Legends of Dominance - 44

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This article is titled
Legends of Dominance  - 44
by Mistress Michelle Peters et al.
and posted with permission
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Remembering Lady Laura

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Rare photo of Tantala (Left) and the late Lady Laura (Right)


Agony& Ecstasy at Lady Laura's Domination
By Colton Gunn

The view from the front side-walk is of a sizable four-bed-room California stucco house on a middle class Hollywood side street. The color is a bluish grey. the landscaping shows tender, loving care from a Japanese gardener with a manicuring tendency he can't control. Past the front door finds you in a vestibule of color contrasts. Black and white floor covering, matching walls. Tea bar, black leather with matching stools is on the immediate right, and straight ahead, through another door is a large, oval glass table with a scarlet woman's shoe, glazed, as a centerpiece and possible ashtray. This might once have been a dining room. Now it is an informal gathering area for clients to register for a session at hand. The girls, all young and very attractive and congenial, congregate here, as well as in a cherry kitchen or the sumptuous living room adjacent. The phones on the antique desk in this staging area seem constantly busy on this late Thursday afternoon. Business is cracking. This is Lady Laura's Dominion, over which she has full control. As she sizes you up she exhibits a reserve that dissipates only when she has reached a judgment favorable. Then the side of her that is the gracious hostess surfaces. The side that shows her liking for people, the concern for the human condition.

Over coffee she says that she has been at this location some six years, living in peaceful coexistence with neighbors whose idea of a session is three hour in a bingo parlor on Sunset Boulevard, several blocks south. Her only vexation at present is that the rug man has yet to arrive to replace the smoke-blue living-room carpeting, even though replacement isn't strictly needed. Most people are watching the S/M movies on the large console Television anyway. But Lady Laura is a perfectionist. Big-boned'and blonde with piercing brown eyes, she has a way of getting to the heart of a matter early on. "This address is far more than a pleasure house where esoteric, shall I say specialized needs are satisfied," she is saying. "The reality is. my Dominion is also a clinic dispensing to the special needs of our clients!" It's a valid way of looking at things. Try checking into St. Vincent's Hospital to request a spanking session and you'd end up in Unit 3 Psychiatric Ward while they determined how dangerous you were. "Over the past several years there has been a marked increase of clients who have been referred to us by psychiatrists. We have become a part of their treatment program for those with tendencies we alleviate. "Sessions range from a half hour, an hour, to sometimes as long as nine hours," she says. There are fifteen girls on the staff, and each one knows which is the handle end of a quirt or an English riding crop. Each knows the virtually clinical expertise in creating the perfect array of knots where bondage is concerned. The equipment they use reflects the latest stage of the art. "I have always had a love for. and a fascination with human nature," Lady Laura will admit.

"There is a lot of satisfaction in knowing that what we do here is an all-important outlet, a release for needs to be dominated over,

or to dominate over another—in a professional environment. "If there were no places like here available, what would these people do? Where would they go?" The Lady has a point. You can't very well say to the average gentlemen or lady, "suppose I pick you up at 8 p.m., bring you over to my place and whip the shit out of you—and then we'll take in dinner and a movie." Places like Lady Laura's Dominion solve such needs succinctly. Cost of such services? Within reach of anybody save those wretched enough to get off by kicking the family dog. "Quite a few of our clients, perhaps the highest percentage are professional men. Men in positions of authority who find great therapy in relinquishing the role, becoming submissive if only for an hour. The relief and change of role value to those is astonishing to those who have no understanding of how important this can be." she points out. The encounters are both sexual and psychological. Perhaps psycho-sexual is the word. They are sexual on a mental rather than a physical plane. Certainly the girls are sex-objects in that they are exceedingly attractive, appealingly young, and highly congenial, companionable and caring. They are in a sense, fantasies come true, if only on rented time. Bree is a typical example. That is a switch, which satisfies two major needs within her own psychological make-up.

