Workplace dysfunction is like a bacterial infection that can rip through a company and mess with employee morale. The Corporate Dominatrix Goddess archetype is an expert at “creative distancing,” or keeping you at arms length from office situations that are negative and people who are toxic. This practice helps you retain your objectivity, your equilibrium, Read More »

The workplace can be both a stimulating, motivating playground, as well as a discouraging, disheartening obstacle course. How we internalize (or externalize) our environment and the positive and negative messages we receive everyday, has to do with our perceptions & levels of awareness. The office can be an unforgiving place, and even women with healthy Read More »

How well do the S&M principles of dominance, submission, sadism and masochism fit into our corporate models? You’d be surprised. Have you ever had a sadistic boss, or had to work with masochistic colleagues before? Throughout my 30-year career, I’ve navigated and survived my share of corporate mergers, department shake-ups, political infighting, corporate misogynists, and office Read More »

The 2012 Newsweek cover story, The Fantasy Life of Working Women: Why Surrender is a Feminist Dream, caused a firestorm of buzz on and offlinedue largely to the non-feminist hidden desire women hold for submission in the bedroom. But Dominique Browning hit the nail on the head with the article, “Working Women Get S&M All Day.” Sadomasochism is alive Read More »

S&M has gone mainstream! But, it has been a slow build over time. The popularity of “bodice ripping” romance fiction opened the subliminal doors to dominance & submission in relationships. In fact, the category has sometimes been referred to as female pornography, as well as a popular form of modern erotica for women! But the Read More »

From the 1st Sexual Revolution of the Roaring Twenties, to the counter culture 2nd Sexual Revolution of the Sixties, to the Sexual Liberation of the Seventies, to the Casual Sex Culture (remember the club scene, despite STDs & AIDs) of the Eighties, to the anything goes Nineties (the scandal & debauchery decade), there is an Read More »

There has been an escalation of interest (if not practice) in S&M over the past 30 years, and that’s not by accident—the social and cultural shifts over decades make the subject less “taboo” and more acceptably “kinky.”   Although S&M is now largely mainstream in pop culture, it has deep historical and psychological roots. [tweet this] Read More »

The Great Recession. Downsizing. Rightsizing. Inflation. The fluctuations in the stock market. Big financial mergers and acquisitions in a seemingly robust economy… The psychological uncertainty produced by today’s brand of fluctuating capitalism causes anxiety, fear, stress, paranoia and helplessness—in essence, an S&M workplace of supervisor sadists and subordinate masochists! Corporate America resembles some kind of Read More »