Tatu is a male Dominant from Florida whose central love has been Japanese Rope Bondage, otherwise known as Kinbaku or Shibari. He has been teaching Shibari as a spiritual component to D/s for many years and is on a very short list of well-respected Rope Masters in the US.

His first introduction to Japanese Styled Rope was in the late 1970's while living in New Orleans as a graduate student. Through the early years his love of bondage grew at first with a "damsel in distress" western style approach until the early 1990's when he began gravitating more and more to the Japanese style of rope bondage.

Tatu is the creator of the D/s ARts (http://www.ds-arts.com) and Japanese Rope Art (http://www.JapaneseRopeARt.com) websites which offers a wide variety of rope and BDSM information He is also the owner / founder of the Adult Rope Art Yahoo Discussion Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AdultRopeARt) with over 13,000 participants. It is the largest support & educational rope group on the Internet, helping people with: techniques, safety, resources, and artistic exploration of the art of rope.

His undergraduate and graduate studies were in History, Psychology, Sociology. He is an educator, author, and has over 30 years of public speaking experience to his credit.

Tatu is one of the founding board members and past President of S.P.I.C.E., a Florida BDSM support and education group. He is also the founder of The Palm Beach Munch Group. In 2000 he founded "Shibari South Florida" aka "SILK", a local group of rope lovers.

Tatu has presented at national events and forums such as Shibaricon, Black Rose, LIL (Living In Leather), SELF (SouthEast Leather Fest), BMSL (Beat Me in St Louis), Orlando Bash, Kinky Kollege and Sinsations in Leather as well as numerous regional support groups. He was the keynote speaker for Shibaricon 2005.

Tatu enjoys all things Japanese and as such, enjoys the tranquility that this lifestyle has to offer.