History & Arts of the Dominatrix

History & Arts of the Dominatrix
Author: Anne O Nomis
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2013-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0992701023

The academic book on the history of the Dominatrix through the ages, with meticulous research from libraries and museums. From the ancient Dominatrix Goddess Inanna - Ishtar, the 17th - 19th Century Governess Dominatrix, the 20th Century 'Bizarre' ladies. Lastly Nomis theory on the Dominatrix's practices as the 'Seven Realm Arts'.

Mistress of the Art of Death

Mistress of the Art of Death
Author: Ariana Franklin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2007-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101206756

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition." In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed doors of the country's churches, the killer prepares to strike again.

Dominatrix

Dominatrix
Author: Danielle J. Lindemann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2012-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226482596

Our lives are full of small tensions, our closest relationships full of struggle: between woman and man, artist and customer, purist and commercialist, professional and client—and between the dominant and the submissive. In Dominatrix, Danielle Lindemann draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with professional dominatrices in New York City and San Francisco to offer a sophisticated portrait of these unusual professionals, their work, and their clients. Prior research on sex work has focused primarily on prostitutes and most studies of BDSM absorb pro-domme/client relationships without exploring what makes them unique. Lindemann satisfies our curiosity about these paid encounters, shining a light on one of the most secretive and least understood of personal relationships and unthreading a heretofore unexamined patch of our social tapestry. Upending the idea that these erotic laborers engage in simple exchanges and revealing the therapeutic and analytic nature of their work, Lindemann makes a major contribution to cultural studies, anthropology, and queer studies with her analysis of how gender, power, sexuality, and hierarchy shape all of our social experiences.

Bow Down

Bow Down
Author: Lindsay Goldwert
Publisher: Tiller Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1982130512

*One of Glamour’s Best Books of 2020* Popular podcast host and personal finance expert Lindsay Goldwert explores what professional dominatrixes can teach us about confidence, power, and happiness. Imagine, for a moment, a world where the usual power dynamic is turned on its head. Where women not only stop apologizing, but seize—and enjoy—control. This is the quickly mainstreaming world of BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism)—and it has a lot to teach women about empowerment, negotiation, open-mindedness, and more. Journalist Lindsay Goldwert, intrigued by this seismic cultural shift, traveled across the United States to meet the stars of the subculture, who spoke frankly with her about their lives and work. In this “lively, funny, thoughtful channeling of wisdom” (Sara Benincasa, author of Real Artists Have Day Jobs), these Alpha women show you how you can reset the power dynamic in any situation to get what you want—whether it’s from a husband, a boss, or partner. They share strategies for revolutionizing not only your sex life, but your career, your relationships, and most importantly, your inner foundations. With bondage gear popping up on the big screen, the runway, the red carpet, and in celebrity lingerie lines, BDSM is officially moving out of the dungeon and into the sun. Let Bow Down help you learn how to use it. “Whether your fantasies lie in the bedroom or the boardroom, Lindsay will give you the courage to go forth and dominate.” (Sarah Cooper, author of How to Be Successful without Hurting Men’s Feelings).

Whip Smart

Whip Smart
Author: Melissa Febos
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010-03-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429959185

A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman's transformation from college student to professional dominatrix While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon. In poetic, nuanced prose she charts in Whip Smart how unchecked risk-taking eventually gave way to a course of self-destruction. But as she recounts crossing over the very boundaries that she set for her own safety, she never plays the victim. In fact, the glory of this memoir is Melissa's ability to illuminate the strange and powerful truths that she learned as she found her way out of a hell of her own making. Rest assured; the reader will emerge from the journey more or less unscathed.

Dominatrix (Volume 2)

Dominatrix (Volume 2)
Author: Roy Turner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2013-03-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781482714562

