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Meet NYC erotic performer: Godis Niya Love

Meet NYC erotic performer: Godis Niya Love

A New York erotic performer, kink educator and leather dyke, Godis Niya Love works at the intersection of sacred kink and embodied healing. Through performance, education and movement, they create spaces where erotic expression becomes a practice of liberation, power and reclamation.

By Isobel Clark & Godis Niya Love 5 min read 20 February 26 Updated 8 April 26 5 min read Updated 8 April 26

In New York, erotic performance is diverse and ever evolving. Godis Niya Love’s work is shaped by the belief that sexual expression is both sacred and restorative. For them, performance is not separate from healing, but an extension of it.

A a leather dyke, erotic performer and kink educator, Godis works at the intersection of pleasure and healing. Their practice draws from leather culture, sacred kink, and somatic embodiment, creating spaces where desire is not rushed or sensationalised but treated as a site of truth.

Through performance, education, and guided movement, they invite people to reconnect with their bodies, reclaim what has been shamed, and experience pleasure as something powerful and restorative.

Isobel Clark

Can you describe yourself in 3 words?

A

Sacred, erotic, Godis

Isobel Clark

Tell us more about yourself and what you do

A

I’m Godis Niya Love.

I am an erotic performer in NYC, as well as a kinkster, and sacred leather dyke devoted to sexual liberation, embodiment, and healing.

My work lives at the intersection of pleasure and education, where I support individuals in exploring desire, power, and intimacy safely, consensually, and with care.

Through performance, education, and somatic practices, I aim to create spaces that honour curiosity, affirm identity, and invite deeper connection with self and others.

NYC erotic performer: Godis Niya Love, outdoor phootshoot
Meet NYC erotic performer: Godis Niya Love
Isobel Clark

What services do you provide on Sensuali?

A

Some of the work I would like to do with Sensuali includes kink and sex positive education, healing and integration services, and guided erotic movement sessions.

This work would centre consent, communication, and embodiment, offering individuals and communities tools to explore pleasure, power, and intimacy in informed, affirming, and trauma aware ways.

Through education, somatic practices, and creative movement, I hope to support people in reconnecting with their bodies, deepening self trust, and engaging with sexuality as a source of healing, expression, and empowerment.

Isobel Clark

What turns you on?

A

What turns me on is consent that is spoken and felt, intentional power exchange, deep presence, and bodies moving with purpose.

I am drawn to confidence, curiosity, ritual, leather, and the electricity that comes from trust and communication.

Being witnessed, honouring boundaries, and exploring desire with care, creativity, and reverence is where my arousal lives. Slow, deliberate, and embodied.

Kinky erotic performance in NYC: Godis Niya Love
NYC erotic performer: Godis Niya Love. Photo by @persimmon.time
Isobel Clark

What do the first 60 minutes of your day look like?

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The first 60 minutes of my day are slow, beginning with breathwork, a cup of tea, and self pleasure as a way to connect with my body and energy.

I let the sound of my breath, my presence, and my own arousal guide me into the day, grounding myself in sensation, self intimacy, and embodied aliveness before engaging with the world.

Isobel Clark

What was your journey to being an erotic performer?

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My journey into this world began in suppression and restriction, shaped by religion and cultural beliefs that taught me to fear my own desire. A close family death became the moment that forced everything into the light.

Confronted with the fragility of life, I no longer had the option to hide or shrink myself. Choosing authenticity over fear, I stepped fully into becoming the brightest, most erotic version of myself, one rooted in liberation, truth, and embodied power.

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Kinky shibari erotic performance in NYC with Godis Niya Love
NYC erotic performer: Godis Niya Love.
Isobel Clark

Why do you do what you do?

A

I do what I do because liberation is healing.

My work is rooted in reclaiming the parts of ourselves that were silenced, shamed, or made to feel dangerous, especially desire, pleasure, and power.

Through erotic expression, education, and embodied practice, I create spaces where people can meet themselves honestly, explore safely, and remember that pleasure can be a source of wisdom, resilience, and connection.

This work is my way of transforming survival into devotion and helping others feel more alive, whole, and free in their bodies.

Isobel Clark

What is an unexpected pleasure you discovered in your work?

A

An unexpected pleasure I discovered in my work is the quiet intimacy of witnessing transformation.

Beyond the erotic or performative moments, it is deeply satisfying to watch someone soften into their body, name a boundary, or experience desire without shame for the first time.

Holding space for that kind of trust, vulnerability, and self recognition has become one of the most fulfilling and grounding pleasures of what I do.

Godis Niya Love, sex-positive erotic performer in NYC
NYC erotic performer: Godis Niya Love. Photo by @mffphotography
Isobel Clark

What should more people know about your work?

A

More people should know that my work is not about shock or spectacle. It is about intention, care, and responsibility.

Everything I do is grounded in consent, communication, and embodiment, with a deep respect for the emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions of erotic expression.

At its core, my work is about creating safer, affirming spaces where people can explore pleasure, power, and identity without shame, and where eroticism is treated as a legitimate pathway to healing, self knowledge, and liberation.

Isobel Clark

What is your superpower?

A

My superpower is presence. I have an ability to make people feel seen, safe, and powerful in their bodies, often at the same time.

Through attunement, intuition, and deep respect for consent and boundaries, I help transform vulnerability into confidence and desire into self trust.

I can hold intensity with care and softness with strength, creating spaces where people feel brave enough to be fully themselves.

NYC erotic performer Godis Niya Love on healing through erotic expression
NYC erotic performer: Godis Niya Love. Photo by @priscilla.jdarko 

We love vices. What is yours?

My vice is psychedelic plant medicine used intentionally as a portal for expansion, embodiment, and deeper connection. They have taught me to listen, soften control, and explore consciousness, pleasure, and healing with curiosity and reverence rather than fear.

Who are your sensual inspirations?

My sensual inspirations come from people and practices that honour embodiment, ritual, and unapologetic self expression, leather dykes and queer elders, sacred kink practitioners, erotic movers, and artists who treat the body as a site of power and truth.

I am inspired by those who lead with consent, intention, and reverence, who blur the lines between the erotic and the spiritual, and who remind us that pleasure can be political, healing, and deeply ancestral.

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The Author

Isobel Clark

Isobel is a writer and creative based in Paris. She has been working with Sensuali since 2022 and is deeply passionate about eroticism, kink, the feminine experience of pleasure and its place in art and culture. Originally from a Northern UK seaside town, she is naturally…

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Godis Niya Love

Godis Niya Love is an erotic performer, kink educator, and sacred leather dyke whose work centres sexual liberation, embodiment, and healing. Through performance, education, and somatic practices, they create intentional, consent led spaces for exploring pleasure, power, and intimacy as pathways to self knowledge and freedom.

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