Michael is a natural Dominant. He was one of the kids on the playground that always decided what game(s) were going to be played and chose the teams. As he grew up he learned about BDSM in his teenage years and then as soon as he reached college at 18 he started actively practicing BDSM activities. Since there was no internet as we know it in the 1980's and no local BDSM groups in his area his initial BDSM activities were self taught. After he finished college and enlisted into the military he was able to start finding local BDSM groups and others with more experience in the lifestyle to mentor and educate him in SSC/RACK BDSM play. Master Michael has expanded his experiences to include making custom BDSM toys with paracord. You can see some of his work on the shopping pagea and reach out to him for a custom collar, set of cuffs, flogger, or single-tail whip. While he will be the first one to tell you that he is still learning he does enjoy teaching the younger generation now as they come up, passing along the knowledge that has been shared with him.
Kitten also developed an interest in BDSM many years ago, while in the military although she didn't know exactly what it was called at the time. She knew that she both enjoyed inflicting pain on others and receiving pain herself and after finding a BDSM group learned about consensual lifestyle activities. As soon as she found her first local group she started learning and training, absorbing everything she could. She started her relationship with Master Michael by serving a year as his full-time 24/7 submissive before assuming a Dominant role. She still serves as a submissive to Master Michael while assuming a Dominant role with all others and will freely admit that she isn't always a very good submissive.
bunny was the first 24/7 collared submissive of Master Michael & Mistress Kitten under a permanent, lifetime contract on 22 March 2014. bunny found the lifestyle later in life than either Master Michael or Mistress Kitten, however, has jumped in with both feet and is embracing her new world. As bunny has grown and evolved over the last several years, while maintaining her primary role as a submissive she has also learned that there is a "baby Sadist" inside her as she likes to call it.
Master Michael and Mistress Kitten met and were married, collared, and handfasted in 2000. Master Michael and Mistress Kitten initially joined the House of Kane in early 2001 after meeting Master Daniel Kane at Menages, a swingers club in Nashville, Tn where they did fetish demos and training. Shortly after joining the House of Kane, Gatherings (Rose n Thorns) -A local fetish group and play space- closed and they decided to form Middle TN Dungeon Society (MTDS). Middle TN Dungeon Society (MTDS) was run for several years by Master Michael & Mistress Kitten since Master Daniel was still active duty military and was stationed out of the state. After several years of spending every weekend running MTDS another local club, The Mark, opened and Master Michael & Mistress Kitten decided to close MTDS to regain some of their life back and allow more time for just enjoying the lifestyle themselves. Eventually Master Daniel did return to the Nashville area and reconnected with Master Michael and Mistress Kitten. As the family started to grow with more Dominants and submissives/slaves joining the family it became apparent there were some philosophical differences in protocol and training that were causing a rift in the family dynamic. Due to these differences it was with much thought and sadness that Master Michael and Mistress Kitten felt it best to leave the Kane family and start their own leather family moving forward. The House of Zevha was born based on this decision 18 April 2014.
With the passing of Master Daniel Kane on 06 July 2014 Delmar Kane became the leader of the Kane family and on 27 October 2014 the House of Zevha formally entered into a family alliance with the House of Kane. While still maintaining some philosophical differences the two families did share a united focus in advancing the lifestyle in the Greater Middle Tn area and educating new people. Both families felt that forming an alliance helped both leather families achieve that goal.
In early 2015 the Kane family for all intents and purposes disolved due to internal strife along with posers in the BDSM community using the Kane name without permission for personal gain. Delmar Samil (foremerly Kane) who had assumed leadership of the House of Kane made this decision with a heavy heart and formed his own house under his new leather name, Samil. The House of Zehva maintains a close friendship with Delmar and his leather family as Master Michael was involved in some of the early training and development of Delmar as a Dominant.