Dominatrix Work Forces Recession to Its Knees
By Barry Ritholtz - February 5th, 2009, 4:00PM
I spit up my coffee when I read this earlier today:
Your Headline of the Day:
Dominatrix Work Forces Recession to Its Knees
When the going gets tough, the tough get out their whips.
Are you listening to me?
(Whapisssh!)
One of the kinkier trends to emerge from this recession is that many professional women are turning to dominatrix work to supplement their incomes, Tracy Quan reports in her “Kinkonomics” blog on the Daily Beast.
Quan interviews some of the women who’ve turned to fetish work, including “Linda,” who works as a editor by day and a dominatrix at night.
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Too funny . . .
via CNBC
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Source:
Kinkonomics
Tracy Quan
Daily Beast, February 3, 2009
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-03/kinkonomics
February 5th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
What a riot. A friend of mine introduced me to a friend of his in NYC a number of years ago who made her living off of being a Dominatrix. That’s all she did for work. Was able to make enough money to buy a place in the East Village. Of course, that was a bit before the housing boom (2000-2002, I think).
Seemed like a “normal” (whatever that means) nice gal. Wouldn’t have ever known it if they hadn’t divulged this to me. She had us fascinated much of the evening by some of the stories about her clients. Some wild, wacky stuff going on behind closed doors.
And, no, I didn’t pay for any servicing myself.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
I can see how that story would attract your attention after a day of range-bound trade highlighted by “bad bank” / “asset wrap” and ” Tall Paul disses Fat Larry ” rumors and such like… yawn…
Wonder if the Mistress of the Stick is following this thread?
OT: Did anyone gather any information anywhere on the new $1B Ponzi revelations that were being trumpeted?
February 5th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
for a woman I would think that would have to be one of the best P/T jobs out there- sticking it to the man and getting paid for it at the same time
February 5th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
What I want to know is… Who the hell is paying for pain these days???
Must be the shorts…
February 5th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
@I-Man: You’d be surprised but there some real high powered (and outwardly conservative) people out there who regularly inflict pain on others on a regular basis but also like the tables turned on them behind closed doors (according to the stories I heard from that woman I met).
February 5th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
OT (I think):
Check out David Brooks’ Op-ed piece in yesterday’s NYT: Ward Three Morality
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/opinion/03brooks.html?emc=eta1
Very funny/snarky piece on the shift of power in the Obama era as it will impact Wall Street’s “sumptuary code.”
Maybe good food for thought for the numerous posters over the last few days who seem to struggle with the concept that TARP and everything else emanating from Washington to address the crisis is completely political.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I bet Hanky Panky used to love a good session after a closed-door meeting with congressional leaders.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
@lb: Thain would be a top candidate for me. Very conservative and WASP’y on the outside, almost too much so…..
February 5th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
@Mannwich, right on, but I have Thain pegged for cross-dressing – now we know what he kept in the commode.
Transor Z: that is a nice piece of snark.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Yes, lb, he and Marv Albert. “YESsssssss, and it counts!!!”
February 5th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
@ Mannwich
I forgot about ol’ Marv- he’s back at it isn’t he- (b’ball commentary that is).
February 5th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
@call me ahab: Yeah, kinda proves that all things pass with time and that we Americans have short memories and love a second act. Redemption is our most favorite story by far.
February 5th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Which means that it won’t be long before Eliot Spitzer himself is back in the limelight. Mark it down.
February 5th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Missionary position only is one of the terms of Marv’s probation.
February 5th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
S&P morphing into S&M seems fitting.
February 5th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Me Likee
February 5th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
More supply, less demand from out-of-work bankers means price-per-whack will be dropping… can they make it up in volume?
February 5th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
@VennData: I think the plan is to use GMAC for financing and then apply for TARP.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
I think we need a shrink in this discussion. Does this mean the clients need physical pain to assuage their guilt? or they need physical pain to distract them from their financial pain? or are they at their wits end and they’re just so kinky at their root ego that this is all they can think to do? Was their mother overbearing?
What percentage of tarp funds would you think is going to this sort of activity?
February 5th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Mannwich:
Don’t forget about Senator David “Diapers” Vitter of Louisiana. He of the DC madam scandal. There is a good reason why he got the nickname “Diapers” from that scandal.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
IM@What I want to know is… Who the hell is paying for pain these days???
Remember, some things are too big to fail, especially in such a limp economy.