List of BDSM authors

This is a list of notable authors of fiction and/or non-fiction works about BDSM. For other notable people associated with BDSM, see List of people associated with BDSM.

Solace Ames, American author of erotic fiction

Laura Antoniou, writing as Sara Adamson, author of The Marketplace series of novels

Pablo Neruda

Go Arisue, Japanese bondage artist and author

Guy Baldwin, psychotherapist and author known for his work on BDSM and sexual related issues

Violet Blue, American journalist, author, editor, advisor, and educator

Gloria Brame, American sexologist, writer and sex therapist

Rachel Kramer Bussel, American author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica

Patrick Califia, American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry

Casey Calvert, American pornographic actress and film director

Greta Christina, American atheist, blogger, speaker, and author

David Aaron Clark, American author, musician, pornographic actor, and pornographic video director

John Cleland, English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Oniroku Dan, Japanese author of popular SM novels

Tess Danesi, American sex educator, blogger, and writer of BDSM erotica

Tony DeBlase, American leatherman and zoologist, sometimes writing as Fledermaus

Samuel R. Delany, American author and literary critic

Anne Desclos, French writer also writing as Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage, author of Story of O

Vanessa Duriès, French novelist, author of The Ties That Bind

Dossie Easton, American author and family therapist, author of The Ethical Slut

Stephen Elliott, author of My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up

Melissa Febos, American writer, professor and former dominatrix, author of the memoir Whip Smart

Bob Flanagan, American performance artist and writer known for his work on sadomasochism

Maîtresse Françoise, also writing as Annick Foucault, French dominatrix and author

Mary Gaitskill

Stefani Goerlich, American Sexologist and author of The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients, The Leather Chair: Culturally Competent Therapy from The Leather Chair, BDSM and Kink: The Basics (with Elyssa Helfer) and With Sprinkles On Top: Everything Vanilla People and Their Kinky Partners Need to Know to Communicate, Explore, and Connect

Jeff Gord, real name Jeffrey E. Owen, British bondage photographer and writer of erotic fiction

Tilly Greene

Matthias T. J. Grimme, German author and publisher of sadomasochistic literature. author of Das SM-Handbuch

Andrei Gusev, Russian writer and journalist

Hardy Haberman, American author, filmmaker, educator, and activist

Laurell K. Hamilton

Janet Hardy, American writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press

Lee Harrington, American sexuality and spirituality educator, author, and artist

Emma Holly, American author who specializes in writing erotic romance novels

Trevor Jacques, Canadian author, activist, sex researcher, and IT consultant, author of On The Safe Edge: A Manual for SM Play

Maxim Jakubowski

Elfriede Jelinek

V. M. Johnson, American leatherwoman, leather activist and author

E.L. James, real name Erika Leonard, British author writing as E.L. James, author of Fifty Shades of Grey novels

Alan Mac Clyde (1930s novelist), pseudonym of unknown author

Alan Mac Clyde (1950s novelist), pseudonym of unknown author

Mistress Matisse, American dominatrix

Malcolm McKesson, American author and outsider artist

Midori, American bondage artist

Lord Morpheous, Canadian sex educator, author and photographer

Charles Allen Moser, American physician, clinical sexologist, sex therapist, and sex educator

John Norman, real name |John Frederick Lange, Jr., American academic and novelist writing as John Norman, author of the Gor series of novels

Betty Paërl, Dutch mathematician, socialist and transgender rights activist

John Preston, American author and editor of gay erotica

Carol Queen, American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist

Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, author of The Sleeping Beauty Quartet

Catherine Robbe-Grillet, writing as Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg, author of The Image

Pam Rosenthal, writing as Molly Weatherfield, American author of erotic historical romance novels

Robert J. Rubel, American author and educational speaker in the field of alternative sexuality

Gayle Rubin, American cultural anthropologist

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, author of Venus in Furs

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, French nobleman, author of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue; Juliette, The 120 Days of Sodom and Philosophy in the Bedroom

Ariel Sands, pseudonymous author of the sadomasochistic novel Never the Face

Terence Sellers, American dominatrix and writer, author of The Correct Sadist: The Memoirs of Angel Stern

Elf Sternberg, author of online erotic fiction

Gengoroh Tagame, pseudonymous Japanese manga artist

Cecilia Tan, writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press

Bernard J. Taylor

Claire Thompson

Larry Townsend, American author and activist

Kitty Tsui, American author, poet, actor, and bodybuilder

Alison Tyler, pseudonymous American author, editor and publisher of erotica

Mollena Williams-Haas, American writer, BDSM educator, actress, and former International Ms. Leather

Jay Wiseman, American BDSM author, educator, and expert witness

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