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Whip Smart
Whip Smart
Author: Melissa Febos
The author describes how she worked her way through college as a dominatrix in a midtown Manhattan dungeon, a tenure marked by unchecked risk-taking that eventually gave way to a pit of self destruction from which she had to claw her way out.
ISBN-13: 9780312561024
ISBN-10: 0312561024
Publication Date: 3/2/2010
Pages: 256
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 10 ratings
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 3
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Drugs and Female Domination ... Or a Lost Soul in Manhattan

Parts of this memoir are grim and the accounts her "work" in a dungeon sometimes make for uncomfortable reading, but I enjoyed this memoir overall, which is as much about recovering from drug addiction as it about working as a domme in New York City. In many ways, this is a very New York City kind of book in that it is dark and gritty and a little desperate. Interesting read (morbidly fascinating), which I recommend. As a satire of this subculture, I'll recommend Permanent Obscurity by Richard Perez, also about female domination and drugs.


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