I’ve been a little quiet lately, in part because I was too busy enjoying the sun and sea (and a few deliciously kinky play partners) down in Miami … but there’s definitely been a lot going on! For those of you who missed out on the Orleans Experience – Miami Edition, I hope to be visiting there more frequently. If you send me an email with MIAMI (or your preferred city) in the subject line, and include your primary sessions interests and a reference or two, I’ll send you a note when I’m planning my next trip there.
Here’s my news for now…
First of all, I’m very pleased to announce that Salon d’Orleans is hosting San Francisco’s legendary Mistress Morgana through the end of May. Mistress Morgana made an indelible impression on me when I first met her during the 2004 NYC Fetish Marathon and I still find her just as compelling, charismatic, and gorgeously dominant to this day. 
She specializes in domestic play, especially punishment and regression, but she is equally skilled at intense bondage (her custom made wooden bondage table in her personal studio, Maison de la Maitresse, was the inspiration for Salon d’Orleans’ first bondage bed/cage). Morgana and I are also offering special double domme sessions for the duration of her visit. Consider a sound scolding, soaping, and spanking from Mommy Morgana before she sends you to MTO’s leather bound corner or punishment cage. Or perhaps you’ll be the happy bottom in a brutal spanking contest. Morgana loves extreme fetishists, too, so this is your chance to experience heavy bondage while having your deepest fetishes fed. We love playing together, so if you have an idea for your ultimate experience, let us know and we will make it happen.
Also visiting Salon d’Orleans this month from May 17-22 is Los Angeles’ Inga Larsson, the … I’m trying not to call her “stunning” or “gorgeous” 
because every one does and as true as it is, to start there does this talented domme (did I mention she was trained by Simone Justice AND Isabella Sinclaire and has also been studying bondage with me?) a disservice. But, go ahead, be taken in by her beauty…and end up having an extraordinary BDSM experience with one of my favorite up-and-coming dommes. I’m offering special rates for anyone looking to submit to bondage practice with Inga and myself (we’re focusing on single point suspension, mummification, sensory deprivation, and predicament bondage). Or see Inga solo for swooning worship, slave training, role play, corporal, and all kinds of edge play.
Here, I should mention that if you are an established, professional domme and plan on visiting New York, I do selectively accept rental requests with references. Salon d’Orleans is a smoke-free, private, single use space in a mixed-use building in Midtown Manhattan, a few blocks south of the Empire State Building. It is ideally suited for extended/overnight sessions and scenes involving bondage, corporal/discipline, medical (sounds, electrics, sharps), SM, and fetish worship. Your sessions will be private, discreet, and uninterrupted. Please contact me via email for more details.
My friend Natasha Gornik is a talented fetish photographer. She’s photographed many of NYC’s prodomme set, including Mistress Alex, the Violent Fems (Mistress Veronica, Mistress Wynter, et al), Mistress Mona, Mme Sade and others. 
You’re probably familiar with her work already without even knowing it. We’ve been planning on doing a shoot together for months but between her travel schedule and mine, and most recently, my ill-timed Vespa spill, we’ve yet to make it happen. But we will. And it will be hot. Whether or not I show it to you is a whole ‘nother question.
Anyway, Natasha has a new photo project she’s calling “Portrait of a Fetish,” and she’s looking for subjects to photograph. She says, “Either portraits of people somehow clothed in their fetish (rope, whip, feathers, needles, lingerie,..) or I am going to select some interesting, kinky people to pose in a fetish that I choose. So very stylized, very simplistic. It’s about the indulgence that fetish gives us. Nudity is possible and it would be good if they were open to it. I may do some hardcore (i.e. sex) images too, but its not first and foremost on my mind.” So if you are interested in being a model for this series — either yourself, or with your partner, or even with me — please contact Natasha or send me an email directly to discuss your idea.
Lastly, I’ve quietly started giving private instruction to prodommes who are looking to advance their skills. Classes are small (1-4 women), last approximately three hours, and include demonstration as well as hands-on learning. Class topics are determined by the participant(s). If you are a prodomme or know one who might be interested in learning from me, please send me an email with CLASS REQUEST in the subject line. Include your professional name and website, areas you’d like to explore (e.g. leather bondage, rope bondage, choreographing extended/discreet public scenes, medical play, creating connections, scene negotiation, etc.), as well as your experience level, preferred days/times (e.g. “June 19-20” or “any Saturday afternoon”) and if you have a demo body available for your class. Tuition varies, depending on the class.
I feel like there’s a lot more I meant to share with you … but that’ll be for another blog post. Right now, I gotta eat!
Someone on Formspring asked: What does single point suspension entail?
Exactly what it sounds like: suspension from a single point. Typically single point suspension is done with rope and, perhaps, a bondage ring. Something like this (note several tie points, but only one point of suspension) as opposed to this (several points of suspension). What I’m specifically looking to experiment with in this case is suspending from a single overhead point using basic leather gear (which probably means only partial suspension).