BDSM MEDIA NEWS!!!!
January 13, 2014
Interview with France’s Famous Dominatrix, Catherine Robbe-Grillet.
Source: Vanityfair.com. - Vanityfair.com - USA
FRANCE - Catherine Robbe-Grillet, 83, is France’s most famous dominatrix, yet, as she tells Toni Bentley in February’s Vanity Fair, she has never, ever accepted money for her “ceremonies”: “If someone pays, then they are in charge. I need to remain free. It is important that everyone involved knows that I do it solely for my pleasure.”
Bentley visits Robbe-Grillet, sadomasochistic author and widow of novelist (and accomplished sadist) Alain Robbe-Grillet, at the 17th-century château in Normandy where she resides with Beverly Charpentier, the 51-year-old South African woman who is her submissive companion. “Catherine is my secret garden,”
Charpentier says. “I have given myself to her, body and soul. She does whatever she wants, whenever she wants, with either or both, according to her pleasure-and her pleasure is also my pleasure.”
“As a dominatrix you must dominate yourself,” Robbe-Grillet tells Bentley. “Otherwise you take the chance of killing someone or doing serious damage, so you have to know your limits.” For example, “blood is only drawn with initiates,” Beverly explains. “I stop at what is irreversible,” says Robbe-Grillet. Except when she doesn’t. Robbe-Grillet recalls an encounter she had with a man named Christian, whom she met in 1986. He wanted her to brand him with the initials of her nom de plume, “JDB.” She did. “I fell into my dream,” Christian tells Bentley of his relationship with Catherine, “and I have never left it.” Over the course of almost 20 years, the marks faded and a year ago Robbe-Grillet held another ceremony to burn them in anew.
Robbe-Grillet recently staged “Le Soir de DSK,” Bentley reports. “The evening took place in four scenes set in a hotel bedroom: a man rapes a chambermaid, a man has consensual sex with a chambermaid, a woman rapes a bellboy, and a woman has consensual sex with a bellboy.” When Bentley asks Robbe-Grillet which of the four scenarios worked the best she responds, her blue eyes twinkling, “Well, the woman who played the hotel guest was very convincing.”
Toni Bentley is the author of
The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir, which has been adapted into a one-woman play and premieres in New York City on January 8, 2014.
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