List of BDSM authors

This is a list of notable authors of fiction and/or non-fiction works about BDSM. For other notable people associated with BDSM, see List of people associated with BDSM.


 * Solace Ames, American author of erotic fiction
 * Laura Antoniou, writing as Sara Adamson, author of The Marketplace series of novels
 * Pablo Neruda
 * Go Arisue, Japanese bondage artist and author
 * Guy Baldwin, psychotherapist and author known for his work on BDSM and sexual related issues
 * Violet Blue, American journalist, author, editor, advisor, and educator
 * Gloria Brame, American sexologist, writer and sex therapist
 * Rachel Kramer Bussel, American author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica
 * Patrick Califia, American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry
 * Casey Calvert, American pornographic actress and film director
 * Greta Christina, American atheist, blogger, speaker, and author
 * David Aaron Clark, American author, musician, pornographic actor, and pornographic video director
 * John Cleland, English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
 * Oniroku Dan, Japanese author of popular SM novels
 * Tess Danesi, American sex educator, blogger, and writer of BDSM erotica
 * Tony DeBlase, American leatherman and zoologist, sometimes writing as Fledermaus
 * Samuel R. Delany, American author and literary critic
 * Anne Desclos, Franch writer also writing as Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage, author of Story of O
 * Vanessa Duriès, French novelist, author of The Ties That Bind
 * Dossie Easton, American author and family therapist, author of The Ethical Slut
 * Stephen Elliott, author of My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up
 * Melissa Febos, American writer, professor and former dominatrix, author of the memoir Whip Smart
 * Bob Flanagan, American performance artist and writer known for his work on sadomasochism
 * Maîtresse Françoise, also writing as Annick Foucault, French dominatrix and author
 * Mary Gaitskill
 * Stefani Goerlich, American Sexologist and author of The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients, The Leather Chair: Culturally Competent Therapy from The Leather Chair, BDSM and Kink: The Basics (with Elyssa Helfer) and With Sprinkles On Top: Everything Vanilla People and Their Kinky Partners Need to Know to Communicate, Explore, and Connect
 * Jeff Gord, real name Jeffrey E. Owen, British bondage photographer and writer of erotic fiction
 * Tilly Greene
 * Matthias T. J. Grimme, German author and publisher of sadomasochistic literature. author of Das SM-Handbuch
 * Andrei Gusev, Russian writer and journalist
 * Hardy Haberman, American author, filmmaker, educator, and activist
 * Laurell K. Hamilton
 * Janet Hardy, American writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press
 * Lee Harrington, American sexuality and spirituality educator, author, and artist
 * Emma Holly, American author who specializes in writing erotic romance novels
 * Trevor Jacques, Canadian author, activist, sex researcher, and IT consultant, author of On The Safe Edge: A Manual for SM Play
 * Maxim Jakubowski
 * Elfriede Jelinek
 * V. M. Johnson, American leatherwoman, leather activist and author
 * E.L. James, real name Erika Leonard, British author writing as E.L. James, author of Fifty Shades of Grey novels
 * Alan Mac Clyde (1930s novelist), pseudonym of unknown author
 * Alan Mac Clyde (1950s novelist), pseudonym of unknown author
 * Mistress Matisse, American dominatrix
 * Malcolm McKesson, American author and outsider artist
 * Midori, American bondage artist
 * Lord Morpheous, Canadian sex educator, author and photographer
 * Charles Allen Moser, American physician, clinical sexologist, sex therapist, and sex educator
 * John Norman, real name |John Frederick Lange, Jr., American academic and novelist writing as John Norman, author of the Gor series of novels
 * Betty Paërl, Dutch mathematician, socialist and transgender rights activist
 * John Preston, American author and editor of gay erotica
 * Carol Queen, American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist
 * Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, author of The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
 * Catherine Robbe-Grillet, writing as Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg, author of The Image
 * Pam Rosenthal, writing as Molly Weatherfield, American author of erotic historical romance novels
 * Robert J. Rubel, American author and educational speaker in the field of alternative sexuality
 * Gayle Rubin, American cultural anthropologist
 * Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, author of Venus in Furs
 * Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, French nobleman, author of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue; Juliette, The 120 Days of Sodom and Philosophy in the Bedroom
 * Ariel Sands, pseudonymous author of the sadomasochistic novel Never the Face
 * Terence Sellers, American dominatrix and writer, author of The Correct Sadist: The Memoirs of Angel Stern
 * Elf Sternberg, author of online erotic fiction
 * Gengoroh Tagame, pseudonymous Japanese manga artist
 * Cecilia Tan, writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press
 * Bernard J. Taylor
 * Claire Thompson
 * Larry Townsend, American author and activist
 * Kitty Tsui, American author, poet, actor, and bodybuilder
 * Alison Tyler, pseudonymous American author, editor and publisher of erotica
 * Mollena Williams-Haas, American writer, BDSM educator, actress, and former International Ms. Leather
 * Jay Wiseman, American BDSM author, educator, and expert witness