Legends of Dominance - 36
Legends of Dominance - 36 by Mistress Michelle Peters et al. and posted with permission (All information herein is provided by author) Legends of Dominance Article Index |
Bettie Page
Bettie Mae Page was born April 22, 1923 in Kingsport, Tennessee. Due to her family financial difficulties, Bettie and some of her siblings spent some time in an orphanage. She attended high school in Nashville and was an outstanding student, which earned her a small scholarship to Peabody College for teachers in Nashville. After earning a B.A. degree, she briefly taught high school English.
In 1942 or 43, she married her high school sweetheart, Billy Neal. While her husband was serving in the U.S. Navy, Bettie moved to San Francisco where she got her first modeling job. She made an attempt at Hollywood, but her Southern accent was not in fashion.
After her husband returned from the war, they moved back to Nashville. Their marriage quickly ended. Bettie worked as a typist and secretary in Miami and Haiti. By 1948 Bettie was in New York City working as a secretary and part-time model, taking acting lessons and failing in her goal to become an actress.
Sometime around 1950, an amateur photographer named Jerry Tibbs took some pictures of her on the beach. These pictures were shown to publisher Robert Harrison. Soon Bettie was appearing in Harrison's magazines Wink, Titter, Eyeful and Beauty Parade. Harrison introduced Bettie to Irving Klaw, who published Movie Star News and Movie Parade. Klaw also sold under-the-counter and mail order bondage pictures photographed by his sister Paula Klaw. Bettie quickly became their star model, not only in still work but also in eight-mm film shorts such as Teaserama and Striporama.
During a 1954 vacation in Florida, Bettie met glamour photographer Bunny Yeager, herself a pinup girl. Yeager set a new style for Bettie, emphasizing her wholesome but sexy looks in swimsuit and lingerie pictures as well as nudes. Hugh Hefner chose a Bunny Yeager picture of Bettie for the centerfold in his January 1955 edition of Playboy. She became known as the "Girl with the Perfect Figure" and "Miss Pin-Up Girl of the World" Bettie Page was at the top of her career.
But this was the McCarthy era. Senator Estes Kefauver led a congressional witch-hunt against obscenity. He decided to make an example of Irving Klaw. Klaw was indicted for publishing obscene material and thousands of negatives of Bettie were shredded. Bettie continued to work with Bunny Yeager for a while but by 1957 Bettie left her modeling career behind. She was 34 years old.
Bettie moved to Florida where she married Armond Walterson. This marriage didn't last nor did her third marriage to Harry Lear. Bettie worked in various secretarial and teaching jobs and for a while traveled with the Billy Graham Crusade. She eventually wound up living retired in southern California, where she still lives.
Bettie Page's resurgence in popularity started in 1982 when comic book artist Dave Stevens modeled his character Betty after Bettie. In 1987, The Betty Pages magazine appeared. Mainstream magazines rediscovered her and a number of articles were written on her life. Bettie Page once again became an icon.
Bettie Page (b.April 22, 1923 † Dec. 11, 2008)
Mistress Stephanie Locke
- Goddess Dianna Vesta's Column in Corporal 1991
I am a very lucky woman and my last trip to New York affirmed this to me once again, I had already made arrangements to meet Mistress Stephanie Locke from Los Angeles, in the city, for fun and games and to discuss the new co-op to be built in Manhattan.
This trip was to be a long one. Not only did I have my many business meetings for Impulse Productions, some photo shoots and of course shopping, I needed to attend to the S.I.T.s (slaves in training) I've been training here in the northeast. Some of these students are approaching the higher degrees of their training and were ready to be shown and displayed.
Friday evening Stephanie and I sat back to a bottle of Moet as my slave selene served us while we talked. Selene is the beautiful blonde you will often see me punishing and teasing at the clubs. We discussed our aspirations in detail and the liberation that-is being experienced by so many women today. In discussing our plans we became very excited and decided to see what was going on at the Vault. We called for a car and soon in jeans, leathers and boots we arrived and of course the games began. I'm not going to go into the entire events of this evening because this was only the warm up and I simply want to lie down a seductive structure for your visualization.
So, imagine three beautiful women playing and teasing. Imagine Mistress Stephanie and Myself, tying up selene and publicly whipping her (she loves this). Her pale skin decorated.by the gentle kisses of our leather floggers. You may also visualize the worms walking around the room pulling at themselves. The ones who could never serve a Mistress much less approach such a fabulous creature.
Anyhow, the evening ended with the three of us back over on the east side to retire and rest up for the Corporal party at Paddles on Saturday night.
Now keep in mind this, dear reader, at my home in Florida I do not rise until I have been brought coffee, have had a bath drawn and have done my morning meditation. This morning was not to be any different. At ten o'clock one of my s.i.t.s arrived and selene quickly prepared him for the day's events. She had him remove his clothes and she adjusted a collar around his neck. She explained the orders I gave to her and quickly he began making coffee and breakfast.
