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In Blood Red

Posted on 20/04/2013 by Mistress Sidonia

A New Feminist Perspective – The Artwork of Ariel B
Ariel B is an English artist/photographer living in Bath, UK. She turns photographs into individual artworks – gothic fairy tales, dances macabre, distant memories, otherness, otherworldliness, times gone by, death and decay are all preoccupations. Her work is often based around sexual deviance and repressed female violence, exploring a new extreme feminist perspective.

Article & More Pics on the SkinTwo Online Magazine

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Lady Sophia Black – Dangerous Beauty

Posted on 19/04/2013 by Mistress Sidonia

Well this month is ‘Cruel Mistresses Month’ at The English Mansion, so we thought what better new Mansion domme to feature – than the dangerously beautiful Lady Sophia Black. You’re going to be seeing lots more of her here over the next few months.

Lady Sophia is young, very beautiful English sadist domina. Ultra feminine, naturally commanding and confident this woman likes her men submissive, obedient and on their knees before her. You will become nothing more than a slave to her will. Her strict voice will boss you around and you better jump to it – because if you don’t meet her exacting standards you’ll be punished and punished hard! However, don’t think pleasing this young Mistress will be enough, she’s a cruel sensual sadist who derives pleasure from your suffering and cries of pain. This is one demanding, cruel & strict young Lady.

Lady Sophia is also a smoking fetishist and has an amazing collection of femdom outfits. She is based in London, UK and is available for sessions and can be seen in action on C4S.

More Info about Lady Sophia Black here or visit her website below

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Homage to Atomage

Posted on 10/04/2013 by Mistress Sidonia

Prologue: A Lost History

John Sutcliffe should be honoured as the founding father of the modern fetish scene, a scene that has subsequently spawned a huge world-wide fetish industry. His love and enthusiasm of dressing for pleasure, with the help of his magazine – Atomage, identified and drew together a huge mass of fetish clothes lovers, bondage enthusiasts, Doms and Subs alike. It brought them out of the wilderness in a world with no Internet and gave them a community, a place to share their different desires and secret lives, to meet, party and dress up. However, like everything else related to sex, John Sutcliffe has been overlooked, tucked under the bed with the dirty mags and mac, – because we’re English and we don’t talk about sex. Actually he should be remembered as a pivotal designer from the 60s and 70s. An equal of fashion revolutionary Vivian Westwood, designer to the Sex Pistols, and a whole generation of disaffected youth. He deserves his place as the Godfather of the leather catsuit and the pioneering designer of fetishist clothes and elaborate bondage attire.

The Beginnings – The Shop

Atomage, the vision of clothes designer John Sutcliffe, began as a small outlet just off Drury Lane in Covent Garden sometime around 1957. Specialising in customised leather and vinyl clothes. Sutcliffe designed for the big screen, television and private customers from all over the world – including Hammer Films and famously the television show The Avengers with Honour Blackman and Diana Rigg watched weekly by millions both here and in the United States.

The Avengers & the 60s

The Avengers original TV series began in 1961 as an ITV production and later aired on ABC in the U.S. until 1969. The show combined the elegance and smoothness created by the James Bond movies, the psychedelic trends of the sixties, espionage, science fiction, and a large helping of sex appeal (thanks mostly to Diana Rigg) to create one of the most original and beloved shows in the history of television. For everything you ever wanted to know about The Avengers see www.theavengers.tv. Due to the provocative costume worn by Diana Rigg as Emma Peel (man-appeal) as well as some risqué subject matter, an episode titled ‘A Touch of Brimstone’ was actually banned from the American airwaves during the series.

Hatstand, Table & Chair by Allen Jones

In the ’60s renowned pop artist Allen Jones created the infamous sculptures Hatstand, Table & Chair of life sized female figures dressed in rubber and leather that doubled as useful household furniture, the figures were actually dressed by Atomage. (Allen Jones went on to design the costumes for the now early S/M classic film by Barbet Schroeder – Maitresse 1969.)

Atomage The Magazine

By the 1970s the huge underground interest in fetishistic clothes and dressing for pleasure led John to publish an Atomage magazine (at the end of 1972,) it was originally subtitled The Magazine of Modern Leather Couture (later the Magazine of Leather, Vinyl & Rubber). It specialized in photographs of leather, rubber and vinyl fetish clothes created in the Atomage workshop. These were characterised by elaborated designs, mainly those that encased the body like catsuits, raincoats, hoods and cloaks. Along with the clothes the Magazine featured articles on the pleasures of dressing and the appeal of the individual materials. Importantly it contained reader’s letters and private photographs which became a key feature of the magazine and its success. It also acted as an informal catalogue for Atomage clothes available for sale, along with news from the Atomage workshop.The magazine also came with the optional extra of a Bondage Supplement a smaller magazine that dealt with the then even more secretive world of bondage and domination. Here we have some of the first glimpses into the hidden world of Madams and dungeons, of extreme bondage devices and sensory deprivation.

Women are predominantly featured throughout the magazines usually out and about in fields or car parks proudly flaunting their fantastic Atomage costumes but these are not models, these are all real women with the emphasis being on their genuine interest in dressing up for pleasure. For more overt images of dominant women – whips in hand you have to look into the supplements, the Atomage magazine was only an arena for the clothes. The magazine was predominantly a magazine about real life couples who just loved dressing for pleasure.

