The beauty of dominant women
As we head into Halloween, here’s some seasonally suitable artwork. It’s by Sean (AKA seansketches) and described as ‘Witch Ada and her Leon familiar.’ If you enjoy this piece you’ll be happy to know it’s one of a series of three.
I feel more witches should have Himbo familiars. Terry Pratchett has of course already blazed that trail with the story of Greebo in Witches Abroad.
If you’d like to see more of Sean’s work then check out these links.
Here’s some cute artwork to head into the weekend with. It’s from a series of four drawings by Yumine Guo, based on a story by Lutarrel.
The Chancellor took the studious third-born, training him to be useful to her in many ways – in public he was her focused administrative secretary; in private he was her footstool when work was long, her punching bag when work was hard, and her personal whore when work was over.
That’s the kind of administration I could really get behind.
You can find more from Yumine on Subscribe Star and more from Lutarrel on AO3.
I wouldn’t have expected to find femdom content in an exhibition of medieval art, but I’d have been wrong. The NY Met is running an exhibition called Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages which has a few pieces that seem blog worthy. One is a bronze water pitcher depicting the story of Phyllis and Aristotle (as covered here previously). Another is the bronze ‘spanky’ plate show below. Titled ‘Plate with Wife Beating Husband‘ it dates to the Netherlands circa 1480.
If you’re interested in more background the NYT has an article on it (gift link). It runs at the Met Cloister till 29th of March.
Mistress Jadis Ives posted something to Bluesky that gave me pause for thought…
One of the benefits of sessioning with a ProDomme is that it can provide a clean container for your D/s desires that does not impact the rest of your life.
I found that interesting because – while I get the logic – it’s not at all how I see my sessions. For me, visiting a pro-domme unlocked a part of myself that could then grow and extend into my life. It ceased to be an internal fantasy and became real. After my first sessions I began reading about BDSM more widely, started this blog, travelled to cities to play with new people, came out to a subset of my friends, etc. In many ways it felt the reverse of this quote, where sessioning allowed me to take my D/s desires out of their container and into the world.
That’s not say Mistress Jadis Ives is wrong! I’m sure there are a lot of people for whom this very much does apply. Which makes me curious what the more common experience among pro-domme clients is. Do most compartmentalize? I’m single and pretty independent, so I don’t have strict lines of demarcation to draw. If I was married to a non-kinky partner, maybe I’d feel differently.
Of course, I couldn’t do a post on dommes and containers, without featuring the literal version. This is from Warsaw Prison and their Prison Stay experience. I love the solidity of that container.
My last post was a one-off ‘fetish or fashion?’ special. Thanks to those who commented and I hope it was a fun one to guess at. The answer is: Fetish! Although I think it would be perfectly at home in a fashion magazine. The source is Natalie Noir who posted it here. Using photographs from Natalie in these kind of posts is a bit of a cheat code. Almost anything she posts is beautiful with great fashion and fetish vibes (as previously featured).
I thought it’d be good to complement the last ‘fetish but could be fashion’ image with a reverse example. This is the actress Julianna Margulies as featured in Harpers Magazine in 2011 under the title ‘The Bad Wife’. That’s obviously a play on her TV show ‘The Good Wife‘. I’m sure for a lot of readers we’d happily swap the good for the bad here.
Longtime readers may remember my occasional series entitled ‘fetish or fashion?’ It’s where I post a series of images and ask people to guess if they’re from a fetish or fashion context. You can see the last series starting here and ending here.
I don’t have time to run a full series right now. However, I stumbled across this image recently and thought it’d make a fun one-off post. Is this fashion or fetish? The answer tomorrow!
If you’re a woman in the San Francisco Bay Area and interested in learning more about dominance then you might want to consider ForteFemme. It’s a weekend long (Nov 14-16) intense class for 9 women interested in exploring dominance and femme empowerment.
I realize that this probably isn’t relevant to 99.9% of my readers, but I figure there’s a chance it may resonate with someone (or someone you know) out there. It’s run by Midori, who has a deep and impressive background in kink and education. In fact I featured a link to this same course being run by her back in 2016! On her Bluesky feed she gave this description of it.
ForteFemme doesn’t teach you how to be dominant. We help you discover how to find your appetite and give it permission to express itself ethically & artfully. Because the world doesn’t need another carbon copy—it needs your authentic expression of power and pleasure.
Here’s another image to continue the theme of intense, equipment heavy sessions. This time it’s one that popped up on my Bluesky feed from Odette Engle. I’ve seen and enjoyed vacuum powered penis milking devices like that before, but the vacuum bra set-up is unusual and new to me. The boots with individual toes and the finger bondage set-up is also very cool. Looks like a great set-up to be the center of.
This was sourced from Odette Engle’s Bluesky feed. She’s an SF based pro-domme. You can find her professional site here and her Clips Store here.
A random image shitpost about Jordan Peterson put a smile on my face tonight. Not so much for the post itself but for the content featured.
The image in question is this one, which popped up for me on reddit. It’s riffing on a recent story from his daughter about him being sick and calling back to his confused take on a milking porn scene.
What made me smile wasn’t the story per so, although I think it is a quality shitpost. It was that I recognized the lady in it as Mistress Miranda. In fact I’ve sessioned with her in the past and even featured some shots of myself in a remarkable similar set-up to that in this image (for example here and here). It’s funny to read the reddit comments wondering what the hell is going on in that shot. For me, it just brings back happy kinky memories!
This is Mistress Miranda with some of the wonderful equipment from her BDSM laboratory. She’s London based and well worth visiting if you’re in the UK.
Posting about Loctober reminded me there was another tradition in the femdom world for this time of year – The Femdom Ball as organized by the Nubian Matriarch.
I’ve featured this many times in the past (for example 2023, 2019 and 2017). It always looks like a fun event and I love some of the photographs that come from it. A few favorites this year included.
I’ll finish with one that I thought was particularly eye catching. This is Ōkimi Rei Yamazawa, wearing a stunning dress that I think pairs beautifully with her body art. I know that femdom is often about putting women figuratively on pillars for worship, but this look wouldn’t seem out of place on a literal one.
Ōkimi Rei Yamazawa is a San Francisco based pro-domme. The image was sourced via this post.
You can find more photographs of the Femdom Ball via their social media feed.
