When Chris Belcher worked as a professional dominatrix known as Mistress Natalie, clients would frequently ask her, “What’s your real name?”
“The clients who asked this question of me were usually the type who had tricked themselves into believing that we had a personal relationship — a romantic one, or a sexual one they wouldn’t have to pay for had we met under different circumstances,” Ms. Belcher writes in this week’s Modern Love essay.
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