Sunday, August 18, 2019

Dominatrix teaches female power

Edward Helmore (The Guardian); Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, E.Askew (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Want to be more assertive in life?
Former dominatrix shows women how
Une Femme Libre (One Free Female)
Kasia Urbaniak has mastered the dominant position with men. She is a master at unpicking power dynamics.

It’s a decade since Kasia Urbaniak hung up her whip.

The former American dominatrix -- one of the highest paid in Manhattan, she likes to say -- now crafts her knowledge of gender power play into a new career:

She’s a female "empowerment coach" in a city where power is a naked game.

What started as an online discussion group is now, thanks in part to Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Alan Dershowitz, Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby, and #MeToo, a booming business.

With courses titled "Power With Men, Foundations of Power" offered as part of her introductory monthlong seminar, Urbaniak is an emerging star of the movement.

“I don’t teach anything related to BDSM or sex, just the application of power dynamics,” Urbaniak tells me. “It’s about the communications that women carry that either make them go speechless or afraid of coming across as too bossy or too needy.”

As a professional dominatrix, Urbaniak has mastered the dominant position with men. She is a master at unpicking power dynamics. And over the past two years, the news cycle has delivered almost daily updates to the subject at hand.

Women are too often taught to acquiesce; they shut-down, they minimize. They do it at work, at home, in the bedroom, at work -- anywhere, in fact, where their paths cross with men. More

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