2008

“Reflections of Glamour,” Steven Meisel, for...

Exactly what, where, and what color to lick. (Burberry, Fall...

opaque san francisco

A very distinctly mod bit of furniture, Sonny Black’s...

My instrument sends these images (shot somewhat secretly)...

Miss Saint's Taxonomy of Servants

Goodness, are they servants?  Playthings?  Pets? As of my most recent resurfacing, I’ve...

(Tiiu Kuik in Numéro)

Quintessentially Escape > Bespoke...

Arousals: the scent of a rare book.

Of Leashes, and Public Surrender

My mentor M. Cybele has a system of Leashes — short, medium, long — for maintaining...

“There is within today’s man a profound intolerance for...”
— Georges Bataille, “The...

All one should wear in this heat. (You, or I.  You choose. ...

“First, they would like to see a return to lipstick, which...”
—  Hard Times, but Your Lips...

Challenging what it means to be "kept"

I asked him to give me the illusion that I could live without money. The woman who gave me the idea...

The reason I always come back, or, where I would like to...

Me: This is my first d’Yquem. Him: You still have...

On where to apply lipstick

I like for my pets to bear a lipstick mark somewhere, preferably beneath a pair of panties...

Divine, bent, silk. I could lounge in these for hours. (Now...

On dominance

Feminine dominance does not require me to debase men in any way (except, perhaps, those of our...

An escape into barely three hours of light a day, holed up...

(Richard Bernardin)

“Nude servants gilded in gold leaf attended her. Bizarre wax...”
— Marchesa Luisa Casati

Playing soft

I adore when they come struggling, the look of confusion on a man’s face as his body twists to...

She’s so disarmed. (Dita von Teese, for Blender.)

“One of the things about Sade is that he did know he was a...”
— Dalkey Archive Press:...

The conspiracy of fulfillment

I do consider myself a confidante in the hidden world of the individuals that I see. What is offered...

An introduction.

A submissive girlfriend of mine described me as an elegant, Hitchcock blonde, the kind of woman who...