Raven Riley (born September 6, 1986) is an American porn star, appearing online, offline at events, and on DVD. Riley recently won the top spot on Front Magazine's "Top 20 Girls of the Web" and appeared on the March 2007 cover. An Ohioan, Riley debuted online at age 18, and garnered popularity. Since then, she has won several awards for her movies and photos. Raven is of Italian and Native American heritage. Riley regularly updates her personal website with softcore, …

Eric Stanton was an American bondage and fetish illustrator, cartoonist, and comic-book artist. Although the majority of his work depicted female dominance scenarios, he also produced work showing the inverse. Stanton also incorporated bisexual, homosexual, and transgender imagery into some of his later work.

Gloria Glickstein Brame (born August 20, 1955) is a U.S. writer and sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia. She has a PhD and MPH in Human Sexuality and is a licensed clinical sexologist. Her practice specializes in consensual BDSM and sexual fetishism. She is also a lifestyle dominant. Her two most notable books are "Different Loving: the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission" and the more recent "Come Hither: A Commonsense Guide To Kinky Sex".

Katharine Gates is a U.S. writer on sexuality. "Deviant Desires", her most famous book, deals with the subject of sexual fetishism. *Deviant Desires Katharine Gates's home page

Eric Kroll (born 23 October 1946 in New York City) is a Fetish photographer and editor living in San Francisco, California (USA).

Mika Tan (born Saraswati Miyoko Taetafa on November 27, 1977) is an American pornographic actress and fetish/pantyhose model.

Caroline Pierce (born September 12, 1974) is an American pornographic actress. She has tattoos on her left big toe, and left thigh. She has appeared in over 150 XXX movies for a wide range of companies, including Metro, Arrow, Bang Bros. and Rodney Moore. She was a major player in the 10 AVN award winning (including Best Film 2003) John Stagliano film "The Fashionistas", …

Bunko Kanazawa is a prolific and well-known Japanese adult film actress, who has been called "one of the biggest AV-idols in Japan."

Summer Cummings (born March 4, 1968, in Reno, Nevada) is an American pornographic actress. She makes a cameo appearance Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film, "Boogie Nights". Cummings is an animal rights activist.

Carl Tanzler or sometimes Carl von Cosel (February 8, 1877 - July 23, 1952) was a German-born radiologist at the United States Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida who developed a morbid obsession for a young, Cuban-American tuberculosis patient, Maria Elena Milagro "Helen" de Hoyos (1910-1931), that carried on well after Hoyos succumbed to the disease in 1931. In 1933, almost two years after her death, Tanzler removed Hoyos' body from its tomb, …

Steve Diet Goedde (born 1965) is an American fetish photographer. He was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and learned the basics of darkroom work and photography from his father, who was an amateur photographer. By the age of 13, Steve was obsessed with taking photographs and started educating himself about photographers that inspired him, most notably Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, and Diane Arbus.

Masuimi Max (born March 12, 1978, in Jacksonville, Arkansas, USA) is an American fetish model of Korean and German descent. She is known for her many tattoos and her interest in several fetishes.

Julie Simone is an American fetish and bondage model, photographer, artist and writer. She was born in Texas in 1974, lived in Germany for several years and returned to the United States in 1984. As a child she trained in ballet, learning techniques of movement and poise that have been adapted into her modelling, as well as attending a Science and Technology school. Simone began her career as a glamour model in 1996, and moved into fetish and bondage modelling in 2000.

Blake Mitchell (born December 29, 1962) is an American porn star and big-bust performer. She began doing adult films in 1993. In early 1995, she began doing boxing and cat-fighting fetish videos with other women while still living in Chicago. Blake enhanced her bust in late 1994, increasing from 34C to her present 36DD. She is curently reported as living in Arizona.

The British fashion designer and fetish photographer John Sutcliffe (died 1987) was famous in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s as a designer of clothes for aficionados of leather, rubber and PVC fetishism, with an emphasis on rubber and leather catsuits, cloaks, and gasmasks. After service in the RAF, he set up a workshop at 10a Dryden Street in London. It is a popular misconception that he designed the leather outfits for "The Avengers". He did not.

Angelica Costello (born June 5, 1978 in Plattsburgh, New York) is a porn star who was the Penthouse Pet of the month for June 1999. She is sometimes credited as Venus Rising or Crystal Craft. This leggy brunette started her career by dancing at a club in Las Vegas. She left Las Vegas for Los Angeles, working first as a runway model and then an adult magazine model, before she began acting in adult films in 1999.

Richard Kern (born 1954) is a New York underground filmmaker and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic films featuring underground rock personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch,Kembra Pfahler, and Henry Rollins in movies like "The Right Side of My Brain" and "Fingered." Like many of the musicians around Kern, …

Dirk Hooper (born 1969) is an American fetish photographer and fetish artist. He was raised in Moore, Oklahoma, where he resides today. He attended the University of Oklahoma in 1988 for filmmaking and again in 1999 where he pursued a degree in media arts with an emphasis in photography. During the mid nineties, Dirk had a stint as a comic artist and comic writer on a comic named "Rough Cut" and a pin up comic titled "Bad Girls".