Mistress Stephanie and I were still in bed but not asleep. Stephanie is an extremely charming and intelligent woman who I have come to quickly adore as a sister. We can share slave stories and still become our little girl selves. So we laughed and teased each other while selene and the s.i.t. scurried around the room picking up flung off garments.
It pays off when you have a well trained slave about to show off to your friends. After, he gracefully dropped to his knees and looked,at me. He dared not interrupt our conversation as he has been taught.
"Go make yourself useful around the house slave ..and Oh, let me tell you that Mistress Stephanie is our guest for a few days ... I will be in and out and I want you to serve and attend to her needs... all of our needs. Do you understand?" With his head bowed he spoke softly, "Yes ma'am, I understand." and then quickly went about the house dusting and cleaning.
Stephanie smiled at me and said, "Diana, he kneels beautifully."
The rest of the day was spent relaxing. This included a massage and lunch out with my s.i.t. His first outing ever with his Mistress. He escorted down the street with extended arm as a gentleman should and beamed at the attention his Mistress received as I passed by men ,n the street in my high heels and sexy blouse, subtly exposing the lace of a bra. At lunch, of course, I ordered his meal. Because he was so well behaved at the apartment around Mistress Stephanie, I allowed him to have his own lunch and not my leftovers. We talked about different things, mostly very deep feelings we shared about our D/s emotions.
The light of the day quickly slipped away and the anticipation of the evening was beginning to brew in the air. Selene not really knowing what her Mistress would submit her to at the party and the s.i.t. just plain nervous about his public debut. Ever seen three women get ready in the same house? Can you imagine now the poor little s.i.t. was running about the house fetching things and not ever doing it quick enough? Well, this poor pet had to deal with our demands, our teasing and the closeness he was allowed to share by helping us into our clothes. Poor thing (smile)!
Finally, we arrived at the Corpora! Party and were greeted by Mistress Victoria herself. My slave quickly got us a drink and we sat down over by the stage. I pulled off my shoe from time to time and pitched it across the room, waiting for someone to return it to me.
The entire evening several foot slaves watched hopefully, for me to throw the shoe about the room so they might be the lucky one to bring it back to me and have the opportunity to place it back on my foot and to smell the sweet and pungent aroma of my Italian leather pumps.
Mistress Stephanie was leading around a female slave she brought along (lucky girl). They often exchanged kisses and I watched selene look on and blush as she prayed and hoped her Mistress would pay attention to her in that way. Two young men walked up to me.
"Goddess Dianna, we just want to tell you that you are absolutely gorgeous and we read all of your articles."
I looked at him and smiled. He continued to waste my time by express words of devotion.
"Well then, if you so adore me, get down, kiss my feet and prove your devotion to me."
He quickly became nervous and began to give me half-ass excuses that he would but couldn't and his words sounded like whining. I HATE WHINING! He even told me something about the floor being dirty. I didn't know what that had to do with my feet.
I then lifted my hand while peering down into his eyes, I snapped my fingers and My s.i.t. immediately dropped to the floor and planted his lips onto my shoe and it was there he remained. I looked at the whining slave or should I say wanna be slave, and spoke "You are less than half a man. Only a real man can be a slave to a beautiful woman. Only a real man would do ANYTHING, and I do mean ANYTHING, for the woman he desires. This man here at my feet makes you and every male in here look like children. Now quit wasting my time and get out of my face."
Needless to say, he walked away but not affected by what happened. His tail was definitely between his legs. I lifted up my slave by his chain harness and planted a kiss on his head. He thanked me, of course.
Soon, three very sexy young girls came into the room escorted by a slave friend of mine. They walked up to me and I smiled and said "Well, well, what have we here, gifts for me?"
The girls smiled and one spoke "Goddess Dianna, we wanted to come meet you. We admire you so much and we were wondering if you would possibly be interested in accepting us as apprentice Mistress"."
I looked at them and could see that they were sincere.
One of them especially had a true natural dominant energy,. I could tell this one was going to be a very special dominatrix. Of course I wanted to teach her. "Yes, I will consider you."
I briefly explained the functions of the co-op and had my slave give them my number.
Mistress Stephanie came over to inspect the pretty soon-to-be dominas. She smiled and said "Ah yes, we will teach you." smiled and then walked away to play with the many wanting males.
Later that evening a Master came in with three slave girls. They watched on as Stephanie and I spanked and played. The Master came up to Stephanie and asked her if she would mind allowing one of the female property to kiss and adore her beautiful derriere. She, of course agreed and went into action. I watched on as the girl lifted Mistress Stephanie's skirt and smothered her with kisses and caresses. Soon we had them all up on the stage for inspection. The Master agreed to bring one to my apartment for Stephanie and I to play with for the weekend.
The pictures can explain some of the events, however, there were things pictures could not capture. We made very good use of the little slave and we thanked her Master for the use of her. The weekend soon came to an end. Monday I released my s.i.t. and Mistress Stephanie picked me up that evening with a slave and a limo. We went to a show and then to dinner. It was a relaxing evening and the champagne poured leaving us in an altered state of relaxation.
