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Berlin's Studio Avalon Is Closing Down

No More Happy Surrender In Berlin's Paradisal Underworld Realm

Herrin Mercedes [L] and Lady Marlon [R] (image: Avalon website)

 

After reading about it, Dutch banged his head against the table for a long time. Amsterdam to Berlin is only 650km (400 miles) by car or about six hours' drive. One day, or so I told myself. Too late. At the end of October the famous Berlin dungeon closed down for good. The Avalon website reads: 

"suddenly you realize it's time to start something new and to let go of what was." [1]

Avalon is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend of the making of Britain. When you and I hear the name Avalon, we immediately think of that famous Berlin dungeon. Why it's modern founders choose that name, I don't know. Some believe the original Avalon was located around Glastonbury, which was an island in ancient times. Other contemporary suggestions for the location of Avalon ranged included paradisal underworld realms equated with the other side of the Earth [2] at the antipodes. Perhaps that was the reason.

Both the OWK and Studio Avalon opened their doors in the second half of the 1990s. Long after the OWK was forced to shut down it's Berlin counterpart went from strength to strength. Studio Avalon was the result of two passionate, dominant women: Herrin Mercedes und Lady Marlon.

Even if you've never visited the place, you seen at least some of its movies. Avalon was an early adapter of the many possibilities the internet offered and Avalon's team put out many videos under various labels.

Back then video still meant VHS, there was this series of documentaries on famous dungeons. Dungeon scenes were followed by interviews with house dommes. I vividly remember Lady Marlon talking about her love of human ponies, while Herrin Mercedes confesses about her passion for medical play. When she was in college, she trained as a nurse. Some years later Lady Marlon dropped from public view and Herrin Mercedes became the public face of Avalon. [3] How do I remember? Dutch always had kind of a weak spot for Herrin Mercedes. I still do.

Remember, Dutch was born this way Observing from a distance, the same must be true for Avalon's leading ladies. Medical femdom never crossed my mind until I read about Herrin Mercedes. Still scares me but under the right guidance... Not that anyone comes to mind...

In the real world, 23 years is a long time. Online it's forever. My kink education coincides with the rise of the internet. So did Berlin's Studio Avalon. Apart from the endless parade of awe-inspiring dommes, what made me a fan for life is how the dungeon and it's leading ladies showed the world just how beauty femdom can be. And why getting hurt is not always a bad thing.

This April, Herrin Mercedes wrote about a new dentist's chair on her personal blog. Six months later, Avalon is selling of its inventory. Makes me feel sad.

Best to remember the good things. Avalon made the world a better place by teaching it a thing or two about how beautiful femdom can be.

Thank you Lady Marlon. Thank you Herrin Mercedes. I'm sorry we never met. The Vanilla's may have their own mythological Avalon, but so does the Dark Side. Ours is better. Wishing you both and all the rest of the team the very best.

Thanks for reading everybody. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna bang my head some more. And it hurts, the wrong kind of pain.

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[1] My translation of the German version, the English one is slightly shorter. "Aber plötzlich weißt Du es ist Zeit etwas Neues zu beginnen... und etwas Altes gehen zu lasse"

[2] Closest thing to the other side of the planet, calculated in a straight line from Berlin are the shores of New Zealand. Packing my bags right now, who knows what I'll discover.

[3] It's only then when I noticed her fondness of inward spikes. Bra's, underwear, shoes and lots more.

Let's Have The Talk

All of a sudden Dutch is all ears

To be the recipient of her personal gravity is nothing but a privilige.

The other day I was watching a re-run of The Big Bang Theory on Netflix. Cue next episode and suddenly I find myself watching science geek Sheldon giving his Mum "the talk" about safe sex. Odd, very odd.

One can only wonder if there is such a thing as a femdom equivalent of "the talk". I don't know, but it feels highly unlikely. I have no idea what that talk should be about. Different talks for different couples is the best I can come up with.

