Cléo Dubois

Cléo Dubois is a well known [...] educator, ritualist, and personal trainer in the kinky arts.

Ms. Dubois founded the Academy of SM Arts in 1995 in response to the growing need for a safe place to learn and explore [...] from an experienced professional as many misconceptions and misinformation were being spread around. In 2000, Ms. Dubois, produced a docu-film on [...] energy exchange in the dungeon. The Pain Game went on to receive an award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.

In 2002, Ms. Dubois started leading [...] dominance intensives for women, with her partner Sybil Holiday. This workshop was designed to help those with some [...] experience to increase their skills, gain confidence and expand their range of choices within a scene. Two years later she added a workshop for men.

Currently she teaches three different intensives for men, women, and professionals with her co-teachers, Eve Minax and Selina Raven, as well as guest faculty from the community, including JD of the Two Knotty Boys.

Ms. Dubois is a distinguished lecturer at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, an invited speaker at San Francisco State University, the University of California and One Taste SF, where she is an affiliate teacher.

As a body ritual enthusiast, along with her life partner, Fakir Musafar, she conducts Spirit + Flesh shamanic ritual/workshops. She describes it as "a personal dance of ecstatic fire".

Awards

• The Society of Janus made her a life long member at their 30th anniversary.
• Southwest Leather Conference 2008 bestowed Living Leather Legends award to her and her partner Fakir Musafar.
• San Francisco 2008 Gay Pride she was the Leather Contingent Marshal.

Videography / Bibliography

• Monthly ALT.com Articles
• The Pain Game - 2000 - The first "real" video that answers the question: Why do people enjoy [...] pain?
• Tie Me Up - 2002 - Answers the question: Why do people enjoy being bound?

See also

• Domination & submission ([...])
• Risk-aware consensual kink
• Sadomasochism
• Safe, sane and consensual
• [...] Fetishism
• Fakir Musafar

References

• SCENE profile - Cléo Dubois
• Top Kink Coach - Annie Sprinkle & Captain Barb
• Kiss of Leather, Tongues of Fire
• Kiss of Leather - part 2
• [...] Integrity Podcast - Interview w/ Cleo Dubois
• Academy of SM Arts
• [...] Goddess - 1998 - Carol Queen Interview - Edited by Pat Califia & Drew Campbell
• [...] Tips and Tales from Women Who Dare - Jo-Anne Baker - Part 6 Dominance & Submission
• Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
• Society of Janus
• Spirit + Flesh Workshops