Bree has light brown curly hair, a warm and inviting smile, and an excellent body thinly veiled but enough so to maintain the mystery of her obvious sexuality. Like her female colleagues, she could be taken anywhere, with no apologies to anybody. When she is at the Dominion, where she likes to go best is into one of the four, fully equipped rooms with a client, there to administer to immediate needs that the client has expressed. Her calling to the service of sadists, masochists, bondage and others of special needs occurred when she was in her teens, a few years back.. "I met some people into this, which was the first time I even knew that such human needs existed. It piqued my curiosity. Finally, curiosity getting the better of me, I submitted to bondage. The sensation, the mental and physical high I experienced left me shaken—and hooked.

The psychological impact amazed me. So I began experiencing, learning more and more." A lot of what she learned was about herself as well as about others with similar interests. "I discovered that I got extreme satisfaction as both a submissive and a dominant. Then I came down here to Los Angeles and found that I was anything but alone. This activity actually flourished. I no longer felt I was different, or kinky!" A former print shop employee, Bree found her niche. Lady Laura has her own opinion of this "flourishing." "Our entire society has been undergoing sexual adulthood since the sixties. More and more people are accepting themselves for the way they are, and are refusing to remain in closets living a dark-sided existence. They are coming into the open where they rightfully belong—with no apologies to anybody!" "S and M is something you can take or leave alone. It is a private decision based on private inclination. But those having no interest in it exhibit nothing except ignorance when they knock the existence of this need in others." She states. The anatomy of the bondage or spanking devotee is complicated, Lady Laura says. "About the only common pattern is that in childhood something traumatic occurred, or abusive behavior was inflicted on the child," she has observed. "There is commonly a lack of love shown them as children." Each female staff member, (the Dominion is all female owned and operated) and this includes a female professional lady wrestler, is fully trained in the ministration of whatever needs are exhibited by the clientele within the law. Each female has experienced both domination and submission as part of their preparation, all under the supervision of Lady Laura. The female staffers include, besides Lady Bree, the following: Dawn, dominant; Rachel, switch; Erika, switch; Tantala, dominant; Shawna, switch; Holly, dominant; Racquel. dominant; Crystal, dominant: Margo, dominant; Bunny, submissive, and Jacqueline, a switch.

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The rooms in which the sessions take place are: Purgatory. Royale Suite, and the DeSade Room at present, with a fourth room being readied for action in the immediate future.

These rooms, all mirrored, contain bondage tables, spanking 'horses and posts, suspension rings and bars, whipping posts, pillories, and the use of cages and cells. The interior colors vary from blood red to dove grey and black. They are sound- proof and have a womb-like privacy. They are the scenes of both heavy and light sessions, depending upon individual preferences and needs. Unlike some other local establishments catering to the same human needs, the staff members at Lady Laura's Dominion do not necessarily live their roles while off duty. While a few do, the others have private lives not necessarily duplicating the role of dominant or submissive. Nevertheless, when on duty and available, each of them throws herself with eager willingness and total commitment to her function with a client. Bree feels she has a natural tendency for masochism. Others might naturally be a dominant personality. Every one of them has thoroughly been Involved in both the dominant and submissive role, that they can fully understand where the psychological aspects of the clients are, and better know how far they can go, and what is too far to go. Lady Laura stresses. While a beach ball sun hovers like a target on the cross hairs of a gun sight on the Hollywood skyline, then drops from view, the pulse at Lady Laura's quickens as the human drama intensifies.

The population of cars headed toward Laura's Dominion increases, with a limo or two interspersed amongst the Japanese imports and the new Detroit creations. It is the coming of nighttime, and with it the coming, of those needing what the Domain so capably offers. Regardless of the status of the clients, the opulence of their transportation, they get a used-car price at this sensual oasis of surcease from the drives that bring them here. It is no place for the drinkers, the snorters, the shooters or smokers. This is a haven strictly for the S/M's the spankers and the spankees. The only tracks you'll find cross Santa Monica Boulevard down near Carson Avenue. That train seldom runs anymore. An intensity interspersed by laughter and a close comaraderle seems to pervade the living room and around that glass-slippered table near the old fashioned desk with the twin phones ringing. Holly, with her slim, imperious beauty, her dark, glossy hair goes to Purgatory with a man who has sought her out. He wears Nettleton shoes. The shirt is of raw silk. He is no more out of place than the Preppie next to him.

