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Also by Melissa Febos:

Body Work, March 2022
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Whip Smart, July 2011
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Whip Smart, March 2010
Hardcover

WHIP SMART
By: Melissa Febos

Thomas Dunne Books
March 2010
On Sale: March 2, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0312561024
EAN: 9780312561024
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir

A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman’s transformation from college student to professional dominatrix

While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon. In poetic, nuanced prose she charts how unchecked risk-taking eventually gave way to a course of self- destruction. But as she recounts crossing over the very boundaries that she set for her own safety, she never plays the victim. In fact, the glory of this memoir is Melissa’s ability to illuminate the strange and powerful truths that she learned as she found her way out of a hell of her own making. Rest assured; the reader will emerge from the journey more or less unscathed.

Media Buzz

Fresh Air - NPR - July 29, 2011
Fresh Air - NPR - March 8, 2010