November 13, 2008...11:14 am

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If I were rich…

Though that’s a strange thing to even think about because I don’t now how I could live with being rich in a world like this one. I grew up with some amount of rich and found it mostly not interesting. So another box I don’t tick is the one where the dominant woman is some kind of fabulous creature surround by exquisite objects (and probably called something like Countess Domibitchinanarama). These dominant women with their obsessions with how much designer clothing they can get men to buy them (true fact: that does directly equal your worth as a person) it’s all a bit vulgar isn’t it? Especially with the collapse of capitalism.

Having said all that – I do have some fantasies where I buy things. For him. In short where I buy him everything. Only stopping short of his soul. And then, only in the literal sense.

And when I talk of him – please note: He is such a beautiful man. Sometimes he is my age or a shade older, sometimes he is young and pretty and with all the perceived cache that brings. He’s big and strong and well educated. But he’s maybe a little louche. A little weak in the face of temptation. A little too fond of drink or drugs maybe. (But in a way that is only even wan and romantic and fanciful, never real and gritty and seedy.) And he’s a little too fond of easy softness to get away from me. Me, who pays for everything.

He has expensive tastes he can’t afford. But it doesn’t matter because all the bills come to me. He is the male equivalent of exactly that woman I was complaining about earlier. (And I don’t know whether that is oh-the-irony or the whole point.) Part of him believes that the more expensive the suits I buy him the more I must adore him. Oh, and I do.

His place is only small, but I pay the rent. It’s not lux but it’s decent in a city and a district where he couldn’t afford decent. I never see it. When I come to town I book hotel rooms. I don’t come and see the life I payroll for him. I don’t meet his friends – friends he has to cancel appointments with the moment I arrive. For that’s the deal of course. He has the most wonderful life – but I own him. He is enslaved by the fact that he could never have what I give him any other way. My visits are so rare that in some ways the price he pays is tiny. But in other ways – not.

He comes to see me in his best clothes. Expensive suits and shoes I paid for. All bespoke and handmade. I tell him to take off his clothes and throw them in the bath and burn them. He doesn’t want to. I tell him the clothes belong to me anyway. He says that the suit is special. His favourite. Made by a tailor who doesn’t work anymore. He is such a whore for things that make him look good. And not just for me. He is loose and wanton and I do not care about what he does when I’m not there. I tell him that if he doesn’t burn the suit I will – and I might not be so careful about taking it off his body first. The suit is destroyed some time after that.

Then he is naked. And he is hurt. Staff from the hotel come into the room and I don’t hide what he is. They see him naked and marked. They see him tied up. I slap him in front of them and they know what he is. They know him and I like that.

Public *anything* squicks me down in my heart.  But in my fantasies I love it like a dark ache. Like a slow-healing wound that I can’t stop probing. How bad does this feel now? Feeling like I’ll feel sorry when it doesn’t hurt anymore.

He fucks me so hard and for so long that he cannot stand afterwards. I tell him I don’t care. That his pain and shame mean nothing to me. That my desires are the only ones that count. I kiss him and he looks so beautiful. I’m a little bit in love with him. Or maybe just in love with the romance of the situation. But I’d never tell him that. And I love the way it hurts that he only wants me for my money. And I love all the power I have over him when I think about how much that pisses me off. I hate him for being so shallow. I love it this messed up.

When it’s time to leave I have a new suit brought up to the room. He dresses and complains it is not as beautiful as the one I burnt. I tell him he should be glad to be free now. I am leaving and he can get back to his real life. He says I am his real life.

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Links of note

In vicarious type making-porn-out-of-coconuts news I really liked this post that explains why the introduction of Wolverine in the film X Men hits several dominant woman buttons at once: Cruel experiments, cage fighting and the fact that it hurts ‘every time’. Guh. Nice.

