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

Mistress Cyan was introduced to The Lifestyle in 1989, and has since become a well-respected Leader in The Los Angeles BDSM and Leather Communities. She is known for her charity and dedication to The Community and for Her skills with a Singletail. In 2006, more than 32.000 people were fed as a result of Mistress Cyans efforts. 

Mistress Cyan is the only person in Southern California , if not the entire country, who has produced major conventions, promoted a fetish nightclub, performed at many major fetish clubs and events, produces a Leather Contest, owns Her own Dungeon and is also active in the BDSM and Leather Lifestyle. 

She is the Founder & Organizer of DomCon LA and DomCon Atlanta, both of which are now in their fifth year,, and is the Owner/Operator of Sanctuary in Los Angeles . 

She has appeared in numerous TV shows and movies, and is a well known face in the fetish world as a model and award winning member of the leather community.

Mistress Cyan was invited to become a member of The Los Angeles Leather Coalition in 2005 after receiving six nominations in the 2005 Southland Honors. She then received seven more nominations in the 2006 Southland Honors and was presented The Fundraiser of The Year Award for 2006. She also received eight nominations in the 2006 Pantheon of Leather Awards and was presented The 2006 Pantheon of Leather Community Choice (Woman) Award. In March of 2007, The Los Angeles Leather Coalition presented Mistress Cyan with The Mentor of The Year Award for 2007. In 2008, She was awarded The Treasurers Award for Her fundraising eforts over the past three years She was honored to be a Judge in The 2006 Mr L.A. Leather Contest, the first time such an honor has been bestowed on a member of the Transgender Community. Mistress Cyan was also chosen to represent The Los Angeles Leather Community as a Judge for The Los Angeles Pride Parade in 2006 and has been awarded The 2007 Connie Norman Award for Community Service and Leadership by CSW/LA Pride. Mistress Cyan is always there to help others. She mentors others and helps educate The BDSM and Learher Communities by teaching classes and presenting workshops. She has been featured as a Presenter at Club FEM Los Angeles, Orange Coast Leather Association’s Taster, Threshold’s Carnal Carnival, Los Angeles Pride, Long Beach Prode,Great Lakes Leather Alliance Weekend in Indianapolis , DomCon Los Angeles, DomCon Atlanta and has been invited to present at Ottawa Ne Keather in 2008. Mistress Cyan has performed at The Los Angeles Fetish Ball, The Los Angeles Bondage Ball, The Los Angeles Rubber Ball, Erotic City , LA Pride, Long Beach Pride, Club Fetish, Club DV8 and more, as well as at shows all over the USA including San Francisco , New York , Las Vegas , Tampa and Atlanta . Mistress Cyan is a progressive and innovative thinker. She is not afraid to set new standards, break new ground or accept responsibility. In February 2007, she, and Sanctuary, became the first pansexual organization in Los Angeles to sponsor a feeder contest and select a Leather Titleholder to represent Sanctuary in The 2007 Mr Los Angeles Leather Contest. She has served as President of two of the largest FemDom groups in Los Angeles and served on The Board of Advisors for The Los Angeles Chapter of Club FEM. She is currently an active member of The Los Angeles Leather Coalition Fundraising Committee and participates on The Los Angeles Leather Pride Committee and the LA Pride/Erotic City Board. She is The 2007 Committee Chairperson for the committee in charge of Sponsorship and Vendors. In March of 2009, at The Los Angeles Leather Week's Southland Honors, Mistress Cyan was named 2009 Fundraiser of The Year Award for the second time in four years. In May, 2009. Mistress Cyan was presented the prestigious Pantheon of Leather 2009 Woman of The Year Award.

Mistress Petra Hunter is a professional Dominatrix from Dallas. When she's not at the dungeon, she films femdom and fetish clips and plays virtually with kinksters all over the world through phone calls, texting, and webcam. She loves mockumentaries, making friends with stray cats, and a tightly-laced corset.

About the Professor
I teach my course **“Psych 210: The Diversity of Human Sexuality“** to 1200 students each quarter. I just added a summer session, so now the enrollment is close to 4000 students each year. It is currently the most popular undergraduate offering in the entire history of the University of Washington. This content is so critical and has touched so many of my students that I am now working to bring it outside of the classroom.

**My Philosophy…**

is consistent with a general movement happening nationally called Sex Positivity. We’re so used to hearing about the risks and dangers associated with sex yet there are so many diverse and wonderful things to celebrate! Sex positivity encourages safety but also highlights sexual pleasure. It embraces LGBTQI+ identities and issues. It rejects shame and stigma and it acknowledging that our sexuality feeds into the very essence of our self-identity and happiness. Beyond this however, I have found that in order to be truly sex positive, sex education must be empowering. It has to be collaborative, NOT authoritative in order to promote trust and a free exchange of ideas.

I received my undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1997, her Masters in Psychology at NYU in 2003 and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Washington in 2009. In addition to being a professor, Nicole writes bi-weekly for Psychology Today and is a TedX speaker and frequent contributor to other publications, news sources and podcasts.

Savannah Sly is a musician, Dominatrix, and sex worker rights advocate who resides in Seattle, WA. Savannah enjoys meeting people, rocking worlds, and spinning plates. 
  
