Q&A Forum - January 2013 (Best of Elise, 'Wanda' edition)

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However, as I wrote in my book, Fanny was of the nature to jump head first into everything she did, including her FemDom女性支配 — female domination relationship with Leopold. The flip-slide to this personality trait is that she easily bored and needed to go on to new erotic adventures. She grew weary of dressing up in furs, physically assaulting Leopold and parading lovers under his nose. Leopold signed a contract where he pledged to be Fanny’s slave奴隶 — a person kept in total obedience for six months. Once the six months were over, Fanny lost interest and since Leopold was not in love with her, he accepted her decision and they parted on good terms.

Fanny never would have agreed to marry Leopold, in my opinion, under any circumstances. And when you read Leopold’s biographers, it becomes apparent that later in life as his marriage to Aurora was in trouble, he often talked about Anna von Kottowitz, his first true lover and the first woman who whipped him while being adorned in furs. He didn’t discuss Fanny Pistor nearly as often as he talked about Anna von Kottowitz.

Nevertheless, Fanny Pistor will always live on in history as the woman from whom the famous character, Wanda von Dunajew, in “Venus in Furs” was based upon. Thanks for the most interesting question.