ABOUT THE BOOK

With the first edition now sold out Worldwide (as of June 2022), I will be releasing an updated 10th Anniversary Edition in limited edition format of 2,000 copies.

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‘The History & Arts of the Dominatrix’ was researched and written over four years, and quickly gained worldwide acclaim, and has been updated and revised for the 10th Anniversary edition.

• Title: The History & Arts of the Dominatrix
• Author: Anne O Nomis
• Date of publication: 2023 (Second edition, 10th Anniversary)
• Printing & Distribution: DAI Rubicon Pty Ltd
• Format: Hardcover limited edition, special 10th Anniversary Edition
• Features: Quarter-bound in black, red ribbon marker
• Full colour on art paper
• Illustrated with rare images licensed from museums, libraries and vintage sources.
  
• Limit: 2,000 copies only worldwide (each copy individually numbered)
• Size: Approx 222 x 157 mm, x 22 mm thickness
• Pages: Around 300 pages (exact number to be announced), full-colour on art paper

"This book is the illustrated treatise on the Dominatrix throughout history, and her practices as arts.

No book previously existed on the subject. Nomis set to work meticulously researching the most discreet and mysterious occupation of the Dominatrix. This book reveals the ancient roots of the Dominatrix lie within sacred rituals to a Goddess Inanna who ruled one of the most important cities of the ancient world, the city of Uruk (or Warka). With a Masters degree in archaeology and art history, Nomis has included exerts of a hymn to the Goddess with rites of gender transformation, punishment, pain and ecstasy, linked to the high en-priestess named Enheduanna, and images of the Goddess.

Into the English history record, the secular profession appears in books from the 17th Century, with flagellation prints of the Dominatrix in role of 'Whipstress' and 'School-Mistress'. The ladies providing birch discipline were interlinked with royalty, nobility, parliamentarians and secret societies. By the 19th Century, London held 20 sumptuously appointed discipline houses, run by 'Governess' Dominatrices, one of whom invented a special machine for whipping, known as the Berkley Horse. 

In the 20th Century, the book presents rare vintage snapshots of mid-20th Century ladies of the 'bizarre underground' in time, space and place, from London, New York, The Hague and The Herbertstrasse. Lastly, Nomis examines the contemporary occupation of the modern-day Dominatrix, and contributes a theory of their 'Seven Realm Arts' characterizing their practices. This book is the seminal work on the subject of the Dominatrix, her history and her arts as a unique craft."     

Illustrated with artwork and 86+ images from the British Museum, Iraq Museum, Penn Museum, Oriental Institute of Chicago, Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge University, Villa of Mysteries Pompeii, British Library Rare Books, Library of Congress Washington DC, National Portrait Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, Kinsey Institute, with vintage images by artist John Willie from Bélier Press, vintage Dominatrices from DDI Magazine, Atom Age and private collection, contemporary artwork by Natasha Gornik, Kate Peters, Phil Miller, Nuit' d'Or and Lucina Nathanael.

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