Peter Banki, Ph.D was born on Gadigal Land, Warrane, (Camperdown, Sydney) and currently lives on gadigal, bidiagal and birrabirragal lands (North Bondi). His ancestral affiliations are Hungarian, German, English and Scottish.

He is founder and current director of Erotic Living. In 2016, he also founded the Festival of Death and Dying with Victoria Spence. He has also curated Love and Disability (2017), Into the Wild (2018-19), Really Good Sex (2016-17) and Xplore Sydney (2011-13). He has taught and performed locally and internationally at Xplore Berlin, Stretch Berlin, Erosphère, Taste of Love.

Peter has a background in Iyengar yoga, dance and the martial arts (Tai Chi, Capoeira Angola). His somatic and movement practice forms the basis of his work in the erotic field.

Peter has also been a scholar and teacher of European philosophy and literature for much of his adult life. Philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Georges Bataille, Anne Dufourmantelle, Avital Ronell and Jean-Luc Nancy have most inspired him in his thinking about sexuality and eroticism. He holds a Ph.D in German studies from New York University (September, 2009). His book The Forgiveness To Come: the Holocaust and the Hyper-Ethical came out in 2018 with Fordham University Press.

With his partner Natalia, Peter often likes to go bushwalking, or as we say with First Nations people, walking on country.