If you’d prefer to surf to something not so nice: try this link. Ugh. Remember how once I explained how hard it is do make femdom imagery because BDSM pics tends to focus on the sub (because they are the one things are happening to)  but erotic imagery tends to focus on the woman? Cue a huge dilemma for femdom porn producers followed instantly by the raging popularity of girl on girl imagery in BDSM porno stuff. Even prodom websites usually feature girl on girl pics even though the bulk of their business (well – realistically – all their business) is dominatrixing men. (This is because prodoms hate me and hate the fact I might get some secret jollies looking at their websites.) Anyway this a great (that is the sarcastic form of great, btw) solution to that problem.

This is also why there are so few women in femdom 101 – it’s this stuff. This kind of female desire excluding/female body commoditising asscrap being so much more prevalent that how it really feels. This has nothing to with actual female dominant desire and everything to do with a very specific male fetish (that pretty much dehumanises women and is nothing to with being submissive – you like feet, big deal, but it’s not diff to liking tits in terms of submissitude – or cock, it’s not like it’s wrong: it’s just that he fact it is feet doesn’t make it about submission) and the sooner those two things get untangled from each other the sooner you will find actual dominant women (as opposed to women with pedicures and no sense of dignity) exploring this world. Remember this post? Save the world. You know what to do.

By the way, that site has a women click here box. I clicked and it takes you here. Note the pictures of submisive men we get. Ha! Nah – we don’t want to be given any sweeties – we want to be given a chance to be ‘models’.

Note: I am not digging up super-obscure stuff here. I found the link to that on newspaper columnist prodom Mistress Matisse’s blog.

(Just as a point of interest: does she have girl/girl pictures on her website? Why yes and according to her FAQ he doesn’t even offer sessions with women. Um, pourquoi? (French, I know, is more Belle de Jour than Mistress Matisse but I tend to find all successful, pompous, blogging sex workers somewhat interchangeable. Honestly if I based my entire opinion of sex workers on their well known blogging faction – which I pretty much do because where else do I encounter sex workers other than in film adaptations of Frank Miller comic books? – I would mainly think that they were pompous and pretentious. That could just be true of all people who are self important enough to write blogs, though))

But look, tangent over. Way more people read Mistress Matisse than read me. (And we covered that a bit here – esp in comments.) Dominant women exploring this stuff are way more likely to encounter her than me. And then it’s just a small step to follow that link (she’s posted it about 27 times) and change their minds about being dominant forever. Trust me. I clicked that link and nearly decided to try and become a furry instead. At least that’s slightly more dignified.

(I know you won’t believe this but I solemnly swear that I didn’t write that whole fume just for the last two lines. I *swear*. I’m just that good.)

29 Comments

  • Have you seen the movie Priceless? It’s about exactly that kind of relationship, and oh-so-prettily shot.

    because where else do I encounter sex workers other than in film adaptations of Frank Miller comic books?

    Hey, my prodom-girlfriend-who-loves-your-blog-with-a-mad-passion is in town for months yet; if you’re free sometime in the next two weeks I will gladly take both of you out for drinks. Not fucking kidding.

  • It’s not that I don’t know how to meet sex workers. As people go they are easy to meet – the meeting of them being a rentable product sort of thing. Like most women who aren’t sex workers I am simply far less interested in sex workers than the culture in general appears to be.

  • Sweet jeebus, Bitchy, how much do I love you? A lot, that’s how much. Even when you pick on furries.

    Signed,

    Just another self-important blogger who is currently praying that html works in the comment field

  • Actually I love furries. The ones I’ve met have been super sweet. But I do think it’s the only sexual identity less dignified than being a dominant woman in terms of people in general perceiving you as lame.

  • Actually being a submissive man is probably perceived as more lame. That really pisses me off.

  • There are a surprising number of things you can do with sex workers for free.

  • *waves*

    Hi Beej! Glad you liked it.

    God, someone read what I wrote. That’s a bit scary.

  • The fantasy is an interesting setup, and you’ve put all these layers into it. And I love the way it hurts that he only wants me for my money. What about the snag that someone else might step in to pay his bills and use him? Someone with even more money? Does that thought enter the fantasy? If so, is it a snag or does it just make things more interesting? On the other hand, He says I am his real life hints at some dependency beyond cash.

