading his excitement for his favorite fetish, Hypnosis/Mind Control. He then Co-founded the New England Hypnosis Group with fast friend and fellow Hypno-fetishist, Mephki. He can be found at play parties huddled in a corner whispering in the ear of a pretty girl, or Co-Topping with his partner-in-crime, mad_patter. If you ever have a Hypnosis Question, D&D question, want to be Hypnotized, or want Zombie Survival advice, just ask DrSlashBlight... but you can call him Buddy. |
DrIrv is a physician practicing in New England within a primary health care setting. As such he advocates heavily for safety within play scenes (in a reasonable way) and advocates for a relationship with your physician should things go really really wrong and even if they don't. That said, he is also an avid player and oft intense Dominant, described by friends in the lifestyle as persistently Dom. There's little he doesn't enjoy and little he won't try, given some bounds of reasonability. He is active in several groups and feels it is important to support teaching and bring another generation of folk into the lifestyle. |
| Dunter : For the last three years, Dunter has been the workshop coordinator for Salon Amour et Seduction under Priape, the workshop and DM / suspension coordinator for Montreal Fetish Weekend, DM / suspension coordinator for Torture Garden Montreal, and other events. For the past 19 years he has been an educator as well as an active member of the Montreal community. Dunter is a rope master with extensive knowledge in both the martial arts and military arenas. He learned pressure point techniques from Aikido, Acupuncture, and Kyoshu. He has developed ways to adapt pressure points for BDSM, including safe ways of inducing pain without using brute force. He is also a player with almost two decades of experience in various disciplines, especially rope suspension, electro play, fire play, percussion, and some edge play. An aged player he likes to share his knowledge. He is a Master by day, and a Vampire by night. |
| Elisabetta, hailing from Minnesota, is a queer and an all around dirty girl. She enjoys traveling the country, being thoughtfully slutty, having adventures with LqqkOut, catching up on sleep, and then returning home to be a sex-positive mama and evaluation researcher. She embraces a wholistic sexuality and is deeply grateful for all the facets of her life Elisabetta has a background in sexuality education as well as Master of Public Health and Master of Social Work degrees. Currently she works with a group of mothers on The Sexy Mamas project, increasing thoughtful discussion around sexuality and motherhood, and helping mothers in her community and beyond to have more balanced, fulfilling, and sexy lives. |
Eponine - easily recognizable by her red hair and Gryffindor track jacket, Eponine jumped into the public scene two years ago and has worked to organize events within the Boston kink community to help integrate newcomers and grow The Next Generation. |
| Graydancer - Ninja Sex Poodle & Ronin of Love, comes from the venerable rope bondage tradition of Madison, WI, where he honed his craft to become the world premiere podcaster of rope bondage with "The Ropecast." He is the author of three novels including Nawashi (which climbed to #1 on the Podiobooks.com charts) as well as numerous short stories and essays. Graydancer's writing has been published in several anthologies edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, Secret Magazine, Power Exchange Magazine, and most recently "Ropes, Bondage & Power." |
Jawn's Doll (Jenn) has played a number of roles in her life, both literally and figuratively. Literally, she earned her BA in Drama from Ithaca College, and figuratively, she earned her MEd from University of New Hampshire. Her most important role, currently, is the owned girl of Jawn. She has recently served as the Director of MAsT Mass (Masters And slaves Together), a monthly discussion and support group for those interested in pursuing hierarchical relationships. She works with Jawn creatively as part of Reverend Reacharound, and as a photographer for Jawniffer Photography. Reverend Reacharound |
Katastrophic, a bottom heavy switch, is a recent addition to the Boston scene who was fortunate to fall in with the right crowd. Working with the FFF Programming Commitee for the second consecutive year, she lends a newcomer's perspective and enthusiasm to the team. She draws from the experience of attending the FFF 34 solo as her first venture into the public scene. Since then she has participated in several other kinky events. |
