Whip Smart: Melissa Febos a Dominatrix?

Melissa Febos' new memoir, Whip Smart, details the four years she spent working as a dominatrix. Febos enacted fantasy sequences, spanked grown men and verbally humiliated them for $75 an hour in a dungeon located somewhere in midtown Manhattan.

Melissa Febos has, quite literally, made men crawl on the floor for her. For a good chunk of her life, while most people were throwing on their best suits and ties to go to work, Febos was donning spiked heels and leather. Her days weren’t spent in an office, but at the Red Room, a chamber of the “dungeon” in which she regularly flagellated men — and got paid for it.

I'm surprised Melissa Febos worked has a dominatrix. I was wondering where I can buy her book a whip smart?

Melissa Febos is a writing teacher. Her memoir, Whip Smart , about her four-year tenure as a dominatrix in NYC, is out next week on St. Martin's Press. You can catch her reading from it Wednesday, March 3 at the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series at Joe's Pub.

Febos has written a memoir about her time stepping on the chests of fat men and shaving the body of a stockbroker named Hairless Billy. And it is, as you may expect, full of wonderfully bizarre stories, including the one that convinced her to give up on the dominatrix business.

The reality is most of the men want to be doing the slapping. While it is possible for a woman to "work her way up" to exclusivity doling out the punishment, along the way she'll be getting a lot of welts all over her body and a level of psychological degradation that is pretty gross.

According to her upcoming book Whip Smart, it was never part of the plan to become a dominatrix, or “domme,” when she moved to New York.

Either way, I think she is hot.

Look at her picture: