Bow Down, Lindsay Goldwert
Bow Down, Lindsay Goldwert
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Bow Down
Lessons from Dominatrixes on How to Get Everything You Want

Author: Lindsay Goldwert

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan

Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/14/2020


Synopsis

*One of Glamour’s Best Books of 2020*

Popular podcast host and personal finance expert Lindsay Goldwert explores what professional dominatrixes can teach us about confidence, power, and happiness.

Imagine, for a moment, a world where the usual power dynamic is turned on its head. Where women not only stop apologizing, but seize—and enjoy—control. This is the quickly mainstreaming world of BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism)—and it has a lot to teach women about empowerment, negotiation, open-mindedness, and more. Journalist Lindsay Goldwert, intrigued by this seismic cultural shift, traveled across the United States to meet the stars of the subculture, who spoke frankly with her about their lives and work.

In this “lively, funny, thoughtful channeling of wisdom” (Sara Benincasa, author of Real Artists Have Day Jobs), these Alpha women show you how you can reset the power dynamic in any situation to get what you want—whether it’s from a husband, a boss, or partner. They share strategies for revolutionizing not only your sex life, but your career, your relationships, and most importantly, your inner foundations.

With bondage gear popping up on the big screen, the runway, the red carpet, and in celebrity lingerie lines, BDSM is officially moving out of the dungeon and into the sun. Let Bow Down help you learn how to use it. “Whether your fantasies lie in the bedroom or the boardroom, Lindsay will give you the courage to go forth and dominate.” (Sarah Cooper, author of How to Be Successful without Hurting Men’s Feelings).

About Lindsay Goldwert

Lindsay Goldwert is the editor in chief of the online love and money magazine Money Date. She’s a journalist and the host of Spent, a money-themed storytelling podcast praised as “unique” by The A.V. Club and “funny and human” by The Globe and Mail (Toronto). She is the former editorial director of the personal-finance app Stash and hosted the Teach Me How to Money podcast. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine, The New York Daily News, ABCNews.com, Quartz, Refinery29Fast CompanyRedbookSlate, and many other publications. She lives in Queens, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elise

Regrettably I found this book disappointing. The description led me to believe it was a book about empowerment lessons through the frame of BDSM. This was not the book I got. What I got was a book in which a novice described BDSM and kink, interspersed with quotes from professional dominatrixes. It......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

Full disclosure: I used to work at a fetish club in the 1990s/2000s which had a dungeon and a resident professional dominatrix. While I was not employed in the dungeon (i was a DJ), I witnessed the scenes played out there in the course of a normal work shift. As a DJ for that club scene, i occasiona......more

Goodreads review by Kaitlyn

As someone who is interested in and does a lot of research on kink and interpersonal relationships, I can whole heartedly say you can get so much out of this book if your life is completely vanilla. And that’s great! Goldwert wrote this book in such a digestible manner, I think most people (I don’t......more