I must admit, however that today's image comes pretty close to what I imagine, is mistress and slave having "the talk." Most likely because it's such a strong image. The fact that I like it, because it ticks so many boxes might also have something to do with it. For one, effortless intensity comes to mind, or as I like to call it: her personal gravity.

Intimacy

Beyond the complex lies the extra-ordinary

Only a fool refuses to bow to reality.

Forget I was born this way. Part of what makes femdom fun is the endless array of toys and outfits, not to mention the many insanely complex schemes.

Yes, by now I know toys are evil, at least according to the femdom police. Who cares, I'm a rebel by heart. As for naked slaves versus mistresses dressed in leather or rubber, that's very much up to her, don't you agree?   

Personally I've never met a woman who doesn't look less than fabulous in leather or latex. So how can it be wrong to dress up if you feel like it? Or is it just me who cannot see the harm in having more fun? Outfits like that also can help in setting the stage and create a deeper feeling of power exchange.

In the end it doesn't matter whether you agree or not. What's matters is that it works for the both of you.

To make it 'work', two players need to connect as people first. Makes sense you think. Now go online and read the many ads and comments, reducing the other half to a mere prop. Why would I want that?

As I said before, my definition of a relationship is a recurring interaction with another person. That can be the clerk in the grocery story or you spouse - and anything in between.

All happy mistress-slave relationships hinge on some sort of connection. The closer two people are, the deeper their bond. If you're truly blessed that connections runs so deep, any random stranger can tell, whether or not they are into femdom.

No props, no complications, just a glorious image of a mistress and her slave. She gently wraps one hand around him, while she canes him. At the same time, her face seems to rest on his back. Even if you hate femdom, you know this image is all about good things. That's the amazing power of true intimacy.

Blindfolds are evil, right?

 

Professional Dominatrices Are The Best

The best, just not exclusively.

Ties are optional, showers and respect are not. (image: artist unknown)

At times Dutch can be a bit naive. Perhaps I take things for granted or maybe "I don't look further than my nose long is" [3], but I never realized just how terrible some people behave when it comes to voicing negative opinions about professional dominatrices.

When it comes to men, it kinda feels like they're trying to score brownie points with lifestyle mistresses by repeating the mantra of how they will never visit a professional dominatrix over and over again. Apart from the fact that many professional dominatrices are also lifestyle dommes, I don't believe them. For one, the 20 to one domme deficit makes that highly unlikely. On top of that, men are men. In the meantime they pretend to preach the gospel of female supremacy. In a world where things no longer add up 1+1=11 makes more and more sense. Then again, to me it always has.

Besides, in a world where we men never cheat on our wives or girlfriends [4], there'd be hardly any need for professional dominatrices. And I'm so not gonna point out the conflicting views of a firmly held belief in female supremacy versus trashing pro-dommes. Not that such lunacy makes men the more stupid sex. Stupidity is an equal opportunity harasser, it's treats men and women the same. It's just the outcome that's different.

If you want to fight the never-ending war, get yourself an army of women. The fact that they never give up is both their strength and weakness. Men on the other hand, at some point will say, let's stop and convert their tanks into monster trucks and go off to race them with their former enemies. [1]

Honestly, I have no idea why lifestyle-only women are hell-bent on thrashing professional dominatrices. The only reason I can think of is that they need to feel superior to other women. If you wanna feel superior, sing yourself a lullaby. There is no such thing a superiority, except superior stupid, just ask the OWK. [5]

If you want to be respected, work hard, be kind and use the talents that you have been given. What people respect and admire is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the fight in the dog. And when you do, you will realize you no longer need to feel superior or be disrespectful to other women and men.

The Highly-Tributed Lifestyle Domme four years on is still a long read. No, I'm not taking back my words.

I don't often get cross, but when I do, I'm evil. In the Summer of 2016 I started a series of post in five parts about the "Highly Tributed Lifestyle Domme." Trust me, that's me being kind and gentle. So, one day...

