Lena Marquise, a 29-year-old dominatrix, is lounging in her apartment in a latex black mini-dress and Chanel stilettos.
In front of her, a naked, 40-something accountant with skinny legs, thick-rimmed glasses and a potbelly is in the fetal position.
Marquise nudges him with her 4-inch heel.
“There is a pair of shoes behind me to the right,” she says. “They are covered in snow. Clean them off. With your tongue.”
“Yes, mistress. Thank you, mistress,” he replies, as he crawls to the boots and begins licking them ravenously.
Marquise, who goes by “Lady Wednesday,” smiles.
She may not be smiling for long. “Fifty Shades of Grey” hits movie theaters Friday, and this Bushwick dominatrix fears business may suffer as a result.
“It makes the taboo lessen,” she says. “To most dommes, this is detrimental to their sensuality, because, typically, clients, they thrive on the taboo nature of BDSM and fetishism.”
Luckily, Marquise’s own at-home dungeon — complete with Japanese clover nipple clamps and enough taxidermy to outfit a Lower East Side bar — has taboo to spare.
Marquise gets paid $350 to $500 an hour to gag, whip and punish her willing, all-male clientele. She estimates she makes between $20,000 to $50,000 a year.
“I like to describe a session as training. It’s not abusing,” she says, encasing the nether regions of her client in a metal chastity belt from which she hung four heavy locks. “It’s sensual to some effect.”
She says most of her “slaves” are “upper/middle management” married men seeking “everything from validation to stimulation.”
“Knowing that my slaves enjoy the pain, but enjoying it makes the pain greater . . .” says Marquise, who casually smoked an e-cigarette and texted friends while one blindfolded and gagged slave was tied up and forced to stand on his tip-toes for nearly 40 minutes, “. . . it tickles me.”