I wholeheartedly agree with Mrs BC that to dress males in female clothes TO PUNISH OR HUMILIATE them is an insult to women. It is certainly not for this purpose that my husband is usually dressed and treated as a teenage girl when at home and that I brought up my boys as girls in girls' clothes just like their sisters. On the contrary, they have always been led to understand that it is a privilege for them to wear clothes usually reserved for the superior sex. This does not in the least detract from my enjoying, like Mrs BC, the fact that I'm dominating MALES. On the contrary the knowledge that I can make them live lives and wear clothes so contrary to their inclinations adds much spice to my enjoyment. Were I to find that their feminised status became so natural to them that they ceased to long to revert to male life and clothes at the first opportunity, then I would cease to enjoy it and would regard it as becoming harmful, and I would make an end to it at once. But this situation has never arisen, my boys eagerly embrace male life when I told them to at 17, and my husband, though

reconciled to accept his lot, would not continue so if he had any choice. Admittedly it appears from some letters in the magazine that, as Mrs BC fears, some womans' object in feminising males is to degrade them, but I can only think such women have a poor opinion of their own sex! In my case and in that of other dominant women I know of, this is far from our intention, and our reasons for doing it are quite otherwise.

In the first place, I find it delightful to see him in girl's clothes and acting appropriately. If their bodies are constantly given the right attention (creams, massage, exercises), and they are well trained to walk, stand, sit and generally bear themselves in appro­priate manner, boys and even men in pretty frocks and the frillies and other things which go with frocks, look to some of us really cute, delightfully attractive and exciting.

Secondly, it is a powerful aid to discipline. Males in frocks are for some psychological reason more amenable to control and discipline. Though he knows of course that whatever he is wearing you would remove any of his clothes if you wish to, yet perhaps a male feels more vulnerable and his body more accessible to you when in skirts and panties than he does in male clothes put out of him mind the fact that, unlike a Highlander in a kilt, he is MADE to wear these clothes against all his inclinations.
 

Teenage maid

Thirdly, in my husband's case, his status in the home is that of my teenage personal maid, looking after me and my clothes, so it is appropriate that he is dressed accordingly, in a maid's conventional uniform when on  duty, dressed and treated as a well-disci­plined teenage girl when off duty. None of this, I assure Mrs BC, prevents him from giving superb sexual service when summoned to my bed.

I can well understand that Mrs BC may not fancy my domestic set-up, and of course it is for each of us to manage our men according to our personal preference, but however we organise it the domestic side of life is woman's dominion, and in it the housewife should be in supreme command. 

On the other hand, in the outside workaday world of offices, factories, etc., men are at least equal to women and competent in most cases to manage their own workaday lives. My husband, in his "other" life, is a highly paid, highly responsible executive. His business associates certainly do not

know that, under his male business clothes, I make him wear his feminine underwear as a precaution against amorous adventures etc., that his salary all comes to me, and that I provide him with pocket money for standing drinks and for other workaday needs.

No sense

I agree with Mrs BC that there is no sense in keeping men in baby clothes and baby life PERMANENTLY, and cannot understand why women who do this do not find it extremely boring after a time. However, I do find that a PERIOD of babyfication or of treat­ment as a child is sometimes a very effective punishment. In the beginning, for once off, I used it as a training rather than as a punishment, because I came to the conclusion that, before entering his status as a teenage personal maid, my husband needed bringing up from babyhood all over again. So he went right through the stages of childhood, from the baby stage with nappies and powder, baby clothes, cot etc., right through until he reached the assumed age of 16, at which he has remained. As he left each stage, I put the clothes he had worn at that stage into store, so now when I wish to punish him by putting him back to a baby or a little girl for a while the clothes for the required age are available. Of course he dislikes this form of punishment intensely, and the only advantage it brings him is that as an infant he is not of course punished with the cane or leather spanker, but only gets his little bottle smacked with the palm of my hand, which of course is not so painful, though highly humiliating.

"I'm very taken with Mrs BC's idea of blindfolding her husband during her friend's visits, so that he is permanently kept guessing which of her friends it is that handles him so intimately, and indeed whether it is always the same one! However, it is to late for me to adopt this idea because the interested and reliably discreet of my women friends who are in the know about my husband have already not only been present when I had occasion to take down his panties and chastise him but have also been permitted if they wish to strip and intimately inspect him, so he knows well enough who they are.

Going back to what Í said in my second paragraph, may I mention that I'm no sadist, and, when chastising, I get no pleasure from the pain I'm inflicting, which is never excessive, and which I regard simply as useful, effective, beneficial punishment. What I do enjoy about punishment is the preliminaries, elegantly (I hope) turning up the culprit's skirt and taking down his knickers, making him get into position, adjusting that position to my satisfaction, because all this accentu­ates for me and impresses on him that he is in my power, subject to my absolute discipline and under the necessity of obedience. The truth of this distinction is proved by the fact that the intense erotic arousal that I get before I begin to spank or cane, but returns if and when I follow the chastisement by making him stand in the corner or putting him early to bed.

First aware

I think I first became aware of the thrill of authority during the War as a very young Wren officer when I loved giving orders and being addresses as Ma'am" by both men and women of lower rank. In the same period my interest in the frocking of males was aroused by a voluntary worker in the Liverpool St. station Forces' canteen, whose kilted son often accompanied her at the canteen, and who invited me home with her, making him show me the frillies he was wearing under his kilt and the frocks he had to wear at home, as I think I fully described in a previous letter.

Actual slavery of course belongs to the fantasy side of the subject, and figures largely in your story features. Much of this matter, being about slavery for the sake of slavery, repels me, but I enjoy two of these features each of which was about slavery for a real purpose, but both of which have regrettably been discontinued in recent numbers. These were Lady Lydia's Slave Farm and Letter From America. In an early letter I think Janine Lee said her friend Alice obtained slaves by recruiting tough crimimals who would do anything to escape the vengeance of criminal organisations they had offended. Now that Janine has slaves of her own, I'd like to ask her how she obtained hers.

However, the readers' letters are what I obtain the mag. for. Though I read the other contents with interest, I would not find it worth getting just for them. I'd like it to be all letters.

Sincerely yours,

Domina

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