I Was a Teenage Dominatrix

by Shawna Kenney

Overview

Ride shotgun with Shawna Kenney as she transforms herself from young, broke and miserable to an educated, confident woman after answering one newspaper ad: "Get paid for being a bitch." This Firecracker award-winning tell-all comically chronicles Kenney's simultaneous navigation through a Washington, DC dungeon and academia.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940000696309
Publisher:	Shawna Kenney
Publication date:	08/08/2009
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	907,230
File size:	345 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Shawna Kenney is the author of award-winning memoir, I Was a Teenage Dominatrix. Her work has appeared in Bust, Ms. Vice, The New York Times, and Playboy.com, among others. She lives in Los Angeles where she teaches creative writing in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.

Read an Excerpt

"I didn't sprout black hair and red fingernails overnight. I was just plain sucking being a waitress at the Italian joint. . . No one told me there wouldn't be many good-paying full time jobs for a seventeen-year-old with a smart mouth."

Editorial Reviews

Kenney's tale is lighthearted but fascinating....Her attitude is, overall, strongly woman-positive, and her spunk and enthusiasm leave a clear, fiery impression on her readers.

BUST Magazine

...reader-friendly, sexy, and at times hilarious.

ChickClick

Shawna Kenney's memoir I Was A Teenage Dominatrix breaks down the proverbial closet door, proving that "good girls" can go "bad", and not only emerge unscathed but richer both monetarily and through experience gained. Focusing on the S&M subculture and her role as a paid mistress, she not only provides prurient thrills, succulent professional tidbits, and painfully funny anecdotes the accent, of course, being on PAIN (be warned that this book is probably not for the faint of heart!). This book is a page turner, a riveting romp with intellectual as well as sexual content. This is no vanilla attempt at erotica or sterile study on sexual perversion -- the blood, sweat and tears of real-life experience rings through loud and clear.

Pleasant Gehman