Lee Harrington


Lee Harrington is a sexuality and spirituality educator, author, and artist, currently based in Denver, Colorado. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, he began transitioning from female to male in 2007.

Author and educator

Lee Harrington has had his writing and poetry appear in numerous magazines, anthologies, and books on the subjects of rope bondage, ageplay, spirituality, transgender rights, paganism and erotica. Two of his books, Shibari You Can Use and Playing Well With Others, have won the National Leather Association International's Geoff Mains Non-fiction book award for 2007 and 2012.
He has taught at universities, colleges, BDSM conferences, sacred sexuality events, LGBT resource groups, and one-on-one intensives since 1999. He has designed and presented keynote speeches, lecture-based classes, participatory workshops, learning rituals and stage performances across North America, New Zealand, Australia, Germany and England.
Online, Lee Harrington maintains a monthly podcast with Erotic Awakening, and works as an online educator for Kink Academy.
He has also appeared on a wide variety of podcasts in guest appearances
and as an erotic storyteller, both on podcasts, and live.

Model and photographer

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, various television appearances, and in a variety feature-length adult films.
In addition, Lee Harrington directed and worked for Knot Nice and also directed and managed his own site, Rope Lover.
Lee Harrington continues working as a fine art and erotica photographer and has had his photography featured in a variety of gallery shows.

Books authored

List of books authored by Harrington:
List of books authored by Harrington:
Since 2006, Lee Harrington's work has appeared in various books dedicated to alternative sexuality, transgender rights, paganism, erotica and spirituality, as both an author and photographer. These include: