LA DOMAINE NEWSLETTER
JANUARY 2025
Happy Newsletter!
Jan 2025.
IMPORTANT DATE CHANGE
THE CHOCOLATE TASTING AND AFTER-PARTY IS NOW FEB. 22 nd
TASTING FROM 2 – 5. DUNGEON PARTY FROM 8 – ?
Unfortunately, our plans to do the Valentine’s week Chocolate Tasting on Feb 15th didn’t work out. Our Chocolustier, slave beauty, had to request the re-schedule. Those of you who have told me you are coming, oh, I mean attending, will now need to reconfirm reconfirm.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with our Valentine’s Week Annual Chocolate Tasting, here’s the details. Slave beauty is a renown desert chef and Master of all things chocolate. For the past several years, she has done her remarkable CHOCOLATE LECTURE AND TASTING here at La Domaine. She begins with a slide lecture presentation on how the magic beans are grown, harvested, cured, processed and turned into the world’s best chocolate. Then, slave beauty guides us through the tasting of some of those world’s best and often often gold medal winners. We explore flavors, textures, tempering and just about everything else that is happening in our mouths. It’s quite a remarkable learning experience. Last year’s selection ranged from Massachusetts to Peru, to Madagascar, to Denmark, to Tanzania and other countries. The range of flavors and textures etc is always absolutely amazing. Those of us who have been attending for years have even reached a point where we can compare yearly vintages of the world’s best chocolates! After the tasting is concluded, one very lucky slave gets all the left-over bits and pieces strategically placed on their body, and – do I really need to tell you the rest? Let’s just say:” Yes Dorothy, chocolate really is anaphrodisiac.”
After the afternoon revelry, we take a dinner break, and then guests return to La Domaine for the party at eight in the dungeon. This always seem to be one of the sexiest parties of the year and that is probably because: “Yes Dorothy, chocolate really is an aphrodisiac.”
Tributes for this extravaganza: Tasting $75 an individual, $125 couple. Party $300 an individual, $125 a couple,. Tasting and party $350 an individual, $200 a couple. (Individuals at La D parties get a lot of our attention, – no wall flowers allowed, unless of course the individual is a voyeur!)
Like all our food events in the dungeon, attendance is very limited. To be sure you are on the list, everyone now needs to get in touch with me, even if you have already given a verbal commitment or said you would like to attend. Best way to reserve is to call: 518 375 3387, 10 – 7 est, m – f.
A VERY SPECIAL WEEKEND-LONG FEM DOM EVENT
JUBILEE: NIGHT OF THE QUEENS!!!
APRIL 25, 26
Night of the Queens is a traveling series of revered underground, international weekends, dedicated to Femocracy. They are presented around the world. This year, in addition to Night of the Queens events in Dubai, Tokyo, Manilla, Bangkok, Paris and Granada, a very special, attendance extremely limited, first of its kind, Night of the Queens Jubilee, will be held right here in upstate NY, (the kink capitol of the world Ha!), at La Domaine.
Lady Monique de Nemours.
This is a very special honor for us. The event will be hosted by the internationally renowned, Spanish Dominatrix Lady Monique de Nemours. She will be joined by several other Domina of international stature. The weekend is open to couples and individuals. Friday there will be both a dinner and a play party. Friday night’s soiree will be intimate, limited to Lady Monique and her traveling fellow presenters, the Guest Dominas, open only to people who are staying at La Domaine and the La D Mistresses, Masters and slaves (We are renting out all the bedrooms for this weekend.) Saturday is open to all who book to attend. To know more, and to book your reservations for the event, go to this link. https://www.nightsofthequeens.com/the-jubilee-of-the-queens-new-york-state.
IMPORTANT: If you wish to stay at La Domaine for the weekend, the La D guest rooms must be booked separately, directly through La D. (518 375 3387, 10 – 7 est, m – f. Best do this asap, one of the rooms is already reserved.)
WE WELCOME A NEW PRINT MAGAZINE!
“THIRTY-THREE ONE-ELEVEN”
YES!!! A new magazine that you can actually hold in your hands and read. When I heard of this venture, I contacted the publishers, Commander Starlight and Madame Glacier, and asked what I could do to help. I really miss print! I suggested putting an introductory paragraph into the La D Newsletter. Here are some highlights from their reply.
