Overview
Correspondence, writings, and advertising postcards featuring FetishDiva Midori's workshops. Also included are advertising postcards, catalogs, flyers, business cards, calendars, and other printed materials targeting BDSM practitioners, advertising sex toys, educational events and workshops, clothing, and BDSM clubs and other lifestyle-friendly venues.
Dates
- Creation: 1990-2014
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by FetishDiva Midori as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
5.5 linear feet (4 file boxes, 4 folio boxes)The papers of FetishDiva Midori include Midori's correspondence, writings, and advertising postcards featuring her workshops. Also included are advertising postcards, catalogs, flyers, business cards, calendars, and other printed materials targeting BDSM practitioners, advertising sex toys, educational events and workshops, clothing, and BDSM clubs and other lifestyle-friendly venues. The collection also contains several sex toys, including vibrators, a dildo, a tickler, latex hot pants, and a vulva mold kit. The majority of materials were grouped and foldered by the archivist. Folders created by Midori have been retained and appear in quotation marks. Files are arranged alphabetically.
BIOGRAPHY
Sexuality writer, speaker, artist, and sex educator FetishDiva Midori was born in Kyoto, Japan, raised in Tokyo until she was a teenager, when her family moved to the United States. She has a BA in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and has spent time as a professional dominant (retired 2001) and as an educator with San Francisco Sex Information. She writes on alternative sexual practices, including BDSM and sexual fetishism, including bondage, foot fetishism, Japanese bondage, and shoe fetishism. Her books include The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage (with Craig Morey, 2001), The Family Jewels: A Guide to Male Genital Play and Torment (with Hardy Haberman, 2001), Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink: Educational, Sensual, And Entertaining Essays (2005), The Toybag Guide to Foot and Shoe Worship (2005), and Master Han's Daughter: Tales from Depraved NeoTokyo (2005).
Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 2019-M24, 2024-M21
These papers of Midori were acquired from the Center for Sex and Culture in February 2019 and transferred from the Schlesinger Library's Center for Sex and Culture periodical collection in February 2024.
Processing Information
Processed: March 2019
By: Johanna Carll
Updated and additional material added: February 2024
By: Johanna Carll
Material transferred from the Schlesinger Library's Center for Sex and Culture periodical collection (accession number 2024-M21) was added to the collection in February 2024 and is filed in folder #4.4.
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Title
- FetishDiva Midori. Papers of FetishDiva Midori, 1990-2014: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by the Jeannette Ward Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch01652
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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