Kyle BostonDSM has always been exploring the dark side of himself and the world, as a feminist, sadist, geek, dominant, communist, and activist. His background in anti-racism and other leftist causes has served him well since joining the public BDSM scene, where he has become the Secretary of the New England Leather Alliance, a greeter for BTNG (a Boston-area group for kinky people aged 18-35), and a student of Lord Percival. |
La Dresseuse has been training ponies and mentoring handlers since 2000. Ponies from her own stable, Aphrodite's Meadow, have won quite an array of ribbons at pony shows across the country. She is always delighted to work with and help as many ponies and handlers as possible, from the brand new curious novice to the veteran show champion. |
Lady Shimla and her partner Doug are the moving force behind Violet Wand Store and its more vanilla sister 4-Erotica Stores. She has been involved in leather for more years than she cares to admit. Her vast knowledge and experience comes from many years of practice, and taking advantage of the generous nature of her mentors! Weekends she travels to events across the continent as both a presenter and a vendor. |
| Laura Antoniou is the author of the well known Marketplace series of erotic novels. Many examples of her short fiction, articles, essays and rants can be found in the collection titled The Catalyst and Other Tales. In 2011, Laura won the prestigious John Preston Short Fiction Award from the National Leather Association for her short story, "That's Harsh," which appears in the e-book edition of The Slave. As a presenter, panelist, and keynote speaker, Laura has appeared at dozens of conferences over more than twenty-five years, both entertaining and delivering an occasional verbal indictment. She has also appeared at colleges and universities, including NYU, Rutgers, Columbia and the University of Washington. She received the NLA International's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. She is also the recipient of the 2011 "Worst Camper" award at Dark Odyssey:Fusion. Laura began her writing career in the 1980's, and edited the groundbreaking "Leatherwomen" anthologies, as well as several other collections of fiction and non-fiction. She has also written gay male erotica under many names; the novel Musclebound and a collection of short MM stories titled "Shop Stud" can be found at Renaissance E-books. In addition, she is the co-author (with her wife, Karen) of a ritually correct Leather Passover Seder, Avadim Chayanu (Once We Were Slaves.) Laura plans several more novels in the Marketplace series and is currently working on The Inheritor for publisher Circlet Press. She is also writing a comedy murder mystery set in the leather community, titled The Killer Wore Leather, and starting to once again edit short story anthologies. She can be found on-line at lantoniou.com, and on Fetlife and Facebook. |
Leather By Danny joined the NELA board as vendor liaison back in 1999. In addition to continuing to act as vendor liaison for NELA's Fetish Fair Fleamarket(TM), he is currently NELA's Board Member at Large and he remains a member of the PDL Steering Committee. Danny entered the public scene in 1989. His passion for bondage inspired him to make his own bondage equipment. It was the popularity of his unique Grip-cuff(TM) design that inspired him to start his own business, "Leather By Danny." Leather by Danny now carries a wide range of bondage equipment and can be found in shops around the country. Danny enjoys traveling the country vending as well as teaching classes on bondage. |
| Lee Harrington is an internationally known sexuality and spirituality educator, gender adventurer, artist and published author whose books include "Sacred Kink," "Shibari You Can Use," "The Toybag Guide to Ageplay," and others. Well known for his fun and informative approach to education, he approaches sexuality as yet another art to master, or simply an art to enjoy to its fullest! His stories make people laugh while showing you that eroticism can be as serious, sexy, or silly as you make it. |
| Lochai has been educating the rope bondage minded across the country for the past 15 years. He is the director of the only international munch, Rope Bite, and runs Bondage Club Baltimore. He can be found on occasion binding beauties and creating living art at local fetish events as well as major exhibitions across the country. "I use the body as a canvas and rope as the medium in creating my art." It's no surprise that in August of 2008, he was picked by kink.com, one of the most respected companies in the adult entertainment industry, to spearhead their flagship site, hogtied.com and to create EverythingButt.com. His lifestyle experiences extend to many aspects of the BDSM world including but not limited to age play, pony/puppy play, corporal, humiliation, and