Q&A Forum - August/September 2016 (Best of Elise)

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As you properly point out, I mention Klaw again in “The FemDom女性支配 — female domination Experience” in the chapter on ‘The Red Queen Society Experience’. He was an important person because many men were able to explore their submissive顺从 — willing to obey natures through Klaw’s photography. The same goes for men like Leonard Burtman (also mentioned in my books), Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew. These men were able to bring the Dominant Female to the male public through their photos, art and publications. The persecution they endured paved the way to the freedom we enjoy today. It is hard to believe how tame those pictures of Bettie Page were when compared to what we see on the Internet today. The government was shocked that Klaw would take pictures of women in corsets束腰 — a stiff garment that squeezes the waist and boots who had whips in their hands. And they were appalled that Klaw took photos that depicted women dominating women.

It was okay for women to be objects of sexuality. It was okay for women to pose nude in magazines like “Playboy” but pictures of women in “bizarre attire” and acting “dominant” sent the Patriarchy into a tizzy. Men like Klaw and Burtman were the subjects of numerous police raids and Klaw was hauled before the United States Senate in a McCarthy type witch hunt known as the ‘juvenile delinquency hearings’ conducted by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver. They achieved their objective by intimidating Klaw enough that he burned most of his pictures and closed down his business.