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Alesandra Madison

Alesandra Madison
Why Your D/s Dynamic Keeps Resetting to Vanilla (and How to Stop It)

At Dom Sub Living®, Alesandra helps you overcome vanilla frustrations with a thrilling Dom/sub dynamic that will make BDSM an actual lifestyle for you.

She has over a decade of experience in the lifestyle, and is OBSESSED with teaching new and experienced Doms and subs how to make their lives more fulfilling through BDSM.

The best part? She makes it easy in her course, Dom Sub Training™! With every step-by-step video, strategy, template, script, tutorial, resource, and support element you’d ever need, your D/s relationship just got a whole lot easier AND more sexier!

MEET YOUR EXPERT SPEAKERS

Maja from Obedience

Maja from Obedience
Keeping D/s Steady (Without Running on Empty)

At Obedience, we try to go above and beyond with our products and educational content to help kinksters work toward the kinky future of their dreams. We offer a freemium habit-tracking app for solo and (multi-)partnered kinksters. My job at Obedience is creating and managing the content we share through our social media and blog to ensure anyone, with any level of experience, can learn about kink. I have a background in health communication, sexology, and sex education, and I have been featured in publications such as Vogue Poland.

Xir Divine Rae
Divine Kink: Foundations of Tantric BDSM

Xir Divine Rae is a somatic educator and sexuality guide whose work explores the embodied dynamics of desire, power, and ethical relational engagement. Integrating nervous system awareness with power-informed sexuality education, Divine supports practitioners in developing deeper literacy around arousal, consent, and attachment.

Their work examines how trauma history, cultural conditioning, and lived experience shape bodily responses to intimacy and authority. As the founder of Divine Kink Academy, Divine develops experiential and media-based frameworks that bridge somatics and sexology. Through teaching and art, they advocate for embodied wisdom as a foundation for future-facing sexual ethics and practice.

Amanda Dames, The Kink Consultant

Amanda Dames, The Kink Consultant
Resistance, Fear, and Pushback in Power Exchange

Amanda Dames is a Certified Sex and Relationship Coach, Sexologist, and host of The Kink Consultant Podcast. A former pro dominatrix with years of hands-on experience, she’s helped hundreds of people confidently explore, embrace, and sustain kink in their lives. As a sought-after coach, journalist consultant, and creator of binge-worthy sex ed content on Instagram and TikTok, Amanda is on a mission to destigmatize kink. Whether guiding clients or shaping public narratives, she brings a playful, no-BS approach to making kink feel natural, exciting, and accessible to all.

Julieta Chiara
Kinbaku: the art and play of Japanese bondage

I’m Julieta Chiara, licensed Kinoko shibari educator specializing in grounded, consent-led rope and power dynamics. I teach beginners how to explore rope in a way that’s safe, embodied, and playful. My work focuses on technique, communication, and the psychological depth behind the ties, helping people connect to their bodies, their desires, and themselves. Whether solo or partnered, I guide students to experience rope as a practice of presence, agency, and trust: not just knots, but what unfolds through them.

Luna Carruthers
Types of Submission: Understanding How Submission Shows Up in Power Exchange

Luna Carruthers is the creator of Submissive Guide, one of the web’s longest-running and most trusted resources for BDSM and power exchange education. With over 20 years of lived experience in submission, Luna has spent nearly two decades writing, teaching, and coaching submissives and their partners on building healthy, intentional D/s dynamics. She is the author of several books, including Lessons in Submissive Speech, and is known for blending practical tools with thoughtful reflection to help people understand their roles, needs, and relationship styles within power exchange.

Kim of the Internet
How to Talk to Your Partner About Kink

Kim of the Internet is an award-winning creative, writer, and BDSM practitioner whose north star is to help folks build thoughtfully non-traditional lives. Recognised as Forbes 30 Under 30 and an Inc. Top 250 Female Founder, Kim has been featured in publications like ELLE, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal. She has an audience of 200k+ followers across Instagram and TikTok, and she publishes her writing weekly to 1.3k+ subscribers on her newsletter “Hornsome.”