impact play. He has given talks on many topics that included both hands on classes as well as photography slide shows and demos. Lochai is also an award winning photographer who's work appears on gallery walls as well in fine art publications and coffee table books. He "shoots for the walls and not the computer screen." He was "Overall Photography Winner"of Erotic Signature's "The Worlds Greatest Erotic Art of Today" with his iconic image "Beach Bound." His work is on permanent display at the Leather Archive and Museum in Chicago and the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami, for sale in brick and mortar galleries from Key West Florida to Cyber fine art galleries based out of London as well on many private collectors walls. His images, rope art and interviews have been published in The British Journal of Photography, Secret, Skin Two, Bizarre, Prometheus, Cherry, A Magazine, Fetish Anthology, Extreme Anthology, New Times, and in his own fine art books. His work can also be found on numerous websites from around the world. Rope Bite |
LoMevina admits that Judaism affects every aspect of her life, and that she feels both religiously and spiritually Jewish. Happiest as a sub, Lo Mevina also loves to dance, with interests ranging from Israeli to salsa to Contra. |
| LqqkOut is a Midwest-based sexuality educator and rigger, as well as an active member of the Minnesota and Iowa kink communities. He serves on the board of the Minneapolis TNG group, Min-KY, and contributes to Iowa State University's CUFFS group. Since 2006, LqqkOut has devoted many of his weekends to traveling around the country teaching at sexuality events. A self-described "rope-geek," LqqkOut enjoys helping folks of all genders, play-styles, and sexual orientations gain confidence and build skills through hands-on workshops, demonstrations, and discussions. His teaching style combines a unique blend of humor and technical expertise as he seeks to demystify complex-looking skills and help people learn to play and think creatively. Most of all, he hopes those who attend his classes learn to connect with themselves and others in new and enjoyable ways. |
Mad Patter is part of the BTNG triumvirate. He describes himself as a contradiction between laid-back and intense. Although this sadistic dominant enjoys rope, fire play, and humiliation and degradation the most, he also relishes learning to navigate new situations. He can often be seen performing card tricks and magic. |
| Madelyn (Miss Wyld) has been an active part of the public kink scene through VT, NH, & MA since she first found the wonderful people, communities, & events. In 2011 she co-founded Vermont Alternative Sexuality Education (www.vtkink.org), a group which brings quality kink & sex education to Vermont, with support as NELA's first sister organization. Personally she has been exploring alternative sexuality as a bi-poly-switch for 8 years and joyously shares her knowledge & experience. When not providing pleasure or pain to others, she is an avid equestrian and sushi addict. |
Mephki started her kinky life in Boston in early 2005 when she decided to finally pursue her fetish for hypnosis. Since there appeared to be no local people with similar interests, she turned to the internet and found the online hypnosis community. In 2009 she discovered Fetlife and met DrSlashBlight, who was organizing a hypnosis meet-up in Boston. After its subsequent success, she and DSB founded the New England Hypnosis Group, which seeks to bring together people in New England with an interest in hypnosis for education and fun. Since its start in 2009, Mephki has organized many events for the NEHG, including classes, munches, parties, and the annual New England Erotic Hypnosis Unconference. In addition to hypnosis, Mephki enjoys rope and baking. |
Michele has been shooting evocative, intensely personal erotic portraiture in New York City for over 10 years. She's lectured at Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, presented for BDSM groups and events across the US and Canada, exhibited in several major US cities, and been interviewed for cable TV, radio, webcasts, podcasts and magazines. She currently assists for all of Midori's Rope Dojo(R) weekend rope bondage intensives. Michele is regularly published in Cupido (Denmark, Norway) and has been a Photography Associate for "On Our Backs" magazine. Book credits include: On Our Backs Guide to Lesbian Sex (Alyson), Photo Sex (Down There Press), SECRET Fetish Photo Anthologies 2-6, The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica and the Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotic Women (Carroll & Graf). Her work has also appeared in numerous US and European fetish and erotica magazines, and as cover art for dozens of books. |
