Omnipotent Goddess GINA

Goethe skating in Frankfurt

Just before Goethe began to work on The Sorrows of Young Werther, he invited his mother and Her friends to watch him skate on a frozen river. His mother wore a long fur cloak trimmed with gold. Goethe demanded the garment, put it on, and skated away - leaving Her astonished and bewildered. There has been a couple of engravings made picturing the scene.

"It is most remarkable that the greatest German poet, one week before he set out to write his greatest novel, felt the impulse on the spur of the moment to exhibit himself to his mother and a large crow dressed in a conspicuous piece of female clothing."
(K.R. Eissler)

Considering Goethe's masochistic relationship with Anna Elisabeth Schönemann just one year later, we can, I believe, reject all psychoanalytic explanations of the incident and consider it as a pure act of masochistic exhibition. Have you notice that lovely Girl (in Masoch's favorite costume) throwing snowball at Goethe on the first picture? Such lovely detail is explaining the whole story beyond any doubt...

Reader's Diary (Week 13)

Male servile masochism is fundamentally and essentially a surrender of all dignity, a complete abdication of personal sovereignty, a renunciation of the right to satisfy (or even to have) tastes or desires of one's own that do not serve the tastes and desires of the 'Domina'.
(Howarth, 1968)

Rudolf Schlichter as masochist

Rudolf Schlichter (1890-1955), a German dada and 'new objectivity' artist, was a masochist and boot fetishist. During his studies in Karlsruhe he lived by selling pornographic graphics. In 1927 he met Elfriede Elisabeth Koehler (1902-1975), a young courtesan from Geneva called Speedy. She shared his interests and two years later they got married.

Speedy became a center of Schlichter's life. Schlichter always felt to be excluded from conventional society because of his erotic fantasies and Speedy's immediate influence transformed his life as well as his art. She was both a Madonna and a Domina, his Beatrice and his Muse. She gave him a sense of security and belonging.

 

Schlichter's key fetishistic fantasy, pompadour-heeled knee-high buttoned boots, became an important part of Speedy's wardrobe. Their wedding photograph shows Speedy wearing Her new made-to-measure high buttoned boots.

In 1930s Schlichter's art became dominated by Speedy herself who appears in numerous works in a variety of roles and guises. The following aquarelle named 'Domina mea' is probably his most famous masochistic work:

Under Nacis his activities were greatly curtailed. The infamous Entartete Kunst exhibit was the only significant representation of his 'degenerate art' during these years. The combination of Nazi oppression and the bombing of his studio in 1942 destroyed many of Schlichter's most important drawings and oil portraits.

Howling at the Moon

She is my morning star!

The promise of a new day.

Her Light shall shine out darkness of my life.

Filling my heart and my mind, a day without Her is meaningless.

She is the air i breathe and the food i crave.

She is the Sun itself.

She is my Angel.

She is the One.

i love Her.

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Reader's Diary (Week 11)

We are all familiar with Nietzsche's thoughts on the Woman to whom one goes: one should not forget the whip. This whip was often understood as an invitation to beat the Woman soundly. Nothing, in my opinion, could be further from the truth. Nietzsche refers here to the cruel, sadistic Woman who requires the whip to maltreat the male masochist.
(Wilke, 1998)

International Women's Day

Nice numbers i have presented here last year showing how Women are taking over the world are unfortunately valid for US and some parts of Canada & Europe only. The rest of our world is still men's world. Shame on us.

There is six million more Women in the world then men. Women perform 66% of the world's work, but receive only 11% of the world's income. Women own only 1% of the world's land. 70% of the 1.2 billion people living in poverty are Female. The number of families nurtured by Women alone doubled from 1970. Women account for 55% of all college students, but also make up 66% of the world's illiterate adults. Girls represents nearly 60% of the children not in school. In 76 countries less then half the eligible Girls are enrolled in secondary school. Women hold between 10-20 % managerial and administrative jobs. Women make up less then 5% of the world's heads of state.

Women's empowerment and equality are not only matter of human rights, but also a pathway to achieve sustainable development on this planet. Celebrated in 1909 for the first time, the Women's Day became International in 1911 and it is promoting equal rights for Women ever since. In many countries it is just an occasion to honor and price Women for their accomplishments, but it should rather be an important reminder of Women's major role in the society and a long way we have to go to make Women really equal and more powerful.

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Happy Birthday Goddess GINA

Femdom pictograms (Chicks Rule)

Every year Sellers Publishing comes out with a new wall calendar called 'Chicks Rule'. Every year we get 12 new hilarious pictures of all the different ways Girls dominate the boys. The pictograms are supposed to be funny - go ahead Girls, sit back and have the laugh - 'the battle of the sexes' is over, the Chicks won!

But these pictograms are pure Femdom advertising, showing all different aspects of Ds relationship. Widely popular among Femdom minded people all around the globe, these pictograms are also available as magnets, posters, metal wallet cases, metal wall signs, key chains, iron on patches, t-shirts, and all other crap our entertainment business invented to recycle all good and not-so-good ideas. But in this case I am saying Yes, Girls wanna have fun - boys are here to serve You, show the way!

Goethe as masochist (the real Lili)

Anna Elisabeth Schönemann, the daughter of a rich Frankfurt banker, was 16 when Goethe met Her in 1774. She was 'pretty but a spoiled child and a flirt'. The Schönemann family (Lili, Her two brothers and widowed mother) belonged to the highest rank of the Frankfurt society and every evening kept open house for their friends. Goethe was present on one of their parties and became fascinated by Her, a beautiful fair-haired Girl with blue eyes, graceful in all Her movements, and with the ease and self-possesion that came of constant association with people of Her own class.

Anna Elisabeth was accepting attention of the young poet, whose work had already made his name familiar to all educated Germans. Goethe called Her Lili and devoted several exceedingly poetical poems to Her. In April 1775 Geothe was officially engaged to Lili. She gave Goethe a little golden heart which was fastened round his neck with a ribbon. At Frau Schönemann's fashionable parties he slavishly observed the readiness with which Lili responded to the courtesies of other men. However, Lili's relatives thought Goethe was not socially her equal and the engagement lasted only into May. Three years later She was married to a Strassburg banker.

The 'strange' love affair is best described in poem 'Lili's Park'. Goethe compares Lili's many lovers to a menagerie and himself to a bear who somehow does not fit into the circle of his Mistress at the Schönemann residence. But he remained devoted to the charms of the fascinating young Lady. At the age of 80 years he stated 'Lili was the first one I deeply and truly loved, and perhaps it was the last'.