Hermes Solenzol

E-mail: solenzol@protonmail.com 

Bio

In the Canary Islands, age 5.

I was born in Rome, Italy, from Spanish parents, the oldest of nine siblings. I had a childhood full of adventures between Rome, the Canary Islands and Santiago de Compostela. When I was 15 we all moved to Madrid because my father was appointed founding president of a new national university by mail. 

I studied chemistry and biochemistry at the Autonomous University of Madrid, which granted me a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1985. By then I was already doing a one-year post-doctorate at a pharmaceutical company in Paris, which I completed for three years at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland. There I came into contact with BDSM organizations and started dating Lilith. In 1989, I returned to Madrid as professor at my alma mater. 

However, frustrated with the problems of doing research in Spain and wanting to rejoin Lilith, I found a research position at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In 1994 I moved to UCLA to start investigating the neurophysiology of pain. 

Hermes in his college years

Lilith and I got married, and together we spent our free time climbing and exploring the BDSM underworld. I also ski and scuba dive. In 2001 Lilith and I went to China to adopt our daughter Emily.

I have always been fascinated by writing, which I practice as a hobby. In 2011 I finished a trilogy of erotic novels set in the Madrid of my college years in the 70s. They are about sadomasochism and open relationships, but they also show the political transformation of Spain during the transition for the Franco dictatorship to democracy. I translated the first to English, which will be published soon as “Cecilia’s Games of Pleasure and Pain”. I am currently finishing my fifth novel, which deals with conversion therapy, prostitution and other hot sex topics. 

I also write in English about science, philosophy and sexuality in Medium (https://hermessolenzol.medium.com/).