Loving BDSM

Loving BDSM
Repairing D/s After Conflict

Loving BDSM is a podcast hosted by John Brownstone and Kayla Lords where we help kinksters have happy, healthy power exchange relationships. We’re in a long-term D/s relationship and focus on the realities of living a D/s life.

Andrew Gurza
Domming While Disabled / Submissive While Seated: How do we put disability in the kink space

I (he/they) am a queer wheelchair-user with cerebral palsy who proudly identifies as disabled. I graduated from Carleton University in 2013 with a Masters in Legal Studies. Professionally, I am a Canadian Disability Awareness Consultant, speaker, podcaster, and author hailing from Toronto.

My work inspires my various audiences to expand their consciousness so they can examine disability and sexuality through the lens of disabled people’s own lived experiences. “I love bringing people into my world and sharing perspectives around disability that we don’t often talk about.” I weave my natural candour and disarming humour woven throughout my work, welcoming disabled and abled people alike into a broader worldview that opens up new possibilities at the intersection of sexuality and disability.

Princess Rara
When A Scene Goes Sideways

Princess Rara is the founder of Pink Kink and a respected BDSM educator with over a decade of experience. Through her teachings, writings, and digital products, she provides kinksters with the information, tools, and support they need to build their own version of a healthy, ethical kink life and develop intentional power exchange relationships.

Known for her warm, direct teaching style, Rara breaks down both the fundamentals and the more nuanced parts of kink in ways that feel practical and grounded in real-life experience. She is passionate about helping people grow their confidence, understand what works for them, and navigate the lifestyle with clarity, creating spaces where they feel seen, respected, and empowered to explore safely.

Pleasure Mechanics

Pleasure Mechanics
Pain Mechanics: What You Need To Know To Play With Pain On Purpose

Partners in love and life Chris Maxwell Rose and Charlotte Mia Rose have been immersed in body-based sex education since 2003, and together founded Pleasure Mechanics in 2006. After pioneering the field of Sexological Bodywork, teaching sold out workshops and taking stages big and small worldwide, The Pleasure Mechanics now deliver their soulful and effective erotic education through online courses, personalized coaching and their weekly podcast, Speaking of Sex. Join the conversation at PleasureMechanics.com or say hi on Instagram 

Ms. Elle X
Elevating Submissive Training through Erotic Intelligence

Ms. Elle X is a trauma-informed Erotica Author, Conscious Kink Educator, D/s Relationship Coach, and Dominant Mentor specializing in erotic communication, emotional intelligence, and seduction mastery. A former pro-Domme and lifestyle switch, She brings a nuanced approach to embodied domination shaped by decades of experience.

As host of the Conscious Kink Podcast and creator of a YouTube channel with 110K+ subscribers, She has amassed a 250K+ global platform, and through her Patreon—featuring Q&A sessions, coaching, on-demand courses, and an extensive library of BDSM worksheets and guides—she demonstrates how to embody erotic leadership and practice mindful dominance.

Justine Cross
How Pros Design Scenes That People Remember

Justine Cross is a Los Angeles–based educator, mentor, and professional dominatrix with over 20 years of experience in consensual power exchange, erotic communication, and embodied authority. She teaches from a place of precision, care, and lived expertise, centering consent and sustainable practice.

Her teaching style is direct, thoughtful, and deeply attuned to both power dynamics and human connection — with classes often serving as a soft launch into comedy. Justine owns and operates Stella Obscura, a private BDSM dungeon and learning space, home to the infamous YES MISTRESS sign. She is queer, loves cats, and will always choose The Golden Girls.