In the Royale suite there is a middle-aged man with the observant eyes of an attorney, ESQ on the license plates of his BMW parked a half block south. Here they bring into play their other side, a side needing to present itself now that daily duties in whatever profession, business or career have ended. Now is when the utter professionalism of the girls, with their movie star physical appeal and their understanding mind-set operates in this sub-rosa world of human psycho-sexuality. The electricity in the atmosphere crackles in its own way as much as a quirt against buttocks, and is as intense as knotted bonds rendering the body helpless and motionless on a leather upholstered table where mirrored reflections of the bound client match as mute witnesses to the private drama. They are the only witnesses to what transpires between this client and this dominant or submissive.

In the De Sade room a lovely submissive, gagged and helpless is the focus for the intent man hovering over her. giving release to murky needs that his wife in another part of the city has absolutely no knowledge of whatever. This secrecy in which a part of his personality dwells, is a closet whose door will sometime open, that he no longer feels a need to keep this part of his inner urges a guarded secret from all except himself and this lithesome, understanding girl. In an increasingly competitive atmosphere as more and more bondage and S/M tendency-ed individuals emerge from their hidden existence, Lady Laura's Dominion seems to thrive with a proven formula. Why? Because within this dominion there dwells top-quality personnel creating an atmosphere of a home away from home. The girls met are outgoing and handsome, seemingly caught up by the roles they play as much as the clients are by the roles they live. There is nothing sleazy, nothing second-rate. A client doesn't have to wonder if his wallet will be lifted if he puts on a blindfold. Privacy and protection is what the place is all about. And the pleasure resulting from the sessions. Other than a problem in explaining what all these gorgeous young women in near-to-nothing costumes are up to. it is a place where you could bring dear old Mom and Dad, parking them out of range of the television set in the living room while you disappear for a worthwhile hour or so. One could truly expect more bawdiness in a convent for girls than appears in Lady Laura's parlor. For more!

Yet, "knowing the ropes" here has a meaningful significance that easily escapes the unenlightened eye. "Our clients portray the truism that human sexuality is not separate from the psychological aspects of the mind," Lady Laura says. Psycho-sexuality is a complicated, at times delicate affair, and hardly a mere matter of boy meets girl, boy has girl, boy goes looking for new girl. That's as over-simplified as the Dick & Jane primer books. "In this business, in a sense that is what it is for it takes business acumen in order to maintain ability to continue to serve, in this business as in no other, every day brings new proof of the complicated array of experiences past and present, that go into the making of a person's personality, their desires and their patterns of behavior in satisfying those desires.

"The average client is a highly educated, highly sensitive human being. Our role is to provide fulfilling experiences for such persons. It is, in the minds of every person here. a cause every bit as worthwhile as any other I know. "Like a half acre of fantasyland, here is where a person can take their fantasies or their needs and play them out in a conducive setting free of any moral judgement whatever," Lady Laura says. As for the girls, about a half dozen or more who are on duty at any given time, with the others on-call, they regard themselves as" participatory therapists. This reflects no need for a title, it describes some of the things they do in their willing, caring way. The major reward comes in the demeanor of satisfied clients, which is the rule. hardly the exception. It explains the high volume of repeat clients. It explains why this is the site frequently suggested by licensed psychiatrists and doctors for certain of their patients.Perhaps it explains why Bree will never again galley tray a column of hot slugs in a Washington State print shop.Night has cloaked Hollywood, which fights back with neon swords while people populate the crowded sidewalks, passing dumbly like humanity itself. Palms sway in an autumn breeze like sentinels to the human condition. At Lady Laura's Domain, blocks away and a world away in attitude, like an oasis of exciting satisfaction and fulfillment, men and some women find what they have been looking for. sometimes without even knowing that they've been looking.They meet others on the same search, realizing that nobody is truly alone. Some of them find a new facet of themselves... (Lady Laura's Dominion can be located through the Los Angeles Free Press Classified Pages

