Max's life partner, wonderful girl and fierce top - Mistress Matisse. All that, and she's a wonderfully entertaining and thought-provoking writer, too. Check out her blog or her column in Seattle's weekly paper, the Stranger.
Max's other partner, Lorelei, is pretty wonderful too - smart, beautiful and amazingly graceful in her submission. She's growing some pretty fierce top claws herself. You can find her blog here.
James Mogul is a friend and inspiration. His great bondage web site www.NawaShibari.com isn't getting much play these days, as he's busy directing / webmastering two of Kink.com's great BDSM porn sites - www.MenInPain.com and www.TheTrainingOfO.com. James and Max have co-presented several times.
Twisted Monk is a Seattle-based purveyor of fine treated hemp rope. Max generally buys raw hemp and treats it himself, but that takes a LOT of time and effort. Monk's rope is very very nice - Max has a bunch of it in his personal rope bag.
Max has done some rigging for Two Big Meanies, a Seattle-based BDSM porn site.
Max has taught alongside a number of great presenters and riggers, to include:
And of course our friends and partners in education, Babeland and the Center for Sex Positive Culture (CSPC) (formerly known as the Wet Spot) in Seattle.
Max isn't just kinky - he's poly too, and was interviewed by Minx for the Polyamory Weekly Podcast in November 2007.
In April 2005 Max was interviewed by William Shaw for London's Observer newspaper. Read the interview here.
Claire Adams - Visit her site at www.ClaireBondage.com
Madison Young - Visit her site at www.MadisonBound.com
Shibaricon is an annual rope bondage convention in Chicago. Max presented in 2007 and 2008.
Max presented three workshops at Denver Bound 2008.
Max attended Thunder in the Mountains (in Denver) from 1998 - 2005 and presented in 2001.
Max has presented at or attended every one of the Portland Leather Alliance's KinkFest events since its inception.
Max presented at the 2005 Folsom Fringe in San Francisco.
Max presented at the BodyBound Educational Weekend in Portland Oregon in 2006.
Atlanta Bound is Atlanta's premier bondage event. Max taught there in 2010.
Max has presented for the Triskeli Guild in Bellingham Washington
Max has played - and stayed overnight - at 1763 - Atlanta's great club / public dungeon.
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom - The NCSF supports the rights of consenting adults in the SM-leather-fetish, swing, and polyamory communities. The NCSF does education, media outreach, incident response, and litigation.
American Civil Liberties Union The ACLU works in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.