Season 7 Episode 16: At My Service

Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships

Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick

Science, Social Sciences, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.7 • 910 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ms. Emilie tells us what it’s like to be a pro dominatrix and how she transitioned from software engineer into this role. We discuss the range of services of a dom, the reasons and motivations of people seeking this out, and how technology continues to change the sex industry. WE WROTE A BOOK! HOW TO BE DATEABLE (Simon & Schuster) is available now: https://howtobedateable.com/ Want to remove distractions from your dates? Download Brick and get 10% off at https://www.getbrick.app/DATEABLE Our Sponsors: * Avocado Green Mattress: Check out their mattress and furniture sale: https://avocadogreenmattress.com/DATEABLE * Get Rain of Shadows and Endings wherever books are sold or at Kensington Publishing https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Quince: Get free shipping and 365 day returns at https://quince.com/dateable * Ruggable: Get 10% off your first order, sitewide, with promo code DATEABLE at https://ruggable.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	The dateable podcast features real stories from real people of how they make modern dating work.
0:06.3	Or not? I'm your host, U.A. former dating coach turned dating insider, if you will.
0:12.8	On each episode, you'll hear commentary from my producer Julie Craftchick
0:16.8	and other surprise co-hosts.
0:19.2	This episode of Datable is brought to you by 500 brunches.
0:22.6	500 brunches connects like-minded people
0:25.2	with similar interests to meet in real life over brunch.
0:28.5	You answer a quick questionnaire
0:29.8	about your interests and how you spend your time,
0:32.4	and then they'll match you in small groups of 6 to 8 at a brunch spot in San Francisco.
0:37.0	Get a free entry into a brunch now by signing up at 500branches.com and using the code Date Able.
0:49.0	Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Datable,
0:52.0	a show all about modern dating. Have you ever been curious
0:56.4	about the sex industry? What is like to be a professional sex worker? Well, we have Emily here with us today and she is a professional
1:05.0	dominatrix. She has been in the Bay Area for 18 years, originally from London.
1:09.8	She's 44 years old, polyamorous, trans woman, queer, kink positive and sex positive.
1:16.0	So basically everything we want to know, we can ask all the questions right now.
1:21.3	Emily, how are you?
1:22.3	I'm great, thank you. We're going to give you
1:24.8	kind of like a generic online definition of what a dominatrix is and we love to
1:29.7	hear what you think of it and what what we can amend to it. Okay right. So a dominatrix is a woman who takes a
1:36.1	dominant role in BDSM activities. Might be in any sexual orientation but
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