| Midori is a dedicated regular at the Fetish Fair Fleamarket(TM) and a NELA fan. Frequent sightings of her from around the globe make us wonder if she ever sleeps or if she's cloned herself. A sex-positive activist, she's made an improbable career out of being the world's traveling sexpert on the art of creative and sensual living. Don't miss the groundbreaking book Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage which first cracked open the mysteries to Westerners, the hot essays in Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink and twisted dark science fiction in Master Han's Daughter. |
Miss Cindy is a member of The Society, WMPE, Femdom New England. She has been in the BDSM lifestyle for two years. She is a Switch who is collared but able to still enjoy Dominating at times. She is very involved with Femdom New England. She helps organize munches and like events. |
| Miss Luna is a gypsy who is constantly drawn to the road. A creative soul who is a dancer and writer, she is constantly trying to think outside the box as far as how to express her heart and soul. Branching out her ideas of art, creativity, passion and, expression that she has learned from her travels and living in the big city. She has been a part of the Kink/Leather/BDSM community for the last 18+ years active as a volunteer, board member, educator, 'cheerleader,' producer, and organizer. As an educator over the last 9+ years she has taught at national events such as Black Rose, Floating World, TES Fest, COPE, Shibaricon, and Twisted Tryst, as well as for organizations on the east coast on the topics of Age Play, Bootblacking, Rope bottoming, service, and dance. She sees education as a wonderful opportunity to share with people the things she is passionate about in a fun and safe environment. Her current artistic project has been to start sharing her love of bellydancing and fire performance with the leather community. Building on dances founded on the training and traditions of her teachers, mentors, and idols, her creative spark is slightly darker and more deeply serving of her soul. Her classes teach women of all sizes the sensual aspects of dance, how to use it to empower, and that they can be, and are, powerful and sexy. Her passion includes: Music, Boots, Fire Dancing, Candy from Strangers, Bondage, and all things that spark her imagination |
| Mollena is an NYC born and raised writer, actress, BDSM Educator, and Executive Pervert. Active in BDSM and the Leather Community since 1996, she speaks at Leather, BDSM and Kink events across the US, Europe, and Canada on many Leather and BDSM focused topics. Her accomplishments include International Ms Leather 2010, Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009, and the first woman invited to march with the Scandinavian Leathermen's Association. Her background includes a lifetime of training and involvement in the performing arts, which include spoken word, classical theater, dance, performance art, and all manner of stagecraft. She is a founding member of Crowded Fire Theater Company, and her first solo show, 69Stories: One Pervert's Tale, has been re-revived and is touring in Vancouver. |
Murphy Blue became fascinated with rope bondage in 2000 when he bartended a fetish party. Since then, he has amassed books, paid attention at demos, and asked questions to refine his skill. Mostly self-taught, "The Blue" is on a constant search for more information about the art of Shibari. He also tries to add his own flair to his ropework. More often than not, Murphy is traveling across the country. He tries to experience different fetish environments and learn new skills. In his spare time he's been known to practice his artwork, as well as save the world. It is rumored that he defeated a thousand men and amazed a thousand women with a sword and a hundred feet of rope one moonlit evening. He wisely neither confirms nor denies it. |
| NaughtyBaby is a lifelong kinkster and fetishist, and a bratty, wicked switch with a weakness for a good spanking. She and her husband, SpankBoss, have been in the lifestyle for the past 14 years and recently became more involved in the public scene, where they also found and welcomed NaughtyRalphie into their leather family. She is a deeply motivated, enthusiastic and passionate board member of the Western Massachusetts Power Exchange (WMPE) and is a member of The Society, where she served as an elected member of the Bylaws Committee and currently serves as Chair of the Communication Committee. Additionally, she is thrilled to be a snazzy Official FetLife Greeter, welcoming new kinksters to the exciting online community. Since becoming involved in the scene, NaughtyBaby has made it her mission to make the kink world a better place, helping others feel comfortable with the lifestyle while maintaining their privacy, and educating others on why it is a safe, sane, and ideal way of life. She happily shares life with SpankBoss and her collared switchy submissive, NaughtyRalphie. |
