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Domme vs Domina - What's the difference?

domme | domina |

As nouns the difference between domme and domina

is that domme is a dominatrix while domina is the head of a nunnery.

domme

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dominatrix.
  • * 2005 , "Midori", Wild Side Sex (page 53)
  • No amount of fetish wear or powerful looking garments can make a domme out of a woman who hasn't worked on her power and grace within.
  • * 2006 , Emily Dubberley, Whip Your Life Into Shape! (page 94)
  • Something dommes know is that fear can be controlled — and even used to your advantage.

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    domina

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The head of a nunnery.
  • * 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 29:
  • Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry.
  • A dominatrix.
  • * 1997 , Rosemary Hennessy, Chrys Ingraham, Materialist feminism: a reader in class, difference, and women's lives (page 294)
  • Instead, Social Text "tarts up" the issue of sex work with sexy photos of dominas and cross-dressers, replicating, in a slightly more self-conscious and progressive way, the nineteenth-century exoticization
  • * 2004 , Pamela Church Gibson, More dirty looks: gender, pornography and power
  • Dominas therefore stress the emotional and physical skill, as well as the dangers, involved in commercial S/M

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