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From Melissa Gira Grant’s Valleywag post, I found out about Cléo Dubois’s Academy of SM Arts. You can take various Erotic Dominance Intensives and learn all about BDSM – there’s a women’s weekend course coming up April 5-6 at the San Francisco Citadel and a men’s weekend course there May 17-18, aught by Dubois, Eve Minax, and Selina Raven.
The first dominatrix to take me under her wing kept her dungeon close enough to the Moscone Center, but the only domina to give me a formal diploma on graduation was Cleo Dubois, founder of the Silicon Valley based Academy of SM Arts. Having a discreet, private place to indulge in SM has drawn out a decent number of Valley guys over the years, says Cleo — men who want to play, but need to keep a low profile about it. “There was the systems analyst who came to me with his girlfriend,” Dubois told me, who had been begging him to spank and tie her up, but he didn’t know where to start. Read on for how to get schooled yourself — the stern headmistress fantasy is hot, sure, but you don’t want to actually get thrown out of SM class.
