Cast

Ms. Heart is a Lifestyle Educator, Pro Model and Community Advocate. Additionally, she is the Program Manager of the “Bay Area Women of Color Photo Project and Fine Arts & Elegant Fetish Photography.” This volunteer photo project features a variety of women of color in art photography that honors the beauty and style of women of color. Ms. Heart specializes in exquisite, elegant “Power Exchange.” This style is steeped deeply in “Energy Exchange, guided by High Ritual Old-Guard sensibilities and laced with transformative spiritually inspired connections.

Janet W. Hardy is the author or coauthor of ten groundbreaking books about relationships and sexuality, including The Ethical Slut (75,000 copies sold to date, with a second edition coming in 2009 from Ten Speed Press). Her writing has appeared in publications as various as The Sondheim Review, Clamor, and EIDOS. Janet has traveled the world as a speaker and teacher on topics ranging from ethical multipartner relationships to erotic spanking and beyond. Janet has appeared in documentaries (Slut, Beyond Vanilla, Vice and Consent), television shows (SexTV, The Dr. Susan Block Show), and more radio shows than she can count.

Certified in advanced clinical hypnotherapy, sex education, Reiki II, and EFT, Sybil Holiday is a hypnotherapist, sex educator and energy worker specializing in sexuality and BDSM concerns, phobias, traumas, PTSD, and relationships. Sybil has addressed audiences at San Francisco State University and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. She has appeared on television and radio programs including Geraldo, People Are Talking and Pittsburgh Today. As a supervisor at the San Francisco Sex Information Switchboard for two and a half years, she spoke individually with hundreds of people about virtually every aspect of sexuality. A member of the San Francisco SM community since the early 1980s, she held a private practice as a professional dominant as M. Cybelle.

Master Hines has been a BDSM educator for ten years. He formally joined the BDSM community in 1992 in Atlanta Georgia and moved to the bay area in 2003 to be with his beautiful wife and soul mate. Core to Master Hines’ BDSM philosophy is spirituality through power exchange. His technique and approach to SM puts heavy emphasis on the spiritual connection between Top and bottom. Master Hines has presented demonstrations, classes and private workshops throughout the Southeast and the Bay Area and is well respected for his flair and artistry with floggers. Master Hines has given classes on many topics including Flogging, Spirituality and SM, Erotic Knife Play, Resistance Play, The SM of Hands, and Sensuous Caning. Master Hines is also an accomplished artist specializing in modern abstract paintings. For more information on Master Hines you can visit his websites at www.masterhines.com and www.theartisthines.com.

A kink player since the age of twenty, twenty-nine year old Jorge Vieto is an active of the San Francisco’s leather community. A fraternal member of The 15 Association, Jorge holds the tittle of San Francisco Leather Daddy’s boy XXII, an is a member of San Francisco boys of Leather. He has been a guest speaker, panelist and demonstrator with groups such as, Leatherman’s Discussion Group, Leather Alley, Aguilas, Gender Blast, and the Stop AIDS Project Leather Events action group. Additionally Jorge has written articles for NALA News, Bear Party Magazine and is the current LGBT editor for Kink-e-zine.com. Jorge currently works as the Bars and Clubs Intervention coordinator for the STOP AIDS Project.

Nova and Atticus host the fun and provocative sexual health podcast, “Fetish Flame,” designed to explore BDSM and other forms of alternative sexuality. Shows vary from conversations in which Nova and Atticus share stories about pushing their personal boundaries with one another, to topical shows with an array of guests, including leading sex educators, dominatrices, and fellow fetishists. The podcasts are designed to educate, titillate, and just maybe provide a few laughs as well.

In 1997, Robert ended a 15-year relationship that began at age 18, quit the corporate, Director level job he’d held for 10 years, and started enjoying life. Since then, he’s explored the BDSM/leather sub-culture from coast to coast, appeared in more than 50 adult films (Catalina, Falcon, Hot House, Raging Stallion, and others), and posed for more than a dozen magazine spreads and covers. Robert now lives in San Diego and works as a massage therapist while attending school to become a Registered Nurse. https://robertblackxxx.com/

Lord Falcon is a former Officer for Society of Janus and is very active in the BDSM community. He believes that education and outreach are paramount to safe, sane, and consensual BDSM practice and engages in an educational capacity whenever possible.

Selina Raven is an active member of San Francisco’s SM community and a practicing professional Domina. She’s been engaging in various forms of “body play” for as long as she can remember, and began Mistressing professionally in 1998. In 2000, Selina met and was befriended by noted author and Pro Dom, Sybil Holiday, and was greatly honored when Ms. Holiday agreed to become her mentor and guide. Selina Raven currently teaches at the Academy of SM Arts and serves as a skilled scene facilitator. For Ms. Raven, her work in alternative sexuality is a dream come true, as she loves to share her SM skills, and to provide students a safe, nonjudgmental environment in which to discover their own erotic power. http://www.selinaraven.com/