To everyone who has commented so far, I started the thread to indicate that me, an all-but-retired sub, shouldn't offer opinions about today's scene. Here are a few of the dungeons & ladies I remember from decades ago, when you answered print ads by phone.

DEN OF INIQUITY (NYC): Tara Indiana's place is where I met Paige in the 1990s. This was during the Betty Paige revival. Paige, who eventually moved to the Royal Castle in Philly, was a taller, more muscular Betty Page with the same bangs but shorter hair. I asked for her to dress in a leopard bikini for two roleplay sessions. It turned out to be intense "Amazon Paige vs. Tarzan" experiences I won't forget.

ARENA BLAZE: Located in the E. 30s off of 5th. Sessioned with a tall, stunning brunette with long hair in the '90s, Mistress Tyra, who I first met in a small apt. dungeon. Tyra dressed in a see-through chainmail minidress with the briefest of bikinis under it for modesty & high heels. Tyra usually started by putting me in a cage. LOL!

Mistress Persephone, was based at Arena Blaze for a couple of years. Again, it was the '90s, and she had that Vampirella persona in session. Her outfits always emphasized her black widow tattoo around her navel and long nails. https://www.boomvavavoom.com/persephone.htm Saw her three times there was always high drama, but real drama came in one night when she was chaining me to a wall and broke a nail. She really got angry and boy did I get it that night!

EMPRESS DOMINIQUE: She had a dungeon in a Jersey City loft building she shared with another Mistress around 2000. (Forgot the name of the dungeon and other Mistress.) She was and still is regal, a commanding presence, statuesque, curvy, strong who is very strict.

BELLE DE JOUR: This covers all of her locations, since Belle was my first Mistress and knew her from the '70s until the '90s off and on. I sessioned with her in each of those decades but there were long periods where she would just answer the phones. She had a sixth sense and recommend ladies that she knew would be compatible with me. Most notably was the other legend Ava Taurel, who eventually ran her own studio; Mistress Gloria, Belle's blonde bombshell niece; and Paloma, a Latina from the South Bronx who was a complete knockout. In our first session in a second story dungeon on W. 14th St. and 3rd Ave. she wore this leopard print bathing suit and match see-through cape, saying, "Belle said you like this look. But be careful, if anything happens to it, you bought it!" She then slapped my face to reinforce the warning.