Dear Miss Susan,

I find your web site very interesting. I am now a 50 year old male. When I was 17, I lived with three dominant older women, who not only kept me in female attire, but administered regular corporal punishment. I was required to also wait on them hand and foot. I was constantly under their supervision, as two of them were also my bosses at work. My entire paycheck was confiscated as room and board. My attire was more for humiliation and control, rather than to present me as a realistic girI, and I looked totally ridiculous.  I always had to wear a tight rubber girdle with long legs to act as a chastity device, under trousers out of the house, and under a dress inside the house, with penny loafers and stockings. I was not allowed any sexual arousal or release, but did have to service them sexually at their whim. I even wore this attire while serving drinks and snacks at their weekly Mah Jong game, while their girlfriends giggled at me.

I was also lent out to the girlfriends to run errands, and do yardwork and housework.Their friends openly knew my secret, some merely smiled while I performed my chores, while others really  enjoyed bossing me and giving me orders.The most embarrassing moment I ever had was when one of these women took me to a ladies' clothing store and purchased a full outfit for me to wear, not hiding the fact from the lady owner exactly who they were for, and actively soliciting her opinion.I spent hours there as I tried on a mountain of pretty undies and dresses, and they discussed the merits of each garment.The owner was so taken with me that she asked if she could borrow me in a joking manner, but the reply was a very serious 'Of course'. Subsequently I spent many evenings doing chores for her too, and these two ladies became friends. Contrary to a man's typical fantasy, all these women I served were not calender girl types.

The three  women I lived with were very serious about it, it was not a fantasy or a game. I stayed in this relationship for seven years with the three, and then had an exclusive relationship for 13 more years with a married friend of this trio of mistresses. I didn't start 'normal' type dating until I was 40+, and found it very awkward. I am now married to a very straight woman.

My question is how much of your site is fantasy, and how much is reality? I have never heard of such relationships otherwise, except with dominatrixes who role-play. Your site is English, and this sort of thing is considered very English, but I grew up in the U.S.A. and my mistresses' ancestries were Hungarian, Italian, and  Italian-Spanish. All of them were very serious disciplinarians, no games or 'safe words'. Canings ,spankings, etc. stopped only long after  they had induced real tears and genuine pleas for mercy.There were also friends of theirs that I met, both married and single, who engaged in the same kind of lifestyle, and whom they had met through advertisements.

I always suspected your Prince Charles and Camilla have some kind of odd relationship: she really looks the type; being older, and also somewhat domineering in appearance. At any rate, I enjoy your site, but I do have trouble sorting out fantasy and reality.
Thank you,

Dale

I think it is not unlikely that the relationship between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles may involve petticoating and nursery discipline - the children of English royalty and the aristocracy have often experienced painful childhoods at boarding schools, without the embracing love that middle class or working class children experience. Petticoat discipline may in many cases be a way of reclaiming that missed childhood closeness and affection. One gets the impression that Prince Phillip was not a particularly warm father.

The need for petticoating was traditionally supposed to be a trait of the British upper classes in particular. Many have wondered how Edward VIII could have 'abandoned a kingdom'  for the rather severe-looking Mrs Simpson. The answer, surely, is that she was able to give him some special satisfaction that nobody else would give him. I have long thought that their relationship could well have involved petticoating and babying, but I have never considered the case of Charles and Camilla. Nevertheless, I believe that you may have made a very acute observation. However, I wish to point out that this is all  just surmise: I have absolutely no evidence in either case.
Susan