Sunday, February 05, 2012

Yuliya & friend

Yuliya is my Ukrainian dominatrix friend. She was not always a dominatrix. I first met her at least 10 years ago at a school where I teach photography. She was our model. I was immediately fascinated by her elegance. She had some traits that would make her boil over. One of them was to ask her, “Are you from the Ukraine?” Her answer was usually, “ Expletive…Ukraine. Just Ukraine.” I sympathized with her as I feel the same about those Americans (and Canadians, too) who say, “I am headed to the Yucatan.” If I were as blunt as Yuliya is I would use the same expletives and explain it’s just Yucatán.


Yuliya has made rolls of money happily tromping on men’s backs with her $3000 Laboutin boots. She does other things to them (or they might suck on her foot extremities, something I might write here without offending anybody, too much) that I cannot write here.

It was not too long ago that some friends of mine were having lunch at the Railway Club and my friend John Lekich said something about shoes that made one of our guests, a well known Vancouver poet of the female variety, remove her shoe (black pumps) and loudly bang it on the table Russian style. And she told an amazed Lekich, “I do this all the time. I walk on their backs and I am paid very well.” Lekich, who holds all women on top of tall pedestals, was crushed.

This fetish thing is now most mainstream. There is a Thursday Fetish Night  BYOW (bring your own whip) on Springer Avenue in Burnaby. If it’s in Burnaby, it has to be mainstream. Yes?

I think that Yuliya, an intelligent handler of money, has concluded that her profession is now in decline so she is going to study yoga so she can teach it. She is also going to become a Buddhist. The latter may have been precipitated by the removal of her gall bladder stones. She wants to live a healthy life. Unhealthy men with unhealthy appetites will have to look elsewhere.