Mistress Jane Weidlin
» BDSM in Popular Culture
The cover of Jane Weidlin’s Kissproof World sparked rumors that she is kinky and dominant. Her most famous response:
“If people want to believe I’m a dominatrix in my spare time, that’s fine with me — I mean, I’m definitely happy to smack people around if that’s what they really want.”
This will be true for sure. At least in the fantasy land of funnybooks:
And she’s working on a comic, as revealed for the first time in the following interview - loosely based on herself, the comic will be drawn by her friend Bill Morrison and feature her in space. As a dominatrix.
A space dominatrix.
A video of an interview is at the link:
Pop culture history:
Moonlights as dominatrix. Posed with burlesque star Dita von Teese. Wore leather bondage pants on Jeopardy: “I’m always finding an excuse to spank people! Most people deserve a good spanking. Women have better butts for spanking but men need to be spanked.”
I have to ask about those Jane Weidlin S&M Dominatrix stories that came out over the summer — especially since you play it up in the artwork to Kissproof World.
Well, it all kind of happened around the same time, which is kind of why that story came out. I mean that story was just a joke I was having with my friend Dan Matthews. He writes this comedy column for a gay magazine, and I gave him this funny story about, “Yeah, I just got off my dominatrix gig.” So he prints it, and then, because he’s also the head guy at PETA, he decides to use it for his PETA campaign — “You can be a dominatrix without using leather!” And the whole thing just got absolutely out of hand. But, if people want to believe I’m a dominatrix in my spare time, that’s fine with me — I mean, I’m definitely happy to smack people around if that’s what they really want [laughs].
See also Gene Simmons’ Dominatrix

Comments
Maybe I’m being naive, but I thought Weidlin was into BDSM for real and not in the David Bowie “I’m not queer; Ziggy Stardust was queer.” way.
Maybe it serves me right for watching too many episodes of “The Surreal Life”. How disappointing. I wanted BDSM to have a cute personable spokes-celebrity.
Posted by: Peter Tupper | July 30, 2007 11:09 PM