Lee Harrington [Edit]

Lee Harrington (born 1979) is an author, editor, and former sex worker, currently based in Denver, Colorado. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, he began transitioning from female to male in 2007.

Sex Work

From 1999 to 2006, Harrington was an adult film actor, pornographer, and sex blogger. He placed in the 2005 SIGNY Award for Best Bondage Model, and appeared on more than 70 adult websites (including Kink.com), various television shows (such as Playboy’s Sexcetera), and a variety of feature-length adult films.

Selected Bibliography

Notable books authored

• Playing Well With Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities (2012) ISBN 9780937609583 (written with Mollena Williams)
• Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Path of BDSM and Beyond (2010) ISBN 978-0-557-21176-0
• Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé (2006) ISBN 978-0-6151-4490-0
• More Shibari You Can Use: Passionate Rope Bondage & Intimate Connection (2015) ISBN 978-0-9778-7275-6

Books edited

• Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink (2011) ISBN 978-0-557-99241-6
• Rope, Bondage, and Power (2009) ISBN 9781935509028

Awards

Harrington’s book Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macrame received the National Leather Association – International’s Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Book Award for 2008, and his books Playing Well With Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities (written with Mollena Williams) and More Shibari You Can Use: Passionate Rope Bondage & Intimate Connection received the  National Leather Association – International’s Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Book Award for 2013 and 2016 respectively.