Authentically Kinky (formerly known as What Women and Other Wonderful Humans Want)

Dirk Hooper is an award-winning fetish photographer and fine artist, award-winning professional writer, professional illustrator, audio talent, podcasting producer and host (Safeword Podcast, FETISHWEEK), journalist for the fetish community, BDSM mentor, and does adult personal branding, marketing, and social media consultant for Sexy Networking.  
  
Dirk Hooper won Best Fetish Photographer at the 2019, 2018 and 2017 Fetish Awards in St. Petersburg Florida. As a fine artist, Hooper’s work has been exhibited in England, the Netherlands, Belgium, China, Thailand, and all over the United States. His artwork is part of the permanent collections of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, The Patpong Museum in Bangkok, Thailand, and the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago, Illinois.  
  
Dirk Hooper’s work has been published in magazines like Skin Two, Von Gutenberg, Fet Erotica and Sinical Magazine. His work was published in the German hardcover art book Fetish Fantasies: The Best of International Fetish Photography. He has done artwork for bands, books, posters, packaging for a Japanese toy company, and the adult film industry.  
  
Hooper has recently launched his own erotic art subscription service at: KinkInk.art.  
  
Hooper’s articles have been published at Business Insider, Inc. Magazine, HuffPost, Slate Magazine, The Sporting News, MSN Sport, and Quartz. He won the Quora Top Writer award for three years. He has also been published as a comic writer, a poet, and performed numerous copywriting assignments for business and private clients. He has published his first erotic novel and is working on the sequel right now.  
  
Dirk Hooper is the co-host and producer of Safeword Podcast with Mistress Eva. The Safeword Podcast won Best Lifestyle Podcast at the ASN awards in 2021. He also currently does video interviews for FETISHWEEK. Dirk Hooper was the host and executive producer of The Fetish Show. Hooper has been podcasting since 2005 and has produced hundreds of hours of shows over several networks. He has done audiobook narration was for the Suzanne Steele novels Glazov and Expose’.  
  
Dirk Hooper does journalism, commentary, and advice for the BDSM and fetish community through FETISHWEEK articles, The Dirk Side Newsletter, and freelance writing for the BDSM Training Academy, ASN Lifestyle Magazine, Kink Weekly, Kink-e Magazine, Madison Kink and others.  
  
Hooper’s award-winning website, https://www.DirkHooper.com features a gallery of his art and photography, informational articles, interviews, and is the home of FETISHWEEK.  
  
Hooper’s inspiration for his work is an extension of his interests and experience in the BDSM and fetish community. He is a BDSM mentor and has helped guide or train both dominants and submissives.  
  
Hooper works as a consultant on personal branding, social networking, social media management, SEO, copywriting, design and marketing through his Sexy Networking business at http://SexyNetworking.com.

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Dr. Alison Ash, aka Dr. Aly, is a trauma-informed intimacy coach and educator, Stanford University Lecturer, author, and founder of TurnON.love. As a sociologist with a PhD from Stanford, she has a comprehensive understanding of the complex societal challenges that often lead to unsatisfying and disempowering sexual experiences. She designs workshops, courses, and retreats and offers individuals and couples coaching to give others the tools to discover their desires and confidently pursue them. Dr. Aly invites you to TurnON pleasure, intimacy and love at www.TurnON.love
Become an intimacy pro with Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Skills: An 8 Week Mastercourse starting this January. This course features 8 live virtual classes that:
⭐️ weave together science-based data, embodied exploration, and skills development
⭐️ feature lectures and optional breakout room discussions and exercises
⭐️ include extra time for Q&A after
⭐️ offer supplemental materials including handouts, readings, and videos
⭐️ are recorded for those who can’t attend live or want additional review

✩ 𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 - 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐3 ✩
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Individuals, couples, and groups are invited to participate. Course content applicable to both monogamous and non-monogamous dynamics.
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✩ 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙪𝙢 ✩
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Class 1: The Nuances of Consent and Boundaries
Class 2: Embodiment and Nervous System Care
Class 3: Skills for Emotional Depth and Safety
Class 4: Flirting, Seduction, and Expressing Desire
Class 5: Skills for Maximizing Pleasure
Class 6: Erotica, Fantasies, and Unpacking Shame
Class 7: Conflict and Repairing Relationships
Class 8: Picking Partners and Ending Relationships
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Dr. Alison Ash, aka Dr. Aly, a trauma-informed sex and intimacy coach and educator, Stanford Lecturer, and the founder of TurnON.love.