| NaughtyEm is an opportunistic, polyamorous, pansexual kinkster. She relishes finding new and creative ways to bind, torture, and please. NaughtyEm maintains a dynamic view of BDSM, approaching each experience with openness and sensitivity. Her receptivity and insight have earned her a reputation for enthusiasm and intensity on both sides of the D/s spectrum. Regardless of her role or the environment in which she plays, the most important aspect of every scene is the connection and bond she builds with her partners. A familiar face at New England Cons, NaughtyEm looks forward to presenting classes that will turn heads and leave minds naughty. |
| NaughtyRalphie is a lifelong, switch-happy kinkster with a most unusual introduction and education into the lifestyle. He has been involved with the CT kink scene for numerous years, known for his high tolerance for pain, and has been called one of the greatest masochists ever known. He met NaughtyBaby and SpankBoss in 2010 and he became a member of their leather family at the FFF37 last year. He enjoys his friendship with SpankBoss and happily wears NaughtyBaby's collar while he exercises his authority as Daddy. Talk about a switchy scenario! |
| Opn is a queer little fat girl who likes to play and thinks building kinky community is hot. As an active member of MOB New England (current Demo Coordinator and New Member Coordinator) and a happy NELA associate. She has been the NCSF Coalition Partner representative for both these groups for several years. With "organizing" firmly one of her kinks, Opn has been running munches, field trips, play parties, demo programs, new member and safety awareness orientations, concession tables, ice breakers, outreach tables, fundraisers, and multi-person scenes since the beginning of her kink career in the '90s. Her latest big project was co-producing Queer Playcon in May '11. Opn can be found at the Flea tabling for NCSF or at: opnheartd@hotmail.com. |
| P.E.T.E.! (Pedular Enthusiast Ticklee Extraordinaire) has been a long-time tickling enthusiast, a proud (and skilled) foot fetishist, a member of BDSM and tickling communities, on-line for 13 years, and off-line for ten. P.E.T.E. co-presented: "Beyond Feathers: Tickling 102," a highly successful tickle demo class at the NELA 2008 Winter Fetish Fleamarket. He has since taught classes at Ramrod in Boston and two of the first classes ever taught at Club Hell in Providence, RI, for their Wednesday Fetish Night series. P.E.T.E. is also an instructor for the Kink Academy and has a number of instructional videos on their website. He co-facilitated numerous tickle play events for Tickle New England!, a Yahoo group/community that he created to help organize and provide information and support for the New England tickle community. He regularly and politely turns away applicants from all over the world outside of New England who find the TNE! mixture of social support and playful connection very attractive. P.E.T.E. has introduced tickling to many newbies, novices and interested parties, sometimes, joyfully, finding himself tied and tickled at the odd and sundry BDSM event. P.E.T.E. is never far from his day-bag, complete with a few lengths of sturdy rope and a pair of fuzzy, nylon wrist/ankle cuffs just in case someone needs an emergency tickle session. One of the most willing and highly ticklish "Lees" (ticklees) you will ever find, P.E.T.E. is also a highly-skilled and devious "Ler" (tickler), relentless in his application of mind-games and tickle play, adept at finding new tickle spots on people that didn't think they had any, inventing new ways of tickling others (and himself) with the most unexpected every day, household items. He does most of his shopping for tickle implements at his local drug store. P.E.T.E. is also highly interested in exploring the healthy (physically, emotionally, and spiritually) and therapeutic side benefits of tickling and laughter. He is currently working to incorporate them into his work as a practitioner of various healing modalities. P.E.T.E. embraces tickling as a fun, sensual and erotic practice that holds great and dynamic benefits for those who practice it with openness, honesty, and consensual integrity. Tickling is a practice that just about anyone can be involved in with just about anyone else. He has experienced the deep bonding that tickling brings to couples, friends, and communities. He seeks to share it with more and more willing and playful people in the New England area and beyond. P.E.T.E. and Tickle New England! are available to organize and facilitate tickle events, gatherings, parties, classes and FUNdraisers. Tickle New England |
