Double dose of Dominatrix

The day after the second confidence vote in Chris Luxon’s leadership, I was asked by media if I thought there would be a third vote in the future. My response was:

Dunne, Robinson and Farrar all were of the view the possibility of National going for a third potential leadership change before the election was very low. 

“I think the masochism is not that high,” Farrar said. “Like, if you’re into that, go find the dominatrix to whip you.”  

By pure coincidence that evening the Prime Minister was at a public meeting in Nelson, as reported by The Press:

The questions concluded with a query from a former deaf Wellington dominatrix who asked about policies to cut the public service in Wellington.

After struggling to find work in the hearing world, she had run a successful small business in the capital’s sex industry, but cuts to the public service meant that “overnight my business collapsed”, she said through a sign language interpreter.

“Your issue is a demand problem,” Luxon said, before saying that growing the economy would be good for small business, but they would continue to make the public sector more efficient.

I had to read this twice. Yes she said that her business as a deaf dominatrix collapsed because of the reduction in the number of public servants in Wellington. This raises so many fascinating questions, such as why are public servants more likely to use a dominatrix, than private sector staff?

Also on a related note, how do you do a safeword when the dominatrix is deaf? Hope they can lip read you?