Bossocast!

I just finished listening to a fascinating edition of MASOCAST featuring Ms. Irene Boss. For the uninitiated, MASOCAST is an excellent series of BDSM related podcasts. Irene Boss is a highly acclaimed professional dominatrix who also produces her own line of FemDom erotica.

Although I have never met Ms. Boss in person I have been acquainted with her work on film for many years and have spoken with her at length on various D/s bulletin boards including The Scene which she owns and moderates. I was immediately drawn to her films because of their unmistakable authenticity. Ms. Boss does not just pretend when she plays with her partners on screen. She is sincere about capturing genuine human connections in BDSM play and it shows.



Ms. Boss is direct, candid, super intelligent and uncannily perceptive. She still has that great laugh I first heard while watching “Extreme Caning and Whipping“ many years ago. In this edition of MASOCAST Ms. Boss discusses her introduction to professional domination. She reveals that an early attraction to fetish clothing led her to pursue a career in costume design during her formative years. Saddled with student loans after graduation she tried her hand at various aspects of the adult entertainment industry and quickly found that she gravitated towards domination. Ms. Boss tells us she learned a lot about fetishism in the dancing industry. She talks about developing her Domina skills while performing at strip clubs. While the other ladies wore bikinis Irene wore uniforms, corsetry, boots and hats.



"I'm an emotional sadist so I have to tone it down to be a prodomme. I have to bring out the nicer part of myself and not psychologically wound everybody all the time. But I could get away with quite a lot of that in the strip bars and it set me apart from the other ladies. I was very different and unique. I started actually dominating men in those places without really understanding what I was doing."

Ms. Boss goes on to describe her first professional session with a client; “My first pro session I just laughed the whole time. But I thought it was kind of wonderful too because it was really honest that someone would trust me to do something like that with them.”



Ms. Boss had no mentor coming up and informs us that she learned mostly from her clients in the beginning. “Some of the crazy role plays were a lot of fun. Star Trek role plays. People who fetishize TV shows or things they had heard on the radio. I found fetishism interesting because it was so uncompromising. It wasn’t directly sexual and the fact that someone could find something like a TV show sexual was really interesting to me.”

When asked how BDSM fits into her personal life Ms. Boss explains; “I am someone who has tried everything. I have probably tried every kind of relationship you can possibly imagine and different orientations just to see where I fit in. I finally figured out that I'm a polyamorous pansexual kind of person but I also need to have a monogamous relationship to keep me grounded and be with someone who accepts me and allows me to have other relationships. Not many people can do that for another person. But most prodommes do have that interesting sexuality. We’re not like everybody else; especially if we stay in it. It would be very hard to be involved in this for very long without being multi-sexual."



Ms. Boss makes some fascinating observations during the course of her interview. Her distinction between pro-domination and the escort industry struck me; “BDSM has such a harsh rub with the escort industry because a lot of what escorts do is to zone out and disconnect whereas BDSM is about connecting.” I was also struck by her observation that "if you do BDSM all the time you have nothing to look forward to."

Of special interest to me were Irene’s recollections of her experiences at the OWK;

“The OWK was a riot because the whole thing was so strict that nobody could do it properly while they were there. It was like a giant performance art experiment. There would be men sitting on the chairs in the café and they weren’t supposed to be there so some big Broom-Hilda Domme would go in there with a riding crop and go ‘Yo! Yo! Get on the floor! You’re not supposed to be on the chair!’

The whole thing was really hilarious because the people who went kind of made it what it was. By the third or fourth day everyone would be in the groove and those men who couldn’t get into space would be locked up in a jail cell somewhere really being punished and those men who were out of line would have to crawl down the gauntlet of the Queen’s palace and get a caning. So what would happen towards the end of the celebration is that everything would fold in on itself and the men who said they couldn’t have any marks would be the ones asking for a caning or a whipping!”

I don’t’ want to give everything away so please go check out this terrific MASOCAST for yourself! Also please don’t forget to leave a donation for the good folks at MASOCAST so they can continue their outstanding series of Podcasts! ;-)






















Photos: Irene Boss courtesy of http://domboss.com