Mistress Natalya Sadici is the Vixen Sadist, Patron Saint of Debauchery, and has been a Professional Dominatrix since 2003. Having started as a lifestyle Mistress first in Chicago, she found her way through the doors of a commercial dungeon-a space she briefly managed. Throughout her career as a proud professional pervert she's: helped run kinky events, taught classes on D/s, fetish, and BDSM; produced educational videos, films titillating FemDom videos, and of course conducts private sessions.  
Her passion for FemDom is palpable. It can be seen by the gleam in her eyes and diabolical grin that comes across her face. She is serious without taking herself too seriously. It’s these complexities she values in herself and others.  
Mistress Natalya currently resides in South Florida sessioning out of her own private dungeon-welcoming the gender spectrum as well as couples to embrace their perversions. Despite being "out", she understands not everyone has the luxury of living an open kinky life. Discretion has, and always will be, the foundation her Pro FemDom business is based upon.

Goddess Severa has been in the BDSM scene for 25 years. At six foot, five inches tall, busty, lean and naturally muscled, She is an Amazon fantasy come to life. She was mentored by the late, great Ava Taurel of the Taurel Institute and Tara Indiana, from the Den of Iniquity, in New York City. She plays with subs in the United States, Canada and Europe and has a member website that has been updated weekly for twenty-three years. She currently plays in Los Angeles. 

Goddess Severa is well versed in the art of domination and includes Her background in sports to Her credentials. She was an accomplished equestrian, then collegiate, national team and professional basketball player (in Germany, Australia, and Switzerland). The Goddess then attained a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and now enjoys indoor climbing. She has degrees in Criminology, Applied Science, a BFA and an MFA. She has traveled to all seven continents and brings a unique intelligence, joie de vivre and an innate desire to connect with others, to Her scenes. These days She is somewhat reclusive and eschews the spotlight.

Ariel Anderssen is a veteran, multiple award winning, British BDSM model with a lifetime’s fascination for submission and masochism.  She grew up in Horsham, West Sussex.  The daughter of a nuclear physicist, Ariel and her older sister Imogen were brought up as Jehovah’s Witnesses by their devoutly religious mother, and to a lesser extent by their father, who was busy with the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the wake of the 1986 disaster.    
  
Having grown up in a religion that was confidently predicting the end of the world by the mid 1990’s, Ariel didn’t expect to actually reach adulthood and need a job.  Consequently, she spent her childhood immersed in imaginary worlds of her own making.  Though her favourite games often included themes of punishment, retribution and capture, she was unaware that these would eventually form the foundations of her sexuality.  
  
Having trained in classical ballet throughout her childhood, Ariel won a place at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London.  Here, she specialised in Shakespearean performance, dramatic combat and physical theatre.  Upon graduating, Ariel was cast in a series of fringe Shakespeare productions in London, followed by several national tours, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in which she played Titania) and Twelfth Night (Olivia).  Her TV credits from this period included The Real Casanova (Channel 4), Real Crime - Jeremy Bamber (ITV) as well as numerous music videos and short films.  She played a leading role in Kelling Brae, which won Best No Budget Picture at the London Independent Film Festival, and won Best Actress for her role in The Dossier at the Independent Film Awards.

Bumbling into an exhibition of BDSM artwork by mistake at age 25, she discovered to her delighted surprise that she was not alone after all. A well-known BDSM photographer exhibiting at the gallery offered her a photo-shoot; she accepted with alacrity and launched her career as a model.  
  
Subsequently, Ariel became one of the best-known fetish models in the UK. Bringing her classical actor’s training to the world of BDSM film production gave her the ability to play a wide range of roles, and by 2010 she was one of the most recognised BDSM models in the world, working extensively through Europe and beyond. 
  
Ariel formed a creative partnership with Hywel Phillips, CERN particle-physicist-turned-award-winning-fetish-photographer early in her career.  Together, they created multiple series and feature-length films for Hywel’s online bondage magazine, Restrained Elegance.  Ariel continues to work as a mainstream model and performer alongside her fetish career, having modelled for many British designers, walked at London Fashion Week, appeared in works exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, featured in a campaign for Coco de Mer and modelled extensively for various well-known painters.  
  
Today, Ariel focuses on creating BDSM-themed work that shows other people they are not alone. To this end, she has built a reputation for honesty and frankness about her sexual identity, career and personal life.  She has a YouTube channel about ‘How to be a Really, Really, Really Old Model’, and Tweets daily about her life as a submissive masochist.   She lives in Wales with her husband Hywel, surrounded by mountains which they climb in their spare time.  Her hobbies include dressmaking, trying to bake Swiss rolls that don't crack, and collecting antique swords.

So here it is – I’ve finally found the courage to share with you the Podopheleus Story through a website and in my featured writing. His website is a guide for submissive males. If you’re a novice (or advanced submissive) male, I hope you will find everything you need to know to get started and to explore your kinks, fetishes, sexual desires and fantasies without feeling fear, shame or guilt. 

