Lee Harrington
US-based sexuality and spirituality educator and author of Shibari You Can Use (2006) and More Shibari You Can Use (2015), both winners of the Geoff Mains award, and editor of the anthology Rope, Bondage, and Power.
Lee Harrington is an educator, author and editor working on sexuality, gender and spirituality, and the author of two manuals of Japanese-inspired rope bondage. English Wikipedia introduces Harrington as an educator on sexuality and spirituality who also writes and makes art; the publisher’s author note calls Harrington an internationally known educator, gender explorer, artist and award-winning author and editor.
Rope books
Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé first appeared in 2006 according to Wikipedia’s bibliography, while the reading list in Wikipedia’s article on Japanese bondage gives 2007; it is published by Mystic Productions Press. The distributor describes a 122-page large-format primer with photographs by RiggerJay that moves from basic knots to chest harnesses, hogtie and shrimp positions, rope corsets and crotch ropes, and also covers communicating desires, first-time self-consciousness and rope care. The sequel, More Shibari You Can Use: Passionate Rope Bondage and Intimate Connection (2015), again illustrated by RiggerJay, adds intermediate ties and exercises on touch, power exchange, intimacy and trust, as well as negotiation and decorative rope.
Both books won the National Leather Association International’s Geoff Mains award, the first for 2008 and the second for 2016, according to Wikipedia, which also records a win for 2013 for Playing Well With Others (2012), a guide to kink communities co-written with Mollena Williams. Harrington’s own biography says no other author has won the award three times. Harrington also edited the anthology Rope, Bondage, and Power (2009).
Teaching
Harrington’s biography says the teaching began with peer sex education as a teenager, continued with occasional classes on relationships and kink from the late 1990s and became full-time work after 2003. It reports more than 1,300 classes at universities, sexuality conferences and community events in all fifty US states and in Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. The topics listed include embodied rope bondage alongside gender, communication and power exchange. Harrington also hosts a podcast, running since 2011, and has written books on sacred kink, transgender experience and self-connection.