My Fair Lady, the Ultimate Power Exchange Dynamics

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Oct. 09, 2017

My Fair Lady, the Ultimate Power Exchange Dynamics

Since the release of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” the Internet got filled with articles elaborating on earlier non-Vanilla, BDSM inspired films. The basic template is to quote “The Secretary” (2002) but some manage to go as far as 9 1/2 weeks (1986.)

Bunch of amateurs, he he he. The one profoundly compelling Power Exchange movie dates back to 1964, and is sugar coated under the name of “My Fair Lady” with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.

The Stanford Theater in Palo Alto was full yesterday, not with the vibrant kink community of San Fancisco though. Mere mortals of all ages showed up; elders brought their youth along. I too attended with a seven and a seventy year old and enjoyed both, the film that I know by heart and the audience expressive reaction to it.

The power of transformation that happens when masculine and feminine in their pure form collide has universal appeal.

In these changing, liberating, gender-fluid times I often see how Gray's "Mars & Venus" ideas are referred as obsolete. I can not agree. But I can remember myself weeping over the pages keenly describing my toxic behavior. It was very tempting to settle at I-Hate-John-Gray phase. I am happy I did not.

I crawled under the desk in the guest room yesterday to clean the dust and ran into “Mars and Venus on a Date” by John Gray. Thirty minutes later I found myself still on the floor leafing through the pages and indulging in bitter-sweet memories the book evoked. I bought this relationship classic almost […]