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Shares in the Other World Kingdom

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For those who have never heard of the OWK, it’s a real-life matriarchal society of Dominatrices and their worshippers, based in a castle complex in the Czech Republic. I’ve still never been, but am keen to. Here’s part of the blurb from the website:

“The Other World Kingdom (OWK) is a private state, founded upon the principle of a slave-holding Matriarchal monarchy. The present Ruler – Queen Patricia I. – founded the OWK on June 1, 1996. The OWK is governed on the basic principle that the WOMAN is always, everywhere and in everything superior to the male creature. A WOMAN in the OWK has the undeniable right to own and use slaves. The OWK is a nation without borders and may extend its reaches to anywhere on Earth. The capital city of the OWK and seat of the Queen is the Area of the Queen’s Palace in the Black City in the Czech Republic (Europe). The OWK as a true state is governed by its own Laws and Regulations, and has its own currency , passports, police force, courts , State Flag and State Hymn.”

Sadly, the land and business have been up for sale for a while, and the team are yet to find a buyer. I’m not affiliated with the project in any way, but I’m utterly enamoured with the concept of the OWK, and would be disappointed if it were to close before I ever got to visit. This week, the team have set up a new appeal for shared ownership:

“All of us, who have spent many happy moments there, do not want to accept the idea that OWK will not exist any longer, hence we would like to introduce this Project. It allows us not only to renew the activities of OWK, but also to provide for the considerable expansion of the present activities.

The aim of this project is to gather as many people as possible who acknowledge the principles of Female Dominance (FEM-DOM), asking them to make an investment in shares in a new company. This company will buy the OWK back from the Queen (including the internet domains) by investing obtained financial means, and will renew the operations of OWK Areal, including other new services…

…It is obvious that the shareholders will have special preference for OWK stays or slave training reservations, as well as participation in filming. All will be based on the number of shares acquired.

Other benefits will include discounts on accommodation, discounts on goods, free entry to the new internal OWK web site shareholders, etc.

Every shareholder will participate in the prospective profit of the OWK, as is the case for every other shareholder in every ‘standard’ company. The shareholder can also move the share profits over to his Mistress, (or give it to the OWK as a present).

If all shares are sold out, we will start something like a ‘stock exchange’ on the OWK website. You can buy or sell OWK shares there if interested.

It makes sense to run this Project only in the case that we know how many share applicants we have, and if there will be enough financial resources to re-purchase the OWK castle.

That is why we are only giving you this brief information for now.

After the Project has been initiated, we will provide you with much more detailed information.

We would like to ask the preparatory applicants of the share purchases in the ‘new’ OWK to fill in the form below, and send us the non binding agreement.

WOMEN OVER men !

Madame Gabrielle

Madame Sarka

and all other OWK-Team

www.owk.cz

Preparatory, non-binding agreement of share purchases in the OWK

Your name:_____________________

Your e-mail:____________________

Yes, I have preliminary and non-binding interest in purchasing

___________ shares at the price of 250 EUR (340 USD) / 1pc.”

More information here.

Painted Ladies

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The original tattooed ladies intrigue me. It must have taken courage for a woman to lead an unconventional lifestyle in the first part of the last century, and the thing that all these painted ladies had in common was their independence and resilience in the face of prejudice: Artoria Gibbons worked her way out of poverty by travelling with a sideshow in her youth, but was sold to the public as a “man-made monstrosity” in later life; Irene “La Belle Irene” Woodward’s promotional booklet claimed that her father was killed in a Native American raid in 1879 and only survived herself because the attackers were scared away by her tattoos; Nora Hildenbrandt told a similar story, later deemed to be false; Annie Howard was briefly imprisoned for slapping a man who insulted her tattoos; Betty Broadbent began sideshow life as a teenage runaway with an image of her head projected onto the body of a spider and went on to marry three times.

Eleanor Goodman has written a wonderful article on the Bizarre Magazine website about the tattooed ladies of vintage American sideshows. Click here to read it, and see a gallery of photos of the women mentioned above.

Smoke

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Having been a non-smoker for almost eighteen months, I’ve finally admitted to myself that, for at least half of that time, I’ve been a non-smoker-except-for-the-occasional-drag-when-out-with-other-smokers-and-of-course-an-occasional-cigarette-smoked-when-drunk-which-of-course-doesn’t-count-and-then-there-was-that-time-I-was-really-upset-and-I-just-needed-the-one-little-smoke-which-of-course-also-didn’t-count-and… So anyway, smoking is far more difficult to extricate oneself from than merely the breaking of a nicotine addiction. For me, as with many people, it’s more psychological than physical. The cigarette is a fetishised object, not necessarily sexual, but part of a compulsion I can’t quite seem to disentangle myself from.

So, on the subject of the smoking fetish, here’s part of an excellent reply from an agony column at msnbc.com:

“…In my old high school, if you wanted some idea of who the wicked girls were, you’d find out which ones snuck cigarettes in the bathrooms. These weren’t the goody-two-shoes, obey the rules, no-making-out-on-the-first-date girls, no sireee! I remember — well, never mind what I remember.  The point is that smoking and naughtiness have been linked since at least 1917 when silent film star Theda “The Vamp” Bara, billed as the wickedest woman in the world, lounged on a settee wearing a transparent gown and languidly raising a cigarette to her lips. This was five years before a woman in New York City was arrested for smoking in public. It was 11 years before Edward Bernays pulled off the most successful public relations stunt in history on behalf of the American Tobacco Company by arranging for women to stroll down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue in the 1929 Easter Parade while smoking. The resulting rotogravure pictures in newspapers sent cigarette sales soaring… Why can smoking be a turn on? A 2005 paper by University of Southern California sociologist Julie Albright quotes Freud’s old saw about cigars and cigarettes being phallus substitutes: “‘To put it plainly: the fetish is a substitute for the woman’s (mother’s) phallus which the little boy once believed in and does not wish to forego….’ The fetish as symbol of the mother’s penis comes also to represent her desire, thereby affirming that her desire lies with him and not with the father.” Maybe, but Freud was so wrong about so much…”

Read the entire piece here.