The Ritual of Play with Cleo Dubois

The Ritual of Play with Cleo Dubois

Aired Thursday, 14 April 2016, 4:00 PM ET

Cleo came out into SM play 30 years ago and found community, acceptance and healing in her relationships and erotic exchanges she had those who mentored her. She was blessed to be in the heart of the San Francisco burgeoning leather community with writers like Pat now Patrick Califia, Gayle Rubin and Cynthia Slater, creator of the Society of Janus – SM educational group. As an abuse survivor she found there a path to empowerment and self growth. In the mid to late 80s few women were visible and out o about kink, she was soon asked to teach at Leather conferences and community venues. She befriended gay men into leather – leathermen. When AIDS struck so many of them who survived used their SM and sexual practices as rituals to help deal with their grief. Loving and consensual BDSM became her practice. What she learned she taught and still doing it now that kink and fetishes are more accepted. She’s worked hard to make that happen and that work is not over. Shedding light on the common misconceptions about BDSM – offering a healing path and seeing BDSM as therapeutic but is not therapy. Cleo is passionate about body rituals. Many kink practices fill that need to connect, to be ourselves fully.

About the Guest Cleo Dubois

For Cleo Dubois BDSM is a lifelong passion. A Dominant Woman who also enjoys bottoming, community player and ritualist, she knows consensual powerplay as a valid path to self-discovery, intimacy and healing.

Her docu-film “The Pain Game” received an award from the Society of Scientific Study of Sexuality and is noted for its authenticity in embodying the spirit of connected BDSM play. She is published in groundbreaking “ Different Loving” “Different Loving, Too”,”Sacred Kink “and countless BDSM publications.

Founder of the Academy of S/M Arts, she leads Erotic Dominance Intensives for dominant folks and those who switch with Eve Minax. Cleo also mentors and guide couples in the privacy of her own playroom/dungeon. Office and Skype consultations are available for new comers to kink and those who seek sophisticated guidance. Find details and more at www.cleodubois.com and www.sm-arts.com. She blogs “In Kink With Heart, true stories of her 30 years in the scene”.

Twitter link: @CleoDubois

Facebook page: Cleo Dubois Academy of SM Arts