Pete is a financial advisor and long time kinkster who has the knowledge and understanding to bring both together. |
| Princess Kali is a foot-fetishist and lifestyle dominatrix with experience in humiliation, corporal punishment, female supremacy, and TPE play. Hailing from sunny California, and now based in Boston, this young and vivacious blond haired, blue-eyed Domina is known for the unique way she combines her sweet-natured appearance and natural charm with her insatiable appetite for cruelty and unbridled sadism. She has lectured on a variety of BDSM topics since 2003. Presenting at such institutions as Harvard, RISD, and Brown University as well as Lifestyle venues such Black Rose, Fetish Fair Fleamarket, Leather Retreat, and Kink in the Caribbean has garnered her respect in both the vanilla and kink worlds. Founding the Kink Academy in 2007 has allowed her to reach an even broader audience in a more personal way with her particular form of kink positive sex education, helping couples and singles reach a deeper understanding as well as a heightened creativity in their personal perversions. |
Rabbit is a boy, a bootblack, and a puppy who has been active in the midwestern and Boston area communities for over a decade. He has blacked or presented at events such as FFF, Dark Odyssey, Leather Retreat, Smartfest, Ohio Leather Fest, Winter Wickedness, and for groups such as NELA, Adventures in Sexuality, and the Purple Rose Society. In addition to getting his hands dirty with boots and leathers, he may occasionally be found running around as his alter-ego, Spike the puppy. |
| Railen Panther is the property of Mistress Thorne, and identifies as a lifestyle slave. Guided by his panther spirit, he serves his Mistress in her 24/7 M/s household. Active in the Boston area community, he is a member of MAsTMass, NEDS, and NELA, supporter of NCSF and the National Safe Call Network. The National Safe Call Network |
| Raven Kaldera is a Northern Tradition shaman, intersex/transgender FTM activist, erotica educator, Ordeal Master, Speaker for the Transgendered Dead, homesteader, diviner, psychic vampire, herbalist, polyamorous parent, and author of many, many books, articles, and short stories. Raven is a builder of bridges between worlds, a crosser of boundaries between communities, a Reweaver of the Web. He is the Dreamer Whose Dreams Come True. |
RiggerJay is a Canadian born, Boston-based rope enthusiast who is also often seen in NYC and sometimes Montreal with his rope bag and camera in hand. When he was first learning to tie, he found great support from the rope community and now gives that same support back to others wanting to learn. He organizes the monthly Boston Rope Group meetings, and runs Be Knotty, a portal for rope bondage information. Rigger Jay |
| RopeRider is the organizer of Bound In Boston, a rope bondage convention with an emphasis on education and community building. He began his journey with rope bondage as a fetish photographer, but quickly found that he enjoys participating in hot rope play as much as he enjoys photographing hot rope play. RopeRider |
Savannah Sly is a Professional Dominatrix, spandex fetishist, and kinky cowgirl who is passionate about imagination and physicality in her play. Whether it's business or pleasure, Ms. Savannah focuses her attention on the hotness at hand, making each scene delicious and unique to the people involved. Most of Ms. Savannah's erotic teaching has been done at Kink Academy (which you GOTTA check out...AMAZING RESOURCE!!!), but she dabbles in one-on-one and group instruction at events and in private. Ms. Savannah Sly |
| Scott Erickson's knot tying education started at the age of four by many ole salts who had been boating for more than four decades. When he came out at 21, he started applying the knots to bondage, and it has been fun ever since. He considers his leather journey a life long pursuit. Scott has been active with NELA over the past few years, and decided to join the NELA board in 2007, and served as Co-Chair from 2007 to 2008. Director of Community Relations 2009 to 2010, and currently serves as Chair of NELA. Scott held the title of Mr. Boston Leather in 2004. In 2003, Co-founded the Bay State Marauders, and served as the inaugural President from 2004 to 2005, and Vice President from 2006 to 2007. In 2007, he won the Pantheon of Leather New England Regional Award. |
