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Chapters (22)
  1. Dedications
  2. Disclaimer
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter One
  6. Chapter Two
  7. Chapter Three
  8. Chapter Four
  9. Chapter Five
  10. Chapter Six
  11. Chapter Seven
  12. Chapter Eight
  13. Chapter Nine
  14. Chapter Ten
  15. Chapter Eleven
  16. Chapter Twelve
  17. Chapter Thirteen
  18. Chapter Fourteen
  19. Chapter Fifteen
  20. Chapter Sixteen
  21. Appendix A
  22. Appendix B

In the 1950’s, Leonard Burtman created the fetish magazine “Exotique”.

Burtman presented the pin-up as a Femme Fatale and a Dominatrix.

Illustration artists Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew created FemDom drawings and comics for Butman’s “Exotique”. It was men like Burtman, Klaw, Stanton and Bilbrew who introduced the American public to kinky sex and dominant women, which triggered the submissive desires within countless numbers of men.

In the 1960’s, Leonard Burtman published the fetish magazine “Bizarre Life”. Burtman formed a friendship with English fetish clothing designer John Sutcliffe who produced custom made leather outfits, boots, corsets, and cat-suits. Sutcliffe designed the sexy, leather outfits for Emma Peel in “The Avengers” television series. Sutcliffe provided many of the outfits worn by the American and English models in Burtman’s “Bizarre Life”. Burtman’s publication featured not only FemDom photos but also FemDom stories and personal ads.

In my research, I discovered a number of small, intimate FemDom groups that existed in the United States as far back as the late 1950’s.

While the origin of these groups cannot be traced with any certainty, it is my belief that their roots can be attributed to the SM Society of 1920

Germany. These groups primarily flourished within the more affluent circles of European and American societies during and after the war.

Most FemDom groups were very small and very secretive. Some groups consisted of no more than two or three couples. New York and California were the breeding grounds for these groups in the United States and the introduction of Fetish and FemDom magazines provided for the first time a vehicle in which these underground groups could communicate and begin to form a community.

One of the earliest known BDSM groups was The Menlo Park School of Bondage founded in San Francisco in 1968. This group was founded by the owner of a fetish store called A Taste of Leather. This group later became known as Backdrop, which was the forerunner of The Society of Janus, which was founded in 1974 and still exists today. A man by the name of Bill Burns started the Bay area Female Dominant organization called the Service of Mankind Church in 1977, which was an off-spring of The Society of Janus.

In New York, The Eulenspiegel Society was founded by male masochists in the winter of 1971. Its name is a result of an excerpt from Theodore Reik's “Masochism in Modern Man” in which he quotes German Folklore about a masochist by the name of Till Eulenspiegel.

The Eulenspiegel Society is the oldest and largest BDSM organization in the United States.