Domina Dea Speaks

So, here is it, my first blog post. It is my hope I will entertain, enlighten & open new doors for my readers. I will share here my thoughts, ideas & observations on a variety of topics from BDSM, the FemDom lifestyle, politics, and the world at large. I look forward to spirited & open dialogue with my readers as we explore a variety to topics and ideas.

Where to begin? I’ll start by saying a little bit about me, who I am and what I’m about.

I am vastly experienced in the world of BDSM with over 15 years as a lifestyle and professional Domina.   I am fortunate to have had extensive training from several great Dominas and I have had an opportunity to perform at BDSM clubs in Atlanta, San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Diego and other cities. I am sincere in saying BDSM is both my profession and my lifestyle. I am a truly dominant woman and my favorite sessions are when my sub experiences both pain and pleasure. I am especially pleased that my skill level is now sufficient to master the mental aspects of BDSM, which are the most important.  Second Circle Studio is a private, well equipped, dungeon/play space ready to cater to almost any aspect of BDSM.

Second Circle is a literary reference to Dante’s Inferno, The Divine Comedy. Here Dante explores the relationship–as notoriously challenging in his time and place as in ours–between love and lust, between the ennobling power of attraction toward the beauty of a whole person and the destructive force of possessive sexual desire. The lustful in hell, whose actions often led them and their lovers to death, are “carnal sinners who subordinate reason to desire”. From the examples presented, it appears that for Dante the line separating lust from love is crossed when one acts on this misguided desire. Dante, more convincingly than most moralists and theologians, shows that this line is a very fine one indeed, and he acknowledges the potential complicity (his own included) of those who promulgate ideas and images of romantic love through their creative work. Dante’s location of lust –one of the seven capital sins–in the first circle of hell in which an unrepented sin is punished (the second circle overall) is similarly ambiguous: on the one hand, lust’s foremost location–farthest from Satan–marks it as the least serious sin in hell (and in life); on the other hand, Dante’s choice of lust as the first sin presented recalls the common–if crude–association of sex with original sin, that is, with the fall of humankind (Adam and Eve) in the garden of Eden.

So there you have it, a little about me, and a literature lesson as an added bonus!

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