About Max
Max has been active in Seattle's kink community since 1992 and has been teaching bondage, BDSM, and polyamory workshops since 1999. He's polyamorous and has several wonderful long-term partners.
While he is proficient with a wide range of BDSM skills, Max especially enjoys the intimacy of rope bondage and the intensity of the singletail. Max projects a gentle, dominant energy, and all of his relationships - and most of his scenes - include a substantial d/s component.
Max's love of teaching shines through his workshops, and his love for people informs his personal encounters.
Private instruction and coaching Max offers private instruction and coaching on a wide variety of BDSM technique, to include bondage, scene planning and management, d/s relationships, impact toys, and piercing.
Conventions Max has presented at leather and kink conventions around the country to include Living in Leather (LIL), Thunder in the Mountains, Atlanta Bound, the Folsom Fringe, the Fetish Flea, Denver Bound, KinkFest, BodyBound and Shibaricon.
Events Max has taught at events sponsored by the Stranger, Babeland, Seattle Men in Leather, Seattle’s Center for Sex Positive Culture, the Triskeli Guild, Suspended Animation and many other kink and sex-positive groups.
Other appearances Max has rigged for photo shoots, done live performance art pieces, and exhibited at both of James Mogul's ArtBound events in 2000. He donates his services to several charity / fund raising events each year to include tastings sponsored by the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture and Seattle’s annual Kinky Carnival.
Bondage Workshop Series Max serves as producer / chief instructor for Seattle's monthly "Bondage Workshop Series", which has run continuously since 2003.
Two-Day Bondage Intensives Twice each year Max offers a special Bondage Intensive, providing two full days of focused instruction, from the basics through suspension bondage. Max has been teaching the Bondage Intensive since 2005 and graduated his 15th class in April 2013.
Find Max Elsewhere
04/24/2005 | Interview with William Shaw of London's The Observer.
11/02/2007 | Podcast interview with Cunning Minx of Polyamory Weekly.
04/08/2009 | Podcast interview, Part 1, with Dr. Dick of Dr. Dick's Sex Advice.
04/15/2009 | Podcast interview, Part 2, with Dr. Dick.
05/19/2015 | Podcast interview with The O Face Podcast.
08/20/2015 | Mentioned in a Stranger interview with Ruthie V (Behind the Ball Gag: What Seattle Artist Ruthie V.
Left Out of Her BDSM Paintings).
12/13/2015 | Podcast interview, Part 1, with the NoSafeword podcast.
Max on FetLife
FetLife profile: User Max_BLC
FetLife group: Max's Bondage and BDSM Instruction
On FetLife: Online reviews of Max's private instruction