The Dregs

Harry Willson Watrous (1857-1940) was a leading portrait painter in turn-of-the-century New York. He specialized in a wide variety of subjects, including genre paintings, portraits of women, landscapes, night scenes and still lifes, but his style always remained rather academic... However, one of paintings is quite different - The Dregs from 1914... the dreamy atmosphere and symbolic composition gives the painting a very strong Femdom character... it is like a dream of a proud, dominant Woman... is it not?

Reader's Diary (Week 47)

A submissive masochist can be a competent professional; a dominant sadist can be a loving parent… we do have a dark side, we do have violent urges. S/m allows for the eroticization of power and powerlessness to be transformed, controlled and channelled into an expression of love, intimacy, and mutual caring. The scene space becomes a sacred circle where contraries do exist: pain becomes pleasure, control becomes freedom, and darkness becomes light.
(Stein, 1999)

Femdom Sculpture

Some statues are just statues, but some, not many, are simply breathtaking. All the beauty embodied in the stone, eternal stone full of life, full of spirit and energy, makes you feel connected to Gods...

It is not coincidence that Feminine beauty and its power is almost the only subject of these sculptures. Two of them were created by two great French sculptors, Camille Claudel (1864-1943) and Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Claudel met Rodin in 1883 and quickly became his model, lover and muse. She worked in his workshop and developed Her own talent. In 1886 Claudel started working on Her 'Sakuntala'. She finished it two years later and exhibited it with great success. In 1890 Rodin combined two of his previously created figures into famous sculpture 'The Eternal Idol' and Claudel further developed Her original idea and in 1905 She finished Her marble version of Sakuntala named Vertumnus and Pomona. Art creates beauty.

Religious Love

i do not want to talk about Ds references in Bible (though there are many), i do not want to discuss if God is male or Female (probably both, as he created both Adam and Eve in his own image), i want to share my thoughts of love. The love i am experiencing is so huge and overwhelming and unlimited and strangely enough the only literal description close enough to my feelings i have found in writings of medieval mystics... Disappointed by fellow people they were looking for God, for perfect being, for somebody worthy of their unconditional love. They replaced earthly love with love to God and called it greater, and true and perfect... They were unable to find pleasure and joy in this world so they were looking for ecstasy in eternity. i think i can understand them, the power of love is so mighty...

But i am lucky, so unbelievably lucky, i can dedicate my love to the Woman, to the most gorgeous Woman i have ever met, to my Mistress. And all the pain they went through on their mystic way i can enjoy directly from HER beautiful hands. And all my despair and all my love i can lie at HER lovely feet right now. And i do not need any visions, i can drown in HER deep eyes right now. And i can see HER and i can feel HER right now. And i can be with HER now... i can give myself to HER. Oh, Goddesses, you are so gracious! Thank YOU Mistress, thank YOU for everything.

Reader's Diary (Week 46)

One should not despise a beautiful dream. Life is only a dream, but an ugly one.

(Sacher-Masoch, 1886)

Reader's Diary (Week 45)

It was ordained that the Queen should have greater power and honour than the king and that among private persons the Wife should enjoy authority over Her husband, the husbands agreeing in the marriage contract that they will be obedient in all things to their Wives.
(Diodorus, 50BC)

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