| Silverdreams has over two decades of experience in BDSM, which gives her insights into what makes bottoms and submissives tick. She enjoys helping people new to the scene find their way, giving them the benefit of her years in real-life D/s relationships, as well as learning from others. She believes that knowledge shared during frank discussion, combined with a sense of humor, provides valuable tools and techniques so that bottoms can learn how to safely enjoy the entire experience, with emphasis placed on the responsibility of the bottom and coping with physical and mental issues bottoms experience. She is an opinionated, self-avowed bratty bottom who enjoys predicament play and rope bondage. Owned and collared by Septimus, she is an incurable shoe slut and has a blog exploring her love of footwear, various D/s dynamics and her own D/lg relationship at nakedconfusion.com. When not on Fetlife, she can usually be found tweeting up a storm under the name silverdaydreams. Silverdreams' Blog |
| Sol is a kinky scoundrel, sex positive educator, and artist who is active nationally in the leather, bondage, and BDSM communities. Sol leads the So Cal Shibari Bondage Group in CA and is a member of the Los Angeles Band of Brothers, the NCSF, is the current Mr. Sanctuary Leather, and is on the Board of the Los Angeles Leather Coalition. He is involved in many kink events that include: Shibaricon, Dom Con ATL and L.A., Thunder in the Mountains, Kinkfest, Kinky Kollege, and Madtown Kinkfest. |
| Solipsistic: Co-founder of BTNG ("beating"), Boston's Young & Kinky, Solipsistic has been an active member of the Boston kink scene for several years. His kink interests focus on activism, D/s dynamics, and providing proper discipline for naughty girls. |
| TheLauren is a queer, ambitious, and nerdy kinkster who has been exploring BDSM for the last ten years. She brings with her a love for life, baking, and a bad sense of humor. She has a vast range of interests that she is always exploring, including bondage, power exchange, impact, and sexuality. TheLauren has an evil streak, and has been referred to as "deliciously sadistic," though she will always swear she is a sweetheart. TheLauren loves to teach and interact within the scene. She has taught for the Fetish Flea, TiedUp!, Bound in Boston, TES and local NYC events. TheLauren - Accept no imitations. |
Trialsinner is a journeyer and creative explorer of rope. He is an innovator, a theorist, a philosopher, a practicing rope dominant, an educator, and a photographer. Distinctly focused on the innovation of rope bondage, he thrives on the coalescence of the physical and cerebral, and strives for expanded views and understandings of rope ideas both new and old. He maintains strong roots in the rope community in both Boston and New York, while participating in the greater community on an international level. The Flea was his first scene event, and he looks forward to it every year. |
| Vivienne was Chair of the New England Leather Alliance from 2001 through 2006 and served as Treasurer from 1996 through 2003. She also holds the position of Chair of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and was one of the Co-Chairs of Leather Leadership Conference - Seven held in April 2003. In addition to leather activism she squeezes time out to be the Treasurer of the Greater Boston chapter of NOW, something she's enjoyed doing since 1989. Vivienne identifies as bisexual Jewish feminist and would like to be mistaken for Cher. Barring that, she'll settle for being known as a dedicated sexual freedom activist. |
| Wintersong is a shaman, magician and presenter who has been teaching and running rituals for over a decade. Seeing pain and pleasure as valuable tools, he employs both in his spiritual work as well as his erotic play. Wintersong teaches workshops on a variety of erotic and kink techniques, specializing in needle play, cbt, polyamory, roleplaying, playing with unusual fetishes, LGBT issues, and both erotic and non-erotic spiritual and magical topics. He offers private tutoring and classes in a wide range of erotic techniques and edge play as well as relationship skills, polyamory, and magic & energy work. He is a programing coordinator for Dark Odyssey, and a regular contributor to the LGBT blog "The Bilerico Project." Wintersong has presented for Kink Academy, Dark Odyssey, The Floating World, QueerPlayCon, Black Rose, and many other events and organizations. He is a council member of Clan Tashlin, an earth-based teaching and magical order built around a unique relationship between people and the energies of the world around us. He has been featured in documentaries on topics such as polyamory, spirituality and genital integrity in both the United States and Great Britain. He can be found on Fetlife simply as "Wintersong." |