Chronicles of Vox: Mistress Xia's Blog

It's dragged out longer than I wanted.  It was harder than I thought to get out.  You keep getting pulled back, even when everything tha...

A longtime denizen of nightlife, I have noticed a new breed as of late. Camera ready in hand, they take pictures at every opportunity, docum...

Hello to all who enjoy reading my blog~ One of the great liberating aspects of writing this blog has been my ability to unabashedly share ...

Oops I forgot to renew my main website!  Have no fear, it should be back up in the next day or so ;)

Maggie Q as Le Femme Nikita

I attended a conference last weekend and got so stoked on all the intellectual stimulation. I need this, above and beyond emotional sustena...

In the trenches now for the first time as a beginning counselor, I am finding it gratifying and incredibly intense. This new challenge may ...

In the past, my mother has told me that I have a way of writing that makes things sound better than they actually are. I laugh and wonder t...

I've watched the publicity surrounding Angelina Jolie's new action movie Salt with a great deal of excitement. Finally, a badass a...

I found the following link to a Salon.com interview of adult video performer Lorelei on Max Fisch under the heading "Interview with an...

I have been blessed with a certain degree of personal power, the effects of which I have often noticed in various situations involving group...

I rocked a catwoman outfit for a villains & heroes-themed gathering. I don't think I've ever worn such a transformative costume...

Living in San Francisco in my carefully crafted unconventional life, I forget sometimes what it must be like for many of the seekers out the...

I had a lovely double session with Mistress Ai-Li. Actually, I think all three of us – submissive included – were amazed at how perfectly e...

Surface, surface, surface. It's amazing how one can just live on the surface of life, only caring about the window dressing. I have se...

We sit in the workshop classroom as the instructor, a Freudian analyst, tells us that the "hows" and "whys" of therapy a...

Lessons often seem simple after the fact. But that is because we must live them to learn them. We cannot just be told and then somehow abs...

The outpouring of support has been tremendous. After cultivating many wonderful D/s relationships over the years, it would seem that catchi...

I have caught a few episodes here and there of the re-imagined TV series "V," about too-good-to-be-true aliens from another planet...

Oh my - reading my last few posts, what contradiction! Shame on me? Quite the opposite. As my favorite inspirational writer of writers Bre...

Sometimes we have to diverge from our path to truly appreciate where we were before. I had been anxious about putting myself out there agai...

The Day the Machines Took Over Wall Street .

Finally made it to Wicked Grounds, a unique coffee shop here in San Francisco that caters to the openly kinky. Even my marginally perverted...

I have been out of the pro domme scene for quite some time, and am not someone who socializes much in the scene. But my curiosity has been ...

Sometimes I feel paralyzed to write. Not so much writer's block, as there are usually more than a few ideas swirling in my head, but mo...

Uh-oh it looks like I've fallen behind on my posting! I've been so busy with end-of-semester scrambling, as well as the addition of...

I was at the comic book convention in town this past weekend. In the past few years, it has gotten a lot more crowded. I love it because i...

The other night I was looking at TS porn from Asia. I always knew when a Japanese model came up on the slide show because her make-up, hair...

The one that got away ... when I let the domain name www.burningquestion.com lapse. At least it's being put to use now. For a while th...

If you have not seen it already, I highly recommend watching the documentary about Japanese host boys called The Great Happiness Space - it...

Women sing and cry about not being seen or heard. Yet if that other person truly did not see you, then you were also not seeing them. For ...

I'm a science junkie and read New Scientist every week as well as the science section of The Economist and the comic book/sci fi/all thi...

I've just discovered RuPaul's Drag Race on Logo. A reality show in the same vein as America's Top Model, this show features fa...

A friend commented that it's either all or nothing with me. Yes, when it rains, it pours! I have had more than a few good laughs about...

Having exorcised demons, I am coming back to my life with a vengeance. Lost in a hall of mirrors, before long I thought the reflection in ...

I had a nice long break from grad school over the holidays, it was good to decompress and take stock of my first semester. You might be sur...

Several months ago, I started doing over-the-phone counseling and consultations. I have a few different listings, the most popular one bein...

A former sissy of mine (former in that he no longer serves me - he still is a sissy!) turned me onto Lady Gaga. I just watched her Grammy p...