Lee Harrington (born 28 November 1979) is a sexuality and spirituality educator, author, and artist, currently based in Denver, Colorado. Born in

Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell () is a city in Massachusetts, in the United States. Alongside Cambridge, It is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of ...

, he began transitioning from female to male in 2007.

Author and educator

Lee Harrington has had his writing and poetry appear in numerous magazines, anthologies, and books on the subjects of

rope bondage Rope bondage, also referred to as rope play, kinbaku, shibari or fesselspiele, is bondage involving the use of rope to restrict movement, wrap, suspend, or restrain a person, as part of BDSM activities. Japanese bondage is the most publicly vi ...

ageplay Ageplay or age play is a form of roleplaying in which an individual acts or treats another as if they are a different age. Ageplay is roleplaying between adults, and involves consent from all parties. Ageplay is not necessarily sexual. Portrayin ...

, spirituality,

transgender rights A transgender person is someone whose gender identity is inconsistent or not culturally associated with the sex they were assigned at birth and also with the gender role that is associated with that sex. They may have, or may intend to establi ...

paganism Paganism (from classical Latin ''pāgānus'' "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christianity, early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions ot ...

and

erotica Erotica is literature or art that deals substantively with subject matter that is erotic, sexually stimulating or sexually arousing. Some critics regard pornography as a type of erotica, but many consider it to be different. Erotic art may use a ...

. His book ''

Shibari means "tight binding," while literally means "the beauty of tight binding." is a Japanese style of bondage or BDSM which involves tying a person up using simple yet visually intricate patterns, usually with several pieces of thin rope (often ...

You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macrame'' received the

National Leather Association International National Leather Association International (NLA-I) is a BDSM organization, based in the United States with chapters in various cities in the United States and Canada. It was founded in 1986 as the "National Leather Association" (NLA), as a nationa ...

’s Geoff Mains Book Award for 2008, and his books ''Playing Well With Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities'' (written with Mollena Williams) and ''More Shibari You Can Use: Passionate Rope Bondage & Intimate Connection'' received the

’s Geoff Mains Non-fiction book award for 2013 and 2016 respectively.

Model and photographer

From 1999 to 2006, Harrington was an adult film actor, pornographer, and sex blogger. He placed in the 2005 SIGNY Award for Best Bondage Model, and appeared on more than 70 adult websites (including

Kink.com Kink.com is a San Francisco-based bondage internet pornography company that runs a group of websites devoted to BDSM and related fetishes. Kink.com, along with Kink Studios, LLC, Hogtied.com and Behindkink.com are DBAs for Cybernet Entertainme ...

), various television appearances (such as Playboy's

Sexcetera ''Sexcetera'' is an American television series airing on Playboy TV. Formatted as a newsmagazine, the program focused on human sexuality. ''Sexcetera'' is repeated from time to time on Real Lives, Pick and Virgin1 in the United Kingdom, RTL ...

), and in a variety feature-length adult films.

Bibliography

Books authored

List of books authored by Harrington: * ''Playing Well With Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities'' (2012) (written with Mollena Williams) * ''Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Path of BDSM and Beyond'' (2010) * ''The Toybag Guide to Age Play'' (2007) * ''Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé'' (2006) * ''More Shibari You Can Use: Passionate Rope Bondage & Intimate Connection'' (2015) * ''Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities'' (2016) * ''On Starry Thighs: Sacred and Sensual Poetry'' (2015)

Books edited

List of books authored by Harrington: * ''Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink'' (2011) * ''Rope, Bondage, and Power'' (2009)

References

External links

Personal Blog
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