'Dominatrix' (Volume 2), is an exploration into the largely hidden world of the sadomasochistic female, along with Volume 1, it offers the definitive and most broad-ranging international study of the subject ever undertaken. Conducted over a 10-year period, by the BDSM magazine publisher and writer, Roy Turner, these eBooks offer a full, frank and totally unique insight into the real world of the dominatrix, those who work within the 'sex industry', as well as those who live out the 'Fem/Dom' lifestyle in private. In Volume 2, we meet the Antwerp-based; 'Mistress Shane', who is an unrepentant Sadist-managing to combine a passion for strap-on dildos and equal opportunity multi-gender sex with a weakness for romantic fiction and a love of the opera and antiques! Hear how 'Mistress Gen' of band 'The Genitorturers', shocked and enthralled audiences with her notorious live stage show-a combination of a rock concert and an extremely fetishistic sex show, busting taboos in cities all over the world-except Cincinnati! Meet, Patricia de Gifford, who now reigns as 'Supreme Highest Administrator' in one of the most bizarre and ambitious endeavours in the Fem/Dom stratosphere, the legendary 'Other World Kingdom', or OWK for short. Located in the Czech Republic, the OWK has created a veritable country of 'dominant women' and male 'subject-slaves', complete with palaces, farms, even their own currency and, of course, plenty of prisons! Authentically re-enact your schooldays with 'Miss Prim', who works exclusively within the world of 'adult' schoolboy and schoolgirl fantasy scenarios, in her role as headmistress of the 'Muir Academy', in South Wales. 'Nanny Lilly' has devoted herself to the nurturing and (when needed) the chastisement of her 'Big Baby' charges. Here she shares her experiences and understanding of this little known area of eroticism, providing along the way a fascinating insight into the world of the 'adult baby'. Get the truth about Sara Dale, who achieved a degree of infamy some years ago as the 'Miss Whiplash' character in the scandal surrounding property rented out by a then British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont. Unusually, she switches in her role-playing, that is she enjoys playing both the dominant and submissive roles in her unique approach to tantric sex and counselling. Also discover the bizarre, yet enchanting world of female dominance that exists in 'Aristasia' with ambassadress Miss Marianne Martindale, a world of bygone charm and elegance that ignores all events that have occurred since 1960-including the calendar! There are, in all, five or six Aristasian households scattered around Britain. The embassy is the only one that may be visited by a male outsider, and then only by invitation. Miss Martindale, as ambassadress and spokeswoman, is the only Aristasian who will communicate with the outside world. Plus, many other revealing interviews with professional and lifestyle mistresses including the Americans; The Reverend Kellie Everts, Lady Latex, Lady Green, Domina Irene Boss. The UK's; Tanith Au Set, Janus, Mistresses; 'R', Ash, Christine, and Amber. Sub/Dom couples; Chrystalle & Guy, Christine & David, Linda & Gary. Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable. It is intended for an adult audience.

Kinky History

Kinky History
Author: Esmé Louise James
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2024-06-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0593716914

A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories, from the historian and storyteller behind Kinky History, @esme.louisee on TikTok Contrary to popular belief, our predecessors had all sorts of obscene hobbies long before Christian Grey hit the scene. In this enlightening romp, learn about the first instances of homosexuality on record from the ancient world and the diverse history of nonbinary gender; encounter a thousand years’ worth of hilarious and horrifying contraceptive methods; consider the positive and negative effects of the widespread availability of pornography in the digital age—and how our relationship to it changed during the pandemic; take a sneaky riffle through centuries of bedside drawers; and discover the dirty little secrets of luminaries such as Julius Caesar, James Joyce, Albert Einstein, and Virginia Woolf. Esmé Louise James also identifies the key tipping points that directly inform current beliefs around sex to place the past in conversation with the present. By educating ourselves about the weird, wonderful, and varied spectrum of human sexuality and experience, we can normalize and destigmatize sex, write people of marginalized sexual identities back into the pages of history, and build toward a more liberated future.

Danger in the Path of Chic

Danger in the Path of Chic
Author: Lucy Moyse Ferreira
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-12-02
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1350126292

During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by beauty imagery, even extending to garments designed to look assaulted and destroyed. Danger in the Path of Chic brings this disturbing imagery to light for the first time, proposing new directions for historians of fashion, violence and culture in the interwar years. Concentrating on London, Paris and New York as fashion centres and political allies, the volume explores why horror manifested itself in this way, at this time, and in a sphere that is usually perceived as being built on fantasy and escape. In doing so, Danger in the Path of Chic situates fashion within the very real social, psychological, economic and political traumas of the period.

Romanian Contemporary Art 2010–2020

Romanian Contemporary Art 2010–2020
Author: Adrian Bojenoiu
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 377574651X

Gegenwartskunst ist mehr als schlichte Zeitgenossenschaft. Es ist eine neue Weise des Sehens und des Sichtbarmachens. Diesem Gedanken ist der radikale Wandel verpflichtet, mit dem die rumänische Kunst sich im vergangenen Jahrzehnt neu erfunden hat. Zu verdanken ist dies nicht nur etablierten Künstlern, die sich neue Ausdrucksmittel erschließen. Antrieb ist vor allem eine junge Generation rumänischer Künstler, die nicht mehr die direkte Erfahrung des Lebens und Arbeitens im Kommunismus gemacht hat. Ihre Werke artikulieren ein aktuelles Lebensgefühl samt seiner eigenen Wahrnehmung und Diskurse. Ein Hauptthema ihrer künstlerischen Produktion ist die Macht technisch vermittelter Bilder zur Kontrolle und Konstruktion von Realität und sozialer Erfahrung. Der prächtige Bildband nimmt diesen Schwerpunkt auf, um 29 der innovativsten Künstler und ihre eindringlichen wie faszinierenden Werke vorzustellen.