About Midori’s Subspecialities

I provide education, information and resource for humanistic, compassionate, and realistic strategies of alternative sexuality and BDSM for clients, clinicians and healing professionals.

One of my strength is in giving practical tools for healthy communication and exploration with emphasis on pragmatic, judgment-free language and paradigm in discussion of BDSM desires. I create dynamic and engaging workshops and work with individuals and partners privately.

I have a body of movement and communication based workshops that engage the mind while providing practical tools. I produce group workshops in safe, comfortable spaces as well as for events, organizations, and also for in-service training to clinicians on site. I also coach clients, individual and partner units, in person, by phone and via video.

My training includes BS in Psychology from UC Berkeley, SAR and educator training from San Francisco Sex Education. I am also a facilitator for Institute for Sexuality Education & Enlightenment's program "InJoy: Desire, Power & Activism with Midori and Betty Martin”

-Midori

Known as the “supernova of kink” according to Dan Savage, Midori emerged from the Sex Positive movement in San Francisco in the early 1990s and soon became one of the most highly regarded presenters on sexuality, personal fulfillment, and kinky adventures. 

Her reputation as an authority and leading expert on alternative pleasures stem not only from her unique and entertaining process of teaching concrete skills, but in her ability to deconstruct and distill complex matters of desire into surprisingly accessible lessons with eloquence and humanity. 

She’s known for tackling challenging topics with fresh and relevant insights. She calls this her “head-heart-hands” method to create a space where people are allowed individual self-exploration. Fundamentally, she is motivated by helping people to create authentic and intimate relationships while emphasizing self-actualization, shame reduction, acceptance, and justice.

Known for her ability to teach with equal parts expertise and heart, her intensives and pop-up classes are often booked months in advance. She is best known for her transformative small-group educational intensives, Rope Dojo and ForteFemme: Women’s Dominance Weekend Intensive.  

She is the author of The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage, Wild Side Sex, and Master Han's Daughter. She has also contributed her expertise and voice in numerous articles, columns, works of fiction, and instructional books. 

When she's not traveling and teaching, she's creating provocative and haunting art and performances.

Midori can help you:

• Find your sexual voice

• Connect to your playful sexual energy

• Learn to name and negotiate your pleasures and desires

• Explore your kink

• Get embodied, impassioned and empowered.

• Understand you sexuality and how to live it in an embodied and authentic manner

• Lean into your Seductive Nature

• How to Embrace your Erotic Power

• Ask for what you want

• Name and negotiate your desires

• How to use your voice to heighten your erotic play

• Learn to mindfully use movement in pleasure

• Build suspense and increase pleasure.

Countries presented in:

·      Australia

·      Austria

·      Canada

·      China

·      Denmark

·      Germany

·      Jamaica

·      Japan

·      Mexico

·      Netherlands

·      New Zealand

·      Norway

·      Singapore

·      Sweden

·      United Kingdom

·      United States

Some of Midori's Popular Classes

·      ForteFemme Women's Dominance Intensive

·      Rope Dojo Intensive

·      Art of Feminine Dominance

·      Best Kink Advice Nobody Told You

·      Aural Sex – Seduction by Voice and Erotic Story Telling

·      Monsters and Shadows: Our Erotic Power Source

·      Rope Bondage – Dominance and Control Moves

·      How to Create Amazing Scenes

·      Erotic Humiliation Play - Hot Squirming - Erotic Humiliation Play: The Why. The How. The What To Avoid

·      The Exquisite Whip. Part I & II

·      Wrapped for Pleasure – Scarf Bondage 

Selected Bibliography

 Books

•  Midori. Laura Antoniou. Cecilia Tan.  Silk Threads. Circlet Press 2018

• Midori. Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage. Greenery Press, 2001.

• Midori. Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink – Educational Sensual & Entertaining Essays. Daedalus Publishing, 2005.

• Midori. Master Han's Daughter. Circlet Press, 2013.

• Midori. The Toybag Guide to Foot & Shoe Worship. Greenery Press, 2005.

• Midori. “Bondage for Sex.” “ForteFemme: The Art and Philosophy of Feminine Dominance.”  Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge.  Ed. Tristan Taormino. Cleis Press, 2012.  87 – 124, 280 – 296.

• Midori. Contributor of original photo, art and fiction  Design Behind Desire: The Sensuous Texture of Wanting.  Ed. Lisa Z Morgan. The Curated Collection, 2013. 

• Midori. Afterwards. Model. Beauty of Fetish.  Steve Diet Goedde. Edition Stimmle, 1998. 

• Midori. Introduction  Inamorata: The Erotic Art of Michael Manning.  Michael Manning. Last Gasp, 2010. 

• Midori. Introduction  The Catalyst and Other Works.  Laura Antoniou. Mystic Rose Books, 2004.

• Midori. "Fifty Shades of Snark"  Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey.  Ed. Lori Perkins. BenBella Books, 2012. 137 – 143

• Midori. "Sex & Technology" chapter. Readings in Contemporary Sexuality. Ed. John P. Elia, Albert Angelo. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. 2000

• Midori. Midori's Guide to Sensual Bondage DVD Ed. Tristan Taorminao. Vivid Ed. 2010

 Media

TEDx

TEDx SoMa "Embrace Change & Creation… The Artist as the Embodied Canvas". San Francisco 2017. https://youtu.be/jXiekEoMrvI

 Popular Press

Columns

•  Midori. "Ask Midori" Men's Health UK.  2005 – 2008

• Midori.  Spectator Magazine. 1995-2000

• Midori. Carnal Nation.  2005 – 2008

• Midori. Taboo Magazine. 2000 – 2004

• Midori. Skin Two Magazine

Radio/Podcast

•  Dan Savage show. Several appearances

• Tina Horn podcast. "Why are People into That?" Several appearances

• American Sex Podcast.