Susan Wright
Kink and the Law: What Actually Protects You in BDSM

Susan Wright founded the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom in 1997, and currently serves as Executive Director. She chairs the Consent Counts Committee that helped create the new legal framework for the use of erotic force or restraint: Section 213.10 Explicit Prior Permission in the updated Model Penal Code on Sexual Assault. Susan has had 22 articles published in peer-reviewed journals, including her extensive research on consent, mental and physical health, discrimination and violence against kinky and nonmonogamous people.

Evie Lupine
Developing Genuine Protocols

Evie Lupine is a full-time kink & polyamory educator. She began her journey in 2015, and since that time has been a 24/7 submissive, sadistic bottom, bondage lover, and sensation-seeker. Her compassionate, emotion-focused approach to BDSM has helped thousands of individuals and couples find the play and relationship dynamics they have always wanted.

Jess Morrigan
Say This, Not That: Language That Reinforces Power Exchange

Jess Morrigan is a leadership coach, behavioral strategist, and professional dominatrix who teaches power as a practiced skill. She blends influence psychology, nervous system regulation, and the precision of BDSM power dynamics to help individuals lead without losing themselves. Jess translates the art of dominance into practical frameworks for business, relationships, and identity. Her work centers on liberated power- commanding a room through presence, perception, and calibrated control rather than force.

Luna Matatas
Power with One: Solo Play for Doms and Subs

Luna Matatas is a Sex and Pleasure Educator with over 20 years of experience teaching sex and empowerment workshops. Luna has taught sexual wellness workshops internationally and locally with diverse communities. She celebrates body confidence, sexual self-esteem and building shame-free pleasure in and out of the bedroom. Luna teaches 30+ sexy skills topics; including threesomes, BDSM, and dirty talk. She created Peg the Patriarchy® and Meditate Medicate Masturbate® brands as part of her sex-positive and feminist merchandise.

Miss Mackenzee
Orgasm Control: Navigating Desire with Authority

Miss Mackenzee is a Board-Certified Sexologist, BDSM and Intimacy Educator, Certified Hypnotist, Certified Trauma-informed Relationship and Sexual Wellness Coach, Kink Lifestyle and Professional Dominant Mentor, Owner of Elysium Dungeon, Host of Kink, Intimacy, and Cannabis Lounge Podcast, and Author. She is also the founder of BDSM and Intimacy University. Miss Mackenzee has written and been quoted in numerous publications, been hired as an expert for various media outlets, and is highly sought after for private lessons with individuals and couples as well as presenting at conventions and graduate programs at major universities.

Miriam Green

Miriam Green
Navigating Kink Spaces: How to Play, Connect, and Stay Safe in the Community

Miriam Green has been in the public kink scene for twenty years, and has been a full-time kink educator, coach, and venue owner for the last dozen years. Through Wicked Grounds, they offer kink education for kinksters at every stage of their journey.


Emily Anne
Public Play Ideas No One Will Notice

Emily Anne is a BDSM coach and kink educator, and founder of TheBDSMCoaches.com. Known as a “kink whisperer,” she has taught thousands of people how to confidently explore BDSM and kink through her live workshops, on-demand classes, popular newsletter, and private coaching. Through professional coaching tools, energetics, shadow work, and story alchemy, Emily helps people step into their erotic power, embrace their desires without shame, and create deeper intimacy through the art of dominance, submission, and sacred kink. Her mission is to help people explore their passions, clarify their boundaries, and transform their sex lives with confidence, play, and purpose.

Sir Marvelous

Sir Marvelous
Skillful Dominance: How to Lead with Presence, Not Performance

Sir Marvelous is a Professional Sensual BDSM Dominant, intimacy and pleasure coach, and kink educator with over a decade of experience. He blends the science of arousal, the psychology of desire, and the art of power exchange to deliver transformative, shame-free pleasure education. His work centers destigmatizing kink within BIPOC communities and creating safe, empowering spaces for exploration. Sir Marvelous has been featured on numerous sex-positive podcasts and platforms. He is available for media appearances, intimacy consulting, speaking engagements, and creative collaborations for productions seeking authenticity and expertise.

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