Dawn Atkins (born February 13, 1962) is an American writer of nonfiction and fiction, as well as an activist and educator.
She has had an influence in a number of diverse areas including journalism, anthropology, body image, science fiction and fantasy, feminism, gender and sexuality studies, and Neopaganism.
John “Steve” Stevenson (born 1930) is a British writer who, under the pen name Marcus van Heller, wrote erotic fiction for the Traveller’s Companion series of Olympia Press publisher (1955–1961). Later he also wrote under the pen name Stephen John. In 1954, at the age of 23, John Stevenson arrived for a sojourn in Paris, […]
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai (12 June 1760 – 25 August 1797) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat.[1] Born in Paris as the son of a stationer, he became a bookseller’s clerk, and first attracted attention with the first part of his novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (Paris, 1787; English translation […]
Vanessa Duriès, also known as Katia Lamara (1972 – December 13, 1993), was a French novelist. She was the author of the French BDSM novel Le lien (translated into English as The Ties that Bind) based on her own experience as a BDSM slave. She created quite a stir in France at the time of […]
Basil Papademos (born 1957 in Toronto, Ontario)[1] is a Canadian writer.[2] He is best known for his 2012 novel Mount Royal, which won the award for Best Erotic Novel at the 2013 Bisexual Book Awards[3] and was a nominee in the novels category at the 2013 ReLit Awards.[4] After his Bisexual Book Awards win, he […]
V. M. (Viola M.) Johnson (born 1950) is an American leatherwoman, activist, author and archivist who embarked on her journey in the leather and BDSM scenes in the early 1970s. A strong advocate for the necessity of preserving leather/fetish/erotic history, Johnson speaks and writes on the broad spectrum of issues that concern her and her […]