Robert Rubel (Dr. Bob), is an educational sociologist and researcher by training. He has ten books currently in print (four on Master/slave topics, two on advanced sex techniques, one on fire play, and three erotic art photo books).

Recipient of the 2008 Pantheon of Leather's Community Choice Award, Robert (Bob) Rubel has been involved in the BDSM scene since the summer of 2001, throwing himself into the literature of the field as though it were an academic study. He frequently attends weekend Leather conferences.

Dr. Bob is the Series Editor of Power Exchange Books' Resource Series (the successor to Power Exchange Magazine). This is a series of books that are collections of highly focused essays that cover a wide range of special topics within the larger field of BDSM. He presents, judges, and sells his books widely throughout the year. In 2007 and 2008, he participated in over 31 events.

Bob is also a natural- light photographer. Click HERE for Dr. Bob Rubel's photo site.

Click HERE for Dr. Bob Rubel's Expanded Bio.

slave Mindi is the slave and partner of Bob Rubel. In addition to serving as Bob's demo subject and co-presenter for numerous seminars on such topics as fire-play, sexual techniques, M/s relations, and Leather protocols, she is also the subject of Protocols for the Female slave: Handbook of Theory and Practice, and its companion book, Protocol Handbook for the Leather Slave: Theory and Practice. These books began as her personal slave manual. Bob's book Master/slave Relations: Handbook of Theory and Practice documents the planning procedures she and her Master went through to create the stable M/s relationship that they currently enjoy. Master/slave Relations: Communications 401 and the companion book, Master/slave Relations: Solutions 402 are an outgrowth of communications and problem-solving techniques they compiled to assist them while living the M/s structure 24/7. An RN/ paralegal by training, Mindi provides invaluable help in book editing, including Dr. Rubel’s sexual technique book, Squirms, Screams, and Squirts. She has also edited numerous articles for Power Exchange Magazine, for which she served as Assistant to the Editor.