The slave who escorted us made excellent company as he spoke of wines and islands in the Antilles. Both my favorite passions. I listened to Mistress Stephanie speak of elegant adventures with some of her slaves and it truly was a wonderful way to end our last evening together.
Thank you. Mistress Stephanie Locke. You are a wonderful and beautiful woman who truly understands the loving and romantic art of dominance and submission. I look forward to sharing many evenings at the co-op with you and your slaves.
Mistress Victoria Smith
by Mistress Michelle
Mistress Victoria was a famous Mistress of the 60's and 70's. She was a beautiful brunette with curvaceous body. She appeared in almost every B&D magazine of the era. She was linked to such personalities as Roman Gabriel of Los Angeles Rams and Bob Crane of Hogan's Hero's. She appeared in the movie Hardcore with George C. Scott 1979. The scenes with Mistress Victoria Smith were a hit with audiences. While visiting Mistress Antoinette in 1979 , I just missed meeting her in person. Today she is an attorney living in Arizona. Mistress Michelle ( to view photos of Mistress Victoria go to )
- From the Bob Crane movie review
"Told in chronological order, the film ponders the rise and fall of a fairly simple man. Like HARDCORE, it follows a man as he descends into a form of hell. What the film appears to give short shrift to is Crane's interest in S&M (he even funded the construction of a few professional houses of domination), though in fact at one point Crane meets a woman who calls herself Mistress Victoria. This may be an elaborate in joke on Schrader's part. A "real" Mistress Victoria was a consultant on HARDCORE, and even appeared in the film, in a scene at the end. Here, Schrader may be intersecting the film's Crane life with his own life, noting the overlap of the real Mistress Victoria in both settings.
Mistress Victoria says that she is Melissa in the strip club where Crane meets her, but Mistress Victoria in her real life, and "makes" Crane as a pervert waiting to be unleashed. But then everybody in the film leads a double life (in fact, most people in most of Schrader's movies lead double lives, from Iris in TAXI DRIVER to the mutants in CAT PEOPLE). Mistress Victoria has two or three lives. So does Bob Crane: family man, TV star, and crude sex fiend. And Carpenter is a salesman by day and a club crawler by night. All three are burdened by the tools of their trades: Victoria's whips and boots, Crane's drums (among other things, Crane was an aspiring jazz drummer), and Carpenter his massive video camera equipment."
Mistress Jennifer Jordan
A former Miss Hungary, Jutka Goz , who later became Mistress Jennifer Jordan, married prominent B&D magazine publisher Lenny Burtman.
The year was 1963 or early 1964. I answered an ad in a some kind of rag sheet. I think it was the Ridged Bondage Roster??? I'm not sure??? Anyway, after I had arranged to meet Jim Overmeyer, in Detroit. When I walked into his house he had some TV , bent over a table, and he was using the a crop on her. He was yelling at her and hitting her with the crop. All of sudden he stopped and the TV ran over to me and fell to her knees in front of me. All this was going on while Barbara, Jim's wife, was washing dishes. This is the first time I ever met someone who was into B&D. Jim and I had some adventures to over the years. Now while all this cropping was going on , Jim had these B&D books and I saw a photo of Mistress Jennifer Jordan. As time passed , I would always see different photos of her. Posing and gritting her teeth,,, like a tiger!! grrrrrrrr... That was how I started to pose,,,,GRRRRRRRR. Thats why you see photos of me with that look. In late 1979, after being in a few magazines , I received a phone call from Shannon , who worked for Lenny Burton. Lenny Burton (Burtman) owned Jennifer Jordan Publications and Eros. Also , Lenny was the one who got Mistress Antoinette started. I just had done a video for Mistress Antionette, called the Subjugation of EVE. Shannon asked me how much money did I want to do this??? I said , NONE!
What????? That was the answer.
"Well what do you want?? my reply was plenty of ads and lots of publicity!!
I was flown to to California,from Detroit where I lived, to met Jerry Deeming, who owned Bizarre Video and Centurians. Jerry was doing the video and Lenny Burtman producing it and also other ideas.
The day we did the video,,, I remember Jennifer Jordan saying to me , after I sent her Christmas card of myself , standing in the snow, she said, "Mistress Michelle , weren`t you cold?"
I said , with hands on my hips. "Mistress , I'm surprised at you!!" "Mistresses feel no heat or cold, WE ARE IMPREVIOUS TO PAIN!!!" Then everyone laughed and we finished the video. The next day , I did a photo shoot and was presented with my magazine called, MISTRESS MICHELLE.. the photo of that magazine is in the magazine section.
That evening, Shannon and I went to Lenny's house and he lived next door to Gene Hackman, Popeye Doyle.. thats what I called him. As He was going in his door I yelled , "POPEYE DOYLE!" he looked over at me and laughed. That evening it was a surprise Birthday party for Shannon. The photo in the album , Jennifer Jordan,,, is one of the last photos of Jennifer Jordan ever taken. Lenny has passed away, Shannon lives in Europe as a Countess (a real one) , Jerry Deeming has Centurtains in Reno, Nv and Mistress Jennifer Jordan is living in LA.
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