Tanos's bio
Tanos acquired an interest in what we'd now call BDSM when he was a child,
with the help of Let's Pretend games, films, and books.
He devoured fiction and history
from periods with slaves and ticked off this country's castles with good
dungeons, one by one. Then he discovered (largely inaccurate)
psychological accounts of "sadomasochism", tested the waters with
vanilla
girlfriends with varying degrees of success, and then finally stumbled on
the alt.sex.bondage internet newsgroup in 1993, where munches were spreading
across the US, where people talked about relationships built around BDSM and
even living as master and slave.
After a few more vanilla relationships, and one that turned into D/s for a
while, it wasn't until 1997 that he started visiting a UK IRC chatroom and
went to his first munch, at the White Horse in London.
Just before Christmas 1997, he started the website which grew into
Informed Consent, with a
page of links to UK-related BDSM and fetish websites. In
February 1998 he organised the first Manchester Munch, which was the second
regular munch series to start in the UK and is now the longest running. He
co-organised it for two years, until stepping down at the February
2000 anniversary munch.
During 2000 his efforts shifted to Master/slave relationships: he created
The Slave Register
and began writing about M/s. He met and collared lili, and established an
M/s relationship and household. As well as BDSM, they organised face-to-face
M/s groups and managed several mailing lists and web boards, and
developed the ideas of
Internal Enslavement to
clarify TPE and M/s. In later years, they explored
more of the BDSM scene and helped organise events like Kinklusive.
At the start of 2006, popi joined the household, with her love of captivity
and prison museums that she shared with Tanos, and together the three of them
explored how poly M/s works.
Tanos has enjoyed combining BDSM with travel, including trips to San Francisco
in 1998 and 2004,
to New York in 2005 for the Leather Pride Weekend, and to the Master/slave
Conference in Washington in 2007 as an invited speaker. He also
includes castles, museums, and other sites with BDSM significance on
otherwise vanilla trips.
In the UK, Tanos has lost count of the number of munches he's visited, and
has been to all sizes of clubs from the basement of pubs to the Rubber Ball
and Torture Garden. He's attended or presented at Pervefest and
Kinkfest 1, 2 and 3 in London. In Manchester, he proposed and helped
organise the Kinklusive weekend of workshops and club events in 2005.
Tanos's Victorian house in Manchester is spread over four storeys from cellars
(with two cells and his collection of BDSM furniture) to top-floor study
(with most of his collection of books and smaller BDSM equipment.)
He also owns Bridgewood,
a 19-acre woodland in northern Shropshire, which he has been developing for
wildlife and for BDSM uses.
In the summer of 2008, Tanos's relationships with lili and popi ended
after more than 8 and 2 years of living together respectively, although he is
still on good terms with both of them.
During 2009 he explored more of the possibilities of Open Air BDSM, and
in the autumn wrote the
Ownership & Possession
(O&P) Manifesto - a new structure built from familiar D/s and M/s
concepts. He met mia
in late December, and subsequently collared her in February 2010.
Contact details for Tanos can be found at
www.tanos.org.uk/contacting
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