Diary of a Dominatrix

Diary of a Dominatrix takes a character archetype and actually makes it a person. Dominatrices are people too! In most fiction and even non-fiction dominatrices are only seen really in their sexual antics and during their profession and refuse to acknowledge that they are anything but that. This comic reveal the woman behind the whip. The parts of her being human are hilarious, which might be why they are left out usually because it takes away the sexyness and mystery, but in this case her tripping down the street in a trenchcoat with a latex dress on underneath is welcome. It's those kinds of things that you don't really think about, her putting on her makeup, her clothes, her thoughts about her clients and the trials and tribulations of that which really make you think about her as a person who has a life beyond sex. Especially when she is in a scene with her clients and she is thinking about something totally separate from what she is doing, it reminds me of basically an office worked daydreaming while they are in a meeting. She isn't her profession, it's her job, she doesn't do it for fun, she does it for money just like anyone else.

You would think this would be kind of sexy, given the title, but it is the total opposite. When you are reading about the logistics of what whip to use and how to use household objects as toys to save on spending and innovate it's as sexy as talking about buying office supplies. Zelda talks about her keeping her personal life and these kind of things in the dark from her clients because it would make her less mysterious and more of a person and that would make her different in the eyes of her clients. It's still kind of up in the air whether she really finds this sexy herself or not. She talks about having a slave, but that sounds mostly non-sexual, she just wants someone to clean and weigh on her hand and foot. There is some 'vanilla' sex between her and her boyfriend which ends in kind of hinting to her job coming into the bedroom a bit. However, while she never outright says it, the way she writes about it and shows her internal thoughts it seems like she doesn't really find it sexy, it's just a 9 to 5 for her. All in all a very refreshing read as a woman who has a sexual profession is actually depicted as a 3 dimension human rather than just a body with a whip and a sharp tongue.