Ex Dom Revolutionizes Sex Toys, Stigma, And Everything Else In Between (The Sheets)

Suzannah Weiss
6 min readNov 1, 2017
Courtesy of Wildflower

“Working as domme isn’t really about how to crack a whip. It‘s how to use the power you already have and put it into your everyday sexual life.”

WWhen Amy Boyajian was working as a New York City nightclub producer in 2013, a client gave her an unusual assignment: to recruit dominatrixes to entertain party guests. Her friend happened to be a former front-desk worker for one of New York’s oldest dungeons, so she stopped by and offered the dominatrixes the gig for $150. But it wasn’t worth it to them. They were each making close to $1,000 between 3 p.m. and 2 a.m. every day. The manager did, however, tell her to get in touch if she wanted to work there.

To appease her client, she got creative and had friends dress up and play the role. But the manager’s offer stuck with her. She was juggling three jobs while trying to be an artist, and the prospect of making more money per night than she did in a week sounded irresistible. So, she called the dungeon back.

When she interviewed for the job at the dungeon, unsuspectingly nestled beneath a veterinarian clinic in midtown, the first question the “house mom” asked was how big her feet were. She happened to stand six…

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Suzannah Weiss

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