Monday Morning, Halloween Day. I had the pleasure of seeing the Parthenon, for the first time.  OMG!  What an incredible space.  The best dungeon I have seen in the United States.  The Parthenon is owned and operated by Mistress Ariana Chevalier.   Dare I say another, OMG!  Mistress Chevalier is a beautiful, intelligent, soulful Domina, that I have only recently had the pleasure of meeting.  We have known of each other for over 10 years and meet briefly at one of the old Black-n-Blue Balls.  So, although we have both, been Mistress, in NYC, for many years, our paths never really crossed for any length of time.

Meeting Mistress Ariana was a simpatico experience, I immediately felt like I had know her intimately for the last 10 years.  First, of all, she has a warm, inviting personality, which immediately puts you ease.  We all found that we shared many similar interests some within the scene and some without the scene.  Ariana & I both enjoy Dominance, Sadism & Fetishes.  To be more precise, intense love of hoods, whips & latex which Ariana has an extensive collection of equipment that would tantalize anyone.  I had the privilege to use some great floggers, paddles, straps and it was all clean and neatly organized, something that I am a stickler about as well.  One of the things I admired the most was a feature throughout the dungeon that was I like to call the “boxes”  Ariana’s slave had made her these wooded boxes/cubes that hung on the walls, in which the latex & leather hoods where displayed on mannequin heads.  The boxes, had glass door fronts that could be shut and even locked! Yes!  Totally cool.  Not only did these boxes make a great artistic statement, they were also functional too.  I am also a stickler about functional art in a dungeon, yet another thing that Mistress Ariana and I have in common.  We do also share an intense love of all things latex, the crazier the better.  But I have to admit Ariana has me way beat in the latex arena.  She has the most incredible wardrobe and also the best latex toys, hoods, body bags, catsuits, inflatable, deflatables, etc.  Ariana is the Queen of Latex as far as I am concerned.

So, the question might be, what is something that Ariana & I share outside of the scene?

This might be what you would have never guessed as well, Ariana & I share an intense love of firearms.  Well, I know its no surprise for those of you who know me, but I was sooooooo pleasantly surprised when I found out that Ariana was a firearms enthusiast.  I will always get a tingle up my thigh when a woman, appreciates firearms and wants to shoot.

Mistress Ariana gave me the tour of the Parthenon personally; the elevator opens up to a large, inviting welcome area, where I was meet with a warm smile.  The first room to the right is the Torture Room, a beautiful red room with the most fabulous suspension unit that I have ever seen.  This suspension unit/frame was about 8ft by 4 ft constructed completely out of purple powder coated steel.  There were steel rings for bondage points welded to the frames legs, 6 electric & crank suspension hoists, one of the suspension hoists was on a horizontal slider!  At the ends of this frame were 2 black leather covered vertical X-crosses with full rig points around them. These X-crosses had the ability to slide out and go into horizontal position also.  The hardware, the welding, the workmanship, for instance it was beautifully lit was floating halogen lights, all of this was impeccably done.  The guy that designed and created this frame should be given an award.  The torture room also housed red leather spanking bench and fabulous throne chair.  It’s a very beautiful Torture Room.

The next room was just the opposite, it’s silver and cool blue color with a mirrored wall gave you the feeling that you were entering the Ice Torture Room.  If the Red Room was the fire this was most certainly the ice.  This room had yet another well designed suspension unit which spans a good portion of the room maybe 10 12 ft, it is powder coated in a silver color.  There is an interesting leather bound chair that gives this room an ominous feeling.  The first room down the hallway is the medical room painted in very traditional colors, a gyn type chair & table plus a medical case full of supplies make this room everything you will need for a proper examination.  As I walk down the hallway, there is a full restroom, toilet, sink & shower, very clean and well maintained.  Midway down the hall, to the right is another torture chamber with blood red walls, a wonderful wooden 4-post bondage bed complete with ankle stocks.  A large wooden Throne chair and an exotic bondage chair give this room a feel of a vampire’s nest.

The last room is a sensual room with light colors, silver aperitifs painted on the walls and a really groovy suspension unit made for a corner but still 3 sided and powder coated in silver.  For those of you who wonder why I keep commenting about the powder coat, let me explain why.  Powder coat is basically a process by which they seal/finish the outside of steel/metal parts, sometimes in groovy colors.  This coating serves as many practical ways, it keeps the metal from rusting, gives it smooth edges and such, which is better for cleaning.  Plus, it gives the metal color.  So, you see the significance of the powder coat on dungeon steel, keeping it smooth, rustproof and clean.  Great idea. I wish I had thought of it.

So that is the tour of Mistress Ariana’s dungeon, The Parthenon, located in midtown Manhattan.  What a great way to start my Halloween, one of my favorite holidays, in the dungeon, getting ready to dominate someone.  I finished my sessions up early and had the evening off in the city.  I went to dinner, did a little shopping and of course stopped at the Pub for a Guinness.  I spent the next couple of days hanging out at the dungeon seeing some truly wonderful slaves, submissives, masochist and just plain perverts.  Really good fun.  I can not stress how truly great the Parthenon is, the staff, the other Domina’s that you meet as well as the space itself is a class act.

Thursday evening was one of my nights out, as I visited my sister Robin Byrd’s T-Shirt Re-Release Party at Tag, a very hip store in the Chelsea District.  I have known Robin Byrd since 1989 and even though we have different mothers & fathers, we are still sisters.  WE adopted each other a long time ago and have never stopped being sisters.  For those of you who do not know who Robin Byrd is, shame on you.  Robin Byrd starred as Mrs Hardwick in the famous porn movie Debbie Does Dallas and The Pink Ladies, but she is most famous of her own TV show in Manhattan called the Robin Byrd show.  Robin Byrd took over the old Hot Legs show by Bobby Hollander, in about 1984 and she still has the show today.  The show aired on cable TV very late at night.  The format of the Robin Byrd show was kind of a combination of Johnny Carson and American Idol but the X-Rated version.  Robin brought Porn Stars both Gay and Straight that were performing in Manhattan often at Show World and Show Palace onto the show.  The show consisted of 2-4 Porn Stars that would dance to a song apiece with a questions and answer Johnny Carson style at the end.  It was a great format, way before its time.  Robin managed to get all of the famous Porn Stars on the show, Seka, Traci Lords, Vanessa Del Rio, Marilyn Chambers, Jeff Stryker and many more.  She even had some other Hollywood stars on the show like Sandra Bernhard & RuPaul.  Gotta love that.  Needless to say the show was and is very successful.

As always, Spank you very much, HM Porsche Lynn.

In this course an individual learns to handle firearms safely, indentify & unload firearms, indentify ammunition, safe storage of firearms & ammunition. I brought some basic firearms for them to begin to learn to handle safely-handguns-revolver, semi-auto pistol; rifle-bolt action, lever action & semi-auto; shotguns-pump and semi-auto. The weekend training was great. I feel like each attendee received valuable training that may save their life or the life of a loved one.

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