Bondage Is Freedom, All I Have To Do Is Accept My Partner’s Desire

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I’ve been in a lot of dungeons, but never one quite like Salon d’Orleans. Located in a mysterious midtown Manhattan building, the studio of dominatrix Troy Orleans is ordered and calming. Like yoga centers or other sacred spaces, it’s one of those NYC locales that has been meticulously designed to make you feel like you’ve crossed a threshold into a place of different possibility. As I looked around, I got an inkling of why people who come here might feel they were contained by something that can help them dive within.

Some BDSM spaces are too over-designed for my taste, too obvious. In Troy’s dungeon, every single object has a…