Luckily other bloggers are doing a better job. Paltego, the man behind the well-respected blog Femdom Resource is the obvious example. In the Summer of 2019 Dirk Hooper [2] wrote "thank heaven for the professional dominatrix" and the other day I ran into the blog of French slave Bdsaime [2] who lists four reasons why he loves meeting professional mistresses. That last one is my favourite. "I meet outstanding women." Oh, yes! You do. So very much. Remember what I wrote about my Tokyo session? Well there are many more awesome women, some of them working as a professional dominatrix on top of that. And I have met a few of them. Talkin' bout luck.

As always, the world's crappiest slave is also the luckiest. No, wait, that's not fair. Now I can never use that line again because better "slaves" continue to disrespect professional dominatrices. Thanks for nothing fellows. Get your act together and make me the world's crappiest slave again. I'll take care of the "luck".

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Notes:

[1] Others went fishing or read Sun-Tzu.

[2] I'd love to add both blogs to my blogrol but somehow it isn't working.

[3] Dutch proverb - we're quite fond of them - meaning taking things for granted or not thinking them through.

[4] Don't be fooled, it takes two to tango.

[5] Just ask the OWK how their "ultra-matriarchy" [yes, seriously] is working out for them. Whatever you do, don't mention the fact that their matriarchy is not representative of global female divinity. To me it looks mostly bland and colourless. Clearly someobody is missing the point here.

Japanese Mistress Bible

And yes another blog recommendation, but only if you can ready Japanese. [Working on it, working on it. I'll start any moment now.] [1] [2]

Raw power. Can I be your Forest Gump, my queen? Please? (Image: Kitagawa Pro, found on Buchi)

Back in early 2017 Ron mailed me about Yapoo's Market and queen Naomi Asano and her vision on femdom and BDSM. Included was a link to a Japanese blog about the historiography of Japanese femdom video work in the past 20 or 30 years.

The scans on the blog are from old "Mistress Bible" magazines as far as I can understand. But I can't read the Japanese Interview of our Femdom Amaterasu Naomi Asano, nor feed a translation program with the Japanese script, Ron concludes.

For now I'm gonna name the blog Buchi and it is vast. It has over 1600 articles written in a little under 4,5 years. It selection on Yapoo Market alone consists of roughly 180 posts. All in Japanese of course, so I pasted the url in Google Chrome and set it to translate automatically from Japanese to English and sort of readable text comes out. Google translate is far from perfect and it bridging the gap between character-based writing and our Western alphabet is a bit too much. On top of that Google is participating in translating highly subversive porn, which is clearly too much for the machine to handle. Still you get some readable garbage as output.

It's easier to put human cattle through the wringer than to understand the teachings of queen Naomi Asano. Help!

Like Ron says, the real problem is Japanese text converted to images. Below is one such example he sent me, it's an interview with Naomi Asano. Would love to read it, so sad we don't live in the Matrix where I can just upload a Japanese language pack [or become the perfect slave with the click of a button.]

Until I master reading Japanese, feel free to translate and send it too me so I can post it. More on Buchi's blog later.

Psst. Everybody knows Japanese femdom has a special place in my heart, so from now on I'll refer to Japanese mistresses as "queen".  No worries, I have a big heart.

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Notes:

[1] I know what I'm up against having done a course in Mandarin Chinese long ago. At least it'll save me a tiny bit of time learning some of the characters. Just don't get your hopes up anytime soon.

[2] Are you Japanese? Write to me. Use short sentences. I'll have Google translate it. We'll see what happens.

Latex - the Finest in Femine Fashion

No you pervert, this tree is not being milked, it's a rubber tree being tapped for latex. Vegan, yes. Environmental friendly latex wardrobe? That's not today's topic.

As the world's 11th most rebellious slave it's my solemn duty to show the world the benefits of latex. Why? Because it makes you feel like a superwoman. It's also the kind of behavior mistress expects of me. To make the Dark Side a happier, brighter and more consensual evil place.

