DECEMBER 16, 2005
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Webs and Whips
Just Out attended the "Generation Q: Past Present
and Future" event hosted by Portland's new Q Center
and asked readers, "Why are you here?"
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you’re not aquatinted with
Mistress Yasmin Ling.
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Clinical Social
Worker
This entrepreneurial Texas
transplant is combining her love
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Professor and Author
for fetish exploration, connec
sharp technological skills to cre
ate careers as a professional
dominatrix and Web site designer.
“My main focus is my graphic
design business," Ung said. Many
Dominatrix Mistress Yasmin Ling is focusing on her Web site
design business.
of her clients are in the fetish arts industry. “I’m also
working on a book that incorporates all that artistic
imagery as well."
ment has a lot of versatility,” she said.
According to Ling, the creativity, communication
and confidence required as a dominatrix trickles into
As a dominatrix whose services are sought
the business world as well.
throughout the United States, Ling says she does not
“It’s an honor to be the Web site designer for that
engage in sex with clients and views her work as
type of industry. Having worked in it myself, I know
therapeutic.
what the needs are," she said.
“Generally you have people in the vanilla world
who have a lot of roles and responsibilities,” said Ung,
B ailey B randi
Ling says her greatest gift to Web design clients is
custom work.
who is transgender. “This is a way for them to get away
“I take time to get to know what my clients want.
from the stressful environment and safely explore fan
Then I use my creativity and express that for them.
tasies without having to make any decisions.”
When they get the final product, they know it’s some
Popular sexual fantasies are the taboos of main
stream society: cross-dressing, role-playing in a multi
themed dungeon, bondage, encasement in nylon.
"You are putting on a mask where you’re able to
thing that is expressing who they are as well,” said
W esley W iley
High School Student
and Spoken Word
Artist
Ice Cream Server
“I’m here to support
my partner, who is
performing, and to
get some information
about Q Center.”
“I’m here to perform,
and I totally support
what the Q Center is.”
Ling. “That’s pretty rewarding.”
For more information visit www.mistressling.com
or www.yasminling.com.
—JaymeeR. C'uti ©
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“I’m here to support
the Q Center. It’s great
to have an all-inclusive
place where people
can feel safe and
comfortable. My
partner, Debra, is on
the board, so I’m here
to support her, too.”
“I just moved to
Portland, and I
thought it would be a
good way to get
acquainted with the
community.”
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