LESLIE MCRAY BOOK AUTHOR, ACTRESS, ACTIVE FILM PRODUCER : WE REVISIT HER DARK MEMOIR

(First published November 2, 2010, this month we revisit this important book, a memoir of a mistress who had a particularly horrible experience with it.)

LESLIE McRAY was our MISTRESS OF THE MONTH, NOVEMBER 2010

Leslie wrote a book that was published in 1990 called "KEPT WOMEN" subtitle which is now in it's 3rd edition.  She wrote it with Ted Schwartz.

The book is heavily dependent on psychotherapy, and the diagnosis of kept women as being abused children who grow up with a real lack of self esteem and an addiction to the approval of men, usually based on their beauty and sexual prowess.

Yet, I noticed, she said that many of these Mistresses had their own incomes of $30,000 to $100,000 a year. So most of them really didn't need the money, as I see it, and probably had some education or intelligence and the self esteem to be competitive in the work place.

I feel sorry for Leslie that her mistresshood came to what it did and I admire her courage to overcome her past and her own demons to write the book, which does delve into a very dark, scary, aspect of mistressing that some, not all, mistresses experience. This includes sadio-masochism.

Many mistresses apparently "shared and bared" their souls to Leslie, and of course they remain unnamed.

Leslie is also psychology-sure that the whole set up of being kept, by a usually married man, is one in which the man and the mistress are people who cannot keep a commitment (something I personally do not believe is always true either).

Leslie is from a world of beauties who modeled, won contests, and met and were kept by men of international fame. She won something like 70 beauty pageants.

These men who kept Leslie and other women were men with great fortunes - doers - important men. Yet her experience with them was horrible.

She left the mistressing life that caused her so much pain and survived. She is now an active film producer. She has a film on the 9/11 terrorist attack to her credit.

Missy

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A NEW YEAR, A NEW MONTH, NEW PROJECT : WHAT'S HAPPENING AT MISTRESS MANIFESTO!

Hello My Readers!

Since the very beginnings of this blog in 2009, I've wanted to write a book.  And this year I feel I must at least gather all the notes I've been keeping and assemble them. I feel from the insights I've gained after all these years later I'll have more to share. I haven't run out of Mistresses to write about but in looking over this blog, I realize that some of my earliest posts are so long ago that certain Mistresses of the Month are due for a revisit or more exploration!  And so I've selected certain someones to focus upon, doing just that as I move forward. Yes, this fifteenth year Mistress Manifesto will also have new writing, new reading and research, and new surprises but it will also include topics covered years ago.

Missy

OUR MISTRESS OF THE MONTH JANUARY 2025 WILL PREMIER  tomorrow!

This month's posts will begin on Saturday January 4th, 2025

 

POP THE CORK

 

THE DAY

 

CAROL OF THE BELLS : LINDSEY STIRLING

MY GIFTS : DECLARATION FOR MISTRESSES

"My gifts may not be expensive, but they are just the thing, and beautifully presented."

Mistresses, especially those of you who are gifted generously and living the life of a millionairess because of your man and learning all about the good things in life, this may be difficult. You see so many beautiful things when you shop and travel and you want to give him a memento.

Still, if you are not equals economically, it is more important that you save your money than buy him expensive gifts that you cannot afford. BESIDES IF YOU HAVE NO INCOME OF YOUR OWN he sees that you are using the money he gave you to spend on him - as if you don't need it when you do.

For those of you who are working and have your own income, that does not equal what he earns, also be aware that something small and special, just right for him, even if it is not expensive, is what to do.

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First published December 11, 2010

GATHERING

 

THE PERFECT CUP : HOW TO MAKE TEA THE BRITISH WAY

A consensus:

BOIL FRESH WATER to at least 200 degrees F.  (Oxygenated water enhances flavor.  That means shake the water up before you pour it.)

PRE-WARM THE TEAPOT.  (My experience is that the teapot should be ceramic and not metal.)  How so?  It would seem to me that boiling water would heat the pot. So I take this to mean that some boiling water is poured into the pot just to warm it up, that is poured out, and then the freshly boiled water to make the tea is poured in.

PUT THE TEA IN and STEEP IT FOR 3-5 MINUTES or longer for stronger.  Early Grey or English Breakfast might take closer to the 5 minutes.

REMOVE THE TEA and STIR - More oxygenation.

MILK: Add milk to the cup before pouring in the tea.