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...kneels in the middle of the room. Ignoring him, the dominatrix works at a table laying out a fan, a piece of possum fur, a prickly teaser made of yarn, a hemp rope, a deerskin flogger and kangaroo-hide cat-o'-nine-tails. Finished with her preparations, the mistress turns, walks over to the submissive and grabs the skin at the back of his neck, as a mama cat might lift a kitten. "Stand for me," she commands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...dungeons are deliberately dark and creepy, but she runs her business in a clean, illuminated manner. "I bought the store and decided to build a community. I wanted it bright and open with nothing to hide." Composed and articulate, Decima sits with the rigid posture of a school-mistress, a remnant of her last job as a high-school drama teacher. Decima is, of course, a nom de guerre: she got into BDSM with her husband and, in her personal time, likes to be both dominant and submissive. But Decima will only be tied up by her spouse. "Giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Fetish Fashion has no dominatrices on staff, but the store does keep a list of "mistresses" for hire, who charge around $400 per hour. Robert, a 48-year-old financier in Hong Kong, found his current mistress during a chance meeting in the shop. Robert got into being dominated when he found he was bored with ordinary sex. "BDSM is not just about sex, it's more than that," he says. "There is never any sex between a professional dominatrix and a submissive. BDSM happens here." Robert points to his temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...Mistress Sandy, 25, has been a successful dominatrix for two years. She has a spate of regular customers - 70% of them Chinese, like her - and a reputation as a fierce mistress who will kick and spit you into submission. Raised in Hong Kong, her family doesn't know her occupation. Nor do her three roommates or her boyfriend. "He's traditional Chinese. He wouldn't understand," she says. After high school, she got a job as a secretary at a Hong Kong bank but didn't like it. "I wasn't good at that. I'm good at this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...skilled dominatrix choreographs the entire session deploying a war chest of music, scents and lighting to create a scene with a beginning, middle and end, along with well-placed crescendos. Former drama-coach Decima says the mistress must be the one to begin each scene, and must be in character from the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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