Cléo Dubois
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Cléo Dubois is a BDSM
educator, writer, documentarian, ritualist, and personal trainer in the kinky arts.
Dubois founded the Academy of SM Arts in 1995 in response to the growing need for a safe place to learn and explore BDSM from an experienced professional as many misconceptions and misinformation were being spread around. In 2000, Dubois, produced a docu-film on erotic energy exchange in the dungeon. In 2002, The Pain Game received an Award form the Society for the scientific Study of Sexuality - Western region.
In 2002, Dubois started leading erotic dominance intensives for women, with her partner Sybil Holiday. This workshop was designed to help those with some BDSM experience to increase their skills, gain confidence and expand their range of choices within a scene. Two years later she added a workshop for men.
Currently she teaches three different intensives for men, women, and professionals with her co-teachers, Eve Minax and Selina Raven, as well as guest faculty from the community, including JD of the Two Knotty Boys.
Dubois is a lecturer at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, an invited speaker at San Francisco State University, the University of California and One Taste SF, where she is an affiliate teacher. This year she will present at IMsL in San Francisco and East coast conference Floating World.
As a body ritual enthusiast, along with her life partner, Fakir Musafar
, she conducts Spirit + Flesh shamanic ritual/workshops. She describes it as "a personal dance of ecstatic fire".
BDSM
BDSM is an erotic preference and a form of sexual expression involving the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role-play. The compound acronym BDSM is derived from the terms bondage and discipline , dominance and submission , and sadism and masochism...
educator, writer, documentarian, ritualist, and personal trainer in the kinky arts.
Dubois founded the Academy of SM Arts in 1995 in response to the growing need for a safe place to learn and explore BDSM from an experienced professional as many misconceptions and misinformation were being spread around. In 2000, Dubois, produced a docu-film on erotic energy exchange in the dungeon. In 2002, The Pain Game received an Award form the Society for the scientific Study of Sexuality - Western region.
In 2002, Dubois started leading erotic dominance intensives for women, with her partner Sybil Holiday. This workshop was designed to help those with some BDSM experience to increase their skills, gain confidence and expand their range of choices within a scene. Two years later she added a workshop for men.
Currently she teaches three different intensives for men, women, and professionals with her co-teachers, Eve Minax and Selina Raven, as well as guest faculty from the community, including JD of the Two Knotty Boys.
Dubois is a lecturer at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, an invited speaker at San Francisco State University, the University of California and One Taste SF, where she is an affiliate teacher. This year she will present at IMsL in San Francisco and East coast conference Floating World.
As a body ritual enthusiast, along with her life partner, Fakir Musafar
Fakir Musafar
Fakir Musafar is considered the father of the modern primitive movement. He has experimented on his own body with body modification techniques such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing, and suspension, and has documented, shared and taught others as part of his life's work...
, she conducts Spirit + Flesh shamanic ritual/workshops. She describes it as "a personal dance of ecstatic fire".
Awards
- Southwest Leather Conference 2008 bestowed Living Leather Legends award to her and her partner Fakir Musafar.
- San Francisco 2008 Gay Pride she was the Leather Contingent Marshal.
Videography / Bibliography
- Monthly ALT.com Articles
- The Pain Game - 2000 - The first "real" video that answers the question: Why do people enjoy erotic pain?
- Tie Me Up - 2002 - Answers the question: Why do people enjoy being bound?
See also
- Domination & submission (BDSM)
- Risk-aware consensual kinkRisk-aware consensual kinkRisk-aware consensual kink is an acronym used by some of the BDSM community to describe a philosophical view that is generally permissive of certain risky sexual behaviors, as long as the participants are fully aware of the risks...
- Sadomasochism
- Safe, sane and consensual
- Sexual FetishismSexual fetishismSexual fetishism, or erotic fetishism, is the sexual arousal a person receives from a physical object, or from a specific situation. The object or situation of interest is called the fetish, the person a fetishist who has a fetish for that object/situation. Sexual fetishism may be regarded, e.g...