    I think I get off more on plots where the man could (at least theoretically) easily be exchanged for another, but his chances of changing the situation are slim. The paid fucktoy idea is somehow not inescapable enough to get me. But I’ve enjoyed reading it because your prose is hot.

  • Sex worker blogger here, and a half-ass pro domme, selling my soul and selling out truly dominant women like you for the money (which isn’t very much, by the way, and not worth it beyond paying the bills, if that’s any comfort to you). And I love your blog. The truth hurts sometimes, but how else can we grow and change without facing it?

  • And I imagine the returns are decreasing all the time. Or do prodom sessions come under the lipstick effect?

  • Hey, the furries are probably the only community aside from gays that don’t have the focusing on women problem in their porn, probably because like 90% of them are bisexual

    Plus fchan.org is like the only place you can get decent gay BDSM porn, not even kidding

  • For the record Beej, I started reading you well before Matisse, and I like you better.

  • Good post.
    I have tried several times in the past to start a “subbie guy” group and they always go down in flames.
    Too many wankers out there, I’m afraid.

  • Jones, excellent post, although I think your a little premature in calling the death of capitalism. Having said that plenty of my ex-colleagues are probably out of a job. Nice to know your from a bit of a moneyed background, teaches you how to deal with the proles!

    I had to work for my cash, (which I have lost several times), but I can appreciate the sense of entitlement. I have been with a few seriously wealthy women, but as I have said before they are an ungenerous sex and relying on the fickle nature of women is no way for a young man to make his way through the world, just a bit of advice for any aspiring lounge lizards out there.

    I have developed a fascination with pro-dommes web sites as well, I am always amused by how seriously they take themselves.

  • OK… but is it so hard to imagine that some dominant women might prefer a fantasy where they’re bought things? And why can’t the two be equally as vulgar/wonderful?

    As someone who grew up decidedly unwealthy (and the eldest, so if I wanted something superfluous, I was a selfish, selfish child and a bad example to the little ones), I get off on having men spoil me. Because I will be as selfish as I like, and you will still love me and you will prove it by hurting for me when I ask you to.

    I mean, your fantasy is hot too. But it’s not mine, because we’ve had different experiences with money. And that’s OK.

  • It’s not about my being okay and your fantasy being not okay. It’s about me being pissed off that your fantasy is the only one that is allowed to exist.

  • Maybe we can’t leave it all up to the boys.
    May be the rest of us have to say loudly and repeatedly that this is offensive.
    Just as you do.
    Maybe we need to talk more to each other too about our identity.
    In the 20 months I have been attending munches and clubs, I have only once seen another domme/femdom. She was pointed out to me across a crowded room.
    I have yet to meet a switch who is the domme in her present heterosexual relationship.
    Without role models I have struggled at times with the pro-domme attitude and trappings which saturate the scene.

    I was in exclusively lesbian (vanilla) relationships for 20 years. I have been in a heterosexual D/S relationship for 16 months I feel more repressed now be cause of my sexuality than I have ever felt.

    The power to change things lies with the male submissives however unless dommes start to kick up a fuss nothing will change. People have a lot invested in keeping the male fantasy of women’s sexuality as a commodity going.

    Please tell me I am wrong. Ajay

  • I posted something on this blog. I agree with you on so much, Bitchy, but sometimes I feel you’re directing your rage at a group of women, not all of whom are actually complicit to patriarchal depictions of female sexuality. Some of us pro doms do it in and out of the bedroom, because we like it too. And while it sucks that the standard view of dominant women is one of the corseted cat suited pro dom supervixen, some of us pro doms are actually getting paid to do the things we like, just with people we may or may not spend time with otherwise. I don’t think we have to not exist or to be wrong for you to be right, y’know?

  • Matisse has written about fucking submissive men. http://www.thestrangerlustlab.com/matisse/072204_matisse.html

    And i know she fucks her female sub, and she and one of her male lovers switch roles so i guess sshe fucks him too. i think she is just trying to make sure peeople dont think shes a call girl.

