Posted by admin - July 10th, 2014
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 »
Posted in S&M - Comments Off on WHAT COLOR IS YOUR CORPORATE PERSONALITY?
Tags: corporate America, corporate dominatrix, dominatrix, masochist, sadist, sadomasochism, workplace environment
Posted by admin - July 3rd, 2014
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 »
Posted in S&M - Comments Off on POWER BECOMES YOU: THE MANY FACES OF DOMINANCE
Tags: business, corporate America, feminists, position power, sadomasochism, the corporate dominatrix, women in business
Posted by admin - June 26th, 2014
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 »
Posted in History, S&M - Comments Off on TIE ME UP, TIE ME DOWN – S&M IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Tags: A Dangerous Method, BDSM, Bettie Page: Dark Angel, E. L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey, Kink, Miley Cyrus: Tongue Tied, Psychology Today, Psychopathia Sexualis, Quentin Jones, Quills, S&M, Secretary, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Notorious Bettie Page, The Pet, The Piano Teacher, Venus in Fur
Posted by admin - June 24th, 2014
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 »
Posted in History, S&M - Comments Off on HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK: S&M IN THE TWIENTIETH CENTURY
Posted by admin - June 19th, 2014
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 »
Posted in History, S&M - Comments Off on FREUD FOR THOUGHT: S&M IN THE NINETIETH CENTURY