Midori (author)

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Japanese-American artist, writer and sex educator

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nameMidori
native_name美登里
native_name_langja
birth_date
birth_placeKyoto, Japan
death_date
occupationAuthor, Educator, Artist, Speaker, and Coach
alma_materUniversity of California, Berkeley
subjectPsychology of Sexuality, Japanese rope bondage, BDSM, Relationships
website
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Midori is a sexologist, educator, author, artist, speaker, and coach. Midori wrote the first English language book with instruction on Japanese rope bondage and continues to write on alternative sexual practices, including BDSM and sexual fetishism, bondage, erotic fiction, and more. She teaches classes, presents at conferences, coaches individuals and professionals, and facilitates in-depth weekend intensives. She is based in San Francisco, California.

Biography

Midori was born in Kyoto, Japan, of Japanese and German parents. She grew up in Tokyo and moved to the United States at age 14. Midori studied psychology at University of California, Berkeley. She served as a United States Army Reserve Intelligence officer while earning a degree.

Career

Early in her career she also worked as a condom manufacturer's sales representative. She spent a few years as a sex educator with San Francisco Sex Information. After serving in the military, she began her art career performing in queer nightclubs, collaborating with other "weirdo" transgressive and experimental artists.

Midori teaches internationally on BDSM, alternative sexuality, feminine dominance, Shibari / Japanese bondage, and kink. She has spoken at conferences, universities, and organizations promoting sexual health, wellness, and education.

In 2021, she worked with the Sexual Health Alliance to create the year-long Kink Informed Certification (KIC) Program which offers training to therapists, educators, coaches, or consultants who works with individuals engaging in kink, BDSM, and alternative sexuality.

She is known for her in-depth weekend intensives, ForteFemme: Women's Dominance Intensive and Rope Dojo: Rope Bondage Weekend Intensive where she uses her "head-heart-hands" method to create a space where people are allowed individual self-exploration. Her work focuses on helping people to create authentic and intimate relationships while emphasizing self-actualization, shame reduction, acceptance, and justice.

Art

Midori is a multidisciplinary, social practice artist. She creates installations, performances, group exhibitions & social practice projects that examine human narratives, cultural experiences of queerness and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage, and ephemeral nature of memory and place. She has presented lectures at several universities and is a resident artist at the San Francisco Battery.

Midori's work has been shown at San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Leslie Lohman Museum, SOMArts, Ithaca College, Das Arts Amsterdam, Gorilla Gallery Oaxaca, Root Division, among others.

She offers creative coaching and consulting through the Intersection for the Arts, a Bay Area arts nonprofit that's dedicated to helping artists grow.

Awards

Bibliography

  • The Seductive Art of Japanese Rope Bondage, Greenery Press, 2002
  • Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink: Educational, Sensual, And Entertaining Essays, Daedalus Publishing, 2005
  • The Toybag Guide to Foot and Shoe Worship, Greenery Press, 2005
  • Master Han's Daughter: Tales from Depraved NeoTokyo Circlet Press, 2006
  • Silk Threads (co-author), Riverdale Avenue Books LLC, 2019
  • An Intersectional Approach to Sex Therapy: Centering the Lives of Indigenous, Racialized, and People of Color (contributing author), Routledge Press, 2022
  • Fundamental Concepts and Critical Developments in Sex Education: Intersectional and Trauma-Informed Approaches, (contributing author), Routledge Press, 2025

References

References

  1. "Midori - Sexologist + Educator".
  2. Zinko, Carolyne. (2015-02-13). "'Shades of Grey's' kink scenes whipping up a frenzy? Not in S.F.".
  3. "Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage & Shibari".
  4. Cara Mason. (1 November 2012). "Coco der Mer Launch Lessons In Love Salons".
  5. Garofoli, Joe. (2002-08-04). "Of Human Bondage / The SM scene's budding popularity among heterosexual couples is causing aging dominatrices to go where many retirees have gone before them: into the classroom".
  6. Levine, Katie. (October 2, 2013). "Sex Nerd Sandra #112: Rope Bondage with Midori".
  7. Zinko, Carolyne. (2008-02-10). "Midori explains how to have sex, with props".
  8. "Artist Bio – Midori".
  9. "Midori - Workshop Facilitator Midori at Come As You Are". Comeasyouare.com.
  10. (2017-06-04). "The Many Sides of International Sex Educator Midori".
  11. (7 October 2015). "Hands On Japanese Rope Bondage Workshop With Midori".
  12. (20 March 2019). "Rope: Control & Dominance Moves with Midori (2019-04-09)".
  13. (2018-04-09). "Editors' Picks: 14 Things to See in New York This Week".
  14. Zinko, Chronicle Staff Writer, Carolyne. (February 10, 2008). "Midori explains how to have sex, with props THE TOOLS OF ROMANCE".
  15. "Kink Informed Certification Program".
  16. "About Midori".
  17. "Midori – Art, Performance & Installations".
  18. "Past / Present / Future – Midori".
  19. "The Battery".
  20. "Coaches & Consultants".
  21. Rhodes, Dave. "Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients".
  22. (2019-04-18). "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Celebrate Their 40th Anniversary".
  23. Staff, SF Weekly. (2013-05-29). "Best Sex Educators".
  24. "Erobay - Society of Janus".
  25. "Awards".
  26. Noble, Barnes &. "Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage{{!}}Paperback".
  27. Midori. (2005-07-15). "Wild Side Sex: Educational, Sensual, and Entertaining Essays". Daedalus Publishing.
  28. OpenLibrary.org. "The toybag guide to foot and shoe worship (2004 edition) {{!}} Open Library".
  29. "Master Han's Daughter by Midori {{!}} Circlet Press".
  30. "Silk Threads - Three Tales of Passionate Japan {{!}} Riverdale Avenue Books - premier publisher of pop, mystery, dagger, lgbt, magnus, queer, desire, erotic, truth, sff, horror, afraid, science fiction, fantasy sports,, gaming, verve, lifestyle, and romance ebooks, short stories, novellas and novels".
  31. "An Intersectional Approach to Sex Therapy: Centering the Lives of Indigenous, Racialized, and People of Color".
  32. "Fundamental Concepts and Critical Developments in Sex Education: Intersectional and Trauma-Informed Approaches".

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