“That included learning who the staff were, doing laundry, helping clean up rooms, how each room had to be set up, and where the equipment went on all the racks. Smart black clothing was the only acceptable attire.Īlongside being taught skills by staff, “They would just learn how the house ran,” Electra says. When she has owned or managed dungeons in the past, her training has been extensive: under Mistress Electra, apprentices weren’t even permitted to wear fetish clothing like heels or corsets for their first few months of training. There’s not one particular way to be trained.” “There’s no formal style of training in our industry, because the sex industry in general doesn’t have formality in it. Now with more than two decades of experience as a Dominatrix and alternative sex educator, Mistress Electra has since trained her own apprentices. RELATED: What it means yo be a sex worker in this Aussie state RELATED: Sex worker Samantha X starts new, sober life chapter RELATED: What it was like to have casual sex after a year without We weren’t really taught about consent like we are today,” she said. Back then, consent wasn’t spoken about as much as it is now. “It laid the foundations for how I now respect other people’s boundaries and consent. I was quite a feisty person, and that really tested me.”Ī bad experience during a session with one of the visiting Masters cut short Electra’s work as a submissive after only three months. Not being naturally submissive, it was really challenging to kneel at someone’s feet and pretend to be so. “This means you had to be a submissive first, so I had to become a submissive and learn how to submit to the Masters who came in. “Back then, in the mid-nineties, the training was traditional,” Electra explains. Practising BDSM requires a wealth of knowledge about health and safety and for some, years of training before they can practise professionally. A Dominatrix could seriously injure or upset a submissive partner if they’re not properly trained in how to use a piece of equipment or play out a scene with respect and consent. While Fifty Shades of Grey may lead us to think that anyone with access to a blindfold and a pair of handcuffs can command worship from anyone they desire, Electra tells me that it’s not always so simple. RELATED: Inside the life of a 54-year-old street-based sex workerįifty Shades of Grey brought BDSM into the mainstream, but professionals like Mistress Electra say the practice isn’t always so simple. But we had a chat, and she told me when I could start.”Īnd so began Electra’s apprentice as a Dominatrix. “It was quite intimidating being there in front of this beautiful, tall, lean blonde woman surrounded by all her leather-clad women. “A Mistress dressed in leather opened the door, looked me up and down, and said, ‘Come inside’,” Electra tells me. It was a friend who suggested she’d make a good dominatrix and gave her the address of a Melbourne dungeon they had found in the phone book.Īlthough it took her multiple tries to get an interview, Electra persisted until she was finally told that yes, the dungeon did have space to take on a new trainee who wanted to learn how to become a professional dominatrix.Īnd that’s how she found herself standing outside the unassuming terrace house in Melbourne’s suburbs, waiting nervously as she heard the click-clack of high stiletto heels walking towards her down the corridor. Mistress Electra Amore was just 21 years old when she attended her first job interview at a bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism (BDSM) dungeon.Īs a teenager, her naturally dominant personality and love of fashion inspired by Madonna’s Erotica era earnt her the nickname ‘Madame Lash’ from her friends.
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