Reader's Diary (Week 22)

It seems that no dream, no matter how absurd and preposterous, is wasted in the universe. A dream contains a hunger for reality, a striving which compels reality, which grows imperceptibly into a claim and a postulate, a promissory note that calls for compensation.
(Schulz, 1936)

Botticelli in Femdom realm

If anyone understood relationship between love and power, violence and excitement, tenderness and humiliation, beauty and horror in early renaissance, it must be Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510). His paintings of unprecedented beauty are full of mysteries, resist our interpretation, but you can clearly feel the tension and turbulent dynamics of the relationship between the figures of his stories. Unfortunately only one of his painting, the 'Pallas and the Centur' (known also as Camilla and the Centaur) from c.1482, is clearly dedicated to Female dominance and Femdom relationship. It is useless to describe the painting further, it speaks itself. You will understand, my beloved Mistress.

Good Morning

Good morning, my precious Mistress!

Femdom Sculpture - Eutychides

Greek sculptor Eutychides (3rd century BC) is known for a statue of Goddess Tyche (Fortuna). It was commissioned from him by newly founded city of Antioch (located in modern Turkey). Tyche of Antioch has not survived, but it was very famed in antiquity and became the model for many copies (here Roman marble copy from 1st century BC that can be seen in Vatican).

The statue featured Goddess seated on a rock, with Her feet rested on a swimming male (the city itself). Sheaf of wheat in Her hand represented prosperity, Her turreted crown power and security. The statue was money well invested as the city of Antioch (located in modern Turkey) quickly became the second biggest city of the east Mediterranean after Alexandria.

Tyche was Goddess of fate for ancient Greeks, Romans named Her Fortuna. i am swimming below my Mistress...

What if...

Would it all have meant anything less if it was just a dream?

Reader's Diary (Week 20)

Lovers are commonly slaves, captives, voluntary servants - amator amicae mancipium - as Castilio terms him: his Mistress's servant, Her drudge, prisoner, bond-man, what not? He composeth himself wholly to Her affections, to please Her, and, as Aemilia said, makes himself Her lackey. All his cares, actions, all his thoughts, are subordinate to Her will and commandment; Her most devote, obsequious, affectionate servant and vassal.
(Burton, 1621)

Be my slave...

Editorial shoot of the latest Diva magazine issue is controversial. Sign of bad taste, arrogant, racist, selfserving, designed to shock, etc... Maybe, i do not know its real intention and i do not want to judge, but it made many people angry.

The collection called 'Be my slave' is by Aamna Aqeel, young Pakistani fashion designer. She launched her signature label a few years back and has quickly gained a market among the younger fashion lovers. She denies any racist angle for the shoot, claiming that She wanted to spark a debate on child labour. She says she is involved with a children’s charity and wanted to highlight how 'society Madams' employ child labour in their homes.

A white model on the pictures is seen dressed in various Aqeel designs while being catered to by a dark-skinned little boy who looks a lot like a slave. And slavery and child labour are real issues in that part of the world. Any 'politically correct' person from the west must be outraged.

i do see pictures of Femdom phantasy and all buzz around them just draws a line between phantasy and reality. i live Femdom dream and i love my Mistress so SO much and everything is real, as real as it gets, and SHE is everything and i am so grateful, every single day i thank HER for being here and every second without HER is lost, lost forever. But i know that the 'real life' is about something different. Being with somebody you love, who loves you, create a home together, making life sweeter and richer for each other, putting some meaning into it... Rich west allows us to live our dreams, can we also make a dream from our living?

One Day in Vienna...

It is cold, raining all the time, tourists are everywhere, i am alone, my Mistress is with crowlie somewhere in the city... Vienna would be so nice if only... i took a couple of shots today and some of them can be interesting for Femdom enthusiasts... for my Mistress... maybe...

Coming to Vienna

Coming to Vienna - The most famous Viennese Sadist

By most famous Viennese Sadist Woman i do not mean Countess Bathory, even if She was visiting Vienna quite often, but Mrs. Kadivec. Ida Edith Rosza Kadivec (1879-1953) settled permanently in Vienna in December 1915 with Her daughter and one month later, 1st of February 1916, She is opening private language school on Biberstraße 9. Eight years later, 3rd of January 1924, police searched the school and arrested Mrs. Kadivec. They found a collection of whips, rods, belts, birches, canes, together with pornographic materials and sex toys. The teacher and director of the school openly used corporal punishment on Her young pupils and Her own daughter (nothing unique at the time), but She enjoyed it a little too much and also She did not hesitate to invite other people to watch... it became regular show for well situated  friends of Mrs. Kadivec, who happily paid for it.