Thirty-Three One-Eleven (The Crossroads of Spirituality and Sexuality) is a new mini-magazine, exclusively in print, by and for the BDSM and Kink community. This publication is dedicated to our culture, our values, and our erotica. You can expect 96 pages of kinky art, writings, subject matter content, our exclusive BDSM comic, dungeon directory, funnies, and helpful ads all focused on our subculture! Best of all, the first full issue is yet to be printed, which means you can start collecting this amazing publication from the beginning. Annual subscriptions are just $50.
The first issue will feature an interview with Master R. We are very excited to share our publication with you and ask each of you who read this to consider submitting content. We seek to be the voice of dungeon culture in the US, and we can’t share all those perspectives without your help. If you have BDSM/Kink focused art, erotic literature, topic writings, please send them to us!
Additionally, if you have a subject-related business that would like to advertise with us, we welcome you! We are keeping our advertising space limited, but we want readers to find what is available in the world of BDSM, and we want to be a venue for hard-to-promote services that are specific to our culture. It’s easy to connect with us for subscriptions, submissions, or advertising: thirtythreeoneeleven@gmail.com – (480) 666-2994. We look forward to being of service to the entire community!
I’d like to see the La D community help turn their incredibly ambitious and difficult goals into a success-filled magazine. I plan to do some interviews of BDSM persons for them in future issues. I hope our La D writers, artists, perverts, and philosophers both subscribe and contribute. Best of luck Commander Starlight and Madame Glacier!
OUR AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THIS ISSUE
JONATHAN_NYC!
“Jonathan Jonathan, what’s all the commotion.”
I am enthralled by Jonathan’s art. He considers himself an amateur. I think he is far beyond that category and well into the arena belonging to great artists. Among his many styles and subjects, Jonathan likes to take his camera and go for two-hour walks through the streets of NYC.
In this Newsletter, I thought I’d just present some of those images, and then present some of the erotic work and the nature studies in our next Newsletter. Jonathan likes to caption his pictures with thought-provoking commentary, which I have, for the most part, included. I’m not going into my own usual artistic descriptors, but I do want to comment on how effectively Jonathan uses color enhancement.
“Mm, L.A Proved too much for the man (Too much for the man, he couldn’t make it) So he’s leavin’ the life He’s come to know, ooh (He said he’s goin’) He said he’s goin’ back to find (Goin’ back to find) Ooh, ooh, ooh, what’s left of his world The world he left behind not so long ago /// He’s leavin’ (Leavin’) On that midnight train to Georgia (Leavin’ on that midnight train) Mm, yes Said he’s goin’ back (Goin’ back to find) To a simpler place and time (Whenever he takes that ride) Oh, yes, he is (Guess who’s gonna be right by his side) And I’ll be with him (I know you will) On that midnight train to Georgia (Leavin’ on that midnight train to Georgia) Yeah (Woo, woo).”
“The Riverside Drive Viaduct, built in 1900 by New York City, is a viaduct constructed to connect an important system of drives in Upper Manhattan by creating a high-level boulevard extension of Riverside Drive over the barrier of Manhattanville Valley to the former Boulevard Lafayette in Washington Heights. /// The elevated steel highway of the viaduct extends above 12th Avenue from approximately 127th Street to 135th Street and is shouldered by masonry approaches. The viaduct proper was made of open hearth medium steel, comprising twenty-six spans, or bays, whose hypnotic repetition is much appreciated from underneath at street level. The south and north approaches are of rock-faced Mohawk Valley limestone with Maine granite trimmings, the face work being of coursed ashlar. The girders over Manhattan Street (now 125th Street) were the largest ever built at the time. The broad plaza effect of the south approach was designed to impart deliberate grandeur to the natural terminus of much of Riverside Drive’s traffic as well as to give full advantage to the vista overlooking the Hudson River and New Jersey Palisades to the west.”
I generally prefer au natural, but Jonathan makes me wonder what the great Renaissance colorist masters, who ground and mixed their own pigments, would have done with our modern resources. Like those masters before him, Jonathan mixes his pigments with true brilliance.
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
Enjoy this photographic walk through NYC, You can look forward to seeing more of Jonathan’s remarkable “amateur” work in the next Newsletter.
R’s comment: I think this is a perfect capture of stasis and motion.
Two from Harlem.
And one more.
COMING SOON: IN THE NEXT NEWSLETTER
“It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.” — Sarah Smiley
The La Domaine Party dates and Guest Mistress and Master identities for spring 2025!
As always, January is your chance to suggest the Guest Hosts you would like to see here.
That’s it for this cold winter Newsletter. Stay in touch, come to the Chocolate Tasting, and if you like Fem Dom – don’t miss The Jubilee!!!
