A live experiment in power · by Lucy Hutchings Hunt
The Diary of an Apprentice Dominatrix
Power, Politics & Parenting. My Midlife Experiment in Playing Patriarchy at Its Own Game.
Lucy Hutchings Hunt. Writer, coach, apprentice.
The Manifesto
This isn't just a diary. It's a live experiment.
Every week, and sometimes more frequently when I have something particularly important to say, I share the gloriously messy reality of what happens when a forty-something-year-old, well-educated, middle-class, school-gates single mother and lifelong people-pleaser decides to train as a dominatrix in search of something far bigger than sex or money.
This is a story about power. About pleasure. About parenting. About politics. About privilege. About trauma, and getting free from it. And about discovering what it means to truly be alive, before we die.
It is about the strange dance between submission and domination that seems to underpin everything from the bedroom to the boardroom: our romantic and sexual relationships, our workplaces, our governments, and even the stories we tell ourselves. Call it Sexualpolitik: the study of how power moves between us, and what happens when we finally learn its rules.
I'm not writing because I have the answers. I'm writing because I'm curious enough to ask the questions out loud.
Welcome to my dungeon. I'm so glad you're here.
From the Diary
Where the story begins
A Prologue
Before We Begin...
Fact or fiction? A note to start with.
3 July 2026
Instalment One
Kateryna's Hand
On trauma, tenderness and the first lesson in power.
4 July 2026
Instalment Two
The Woman Who Thought I Was Too Submissive
On friendship, first crushes and the little girl who waited outside the bedroom door
5 July 2026
The Practice
Private Mentorship
Power Coaching for people ready to become more fully themselves. One-to-one mentorship with Lucy, mentor and coach, in two strands: Power Coaching for leadership, boundaries, career and confidence, and Erotic & Relational Mentorship for intimacy, desire and consensual power exchange.
Not about whips. About why you flinch before you speak in meetings.
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