Talk:Humiliatrix

message: How does this relate to feminism? Shouldn't this be considered an erotica or BDSM stub?
Changed stub catagorization from feminism to BDSM. Also added porn stub because I considered the term more erotica-based, tho a review of related Wikipedia links suggests the term is in use in BDSM circles, at least on Wikipedia.
edgarde 09:38, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: stub category

message: As far as I know, the term originated with humiliatrix.com, a commercial sex website affiliated with Whap! magazine. Does anyone know of an earlier popular usage? edgarde 10:45, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This is addressed below, specifically under Notability of sources. / edg ☺ ☭ 14:08, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: history

message: This page is unsourced and seems to be redundant, as it contains no information not already included in erotic humiliation. Might it just be merged into that article?68.229.162.166 01:35, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge this, please? 

message: :The term is a portmanteau that combines "humiliation" and "dominatrix".
I disagree. The term "humiliatrix" is nothing more than a form of the word "humiliator", the -trix or -ess suffixes serving only to create a feminine form of the same word (much like mediator/mediatrix, executor/executrix, actor/actress, waiter/waitress, god/goddess et al). The French equivalents would be -trice (as in acteur/actrice) and -euse (as in masseur/masseuse). --66.102.66.118 20:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  portmanteau? pas de tout 

message: That really doesn't seem to make too much sense... AnonMoos 05:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "pedestrian malls"?

message: Here are some bits of information:-
The first recorded instance of the term Humiliatrix appears in the 1853 edited copy of the Diary and Autobiography of Edmund Bohun Esq 1645-1699. (Translated from latin literally meaning 'female who humiliates', and in this instance as humbler of human pride - humani fastigū humiliatrix).
http://books.google.com/books?id=WiwAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA23&dq=EDMUND+BOHUN+ESQ+humiliatrix
More recently, the term maintains popular usage within the realm of erotic humiliation, to describe a female who humiliates a submissive partner.  Here are just a cross-section of links from the depths of the fetish-world that illustrates it's popular usage:-
http://www.niteflirt.com/listingdetails/Fetish/Domina-Ava/0-0-0-5577503
http://www.niteflirt.com/listingdetails/Search-Results/CUCKOLD-HUMILIATRIX/0-0-0-5501230
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=humiliatrix
http://www.niteflirt.com/listingdetails/Search-Results/GoddessMya/0-0-0-6743302
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/japanesehumiliatrix/
http://www.princesskali.com/indexg.php
http://www.niteflirt.com/listingdetails/Search-Results/princessaddiction/0-0-0-5511496
http://www.steamyadultstories.com/howIbecamedaddyshumiliatrix.htm
http://humiliateme.org/public-pillory.html
http://www.mistress-v.com/2007/02/25/ego-killing-pride-stomping-small-penis-humiliatrix/
http://www.oxbeeco.com/humiliatrix/
http://www.bitchybeauty.com/domain.html
http://www.niteflirt.com/listingdetails/Search-Results/Lady-Ashley/0-0-0-5421569
http://princessamy2u.livejournal.com/3329.html
http://www.niteflirt.com/listingdetails/Search-Results/MISTRESS-NADIA-ATLANTA/0-0-0-6798499
In addition, the term was recently adopted by the adult website Humiliatrix.com which provides related fetish based material.
http://www.humiliatrix.com
Dannydog 02:10, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: At long last, sources

message: Thanks Dannydog. This is definitely a start, and the preponderance of sources suggests there's something going on here. However, most of these sources are by themselves not reliable. urbandictionary.com is the worst example because anyone can add a made-up definition there.
The Edmund Bohun is the most interesting, and comes close to being useful. However it still may be of questionable notability — it's a latin term used in a Latin passage from an obscure, privately pressed book. How could that usage have passed into any modern vernacular?
I'll add it to the article though since it's the best we got.
*
Can someone translate this latin? / edgarde 10:44, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability of sources