From Kali nó Mandrake, Dowayne of House Mandrake:
“Yield all.” Dominance and power call to me — and usually highlights my face with a mischievous smile and a glimmer in my eye. For the unfamiliar, Mandrake House and the idea of BDSM may seem a bit intimidating at first. For the rest of us, BDSM is a sensually exciting and all-encompassing realm that holds only those boundaries that you express for yourself. Respect and consent are the foundations where your sexiest and darkest fantasies come to life. This is the place where you allow yourself to indulge in your desires.
“That which yields is not always weak.” I take great pride in a patron’s willingness to yield to me. Complete trust and intimate knowledge are the epitome of what Mandrake House and our patrons revere, and every encounter flourishes from these essential principles. Understanding a patron’s limits, and being able to read their body language, keeps them comfortable and enjoying our play. Knowing what turns someone on: mentally, physically and emotionally, is extremely vital. Fetishes, desires, fantasies, and what a person is willing to explore are all used to create the perfect scene. Power in my world is playful and wickedly deceptive; even when someone surrenders and yields to our control, they still hold the true power: the signale.
“Naamah chose her patrons like victims and whipped them to violent pleasures, leaving them sated and half-dead.” While every House holds a different facet of Naamah, only a true Mandrake can command power and violent pleasures like Naamah. From the lightest tap to the wickedest touch, pain can be a part of immense pleasure; it can awaken your body and bring different sensations to your skin. As with any sensual experience, all the best should leave you sated, euphoric and suffused with languor. It is my pleasure to take a patron on a sexual journey, a wildly erotic fantasy that we write together, the details outlined before we begin. Foreplay is full of sexy rituals that establish trust, dominance and obedience through flirtatious rewards and playful punishments. Commands and restraints are stimulating toys to help my patrons be present in the moment and free themselves from the outside world. What arouses and excites you? What are your innermost desires? What would you like to explore? Do you dare allow yourself to come into my world and experience pleasures you may have never known existed?
From Kyros nó Mandrake, Second of House Mandrake:
“Do you trust me?” Is this a familiar query between you and a lover or patron? Sensual trust is sacred in Terre D’Ange. Violating another is considered blasphemy in the teachings of Blessed Elua. Mandrake House takes this principle to its sharpest edge. Our patrons trust us with their most shadowed longings. We honor the sanctity of this trust by delivering dividends on their desire.
Sensational. This is the essence of Mandrake House. From the tingling you feel when courting the whispered rumors of our twilight practices, to the keen pleasures administered by our skilled hands, sensations—pure and unadulterated are our gifts to you. Charting the course of your lusts and limits with every quiver of your lips. Relishing your expression as a blindfold teases you with uncertainty. Adorning your wrists, ankles, and neck with restraints. Gazing upon the divine arch of your back as you straddle a spanking bench.
Our tools may resemble instruments of torture, but it is precisely our torturous trade that makes us alchemists of pain into pleasure. The caress of cuffs and collars. A whisper of rope. The careful balance of punishing pleasures played through a flogger, a whip, a cane, a paddle—or simply, our palms. The physical tools of our practices are only playthings. What matters most in the power exchange between an adept of Mandrake House and a patron is a simple answer to a complex question: “Do you trust me?”