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Biography:
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Born to parents who were
active in what was then the “underground” lifestyle back from the early
1950’s and unbeknownst to her, Domina DeManda began her own journey in to
alternative lifestyles, living and loving in 1978 and into the world of SM,
leather, fetishes and kinks in 1884. She found out pretty early on in her
adult life, from her parents in 1986, that the “apple didn’t fall too far
from the tree".
After 27-years in marketing
and business development for the technology industry, and at the gentle
"nudging" of leather woman, Viola Johnson, Ms. DeManda founded and serves as
the Owner/Director of the
Lifestyle Alternatives Centre of Palm Beach
since
2004, a not-for-profit private membership organization and member-funded
4300+ square foot educational and social community center facility in Palm
Beach County, Florida. "LAC" evolved from her efforts with BDSM-Village,
which she founded in 1998, and now produces or hosts 10+ alternative
lifestyle events and activities each month.
Ms. DeManda identifies herself
as an alternative lifestyles advocate, educator, presenter and leather
woman. She is a Dominant/Top, Switch (only to Daddy Jeff), Sadist, part-time
ProDomme and sometimes Fetish Model who co-founded the House of Shaman (HOS),
Photo Artisans Guild (PAG), Erotic Fine Art Gallery of Palm Beach and Fetish
Fires Fotography (FFF) with her beloved husband, Master and Owner, Daddy
Jeff (AKA Shaman). She is also the proud Mistress to and Owner of her
beloved slave pet, SickBoy.
Ms. DeManda has been an active
member in Women of Leather Florida (WOLF) and Shibari South Florida (SILK),
as well as the producer of the annual Fetish School by LAC at Fetish Factory
Anniversary Weekends. She has also been a participant, judge or presenter at
Beyond Leather, FetishCon, Orlando BASH (now Tampa BASH), Ms. World Leather,
Ms. Sunshine State Leather, International Leather Sir/boy, Florida Leather
Sir/boy, SPICE Off the Cuff and Dominion, as well as a Pantheon of Leather
Award Nominee for several years.
She or LAC are proud
supporting sponsors, contributors and/or members for, to and/or at Beyond
Leather, Alternative Presenters, South-Florida People Involved in Consensual
Endeavors (SPICE), Society of DeSade, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
(NCSF), Free Speech Coalition (FSC), Tolerance.org, Human Rights Campaign (HRC),
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Compass Gay and Lesbian Community
Centre (GLCC).
In addition to her
alternative lifestyle involvement, Ms. DeManda is now a personal,
relationship, spiritual, intimacy, professional and intuitive life coach, as
well as an Aura-Soma practitioner and holistic healing arts therapist with
vibrational colour, aroma, sound and light energies. |
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