Queen of Pain
The screams emanating from Mistress Genevieve's dungeon should not warrant concern.
In fact, the recipient of her torture is a paying customer who sought her out for painful play for the pleasure it conjures somewhere deep within them.
Professional dominatrix Mistress Genevieve is happy to provide hardcore thrill-seekers with electrifying, yet discreet, fetish services that will tickle their every fancy.
One may wonder how someone gets into domination as a career. "There must have been something in the water," Mistress Genevieve said as she listed the numerous schoolmates who also found themselves in sex work and BDSM culture. "I was a Gen X kid. I grew up with it on MTV."
She listed John Cougar Mellencamp's "Hurt So Good," Depeche Mode's "Master and Servant," Devo's "Whip It," and AC/DC's "Mistress For Christmas" as popular songs that introduced her to whips, chains, and the excitement of pain. "I had run away from home, and I was stripping in nude bars and using the back rooms. I was introduced to a professional dominatrix that was a friend of my roommate. All parts of my life merged. It just became a career."
The mistress pointed to a particular session, her very first one, where she realized that she had a gift for commanding submission. She recounted, "All the guys that worked there were lined up in the hall, and they watched on the monitors in the fantasy room. I had a guy standing in a bucket of ice tied to something that was up on the wall that I didn't even know was there when I went in. By the end of it, they were applauding. They were floored."
Mistress Genevieve is a native Houstonian who settled in New Orleans a few years before Hurricane Katrina and returned after because of a sense of connection. "I had a history here," she said. "My great grandmothers on my mom and dad's side—they lived here. Then, I found out my mother said I was conceived on the floor of Big Daddy's while my mom and dad were hitchhiking, and I ended up working there."
Due to the extreme nature of the domination play, proper equipment housed in a private room is necessary. Mistress Genevieve has crafted a dungeon where people of all sorts come to receive her special services or to rent the dungeon to create their own fantasy. Most of the clients are men, but couples are common as well. "Sometimes the women are there to dominate their husbands with me. Sometimes it's to sub to both their partner and myself. Sometimes it's for their partner to watch them being dominated. And sometimes it's for them to watch me dominate their partner. Sometimes it's just educational, spending an hour with them showing them stuff and then leaving them alone for an hour."
Implements of pain and pleasure line the walls and the furniture pieces feature restraints that keep their hostage secure in any number of positions. When asked why her clients desire to be flogged, humiliated, tied up, and dominated, she simply replied, "Undivided attention."
"Whether that's dressing them up like a girl or spanking, men don't often receive a lot of attention during sex," she observed. "Women are usually the focal point. It's most often attention. You are 100% focused on them."
Exploring the vast, nuanced realm of sadomasochism begins with learning about yourself, and it continues with excellent communication between all parties involved. Mistress Genevieve advised to "[s]tart a journal. Start getting to know yourself first so you can communicate to someone else what you're scared of, what turns you on, what makes you excited but you're scared of it, and be able to communicate. Otherwise, you could go in without having done self-reflection, and you could find out the thing that you think you want, you don't. The thing that you think you want, you want the threat of, but you don't want the act of. You need to be able to communicate the subtle nuances that make you excited."
The mistress likened blindly going into a BDSM session and not really knowing what you want to experience akin to having stereo instructions in a language you don't know. "You think you're hitting the 'on' button, but the whole time you're hitting the 'off' button. You need to negotiate and be clear about who you are and what you need because we need to be on the same page."
Mistress Genevieve offers a wide range of services from bondage and whipping to hypno-play and cross-dressing with full face makeovers. There's one act of torture that she loves inflicting more than any others. "I'm not going to let you get out of tickling. If they forget to tell me no tickling, we're going to wheel and deal. It's non-harm, and it's not pain. So if you forget to tell me that one in session, I'm going to try and play with you."
Curious parties and experienced players alike are welcome to peruse Mistress Genevieve's website at msgenevieve.com to learn more about her fascinating work. She does have a word of warning for anyone thinking that they can turn the tables on her, however. "If you're getting out of line, giving me a hard time, I'll kick you out. I know everything in the room, and everything in the room causes a lot of pain. You don't know if there's a cattle prod in the corner."
