Ms Kathleen's Movie Review

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The Red Shoe Diaries aired from June 1992 to June 1999 on Showtime with some of the more memorable episodes making their way to video. Each Red Shoe video contained three episodes. The sixth video was released in 1995 and it was called, “How I Met My Husband”. The sixth video contains the episodes “How I Met My Husband”, “Naked in the Moonlight” and “Midnight Bells”.

The episode, “How I Met My Husband” has a FemDom女性支配 — female domination theme. It begins with an almost naked man on all fours in front of a room full of women. A woman dressed in leather, Mistress女主人 — a woman who leads a submissive partner Miranda, asks for a volunteer. A beautiful, shy woman in a conservative dress is picked from the audience. Miranda says, “Now remember ladies; Grip, Wrist, Follow-through!”

Miranda hands Alice (Neith Hunter), the reluctant but curious volunteer, her whip and tells her to give the stern command, “Bernard, you’ve been a bad boy!” Alice repeats this dominant phrase to the vulnerable male as Miranda admonishes her to “follow-through”. Alice cracks the whip and strikes the male to the thunderous applause of the female audience. A satisfied look comes over Alice’s face. So begins “How I Met My Husband.”