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Fetishes (1996)

Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora's Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.

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Top billed cast

  • Photo of Mistress BeatriceMistress Beatrice
  • Photo of Nick BroomfieldNick BroomfieldHimself
  • Photo of Mistress CatherineMistress Catherine
  • Photo of Mistress DelilahMistress Delilah
  • Photo of Mistress NatashaMistress Natasha
  • Photo of Mistress RavenMistress Raven
  • Photo of Elissa WaldElissa Wald

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