The sensational trial with Her and Her six 'friends' was held behind closed doors, but whole case was well covered by Viennese newspapers (so well, that 'cadivezzln' became popular neologism for 'to flagellate someone' in Viena). Mrs. Kadivec was sentenced to six (later reduced to five) years of hard labor, but She was free in December 1925 already (came out on Christmas amnesty). She changed Her name to Edith Christally and kept challenge the verdict to until the end of life.

What made Her famous though are two books and one article She wrote - 'My Destiny' (published in 1926 and later rewritten and extended into Confessions and Experiences, 1931) and 'Eros, the meaning of my life' (1931). The article - 'Sadist - Masochist - Flagellant' has been written in 1930 for almanac about Women's sexuality. It is said She wrote it for money, but it was all published (repeatedly) as private prints usually for subscribers. She was quite opened in both books and gave us very unique insight into life of dominant Woman (and bisexual and slightly sadistic). Both books became a classic of SM literature.

Coming to Vienna - The Birth of Masochism

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was one of the most celebrated european writer of 1870s and 1880s. Today, thanks to Richard von Krafft-Ebing, he is known mainly as eponymous exemplar of masochism and only one his work, short novella 'Venus in Furs', is a part of contemporary culture.

Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902) was professor of psychiatry at the university of Vienna in 1889-1902. He was one of the most prominent psychiatrist and leading forensic expert in Central Europe and founding father of medical sexology. His principal work 'Psychopathia Sexualis' was first published in Stuttgart in 1886. Written as a practical guide for lawyers and doctors considering sexual crimes in court, it quickly became a bestseller (though all piquant passages were in latin), followed by no less then 11 revised and more elaborated editions in sixteen subsequent years and translated into several languages. And it is still popular and regularly published today.

University of Vienna

But the term 'masochism' has been first used by Krafft-Ebing in 1890 in his study 'New research in the area of Psychopathia Sexualis' and consequently the term was used in the 6th edition of the 'Psychopathia Sexualis' in 1891. Krafft-Ebing claimed that he is following medical convention in the creation of pathology name using the discoverer's own name. He justified himself by citing the example of Dalton and color-blindness (then called 'daltonism'), since Dalton was color-blind himself and also scientifically explained its causes.

So, the Krafft-Ebing's new term implied that Sacher-Masoch himself was the inventor who had discovered his own pathology. In the same paragraph Krafft-Ebing defined the sickness from which he claimed the writer suffered and added that this was the downfall of the Masoch’s literary potential. Quite ironic, is it not?

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Krafft-Ebing knew about Sacher-Masoch from Graz. He arrived to the city in 1872 when tales about Sacher-Masoch's liaison with Anna von Kottowitz still circulated through the university (Sacher-Masoch taught history there till 1870). Sacher-Masoch, his open philosemitism and panslavism, offered a valuable target for Krafft-Ebing. Sacher-Masoch's idea, described clearly in 'Venus in Furs', that violence is not natural to men any more than it is to Women, had to be be something provocative and pathological for the famous psychiatrist.

No wonder Sacher-Masoch, his family and friends vehemently protested about the new term. But in 1905 Freud had made it into one of the basic component instincts of polymorphous infantile sexuality and masochism became official term for pleasurable investment in physical pain and psychic humiliation. Sacher-Masoch became immortal.

How to...

How to show gratitude to someone you love, when you are already thanking a lot? How to express your inner feelings without overused phrases and empty cliches? How to find real meaning of words? How to enrich someone's life without getting lost? How to give everything without losing all? How to distinguish what is good for your loved one from your selfish willing? And how to make it one?

Good morning, my precious Mistress, thank You, thank You for everything. Have a beautiful day!

Coming to Vienna - Empress Elisabeth and Her dogs II

Coming to Vienna - Empress Elisabeth and Her dogs I