And then, by chance, some weeks later she came across a blog. By now she had come to feel that she fitted most closely into a group of people who called themselves ‘dominants’ and ‘submissives’. The doms were mostly men, and the subs women. She realised there were gay doms and subs of both sexes, but they didn’t seem to mix much with the straight ones. And there were also one or two women who had ‘boys’ they liked to tease and torment, but she knew that wasn’t her thing at all. The blog she found was written by a man who seemed to have some considerable experience of such matters. He didn’t offer much about his private life, neither how old he was (though she formed the impression he was middle-aged), nor whether he was married or indeed had a steady girlfriend on whom he practiced the va