Jasmine Rouge (born May 13, 1984) is an Romanian porn star, appearing online, offline at events, and on DVD. She currently lives in Bucharest, Romania. Jasmine debuted at age 19, and garnered popularity. Since then, she has won several awards for her movies and photos. Jasmine regularly updates her personal website with softcore, lesbian, hardcore, and light fetish sets.

Avy Lee Roth is a Spanish adult actress (born December 12, 1979 in Madrid, Spain) who claims to be the daughter of Van Halen singer David Lee Roth.

Arthur Munby (1828-1910) was a Victorian era British diarist, poet, barrister and solicitor. He is also known by his initials, A.J. Munby. He was a civil servant in the ecclesiastical commissioners' office from 1858 until his retirement in 1888. His published poetry included "Benoni" (1852) and "Verses New and Old" (1865). He also taught Latin at the Working Men's College for more than a decade.

Betty is a German pornographic movie actress frequently featured in GGG and 666 productions. Both are hardcore fetish pornography dealing mostly with Bukkake and Urolagnia and Urophagia. Betty genuinely seems to love every minute of it. Her evident enjoyment made it easy to believe that she really liked performing the various sex acts, sometimes becoming domineering with her fellow actresses, while simultaneously maintaining a submissive side with her male partners.

Though presently living in Japan, Trevor Brown is an English artist from London whose work explores paraphilias, such as pedophilia, BDSM, and other fetish themes. Trevor Brown's art has been featured in Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture II, and in Jim Goad's ANSWER Me! zine, as well as a variety of other publications. His work has been featured as cover art for a number of bands, including Coil, Deicide, Whitehouse, GG Allin, John Zorn, Kayo Dot, Venetian Snares, …

Jacques Bourboulon (born December 8, 1946) is a French photographer, specializing in nude photography of teenage girls. He started as a fashion photographer, but switched to nude photography in the mid seventies. The summit of his career was in the late seventies and early eighties. Contrary to David Hamilton, who photographed the same subject, Bourboulon's pictures focus on bright light and sharp contrasts.

Christopher Leach is a transvestite English artist whose erotic work is, at times, reminiscent in style of that of Aubrey Beardsley’s art nouveau sketches and in theme to that of H. R. Giger. Many of his pen-and-ink drawings are black and white, but his work includes color sketches and some oil paintings as well. He describes his early output as including “softer, …

Midori is a prominent human sexuality writer, speaker, and sex educator based in San Francisco, California. Her writings and contributions have appeared in many books and magazines. Her field includes indepth knowledge in general sexuality as well as alternative sexual practices, including BDSM and fetish. She was born in Kyoto, Japan of Japanese and German parents, and raised in a feminist intellectual Tokyo household. Midori moved to the USA during her teens.

Darla Crane (born May 21 in Los Angeles, California) is an American pornographic actress and producer.

Pierre Molinier (April 13, 1900 - March 3, 1976) was a painter, photographer and "maker of objects". He was born in Agen (France) and lived his life in Bordeaux (France). He began his career by painting landscapes, but his work turned towards a fetishistic eroticism early on. Molinier began to take photographs at the age of 18. When Molinier's sister died in 1918, he had sex with her corpse when he was left alone to photograph it. "'Even dead, she was beautiful.

Tammy Suzanne Parks (born May 30, 1965 in Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, USA) is a former Penthouse centerfold turned actress. Most of her work produced in the mid to late 1990s was adult oriented, but since then she has kept a rather low profile. Her adult filmography was largely soft core but she did act in several titles in the fetish bondage BDSM genre.

Don Cramer (born 1963) in Germany is a Fashion and Fetish photographer, living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Max Klinger (February 18, 1857 - July 5, 1920) was a German Symbolist painter, sculptor and printmaker. Klinger was born in Leipzig and studied in Karlsruhe. An admirer of the etchings of Menzel and Goya, he shortly became a skilled and imaginative engraver in his own right. His best known work is a series of ten etchings entitled "Paraphrases about the Finding of a Glove" (printed 1881).

Loles León is a Spanish actress. She went to Madrid to start a career as an actress. She met Pedro Almodóvar during La Movida Madrileña. He offered her the roles she played in Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1987) and ¡Átame! (1989). Later, she became the fetish actress of directors like Vicente Aranda forEl amante bilingüe (1993) and Libertarias (1996). In 1997, she had her first leading role in Amor de hombre.

G.B. Jones is an influential artist, filmmaker, and musician from Toronto. From the early eighties to the late nineties, she performed with the all-women experimental post punk band Fifth Column, playing drums and guitar and was one of the founders of the group. The band's first album "To Sir With Hate", was released in 1985. The same year saw the release of the influential fanzine "J.D.s", which G.B. founded and co-published with Bruce LaBruce, …