Last week a well-respected attorney at the New York Attorney General's office was suspended for her reported activities as a dominatrix, and now state employees have hit the water cooler to DISH. The Post (who else?) claims that their sources tell them that Alisha Smith, who was suspended without pay, "is now the butt of office jokes." One source whose life has probably a fraction of the excitement and fulfillment as Smith's does, says, "You've got to be out of your f*cking mind putting that stuff on Twitter." more ›

Oh, here's SFW video documenting an area dominatrix's ordinary afternoon in McCarren Park with her slave, who wears a leash and curls up at her feet to serve as an ottoman for her aching gams. When that grows tiresome, she commands him to clean her boots and slaps him around a little bit—you know the drill. You'll be relieved to see that the gentleman in question is NOT New York Representative Anthony Weiner, ha ha. And you'll also enjoy the expression of red T-shirted gentleman sitting to their right, as well as the completely blase expressions on the faces of all the the REAL New Yorkers on the left. more ›

After a number of vice squad crackdowns on Manhattan S&M clubs, some outraged dominatrices are bonding together to defend their profession, which they say has been wrongly maligned as prostitution. The Post sent a reporter over to Dungeon Alley (a cluster of S&M clubs in Midtown) and Chelsea's Le Salon De Sade, where the dominatrices "were dressed to the hilt with no one to flog. " De Sade's owner Mistress Johanna says, "It's never been worse. Business is down 70 percent. We've had all these busts, and now the economy is out of control. The uncertainty is torturing us." Investigators say that the raided clubs were essentially prostitution houses, but a lawyer hired by over a dozen dominatrices and dungeon owners insists "everyone was operating under the belief that what they were doing was legal." Besides retaining an attorney, the group is forming a union and even a political action committee (DomPAC!) to lobby lawmakers for legal protection. more ›