Kink Informed Therapists & Care Professionals w/ Midori – Ep 165
Kink trailblazer Midori joins us for episode 165. Now at the helm of the first Kink Informed Professionals Certification of its kind, Midori recently partnered with the Sexual Health Alliance to bridge the gap between BDSM and mental health/care professions. Once pathologized, kink has recently become a serious area of professional interest and study. In this conversation, Midori tells us how myths from popular culture and those perpetrated by the BDSM community itself have contributed to bias in care professions. We pinpoint why the mental health field is beginning to see BDSM as a healthy outlet for creativity, resilience, and valid erotic expression. We also touch on the ways abuse hides within kink and how stigma around that affects our relationships with therapists, doctors, social workers, attorneys, and other care professionals we come into contact with.
Midori Bio
Trailblazing educator, sexologist, artist, and irritant to banality, Midori founded Rope Dojo and ForteFemme: Women’s Dominance Intensive. She penned the first English instruction book on Shibari titled, “Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage” in 2001, paving the way to the popularity of rope. Dan Savage calls her the “Super Nova of Kink,” while others affectionately call her Auntie Midori for her cool, tell-it-like-it-is, funny, reality-based teaching. She is also the author of “Wild Side Sex,” “Master Han’s Daughter,” and “Silk Threads.”
During this pandemic, learn, laugh and enjoy her special online classes, events and art at www.patreon.com/PlanetMidori
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Episode 164 Links
- Kink Informed Certification – Sexual Health Alliance https://sexualhealthalliance.com/kink-informed-certification-program
- Midori Twitter https://twitter.com/PlanetMidori
- Midori Instagram https://www.instagram.com/planetmidori/
- Midori Newsletter https://www.fhp-inc.com/newsletter
- Midori class/event calendar http://www.FHP-Inc.com/classes
- Midori’s Patreon https://www.patreon.com/PlanetMidori/
- KPACT The Psychological Appeal of BDSM 10/15/2021 https://www.kpact.xyz/product/the-psychological-appeal-of-bdsm/
- Consent Dojo w/Midori & Sunny Megatron (free!) 9/14/21 11am PT https://shibaristudy.com/authors/midori
- Midori History of Shibari (free!) 9/4/21 11am https://shibaristudy.com/programs/histories-and-cultures-of-shibari
- Creative Living Coaching and Private Sexological Consultations: [email protected]
- Sex Down South Virtual Conference Fri 9/10-Sun 9/12 https://hopin.com/events/sex-down-south-conference-2021
- Open Deeply Podcast http://opendeeplypodcast.com
- Ken’s charity DnD game Monday’s 4pm-7pm PT https://www.twitch.tv/thunderpantsacademy
- American Sex Podcast Discord Community http://bit.ly/discordasp
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- American Sex Podcast Patreon http://patreon.com/americansex
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