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marmar

(77,042 posts)
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 08:14 PM Sep 2013

Real life, stranger than fiction


from Der Spiegel:



Several sadomasochists eagerly responded to an advert posted by an Austrian woman farmer seeking clients. But they didn't get the punishment they had hoped for. Instead, they found themselves doing farm labor in fetish gear, while paying for the privilege.

To sadomasochists keen on fresh air and the country life, it must have seemed like a dream come true. A 35-year-old woman advertizing herself as a dominatrix promised strict discipline to paying clients on her farm in the northeast of Austria.

Some 15 men responded to the advert posted in the Internet, and two or three took up the offer. "They didn't get what they bargained for," a spokesman for the Lower Austria police told SPIEGEL ONLINE, confirming reports in the Austrian media in recent days.

Instead of savoring the sweet pleasure of pain, the men found themselves consigned to farm labor such as chopping wood in the nude and mowing the lawn while wearing black fetish masks on the farm near the town of St Pölten. In effect, they were paying for the privilege of doing farm work. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/austrian-dominatrix-hired-fetishists-for-slave-labor-a-921398.html



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Real life, stranger than fiction (Original Post) marmar Sep 2013 OP
Good for her! xfundy Sep 2013 #1
this thread is no fun without photos... FirstLight Sep 2013 #2

xfundy

(5,105 posts)
1. Good for her!
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 10:07 PM
Sep 2013

They got pain, humiliation, the very things they signed up for.

Does remind me of an old joke, though.

A prostitute says, "I'll do anything you want for $200."

Guy says: "OK, we got a deal. Paint my house!"

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