Before I visited a Dominatrix, I had so many questions. I spent hours online seeking the answers. However, so many of these questions remained unanswered. 

Have you ever had that feeling of not being good enough? The feeling of being lost? The feeling of not fitting in? You want to make positive changes. On the other hand, you don’t know how. 

The website along with my blogs and my book, Triple-Formed, are packed with information to jumpstart your journey to self-acceptance and to help you embrace your sexuality through Sexual Equanimity. 

My blogs will also teach submissive males how to respectfully communicate with a Dominatrix.

What is Sexual Equanimity?
A great number of men would love to explore their fantasies, fetishes, kinks and desires. However, as previously mentioned, many men either feel guilt, fear or shame. Furthermore, the moment men start exploring their fetishes they could potentially face problems such as addictions/obsessions, seeking validation, overindulgence in masturbation and watching porn. 

Sexual Equanimity is mindfulness in sexuality. To freely explore your sexuality with a balanced mind. I hope my writing and featured resources will provide men with help and support.

Who is Podopheleus?
Well let me start off by saying that I am male. Now we got that out the away. Who am I? I am the author of the debut novel Triple-Formed. I am a rhymer. I am a kinkster. I am a submissive. I am advocating for change. I am a men’s mental health supporter. I encourage mindfulness in sexuality. I support Sex Work/Sex Workers. 

How did I come up with my pen name?
Podo is defined as foot or feet. Podophilia is a paraphilia connected with sexual attraction to feet or foot fetishism. 

Oh and guess what? Yes, I have a foot fetish.

Taking everything into account I came up with the name Podopheleus.

Ludella Hahn is an award-winning fetish actress and filmmaker known for her fiery red hair, hourglass figure, and her palpable passion in the works she creates. Wearing all the hats as a one-woman-show, she takes immense pride in creating her productions all on her own from start to finish–from scriptwriting to set-building, costuming, directing, filming, and editing. With her love for vintage, her curves, and her feminine allure, Ludella has been called the Bettie Page and Marilyn Monroe of modern day, with a little bit of Lucille Ball thrown in. And like Monroe and Ball, it’s always been important to Ludella to prove that women are capable of so much more than being a pretty face.  
  
With 13 Fetish Awards wins under her garterbelt (nestled in with a myriad of nominations from the AVN Awards, Xbiz Awards, Altporn Awards, and the YNOT Cam Awards), she is renowned for her cartoony yet cinematic style in a multitude of niche fetishes, and she has fans all over the world who love her larger than life stories, sets, and characters.  
  
Graduating 8th in her class, Ludella was a top student with a passion for acting and dance from a young age and was a member of her high school’s dance company and theater programs. But she turned down her acceptance into Emerson’s acting program because she didn’t want to amass so much debt early in life, and instead opted to attend a state school, where she graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Classical Humanities and Creative Writing while working a 3rd shift job 40-60 hours a week to pay her way. And even with all that sleep deprivation, her love for performance never went away.  
  
She began modeling in her college years for both the sake of adventure and artistic expression as well as a way to make some extra money to help with her tuition payments, and her career began to take off, landing her first magazine spreads before graduation. She also discovered the local burlesque scene in Portland, Maine during that time and began performing regularly, having missed the way that movement moved her. By the time she graduated, she knew she wanted to try to make a career as a model and performer, and she moved to Boston in 2011 with her now husband to make a go at it.  
  
In 2012 she was given the opportunity to work alongside John Barrowman, William Sadler, and Edoardo Ballerini as the burlesque dancer “Ada” in the Shonda Rhimes ABC Studios pilot Gilded Lilys, and she played supporting actress “Anette” in Ama Lea’s giallo short film Red Red, as well as the character “Bambi” in television series Boston Massacre.  
  
Ludella has been on the covers and pages of many newsstand magazines (like _Bizarre_, _Leg Show_, and _Temptress_) and has had spreads in both _Hustler_ and _Hustler’s Taboo_, to name just a few. She’s been the face of many retro clothing companies, including ads for Vivien of Holloway in UK’s _Vogue_ & _Cosmopolitan_, and her curvy body of work even includes billboards and French erotica book covers. She’s also been featured as a “Top Cosplayer” by _Playboy_, _io9_, and the _LA Times_ for her cosplays at San Diego Comic Con.  
  
She performed burlesque regularly in Boston and New York City, including in Boston’s burlesque ballet spectacular _The Slutcracker_ for three seasons. And although there was much more work in Boston than in her home state of Maine, she found she had to travel often to make a regular income. She would plan monthly trips to NYC for photoshoots and performances and tour other parts of the country with her fellow fetish model and friend Nyxon every couple of months. But after a few years of that, she found herself wanting to spend more time at home and less time lugging 50 lb suitcases around, so she decided to try her hand at being her own producer on Clips4Sale, where she could have complete creative control while working from home.  
  
In 2014, she continued to tour while she built her Clips4Sale business (using the extra clip income to pay off her school loans), and by the end of the year, she was able to make her fetish production business her full time job. In 2016, with her ability to work entirely from home and the housing rates increasing, Ludella and her husband decided to leave the city behind to buy the house they would eventually start their family in. They settled in a farm town in New Hampshire and adopted a Boston Terrior a month later. Then in 2017, she opened a Patreon page to create content for her non-fetishist pinup and cosplay fans. The next year, Ludella would give birth to what she calls her greatest achievement: her son.  
  
Though motherhood would become a 24/7 career in itself, Ludella has continued to create for her productions, and has proven that you can still achieve career success and raise a family at the same time. In 2021, she hit the #1 Studio spot on all of Clip4Sale multiple times, an achievement she never thought she’d make because the kind of content she creates is not explicit in nature, and in 2022 she was nominated for (and won) seven awards in the Fetish Awards.  
  
And with that success, Ludella donates a percentage of her earnings to causes she believes in. Having come from a low income family, food security is a cause that Ludella very much believes in, and she regularly donates to charities that give food to those in need, especially to programs for children. She says that she’s very thankful for the programs that assisted her own family growing up, and believes in paying it forward wherever you can.  
  
Ludella believes that anything is possible with the right mindset, which is why she’s begun work on a podcast project with a focus on self-improvement and companionship, called The Friend In Your Ear Pod, to premiere by the holiday season. She will be using a different name for this project to keep it separate from her adult work, but she hopes her fans will still tune in each week.  
  
Breaking molds and misconceptions has been a large driver in all of Hahn’s success. And if you’re reading this, she’d probably want you to know that you can break through whatever obstacles are holding you back as well, with a bit of elbow grease and believing in yourself. According to her, we’re all capable of magic.

Rocket is sex worker, sex & kink educator, and host of the streaming video series the Rocket Review. TRR is a combination of live streaming talk show style episodes with in-depth interviews, adult entertainment Industry news, and adult product reviews. Launching their fourth season in February 2022 Rocket and Company have now added a podcast version to the already successful streaming series. Rockets mission is to destigmatize sex and professional ethical sex work by bringing his expertise from that arena to main stream audiences.

https://linktr.ee/rocketreviewshow

I am Mistress Damiana Chi, Ph.D., owner of The Chi Temple, the elegantly appointed, private BDSM studio that has been called "The Most Beautiful Dungeon in L.A."

I have been a full-time professional Dominatrix in Los Angeles for 20+ years (since 1999), and a lifestyle Domme for most of my adult life. Born and raised in L.A., I am an all-American girl, but my Chinese-Filipina ethnicity and fluency in Cantonese brings exoticness to my character.  
  
I am proud of the reputation that I have built as one of the most well-respected, established, experienced and skilled Pro Dommes in L.A. What sets Me apart is my understanding of psychology, which is at the heart of BDSM play. I hold a Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology, an M.A. degree in counseling psychology and a B.A. in behavorial sciences.  I have a keen intuitive sense of what it is you crave about being before Me, and I make it a reality. Just as every individual is different and unique, BDSM scenes are individualized and unique with every person.  I can honestly say that I enjoy BDSM and the submissives whom I train more and more every year.

I am also certified sexologist, specializing in kink-centered coaching, and the founder The Evolutionary Dominatrix™ Academy, where I personally mentor Dommes from all over the world using my self-developed psychologically-based methodology and domination framework, as well as an in-depth focus in submissive psychology.  The marriage of my psychological background and passion for the BDSM arts and D/s dynamics gave birth to my evolutionary teachings, taking FemDom to a new level of excellence, connection and joy.

Who doesn’t love to talk about sex and everything in between? Mizzy Bender is here to talk through all the down, dirty and not so fun moments that life has to offer. Mizzy is one female that isn’t afraid to embrace all aspects of life from sexuality to success.

Mizzy Bender is a 38 year old female entrepreneur leading the way within the Lifestyle community. Mizzy’s journey started out with Mindbender Parties and still remains traveling East Coast putting on full thematic lifestyle events with her partner in crime, Spencer. Mizzy’s passion and drive is all about creating an environment that is all inclusive and judgment free, where we can be who we are without question. Where we can have a platform to talk about the things we are curious about without judgments, finding like minded humans to love and support one another.

Through this journey, Mizzy's Boutique was formed, starting as an online shop that has migrated into a traveling pop up boutique at alternative lifestyle events across the US.

Shortly there after, the podcast, The Mizzy Bender Show was created. 

Follow the journey to see where this influencer goes next!