Sly became active in grassroots advocacy for sex workers rights in 2013. Compelled to respond to sensational sex trafficking narratives (used as a justification to increase policing and surveillance), Sly became and community organizer with SWOP-Seattle. Sly later went on to serve as Board President of SWOP-USA from 2015-17, prioritizing chapter engagement and centralizing network tools. Since then, Savannah has served as an organizer for the ACLU of Washington, and is a national coordinator for the #OldProProject.  
  
Themes in Sly’s songwriting include sex, magic, power, and personal history. Sly’s debut album INDEPENDENT MEANS was released in December 2019, and is dedicated to sex workers everywhere.  
  
As a sex worker, Savannah has been active since 2003 and has no plans of ceasing. Known as Ms. Savannah, Sly has dominated hearts and minds internationally with great joy. Ms. Savannah is grateful for the opportunities and adventures sex work has made possible

Jean Bardot is a legendary fetish model, performer and actress, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.   Jean Bardot first became part of the fetish world in the 90’s when she was a student at MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art & Design).  Jean, along with friends and colleagues, started a weekly fetish party called Bondage a Go-Go at Ground Zero in Minneapolis and Mistress Jean was born at that time. In the 2000’s, Jean became internationally famous, having developed and starred as the character “Rubberella” in dozens of full length fetish films.  Jean’s efforts in these films and others helped to pave the way for not only her career, but also for an entire industry of latex fetish, fashion and domination.  As a fetish supermodel, Jean has been featured in all of the contemporary fetish publications, and as a performer, she has graced kink’s biggest stages, headlining all the major kink and fetish events.      As Mistress Jean Bardot, she is also a very well known professional dominatrix, making dreams come true in her well-appointed Minneapolis dungeon.  Her dungeon is multi-level, with several themed rooms to satisfy different kinds of fantasies.  Over the years, Jean has also amassed a world class collection of latex fashion, gear and toys, that she regularly puts to use in the dungeon, on the stage and in front of the camera.  More recently, Jean has also become a fetish and kink educator, teaching online, in person in Minneapolis, and also on YouTube, where the Jean Bardot Show is hosted.

Jon Woods grew up in Indiana and lived in New York before moving to California to work for Harmony Concepts in 1993. Little did he know his background in theater, radio and writing would come in so handy for his dream job. He's produced a lot of damsel-in-distress style bondage videos, and continues to do so. He considers his life-partner Lorelei Mission to be integral for his success.

ShinyBound was established in 2015. Over the last 6 years, they have released over 1000 videos, and worked with hundreds of models. Winner of Fetishcon's "Best Rigger" award. Known for their tight ties and signature shiny wardrobe, ShinyBound's work is hard to miss! Also be sure to check out their other project, ShinysBoundSluts.com.

Lee Harrington is an internationally known spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist and award-winning author and editor on erotic and sacred experience. He is a nice guy with a disarmingly down to earth approach to the fact that we are each beautifully complex ecosystems, and we deserve to examine the human experience from that lens.

Beginning as a peer sex educator in his teens, and occasionally teaching relationship and kinky sexuality courses from the late nineties through 2003, when Lee transitioned out of the non-profit world into this adventure with uncertainty, followed by excitement. Since then, Lee has had the opportunity to teach in person at universities, sexuality conferences, and within alternate sexuality communities across the United States (in all 50 states), Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia.  He has taught over 700 classes to date (with more being set all the time) ranging in topics from effective speaking skills to erotic authenticity, rope bondage to safer magical sex, gender paradigms to dominant/submissive power exchange within culture at large.

Along the way, he has become known for bringing a combination of playful engagement and thoughtful academic dialogue to a broad audience. Lee believes in providing educational experiences in the interstitial space where adult sexuality, personal integrity and spiritual exploration come together. He has also had the pleasure of being the keynote speaker for two conferences on the topics of inter-community intersections, and meeting the needs of community leaders. As a public educator, he has developed both a cult following and a private clientele base of individuals seeking a sexuality life coach as well as a spirit worker, helping them find and explore the path that is right for them.

This calling to educating about sexuality and more in an accessible manner has led to his prolific writings on the topics of sexuality, gender identity, erotic restraint, community dynamics, alternative relationships, kink, spirituality, and sacred sex. He is the only author to win the Geoff Mains award for excellence in non-fiction sexuality writing, and a number of his works have become staples for reference and recommendation within their respective communities. Lee currently has eight books in publication, as well as editing two non-fiction anthologies and writing extensively for anthologies, magazines, online publications, and fiction collections.