In 1980 John decided to restructure the magazines, the A5 Atomage Magazine became Atomage International and the bondage supplement became Atomage Bondage, he also launched Atomage Rubberist which catered for the rubber fetish scene. Sadly both John and his publishers were raided by the police in 1983 and all the material they found was seized. The magazine did go on until John passed away in 1987.

For everything you ever wanted to know about Atomage & John Sutcliffe – visit the excellent Atomage Magazine Appreciation Site

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Venus In Furs: New Translation & Illustraions by Sardax

Posted on 06/04/2013 by Mistress Sidonia

“To be the slave of a woman, a beautiful woman, whom I love, whom I worship – !”
“And who mistreats you for it,” Wanda broke in, laughing.

Venus In Furs: New Translation & Illustraions by Sardax

The well-known fetish artist Sardax has produced a new translation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs. With his insight into the psychology of female power and his beautiful illustrations that feature within it (over 10 sumptuous paintings), this is surely the definitive version of this infamous novella. Highly recommend by The English Mansion.

Venus in Furs is a classic tragic romance following Severin’s intense adoration for Wanda who he idolises as a goddess and wishes to become nothing more than her slave. It is an uncompromising exploration of a Femdom relationship. He encourages her cruelty to him but when she starts to enjoy the role and play out her own fantasies there can only be disastrous consequences.

Although first published in 1870 in German, this is still an accessible read and a classic for anyone interested in Femdom or the power dynamic that exists between men and women. Though much of the book deals with the characters’ internal struggle with these power games; and Femdom’s influence in philosophy and art, it is still hugely erotic. Those of us aroused by BDSM, Dom and Sub will recognise from this story, although written over 140 years ago, aspects of our own desires. It has become the epitome of Femdom, which shows how influential it is as a work: cuckolding, whipping, fur fetish, servitude, foot-worship, slavery, bondage, contract signing, humiliation to name just some of what it contains.

Sacher-Masoch was born in Lemberg then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and it is from his name we derive the term ‘Masochism’ because of the sexual activities described in Venus in Furs. The author has this notoriety along with the Marquis de Sade, who gives his name to ‘Sadism’ as both names were used by Krafft-Ebing in his Psychopathia Sexualis a dubious book about human sexuality.

This is an extract where Severin remembers a childhood experience that first set him on the path to worshipping cruel women draped in fur.

“My aunt decided to avail herself of their absence and pronounce judgement on me. Dressed in a fur-lined kazabaika jacket she came unexpectedly into my room, followed by the maid and the little minx that I had scorned. Without a word she grabbed and bound me hand and foot, despite my strenuous opposition. Then, an evil smile on her lips, she rolled up her sleeves and began to slash me with a large rod. She laid on so vigorously that blood flowed and despite my heroic courage I screamed and cried and begged for mercy. She then had me unbound and I was made to kneel and kiss her hand, thanking her for the punishment.”

Venus is Furs is the embodiment of Femdom and a treaty on the eternal war of the sexes. As such its influence is huge and it has been the subject of many films, plays and even music. Currently Roman Polanski is filming a new version based on the play Venus in Fur by David Ives which is a modern day setting of the story.

If you haven’t read this book, now is the time…

For more information and to purchase here

Sardax is a pseudonym for this famous established English Femdom artist. He describes the Venus in Furs project as a labour of love, taking 10 years to complete having found other translations unsympathetic. Many books feature his illustrations including The Art of Sardax (Erotic Print Society, 2006). He produces regular artworks and commissions and has his own members site Here.

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Cruel Mistresses Month

Posted on 01/04/2013 by Mistress Sidonia

Here at The English Mansion for 2013 we’re having special feature months – with films, blogs and fiction on specific femdom activities.

This month we’re featuring Sadistic and Cruel Mistresses. So get ready for a harsh month with lots of blood, sweat and tears…

This month, April 2013, we have 9 Sadistic and Cruel Mistresses Films showing:
Watch the Trailers and find out about these Updates here

Featuring 10 extremely cruel Dominatrixes (top to bottom) Mistress Vixen, Mistress TTease, Miss Analisa, Princess Neive, Domina Liza, Lady Sophia Black, Morrigan Hel, Mistress Sidonia, Miss Jasmine & Mistress Nikki Whiplash.

Feature Months At The English Mansion 2013
And keep a look out for our other feature month’s this year:
Chastity in March here – Femdom In the Office in May – Riding Mistresses in June Pet & Puppies in September – Medical Fetish in October – Smoking Dominas in November – Double Uploads – December.

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Chastity Cum Clinic – £ For Cum: Femdom Fiction

Posted on 27/03/2013 by Mistress Sidonia

The English Mansion’s Chastity Cum Clinic –
£££ For Cum

Today is my fifth visit to The Mansion Chastity Clinic, I attend twice a month. My dominant wife keeps me locked in chastity all the time, she says it focuses my simple male brain on important things like ‘her orgasms’. She does not like cocks but prefers me to use my mouth, she has been training my tongue and I spend hours pleasuring her. She did have concerns about my genital health and felt that my balls should be emptied periodically, however she had little interest in the process. She also felt I should not get pleasure from this, it should be nothing more than a bodily function – she said she wanted my balls cleaned out the way she makes me clean out the kitchen.