About Midori
Midori, Internationally Acclaimed Sex Educator & Sexologist
Empowered Sexuality Coach & Sex Educator
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.
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 sexuality 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
We Speak Sexuality.
Learn to use your voice and feel empowered in your erotic desires.
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 and personal fulfillment.
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, as well as her one on one work with individuals and partners.
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.
Internationally Acclaimed Sex Educator & Author, Midori…
Japanese-born educator and practitioner Midori shows step-by-step how to achieve beautiful and exciting Japanese bondage on a variety of body types.
From ornately decorative to excruciatingly stringent, Japanese rope bondage is an art which has developed over centuries of martial and erotic practice. Now, accomplished Japanese-born educator and bondage practitioner, Midori shows step by step how to achieve beautiful and exciting Japanese bondage on a variety of genders and body types.
Each chapter starts with a spectacular, tasteful full-color photo of the finished bondage pose - harnesses, hogties, standing and bent-over poses, and more - then goes back and explains with text and line art how each rope and knot is placed to achieve the final result. Readers can use the detailed instructions to experiment safely and erotically with their own partners - or simply enjoy viewing the pictures of Midori's expertise.
Selected Bibliography & Media:
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
TEDx
TEDx SoMa "Embrace Change & Creation… The Artist as the Embodied Canvas". San Francisco 2017. https://youtu.be/jXiekEoMrvI
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.