One of the proudest achievements of the book is putting in place a helpful framework of the Dominatrix's practices - something never before undertaken. Rather than the murky all-encompassing lump of 'BDSM', this chapter of the book attempts a much more cohesive analysis of the Dominatrix's craft activities, as they pertain to her clients and sessions, as the 'SEVEN REALM ARTS':
Realm 1 - The Art of the Sublime & Powerful Woman
Realm 2 - The Art of lowering the man to submission
Realm 3 - The Art of bondage, entrapment and enclosure
Realm 4 - The Art of discipline, training and punishment
Realm 5 - The Art of the bodily and the 'out-of-body'
Realm 6 - The Art of cross-dressing, transformation and gender subversion
Realm 7 - The Art of fetish and fantasy
Artist Lucina Nathanel 'Heel' (2011)
Limited edition photographic print
This theoretic model, derived from the professional practice of Dominatrices , will help demystify the Dominatrix's craft specializations, for those interested in understanding the realms of bondage and fetish activities.
Formerly the names who loomed large in this field have been Richard von Craft-Ebing and Sigmund Freud, who pathologized and diagnosed fetish from a psychiatric setting, typically in relation to those seeking psychiatric help. What they weren't exposed to was the thousands of people for whom fetish forms a part of their everyday private arousal and delight. This section takes the subject from the craft areas in which the Dominatrix specializes to meet the private desires and psychological nuances of her clients - as submissives, fetishists, cross-dressers, sissies and slaves.
This provides a fresh perspective on the rich diversity of human sexuality, from the knowledge of the erotic arts, rather than the diagnostic subdivisions of DSM-IV or DSM-V.