Rule number one - don't worry it's also the only rule - latex looks good on everyone. No need to go on a diet before you slip into something more breathtaking.

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1. Greta Garbo is considered one of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Flesh and the Devil (1927), her third movie, made her an international star. She was also a natural leader who became interested in theatre at an early age. On why she never married: "I always wanted to be the boss."

Anna Foxxx is dressed in a latex Garbo blouse, designed by Syren Latex. It accentuates her sensuality while retaining her mystique at the same time. If that's not enough, look at the skirt she's wearing. (link)

Both in this image and in the ten that come next, always remember, it the woman that brings to life the outfit, never the other way around.

Anna Foxxx is dressed to kill or whatever she feel like.

2. As I write this I'm wearing a pair of Tardis-blue tennis shorts, a black t-shirt and a pair of sneakers. Apart from t-shirt and jeans, my wardrobe is filled with suits. Not much of a dedicated follower of fashion, but I love the designs of latex artist Sebastian Cauchos. All of 'em. Here's today's favourite. And yes, just like your favourite song depends on your mood, so does your favourite latex picture. Image found on the Instagram of Matrioska666.

For such a talented designer, Mr. Cauchos should do a much better job when it comes to the watermarks.

3.Madison Calley (@CalleySunshine) is a classically trained harpist, modeling an exquisite dress made by Syren Latex. It's called the ruffled boobie dress. The strawberries & champagne colours are amazing. Madison Calley also has her own clothing line, called the Royalty Collection. Found this image on the Twitter account of Latex Kitch.

There must be a connection between creativity and love of latex.

4. This lady modeling at the Yves Saint Laurent Ready-To-Wear Fall Winter 2020 Paris fashion show also caught my eye. Ready-to-wear is an industry term that makes little sense when it comes to latex. Just ask Kim Kardashian. [2]  Now Fashion has the entire show but Latex Kitsch the best image.

Why so gloom?

5. Bold, daring and perfect. Just stunning, this Atsuko Kudo monochrome latex outfit shown here at the Fall 2020 ready-to-wear Balmain fashion show. Or is it the woman wearing it who makes it stunning. What do you think OWK? [1] Found it twice on Latexkitsch.

The gloves are nice too.

6. American Singer Dawn Richard in a Venus Prototype outfit. Custom Olive Latex Oversized Blazer & Biker Shorts. Also here and here.

Personal choice, it ticks a box. No less awesome.

7. "Cleopatra (@alannigarnet) shines the catwalk of @lafashionweek in a bronze latex gown." Another gem by LA-based Venus Prototype.

Fits any goddess.

8. There probably is no bolder statement in fashion than the colour red. Now add a little latex for that extra umpf. Artist Miss Shalae wearing a red Syren Latex Madonna gown.

Wow starts with a W, so close your mouth before you say it. For the rest, same as above, fits any goddess.

9. Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong'o is wearing a sleeveless Joy dress in light brown by Japanese latex fashion designer Atsuko Kudo. Magic. If anyone knows where I can watch Warrior Women With Lupita Nyong’o, please let me know.

Extra credits for writing a children's book, ma'am.

10 Young London designer Richard Quinn comes up with a valiant, even defiant combination of latex and fabric with floral patterns. The result is amazing. Love it. Image found on Latex Kitch.

Flowers are vegan too! Amazing (combo, that is.)

11. Beyonce looking like a Disney princess. The lavender latex tulip cup mini dress by Venus Prototype is very nice but also a bit predictable.

"Yay, my first [latex] Disney dress. I'm princess Anna lost in the desert. Yay."

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Notes:

[1] Hey OWK, I hope you get my carefully curated, inspiring message.

[2] Watch Kim Kardashian putting on her latex outfit. For church. Humour, curves and latex, I'm starting to like her. (Click image to watch on Youtube.)

The real question is how do you get out of it? Kim Kim?