I am a reformed journalist, a writer and an alternative sexuality educator. I have been practicing kink for over 30 years now and Ayzad is the pseudonym under which in 2004 I wrote BDSM – A Guide for Explorers of Extreme Eroticism, where I collected everything I had learned from my studies of a truly endless topic. That manual became a continuously updated best seller, starting collaborations with sexologists and scholars who drew me to extend my research to every form of unusual sexuality.

The results include five other books so far (four of them currently available in Italian only, sorry!), a podcast, a radio show, two video series, countless lectures and teaching collaborations. Today, education to ethical kink is my full-time job. Among my attempts to make the world a nicer place I also launched The Sexual Explorers Manifesto initiative, and I am a coach helping people solve their unusual sexuality issues.

Ayzad.com was born to collect and share my daily discoveries about the lesser known aspects of sex, to have fun together and – as it always happens with these things – to better know ourselves. It is apparently working, given that I was listed among the world’s best sex bloggers. Enjoy!

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