His non-fiction books are:

*   _[Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities](http://www.amazon.com/Traversing-Gender-Understanding-Transgender-Realities/dp/194273381X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20)_
*   _[Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé](http://www.amazon.com/Shibari-You-Can-Use-Japanese/dp/0977872726/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20)_
*   _[More Shibari You Can Use: Passionate Rope Bondage and Intimate Connection](http://www.amazon.com/More-Shibari-You-Can-Use/dp/0977872750/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20)_
*   _[The Toybag Guide to Ageplay](http://www.amazon.com/Toybag-Guide-Age-Play-Guides/dp/1890159735/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20)_
*   _[Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond](http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Kink-Eightfold-Paths-Beyond/dp/1942733909/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20)_
*   _[Playing Well With Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0937609587/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20)_ (co-written with the talented Mollena Williams

In addition to his writing and teaching, Lee is the host of the Passion And Soul Podcast that has been running since January 2011, covering topics on the intersection of sacred sex, kink, and life exploration as a multifaceted soul. He has also been an invited guest on numerous other podcasts and radio shows as well, and loves reaching a variety of folks through this fantastic media. His blog, running since 1998, is still a passionate project, having shifted over time as his life has evolved.

When not teaching, touring, blogging, writing, podcasting, or appearing in video, Lee is also a performance artist, shamanic practitioner, and sacred sex ritualist.  He has performed on stage at L’Erotica (Sydney), Femina Potens (San Francisco), New Zealand Fetish Ball (Christchurch), Torture Garden (London), ShibariCon (Chicago), Darkside Club (Berlin), and more. As a spirit worker, shamanic practitioner and ritualist, he has offered private exploration intensives, done individual rites (such as officiating weddings and collaring ceremonies), created unique experiences, and offered professional domination. These all tie into his published and gallery-show work as a photographer, his internationally shown biographical one-performer show “Creature on a Quest,” and his published poetry collection [_On Starry Thighs: Sacred and Sensual Poetry_](http://www.amazon.com/Starry-Thighs-Sensual-Sacred-Poetry/dp/0977872769/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20).

Speaker, Author, Artist, Spirit Worker

Lee was not planning to end up living the life he has today, but life is full of miraculous twists and turns. Beautiful gifts, he finds, are often wrapped in unexpected packages. We each follow our passion and our soul. He has done that, and hopes to help open up the doorway for people doing that for themselves and the world at large.

For those that want a smile:Lee collects antique keys, bandanas, sacred doodads, and good friends in his spare time between bouts of changing the world.  And know what? You can change the world too.

Monica Hamburg is a comedian, producer, actor, voice-over artist, podcaster, and storyteller - for a few years, she was even a digital marketing speaker. Her one-person show, "$50 Future" was at NYC's SoloCOM 2019, and her panel show, "Pornomedy" sold out in October 2021 and was popular at 2019's Montreal Comiccon, Fringe After Dark & Festival De La Bete Noire. Her shows are a fun & evil time. (That also describes Monica.)  
  

Her (often stand-up) festival credits include: Off-JFL/Zoofest (Montreal) & Just for Laughs Northwest (Vancouver) with "Tinder Tales", Laugh Riot Grrrl Comedy Festival (Los Angeles), SoloCOM (NYC), Fringe After Dark (Montreal), Ladyfest Montreal, Festival De La Bete Noire (Montreal), New Formats Festival (Toronto), and Nashville's 2018 Broken Record Show, where she was chosen as one of the "Bestival of the Festival".

She performs stand-up all around. And has also done many storytelling shows - especially, "The Stories We Don't Tell" (2 of her stories are in their book).

Miss Mackenzee is a Professional Dominatrix, Certified Erotic Hypnotist, Sexual Wellness Coach, Lifestyle and Adult Industry Mentor, as well as an International BDSM and Sex Educator. She has been involved in the kink lifestyle for 20 years. Miss Mackenzee co-hosts the Kink, Intimacy, and Cannabis Lounge podcast and also creates beautiful one-of-a-kind self defense tools and BDSM toys with her live-in submissive. Mindfulness is a practice that she incorporates not only into her play but her everyday life and enjoys helping others become more in tune with themselves and their partner(s). She teaches a full range of subjects including but not limited to energy/Tantra, bondage, power exchange, hypnosis, sexuality, and the art of sadism.  
  
Miss Mackenzee is highly sought after for private lessons with individuals and couples as well as presenting at conventions and graduate programs at major universities. She has brought her experiences and skills to various organizations such as Kink.com, Widener University, TES, SF Citadel, Dark Odyssey, Celebrity Cruiseline, VoxBody Studio, Wicked Grounds, Black Thorn/Sacred Muse, SINergy, Kinky Kollege, Bound In Boston, YNot, SheBop, Adventures in Sexuality, ROPECRAFT, Weekend of Wickedness, Purple Passion, Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, Sexploratorium, EXXXotica, and many others.  
  
She prides herself on creating a fostering environment that is safe from societal judgments for people to explore their kinks and sexuality. Each and every workshop is taught with passion and includes intentional energy as she feels it is essential to building a connection to not only her demo bottoms but the participants in her classes. She welcomes people to be free and honest with themselves and their desires.

Lusy Sweetkill and Dia Dynasty are two NYC Based Dominatrixs who have been the proprietors of La Maison du Rouge. La Maison du Rouge is focused on expanding the BDSM experience by discussing, educating, and informing our audiences about the intersections of kink, wellness, sexuality, spirituality, and social activism. They aim to build community in this regard by creating a safe space for discussing these topics as well as advocating the normalization of alternative sexualities.  By challenging current social norms, they aspire to bolster a culture around consent and open communication.