Yesterday, April 7th I was busy packing up after my Melbourne tour when I got a message from my very good friend Mistress Serena to notify me that due to SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act) and FOSTA (Fight Online Sex Traffickign Act) our main advertising platforms (for touring BDSM Dommes) had been pulled down and the founder had been arrested.  I have used Backpage and Cracker almost exclusively since going private in 2013. Literally all my new clients find my website through their dom/ fetish classifieds. When I tour all new clients find me through backpage/ cracker. So to wake up to the news that all workers (both full service and dom/ fetish/ mistress/ submissive etc)  in the USA are having their primary source of income ripped from underneath them is heart breaking.

I tagged the acronym SESTA and FOSTA in a tweet yesterday expressing my condolences to he US workers and I was quickly told to take it down as workers over there were extremely paranoid about being found out through algorithms.  I can’t imagine what they are going through.  I am lucky that I am not relying on my BDSM work at the moment as I’m at school.

There is a rolling stone article to read here.

Workers both in the fetish/ bdsm industry and the full service industry are scrambling to lesser known websites such as locanto & scarlet blue  however there isn’t many BDSM specific classifieds that really have any traction at the moment so we are all relying on google searches and hoping to keep an updated tour schedule on here as well as  a few more blog posts.

So Trump takes Australia little by little. My colleagues in the US are all fearing for their futures. YOU now have less access to last minute availablitiy of ladies (which was backpages most attractive function: epsecially when girls are on tour.)

I’ve been a Sydney Dominatrix primarily for the better part of 20 years. Websites like BP and cracker allow us to work privately instead of having to work in a BDSM house which, lets face it, is a whole other kettle of fish.

To help join the fight against FOSTA and SESTA please sign this petition. In fact I require ALL MY SLAVES to sign this petition and email me when you have done so. m@mistresstahlia.com.au.  I’m so lucky to live in a liberal country and have never had fear of arrest or suppression of my occupation in any way until now.

More indepth article here