Domina Tricks

Get out the clamps, chains and riding crops. It's time to put men in their place, and that's just what Gala Fur, the famed Left Bank dominatrix, does to "stronger" sex in this candid, tell-all confession that reads like a novel. Gala, who learned her trade in London, home of "le vice anglais" (male punishment), details her sessions with a variety of submissives and her romps with her cabal of faithful soubrettes. But when Gala loses her head over a handsome cross-dresser, the shoe is on the other foot. Soon Gala finds herself on her knees before a faux submissive bent on "liberating" her from S&amo;M ! Originally published in France, this exciting tale is now available for the first time in English. Was she a dominatrix, a whore, a submissive, a nymphomaniac, a woman with her own specialized business, a writer, or all of these rolled into one delicious package? Originally published as Les Soirées de Gala. Photography: chloé des Lysses