Dave & D Nesor

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Parties & Gatherings - Editorial By Dave Nesor
Leather Underground Newspaper
Issue 4, Early 1980's
EDITORIAL BY DAVE NESOR
PARTIES & GATHERINGS

From early on in my personal growth in B/D & S/M. I felt the need to play and communicate with others in the scene. At that time I was living in the New York area and except for some commercial establishments there wasn't really anything organized going on that was non-commercial. Together with the Hartwells (from S/M EXPRESS) myself and my wife (Sweet Dee) started the couples club in New York, with the purpose to meet with other couples to play and teach each other new avenues in B/D and S/M. The couples club concept has spread around the country. But accept for the organization in Beaver, Pennsylvania, all these couples club's have turned into somewhat commercial enterprises. In other words these clubs charge admission for their functions, taking away the informal nature of the parties and other functions.

Since I moved to Chicago, myself and my wife have organized a variety of "non-profit" functions for couples. Now with "Leather Underground" we intend to have functions on a regular basis. As I stated before these parties are non-commercial, no fee will be charged. We expect though: that you bring your own booze and a covered dish. We also feel that it is important that you intend to participate in the play activities. If you are reading this but you are single you might feel left out! Don't worry because "Leather Underground" is going to have get-togethers for singles tool The next meeting is planned for November 10th and anyone who is sincere about his feelings dealing with S/M and B/D is invited to come to this meeting. The principle purpose of these meetings is to meet each other in a t relaxed atmosphere and to introduce you to local Mistresses. We like to see the experienced practitioners to share their knowledge with the novices. We do not guarantee that on the single events play will go on, but if something get started we are not going to stop it! We hope that others around the country will follow us in getting things started in their community. So far we have gotten many calls from individuals requesting information regarding activities in their community. It is sad that often there are non! If you want to take the initiative to get a non-commercial club (couples and/or singles) in your community we will take you under our umbrella and help you getting it of the ground!


Leather Underground Newspaper
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Issue 1, 1987
EDITORIAL.........

I'm not going to bore you with lot of bullshit, but let you know what is happening in the world of the leather Underground & SM Express.

Next month will be two years since I made the decision to sell the MOLE PUBLICATIONS to someone who I thought was a great friend and partner, Paul White. But a lot of things have happened in the two years. Things that l`m very sorry for. The main thing being that how you the reader, the subscribers, and members of the Video Exchange have been left holding the bag, because Mister White moved on to other things and totally forgot about the commitment he made when he took over the reins of Mole to you and to me.

I only wish I could have seen what the future was going to bring. How the scene,was going to be used. How you the reader would lose faith in the MOLE. Something that took many years of building to gain your trust. So as of now let me soy that the MOLE IS DEAD STARTING AGAIN..............

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Left, Mistress Michelle, Middle Dave Nesor, Right Sweet D,<br> photo taken 1978 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Over the next few months you will see a new look to both The Leather Underground & SM Express. We will not being dealing as much in fantasy, more so in Reality. I feel because the way laws are changing, alot of our rights as adult in the freedom of choose are slowly being taken away. The information of where to go and things to do and not do are very important.

Don't worry we will still have stories, articles, video sales, but more important we will cover the SM scene now, how it is, whether good.bad, or Indifferent.

let me (DAVE NESOR say at this time I promise to give you the best m reading pleasure, along with the best Information and service that Is humanly possible.

FLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Middle, Dave Nesor at Hell Fire , NY 1997

MISTRESS M. PETERS has joined the staff of both Leather Underground & SM Express. Starting Next Month Read letter to Mistress Michelle.

If You have any Questions about the Dominant or Submissive part of the scene write, to this talented and real person. That all for this month, just remember that THE MOLE IS DEAD and DAVE NESOR IS BACK.

~~Compiled by Mistress Michelle & slave english

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