House of Milan Magazines

Femme Fatale, Volume 1, Number 3
House of Milan Corp.
Los Angeles, California

1972

digital replica

Best known for bondage magazines and videos, Barbara Behr also produced magazines that showed women in dominating roles. Dominas in leather and boots have their way with submissive males.

Cellar of Hellish Torture

One of my favorite things is to take him to the center of the room where I keep a step ladder. I'll tie his handcuffed hands up over his head to one of the rungs, so that he is held helplessly off balance. At this point, I begin kissing him teasingly, running my lips lightly over his face and rubbing against him. His lips part eagerly, trying to capture mine, but they slip away from him to nibble at his chin or his ear. . . .

Next, I take some special leather straps I have and tie his legs to either side of the ladder, throwing him even more off balance. I let my body slide against him a little bit, just to tease [him] into greater frustration.

A Dog's Life

Mark kneels to lace up Alice's boots beside the car. She leads him through the woods with a leash clipped to his dog collar. She rides him, pulls his hair and demands boot worship. Photographed on the set of a film.

In Defense of Domination essay

The articulate author argues that domination by women (white) is more civilized and natural than domination by men (red). With illustrations by Robert Bishop.

'Red' domination I define as the domination of the apparently weaker by the apparently stronger. Physical strength is either explicitly the issue, or directly in support of the issue. The big ape 'dominates' the small ape. The stronger stud bull dominates the weaker stud bull. Rocky Sockdame, the massive muscled, machismo imbued, rock'em sock'em truck driver knocks around the bitchy waitress. . . .

With the rise in status of women, Rocky has become a kind of counterculture hero. It is hard not to see something wishful, something even a bit pathetic, in the mountains of pages lavished on Rocky's exploits; but it is certainly unarguable that he fulfills some sort of daydream of the current mass mind, Rocky the dream figure of the young girls who imagine the essence of sexuality in being carried off by an ape in the bow-tie, Stanley (Rock) Kowalski, of 'Streetcar Named Desire', who belted Stella when he was of a mind and radiated primitive masculinity.

'White' domination is, in one sense at least, the exact reverse of 'red' domination. It is still domination. But it could be defined as the domination of the apparently stronger by the apparently weaker. But rather than sheer force, the 'white' dominator uses some ability, perhaps some strategem or artifice, to more than compensate for an otherwise unequal struggle. Whereas 'red' domination seems to be a natively masculine form, 'white' domination could be classified as a primarily feminine modality, at least in its sexual aspect.

The Lady Makes the Slave

In this first-person narrative, a slave describes the humiliating treatment he receives from Mistress Gretchen. Illustrated by photographs of a serious blond in boots, holding a whip.

When the Lady Says Draw

Four pages of Bishop illustrations depicting males controlled by women.

Chastity Boy

Don was so helplessly in love with the beautiful, statuesque June that he would willingly have done anything she demanded. And, as one of the most dominant girls Don had ever met, she demanded plenty. He had always been submissive, had found his greatest pleasure in serving a dominating woman, and he looked forward eagerly to his opportunities to be alone with June.

She was just as excited about him. He was handsome, rich, intelligent — and when it came time to please her, he was an abject slave. She had used extensive bondage on him at first, but had quickly abandoned it — he needed no coercion to turn him into a humbly groveling servant.

There was, however, one more humiliation that June wanted to inflict, and she confronted Don with it late one night. Sitting in her living room, clad from head to foot in clinging black leather, she looked sneeringly at Don, who stood meekly before her in the leather pants she required him to wear when he served her.

Wrapped in Swaddling Clothes

In this first-person narrative, a dominating wife describes how she treats her young husband — like a child. “When I fastened the oversize diaper to his quaking loins, he became crimson with shame . . . ” Illustrated with photographs of sexy brunette in a leather jumpsuit.

Taming of a Bitch

Photographs show two beauties in leather grappling on a sofa.

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