  • I get that you want a voice. I just don’t think that it takes permanently silencing whatever group is
    “making” you feel inadequate today in order to gain one. And that’s the overall sentiment I get from the blog: that anyone who is “traditionally” feminine/attractive/whatever or otherwise different is standing in the way of Bitchy’s good time. And if they would only all disappear…

    I mean, I’m not exactly a prototypical domme either. I’m tiny and soft-voiced. I’m black, but I don’t get into calling people “white bois” or whatever the popular thing for black dommes on paysites is now. When I first started beating up my boyfriends, I had no female role models whatsoever. Hell, I thought I might have been crazy. But I’m here. And I decided to be the person I am, regardless of what other people did or what other people thought. Because…y’know… they’re not the boss of me or how I feel about myself.

    I think it’s great that you speak out about how you do things, and how you’re wired. And I like that you think about Kink and point out misogyny in the scene and such. But, I can’t help but feel like things don’t really… evolve. (And hey, I don’t know you, so I’m going by whatever it is that you’re willing to share on a public blog.) I feel like it’s the same two or three wounds, broken open and made to bleed, again and again.

    And as much as I love doing that sort of thing to a submissive, it’s kind of distressing to watch someone go through that.

    I guess I’m wondering… do you foresee an end? A resolution of some kind within yourself?
    (I know we’ve all got our pet issues… but if I was waiting for, say, racism to end before I loved myself and lived my life, I’d be shit out of luck.)

  • It doesn’t really make any difference how cool and radical you are. Or any prodom in particular. Or how non-traditional. Or if you are into it for real. Or not.

    The fact that the perception of dominant female sexuality is swamped by imagery and ideas put out by prodoms and the men who pay them is still true. I could start doing session for money and be a non-traditional prodom right now – it wouldn’t change everything I point out on here (including examples the link in the post above that genuinely does make it very hard for a lot of women to even understand that dominant might be what they are (I *know* – they email me)

    The fact is there is a world outside your dungeon. You are young and pretty and happy to spend time with men you wouldn’t unless they were paying you – so you get to be a prodom. But for the rest of us there is nothing and how cool you are doesn’t change that.

    (PS AFAIK I am ‘living my life’. I didn’t know it was optional.)

  • Oh, Bitchy – I’ve been reading your blog for a long time, and I mostly love it (despite being a sub myself!)

    I’ve enjoyed your fantasies about imprisonment, thirst, torture, abject humiliation and even death…

    This time, however, you’ve really crossed a line for me.

    BURNING A REALLY NICE SUIT????????

    Oh man, that is truly sick…

    J x

  • It’s ridiculous to pretend that the widespread assumption “dominant woman = by default prodom” does not harm people. I used to believe this lie. (Maybe another census is needed: Who used to believe this?) It harmed me, because it made me believe that BDSM was not for me.

    It’s ridiculous to say “So what if prodom – client is still the default representation and imagery of femdom. Just let it be.”

    It harms people, dominant women and submissive men alike.

  • The Fix: More people posting things like this. The more voice given (or taken for themselves!!) to the variety of kink out there … the better.

  • sorry to break the train of comments but i found the results of this :http://genderanalyzer.com/ interesting

  • Ranai, I don’t disagree with you at all. I agree that the assumption that dominant women are either doing it for the men in their life or the money is a harmful one. I don’t think it just be just left to lie, which is why I enjoy this blog. However, I also don’t think it should be a fight between women who do and women who don’t, when really it’s male media depictions that ruin it for the whole group of us.

  • A lot of the ubiquity of the prodom version of femdom is promoted by the prodoms themselves. There are a bazillion examples in this blog – in this post alone – but also say here and here and here and here and…

  • As Beej’s examples show, reducing the problem to “male media depictions” may be tempting but untrue. Sadly, the distortion is in pros’ economic interest. Repelling women is in pros’ economic interest.

    The more women get turned off by how female domination and male submission are presented, and the more women and men believe “dominant woman = by default pro”, the better it is for business.

  • “The more women get turned off by how female domination and male submission are presented, and the more women and men believe “dominant woman = by default pro”, the better it is for business.”

    And that is really. fucking. sad.


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