ForteFemme

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.

Kinky Shitposting

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.

Another Annual Tradition

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.

Maîtresse Blanche

I had intended to post about my sessions with Mistress Tess in NYC. However, the day has gotten away from me, it’s late and I’ve still not sorted out the images. So that’ll have to wait till tomorrow.

Instead I’m going to go with a very striking image of Maîtresse Blanche taken at her GNClinic. It’s both intensely erotic and unsettling all at the same time. While she’s very beautiful and captivating, there’s the disturbing white figure in the background and the material coating her glove. It has medical horror movie vibes and reminds me of shots like this or this from the films American Mary and Audition respectively.

I found this via a post from X13. She has posted about a series of very intense sessions in a blog post here. If you’d like to know more about the ominous background figure encased in white, check it out.

Dungeon Tour

If you’re interested in discovering what kinds of toys and equipment can be found in a really well equipped dungeon then I’d point you at this post/video. It feature Domina M showing Rachel Rampage around her Paris space Studio Xème. As you’d expect Domina M has a ton of really cool equipment that looks like it’d be a lot of fun to play with. The metal bondage pieces are a particular highlight.

Here’s a shot of Domina M with some of her bondage furniture, sourced via her site.

Thanks John

Melissa Todd has a column in Metro where she describes how she got started as a dominatrix. She followed a path I know others have taken – stripping to spanking model to pro-domme. The part of the column I particularly enjoyed was about her first client and her description of that first session. Up until ‘John’ showed up, she’d only had a cushion to practice caning on.

In his seventies, just recovering from some scary operation with the whole of his torso tattooed with a jagged purple scar, he spent most of his hour giving me a tutorial on what tools and implements I desperately needed, the positions most often requested, the idiots best avoided – and he paid me for the privilege!

John let me practise my few pathetic implements on his backside, coaching throughout. ‘Bit to the left. Avoid the whip round. Accuracy before intensity. That’s it! Now try again, but harder…’ I couldn’t have been more thankful.

There’s a notorious kind of client that looks out for young and inexperienced dommes to session with. They seek them out as they know they can push boundaries and take liberties a seasoned pro would never permit. Most pro-dommes will have stories about them. It’s therefore nice to read a positive story about a client helping out a newbie domme and steering her in the right direction. Thanks John.

This is Melissa with a much larger collection of canes then she started out with. Sourced via her Bluesky feed.

Getting the Kinks Out

This has been a good week. I got to enjoy something that has become a relatively rare event for me – in person kinky fun. Savannah Sly is in town for a visit and she was kind of enough to take time out of her busy schedule to beat me up.

Top of the list of activities was what Savannah accurately describes as mean massage. Lots of pummeling, squeezing, pressuring and pounding. It’s a bit like being the chew toy of a giant sexy cat who happens to have a degree in human anatomy. There might also have been some staples in my dick towards the end, which isn’t an officially accredited procedure from any of the schools of mean massage, but is fun all the same.

The end result was a body like a limp noodle, a lot of lovely scratch marks and a blissed out brain. Like I said, a good week.

This shot of Savannah is from her Free Speech Coalition page, demonstrating she can look amazing in almost any setting. If you want to help support Sex Workers Rights then I’d encourage you to visit and support her New Moon Network. They do tons of fabulous things in the sex work community.

The Submissive’s Handbook

Fans of online classes might want to check out The Submissive’s Handbook by Rain DeGrey coming to a Zoom near you on July 14th. Rain has been involved in kink (of many kinds) and teaching for years – I first linked to her back in 2013 – making her an excellent resource to learn from.

This shot of Rain is source from her Bluesky account. You can support her work via he Patreon here.

Kinky Career Arc

Delphine (of the Bay Area) has shared an interesting overview of her career in kink and sex work via this blog post. She started as a bondage model with Insex, which I’d imagine was a real trial by fire. From there she transitioned to the domme role and ultimately added full service work into the mix. Her latest evolution, and what seems to be the trigger for the post, is exploring bondage as a submissive again. Not as a replacement for her domme work, but as an adjunct to it.

It’s pretty rare to see people who domme professionally also talk about switching. I suspect there’s a fear it might impact their primary line of work. Or that they’ll have to deal with clients wanting to top them. One exception to this who comes to mind is another Bay Area domme – Elise Graves. She creates a lot of material as both top and bottom for her Bondage Liberation site. Bondage does seem to have a special appeal that brings out the switch in people. I’ve zero desire to ever be a top,  but I could imagine getting into rigging and rope if I had a partner who desired it.

This is a shot of Delphine from her website. If you’re in the Bay Area and would like her to tie you up, check out her site here.